Memories of the Nephi House

Ever since Dallen was 3 years old the Proctor family has lived in this house. A lot of memories, bonding, growing, home cooked meals, love, hard work, improvement, learning lessons, laughter, tears, close relationships and life have been built under the roof of this home. Just recently, Ed and Christine decided to put the house up for sale and moved to a home in Spanish Fork. Each member of the Proctor family (including me) all have a tender place in their heart for this place and have felt love every time we walk through the front door. It has been a hard move but it is for the better. I wanted to take a lot of pictures to always remember what the house was like. It is very different without the hutches, shelves, antiques, trunks, and decorations but still gives an idea of where the Proctors' grew up. 

The BIG chestnut tree in the front... a lot of stories have been told about the chestnut fights the boys would have, or the days laying out in the shade on a blanket.

The old playhouse....

...and the tonka trucks inside from when the boys were young

The view from the back yard

Walking in from the front door

The dining room with the lead window

Fireplace and family room

Living Room

Looking from the dining room into the kitchen

Kitchen

The door in the kitchen that had the blue bottles in the window above it

Unique decor

The lead window that Christine loved!

Hallway from the kitchen to the bedrooms

Bathroom

Looking from the master bedroom into the hallway/family room

House wall paper

Guest Bedroom

The mirror that the boys always got ready with since the girls would have the bathroom or when the bathroom was occupied

Master Bedroom (this once was the room for all the kids and then later was just the boy's room after the girls moved out. Once they boys were gone, Eddie and Christine made it into their bedroom) Everyone had a chance to live in this room and a lot of memories were made here.

Closet in the hallway

Downstairs

Laundry and spare bedroom

The spare bedroom was a favorite of spencer's, dallen's and briar's a while ago when they all worked at a vinyl factory because they often times had to work grave shifts and could come home to the dark, cool room.

I didn't even scratch the surface of the memories that have been made in this house but the pictures tell a lot of stories themselves. I am grateful I was able to make my own memories in the house that Dallen grew up in and I know they will always be fun to reflect back on.

State Track- 4x4

Today I was able to watch Hunter run at state track in the 4x4! He has been to a couple of track meets late in the season and was able to qualify for state. He did really good and I am really glad I was able to go and watch. It made me miss playing sports and brought back a lot of memories of the one year I ran track as well. Anyways, he ran hard and finished with his best time of the season! I am proud of him! The boy's and girl's from Monticello finished as 2nd overall and were able to take home a team trophy which was great! I'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story :)

  

Great job Monticello track!

"T" Party

One of the callings that I have right now in our ward is the Activity Days Leader. It has been really fun getting to know these girls and being able to spend time with them. We have activities every other Tuesday night for just an hour and try to correlate our activities with the strength of youth pamphlet. This past Tuesday was the first activity I was in charge of and we had a "T" Party. We took the girls to the Mount Timpanogos temple in Pleasant Grove for a photo shoot of each of them and then had a T-party afterwards. We correlated it to the strength of youth by saying that the "T" stood for Temple. We talked about what we can do to prepare to go to the temple and some of the ordinances done inside the temple. It was a lot of fun and I think the girls had a great time! Here are some of the pics from our 'photo shoot' and the T-Party :)

From L to R: (Alyson Beecher, Kamie Hanks, Bryn Tippets, Ally Thornbrugh, and Olivia Cook)

L to R: (Trista Thomas, Kobi, Jacee Hickman, and Sarah Orullian)

 The "T"-Party afterwards

Jackie (the other activity days leader) was able to find all of these old hats that were her great-grandma's and she brought them for the girls! I thought they turned out perfect and the girls loved it! They all talked in accents and used proper manners and played with their tea sets. I am grateful that I have this calling and it is going to be a lot of fun with furture activities :)