March 3, 2002 Farmington, Utah

I just came home from Provo - CONGRATULATIONS TO JIMMY!!! The Woolley's ward had a Scout Court of Honor tonight and awarded Jimmy his EAGLE SCOUT AWARD!!! I'm proud of you Jimmy and also your family. Their ward has some outstanding scout leaders and the meeting was just WONDERFUL!!! Ron had made a video of Jimmy growing up and attending all his Scout activities and I was SO impressed - it just couldn't have been better and I know things like that take such a lot of time. I think it is GREAT they have so many pictures of him doing Scouting things; making snow caves, the little car races (I can't think of what they are called), bonfires, tents, cooking pancakes, etc., etc. You have to have something like the video in mind when your children are very young so you will be prepared with the video when the time comes and then I think of going through all those slides to choose the ones you want - WAY TO GO RON!!!

The Woolley's family all came to support Jimmy and of course we all missed Russell. Jessie had come from Logan and she had been sick so Annie was trying to get her to stay home tonight and not go back to Logan until tomorrow. Susanna is VERY pregnant and I had to laugh when she said she awakened one morning and she "was showing" - Ha!!! She says she feels really good and after seeing her so sick on the cruise that is GREAT. Steve is waiting to hear about his application to go to law school and we all know that is a very stressful time for them - BUT FUN!!! Lee Anna was teased by their seminary teacher tonight because I guess she doesn't have a perfect attendance - can any of you relate to that?????????? Annie and Ron had had such a busy day today. It was their BYU Ward Stake Conference and Annie had prepared lunch for the visiting General Authorities besides fixing lunch for all of us and then she had a huge cake to serve after the Court of Honor to everyone who had come. The cake was darling - she had cut it in pieces and then put a miniature flag on each piece.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE DAVIS HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TEAM TOO!!! They won the State Championship. Last week was a fun and busy time for the Weinerts because the games were all held at Weber State University in Ogden and Sarah danced with her D'Ette Group for each of the games - I believe they lasted for four days and that's a lot of dancing!!!

Claire's brother, Steve and his daughter Amber, have been visiting in Utah for a skiing vacation. Bob came over one afternoon and we had a good visit and he took Margaret's Christmas lights down from her roof. We had our lights put up together and I got mine down okay but I was afraid I might get hers half down and half up and she wouldn't be able to get her car out so I didn't dare do it. Bob had to get on a ladder to unhook them and I don't believe I could have done that. Margaret has been sick all week. Bob just called me and he said Claire has the flu - they usually drop in on Sunday night if they can but they won't come tonight. They are going to Paris this coming Friday so I hope she gets better soon. They will be gone all next week and Bob said he will try to e-mail me from France. Bob says Michael is doing really good - an investigator who speaks Spanish called Bob last week from Italy so they could communicate in Spanish. It's exciting that Italy will host the Winter Olympics in four years.

John - thank you for your phone calls and e-mail messages. John wants to put the video Annie made of Lynn on the website and he asked me to type in the words. I haven't started yet because I don't know how I can send it to him if I type it on the WordPerfect format - he said Bob could help me. Can you Bob? That seems like a tremendous task for John but if anyone can do it, he can.

I need a project like that and will enjoy doing it. I need a "mind stimulating" job - I am getting SO dense. I believe you know that I write to some friends who are serving a mission in Russia - he is Mission President there and was our Country Director in Bangkok. I wrote to them last week and after sending it I realized that I had sent them the very same news about a week ago so I sent a letter apologizing. AND in that letter I wished them a Happy April Fool's Day. I had to send another letter telling them I really knew it was March, not April. It's kinda scary when I do things like that.

I went through Lehi on my way to Provo this afternoon and you wouldn't believe all the construction equipment they have on the farm property. They are hauling a lot of dirt to make a huge "hill" just West from the 10 acre place - I told Ron about it and he said it sounds like it might be for an overpass of some kind - kinda' sad to see it change SO much.