May 10, 1999 Farmington, Utah

WHAT A WONDERFUL MOTHER'S DAY YESTERDAY!!! I hope all the mothers and women in my family enjoyed it as much as I did. We all met at the Weinert's new home about 4 o'clock for an absolutely fabulous time and Jeannie could seat all of us at tables - REMARKABLE!!! I hope the group picture turns out and I'll send you all one. I think the highlight of the day was to talk to Ricky in El Salvador - they allow all the missionaries to call home on Christmas and Mother's Day. That is a new ruling since we served in Montana and it is a good one - Ricky, you sound just the same as you always have and it was a thrill for "all" of us to talk to you. What a great blessing to have cousins like you have who love you SO much and miss you!!! WE'RE ALL SO VERY PROUD OF YOU!!!

We missed having the Roy Mellors with us and I kept hearing from the "cousins" - when are Roy and Patrice and their family coming? Do you realize it has been almost two years since we have seen you? We are REALLY looking forward to your visit soon and especially to having Emily come for a little while by herself.

Jessie spent Saturday night with me because she had a wedding reception to go to in Ogden and then a missionary farewell Sunday morning - I JUST LOVE IT WHEN SHE COMES LIKE THAT!!! After church yesterday I wanted to go to Brigham City to put flowers on my mother's grave so she said she would go with me - since Christopher is buried there also we called to see if a Weinert would like to go with us and Sarah said she would. THAT WAS SPECIAL FOR ME. I took advantage of my opportunity and gave them a "genealogy tour" and took pictures of them in front of the two homes I lived in when I was growing up. My father built the first home I lived in and it is in such good condition and the houses across the street are just the same as they were over fifty years ago. NOW I want to give the "Lehi Genealogy Tour" to the members of my family who have never been on it - Ha!!! Bob told me he had never seen my Grandparent's home in Lehi.

This has been such a fun week for me. Claire invited me to go to her homemaking meeting at Relief Society after we went to Brett's soccer game - he is such a good player and they won their game - they play in such a beautiful place and I enjoy the mountains SO much after being away from them for so long. I was VERY impressed with Claire as she taught a quilting class - she taught them how to make quilted pin cushions to give as gifts and they were darling. She had foot surgery several days after giving her lesson so I know she was in pain.

Cissy and Charles' Beyers had a grandson get married and his reception was going to be in Layton so they called me from Hot Springs several weeks ago and said they would call me when they got here. Cissy made several calls and the first time she said the reception was going to be Saturday night - the next time she said it would be on Friday night. I never did hear from them when they got to Utah but I decided I should go to the reception so I talked Jeannie into going with me on Friday night. It was a hard night for her - she had to change her schedule and miss things but she came for me about 8 o'clock and when we got to the reception place we discovered we had the wrong night - it was on Saturday night. THANK YOU SO MUCH JEANNIE!!!

Dianne came to Utah and we met in Salt Lake Friday afternoon - I went to the temple with my Relief Society Sisters that morning. We had lunch in the Garden Room of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building - I LOVE their Cobb salads. Dianne and I always have so much fun when we get together so it was a fun day - people think she is my daughter and she could be. We shopped and then went to See's for vanilla nut fudge - Ha!!!

Saturday I went to the Beyers' grandsons' wedding reception at 6:30 in Layton and then drove to Orem to go to Jae Theobald's reception. It was fun to see Cissy and Charles and also Shawna, Rex and Steve and his new wife. The grandson who was married is Shawna and Rexs' oldest son and he married a girl from Bountiful - a darling couple. His name is Rex Jr. and he plans to try to get into law school in Little Rock. Steve's new wife is a darling woman but I think that is a sad situation - he and his wife of many years divorced and they had five children. You can tell this is for my journal can't you???

I LOVED going to be with John and Julianna to go to the Theobald reception. I had called and told them to wait for me and when I got there, they had dinner ready for me. John had grilled some chicken breasts and that impressed me because they are good for you that way but he has always wanted them fried. Julianna had fixed delicious yellow squash and fresh fruit - she is such a good influence on John's diet!!! I JUST LOVE THEIR HOME!!! You won't believe what an improvement they have made in their kitchen den area - it is so much more livable. John has helped a lot with the electrical work and they have recessed lights, beautiful cabinet tops and a fabulous convection BIG oven. It was fun to see some of my old Orem friends and Jae has a cute wife - Jae used to help me a lot in the yard - he is a very capable young man.

THE BIG NEWS IS THAT MOKI AND TAR ARE "EXPECTING". I didn't know that until yesterday when Bob asked about them. I can't imagine anything more fun than having new little puppies and I hope you will let me know when they are born.