Photo of the week!

We took Enoch to the temple at 6:00 am before school
to do baptisms for the dead for the first time.
He was eager to get there.  It was neat experience!

November 2014 - By Isaac

This last month has been moderately eventful for the Pendleton family, like any other month I suppose. Enoch, having just turned twelve, now holds the priesthood and passes the sacrament regularly in our weekly meetings like a fine little chap. Isaac has the privilege to bless the sacrament that Enoch so dutifully and reverently passes. This month the sun set on the soccer season, Miriam, Enoch, and Ellie doing spectacularly in their respective age groups and leagues: Natalie’s team suffering terribly without her. Isaac’s football season came to a crushing end with a tragic loss to Maple Mountain high school. I will not be going into to details for one because the readers of this document will have undoubtedly already heard about the incident many times and have no wish to relive it, because it will be too emotionally crushing for you to handle at the present time. I will be considerate of your fragile feelings and move on to other news that isn’t so hard on the human soul. The kids have started into basketball season, Enoch and his accelerated team called the Thunder have suffered a rocky start to their season, losing their recent game in the last few seconds of the game with a buzzer beater shot that missed by mere millimeters and kept the crowd in suspense for a few nerve wracking seconds while it bounced around between the backboard and the hoop. Meanwhile, Miriam has been picked from the Bantam league draft to a team that shows promise, while I cannot divulge the name of the team at this time (partially due to the fact that one hasn’t been chosen yet) I have good reason to suspect that her team of little girls will go far this year. Auriana is still working hard at school. She is attending an institution by the name of Brigham Young University commonly known by the abbreviated form BYU. Also Ellie has just celebrated her birthday on the fifth of November. Her party was a roaring success, themed “camping,” it featured many activities that you perform while camping but cleverly schemed by our mother so they could happen inside. I wont go into any details because there were far too many things that went on that profess of her genius to describe, but I imagine you have already observed this in the many years that you have gotten to know our wonderful mother. The basketball tryouts for Spanish Fork High School are scheduled for tomorrow and Isaac is understandably nervous. You may find out the results of this endeavor in the near future. Natalie has recently been able to almost completely straighten her leg, she will find out tomorrow if the doctor is going to feel the need to put her to sleep and straighten it for her.  But this is all good, and hopefully her recovery can be speedy. With no other spectacular events of the Pendleton family gracing upon my consciousness at this moment, this is the family letter editor signing out.

-Isaac

Happy 9th Birthday
ELLIE!!