Chris Millard's World

We started Thanksgiving Day in our usual way: breakfast at McDonalds.

We must be nuts. And, I didn't take any other pictures. Don't know what I was thinking.

My friend, Spencer, was raised on a turkey ranch in Utah. Back in the day, his father, Deloris, raised 60,000 turkeys every year. Now that Grandpa Stokes is 90 years old, he only raises about 200 turkeys. In 1973 when Grandpa Stokes was a Stake President, he started delivering turkeys to the LDS First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve. Now it is Spencer's job to make the deliveries. It so happened that there was an extra turkey, so we met Spencer in the parking lot of Costco where he delivered this spectacular bird to the Millards.

A couple of days ago this turkey was running around the turkey farm, and now she is ours for our feast. And, what makes it special is to know that our turkey is a sister to the turkeys being eaten by the Monsons, the Uchtdorfs, the Eyrings, and all the others. Spencer says this is a blessed bird. Hee hee hee.

Clara is now 17 years old!

Max is now 2 years old! This is my favorite picture of the day: all 11 of the grandchildren.

Three Millard Girls.

Four of the Hoferitza girls.

Megan Hoferitza

Connor Millard

Here is Reed before cake.

Here is Reed after cake!

Check out this website!

Slide the scale button and see the size of cells in relationship to others! It is amazing.

Today I went to see Mike at his office but he wasn't there, so I talked to Diana. She told me where I could get an H1N1 flu shot, so off I went. I got to NOW Care on 12th Street at 4:40, filled out the form, got the shot, and was out the door at 5:00 pm. I was amazed since on TV I have seen where some people have waited in line for 3 hours and then they ran out of the vaccine! I have also read that about one-half of the people in Utah are hesitating to get the shot for fear of side effects. My niece, Katy, is majoring in Public Health at BYU and she says that getting the shot is a good idea and I trust her. And, I am less concerned about side effects and more worried about picking up the virus and passing it to my grandchildren whose little faces I kiss every chance I get. I got the shot for them.