March 24, 2002 Farmington, Utah

CONGRATULATIONS TO SARAH - her drill team won the Western Championship Competition in California last week and they competed against 60 teams - THAT'S JUST WONDERFUL!!! ALSO CONGRATULATIONS FOR BEING CHOSEN AS A DAVIS HIGH CHEERLEADER FOR NEXT YEAR. Sarah has been a D'Ette for the past two years and it has taken SO much time - like being at practice every morning by 6 a.m. besides other practices during the week and she doesn't believe cheerleading will take that much time so she decided to try out for cheerleading and she made it!!! Thank you for calling me Sarah.

Roy Mellors - thank you for your St. Patrick's Day card. I am really looking forward to my visit with you in April and I appreciate so very much John making my flight arrangements. I will be gone from April 12th through the 17th. I remember when I was with you the last time, Emily told me she REALLY wanted to move into your guest room and if she has made that move I hope you will know that I am comfortable wherever you put me - I just have to be horizontal and I can sleep anyplace.

John - thank you for all the additions to the family website. I enjoy SO much watching it in the evenings and I'm thrilled to be able to see the handcart video - they were all sold before I got one at our family reunion so this is the first time I have seen it and it is just excellent - good work Bob!!! I plan to send you some pictures tonight that were taken during the Olympics and also at Jimmy's Boy Scout Court of Honor. I have such peace of mind knowing our memories are being preserved for the future and I know how much time it must take and I truly appreciate it as well as all of us.

Bob has been over three times this week and I feel as though I am caught up with their experiences in France and Claire has been SO good to send me pictures which John will add to the website when he gets time.. They had a great time and I was SO pleased that Bob would take the time to try to find more about my brother Bob's war experiences. I can't remember if he sent you the letter he sent to me about their trip to Normandy and the Veteran's Memorial Cemetery there. He tried to find some information at that cemetery and they were so good to him and I loved the story about how they took him out in the middle of the cemetery and played "taps" in honor of my brother Bob and then presented him with two flags - the United States and France flags. He brought them to me and I LOVE them!!! My brother Bob was actually killed in Australia and I wrote to my brother Don for some information and he said he was the pilot of an 847 transport plane and the accident was weather related and the plane crashed in the ocean. They recovered his body and he was buried in Australia but after the war they sent it home to be buried in the family burial place in Brigham City. I traveled from Fort Collins by train to attend that funeral. Don said my parents didn't talk very much about it and of course I was married and gone. I REALLY need to go to Brigham City to see if I can find out more information before everyone is gone who might know anything about it.

Did you know that Bob makes house calls to replace burned out light bulbs and check on toilets that don't work properly???????? Claire has spent the last couple days with Katie in St. George for a dance competition and I know they have had a good time. Laura has spent some time visiting at home too and Bob sent me a picture of her with her friend boy and he's such a nice looking young man. I LOVE hearing about all the friend boys and friend girls of my grandchildren.

Annie - Thank you SO much for dropping by to visit for a little while on your way home from visiting your teacher at Davis High - I LOVE that and I know how every minute counts with you. She told me that Steve's grandfather passed away in Destin, Florida so he and Susanna and Steve's brother Greg left on Thursday to go for the funeral. I met him when I went there for Susanna and Steves' wedding open house and he was such a nice man. He had been ill for quite a long time so I'm sure they know it was a great blessing. Steve's grandmother lives right next door to his parents and that will be good for her now that she is alone. The Woolleys are going to San Francisco for their Spring Break this next week - I hope you have a FABULOUS time!!!

Russell - now that I can send your letters "pouch mail" I feel like you might receive them!!! I can't help but wonder who has received them - do you suppose they have just thrown my perfectly good letters away? Ha!!! I read the restrictions on sending mail by "Pouch" and noticed that we can't send cash - I did send you some Christmas cash and I hope some poor Malagasy family got it. It sounds like the political strife in Madagascar has improved - you are having some special experiences.

Michael - I can't believe how much you are looking like your Dad in the last pictures your Mom has sent to me. It's funny, I don't think you look one bit like PaPa but you look like Bob and he is a clone of PaPa - that doesn't make sense does it??? You surely do look handsome and also very happy - you have your Mother's dark complexion but your Father's features.

I went to my D.U.P. meeting on Wednesday and that was good. The home where it was held is right in back of the Weinert's former home on Cherry Blossom and that really brings back LOTS of memories - Lynn had such a good time building the flower garden in back of their home and now it is for sale again.

I think that's all the news. I LOVE EACH ONE OF YOU SO VERY, VERY MUCH. PLEASE BE SO VERY, VERY CAREFUL IN EVERYTHING YOU DO. Grandma B XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

a P.S. ...

Dearest Family,

Mary Ann just came over with a delicious dinner for me - thank you SO much!!! I keep telling Jeannie to not do that but then I just gobble it down!!! I know it won't be high calorie so I enjoy it more than the way I cook.

I forgot to congratulate Mary Ann on her achievements in her marathon. I kinda' lost track of what the Weinerts were doing and since Jeannie was gone to California much longer than I thought she would be I didn't really get all the facts but I have them now.

There were 4,000 in the marathon in Moab and it was 13.9 miles long - Mary Ann's number was 3,607. She placed 14th out of 50 in her division. I'M SO PROUD OF YOU MARY ANN. She told me the next one would be twice as long and it will be held in the canyons in Ogden on May 4th - hopefully some of her family will be able to be there to cheer her on.

I'm SO glad I am much too old to run in marathons.

ONCE AGAIN - I LOVE YOU ALL SO VERY, VERY MUCH - GRANDMA B XXXXXXXXXXXOOOOOOOO