Woodworking

Grandpa Gwilliam has many talents he has developed over the years.  One he has worked on even more since retirement is woodworking.  He makes beautiful segmented bowls and vases.  He carves amazingly realistic looking fish and burns designs onto wood.  He is good to come up with easier projects he can help his grand kids do and it is fun to see him working one on one with each one.

Last time we went, he helped our kiddos make cool pens from a block of wood.  This time he worked on teaching them how to make a wooden bowl from wood he saved from a tree they had to cut down in the backyard.  He spent hours and hours in the garage working with them over the break.  I appreciate the creative ways he finds to spend one on one time with his grandchildren.

This is how the wood looked after they had just worked a little bit on it. You can see two other rings of wood on the mantel behind her.

Aubrey

Parker

Tanner

Bryn with Grandpa

Sadly a part of Grandpa's lathe broke.  Although Grandpa and the kids had worked for hours already, they weren't finished.  He ordered the part and they worked for several more hours the night before we left.  Grandpa is going to finish the last steps and send them our way.  I love that they will have these bowls to remember the time with Grandpa in the garage and to treasure always.

Grandpa also had a fun scripture Survivor type game for the group one night.  They had a puzzle challenge, needed to answer some scripture references he had taught them earlier in the week, and ended with a ring toss.  He is very creative in the way he shares the gospel and I think it really helps them/us to remember scripture references.

This large puzzle is especially cool because Grandpa Gwilliam asked Grandpa Vore if he could use the picture he took of the Lubbock temple.  Then Grandpa Gwilliam made these amazing large puzzles.  There is lots of love represented in the puzzle challenge.

One last picture.  This shows Grandma and Grandpa's creativity/talents combined.  Grandma made him this cool multi colored coat.  He pulls it out on special occasions to teach about Joseph in Egypt.  (Nien, Nien, Nien 39 times.  When Potiphar's wife started making the moves on Joseph he said no-in German- 39 times.  You can read about that in Genesis 39:9.)