Dearest Family,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO LAURA ON FRIDAY - 19 YEARS
OLD!!! You are surely accomplishing so many of your goals and I am very
proud of you - one year plus of college already - THAT'S GREAT!!! I hope
you have a WONDERFUL birthday!!!
It would have been Lynn's 82nd birthday
tomorrow, Granny Mellor's birthday on Saturday and Grandmother Forrest's
birthday on next Sunday and she would have been 100 so August is a popular
birthday month for my family. Don and Cheryl and I are going to go to
dinner to celebrate Mother's 100th but I'm not sure when. I had planned to
have a "mini Forrest reunion" but everyone is just too busy and I knew you
would all try to come.
This will just be a short note. I just came
home from Sacrament meeting and must leave in an hour to go to Brigham City
where I will meet Rolly and Mary Ann Holman and ride to Star Valley with
them. Margaret and other friends left last Thursday but I didn't want to
get a temple substitute and the Holmans also work at the temple on Saturdays
so we will go together. We will come home on Thursday and I'm looking
forward to being where it is a little cooler - Margaret called me and told
me to be sure to bring a sweat shirt for the mornings.
Patrice - Thank you SO very much for those
wonderful pictures. I was thrilled to see the picture of Roy water skiing
on Lake Hamilton and it looked like you were having such a good time with
your friends. I LOVE that part of Arkansas - I used to go to parties there
with my garden club because one of our members had a Summer Home there and
it was beautiful.
I believe this has been one of my busiest
Summers - fun but busy. My friends from Thailand have been here and we had
a Thai teacher reunion for them last Wednesday at a park in Bountiful. I
don't believe I have ever enjoyed their dancing as much as I did that day -
they cleared out a place in the pavillion and they had all their Thai
instruments and they performed for at least an hour for us - there were 25
of them and they are SO beautiful and gracious. Teachers from the third
group came and it was fun to meet some of them - I was in the first group
and many from our group came also. I am SO fortunate because I was a part
of the second group for a couple months and they include me in their
activities too. Marc and Cherri Hall who have just returned from Russia
were there and it was good to visit with them. One of the teachers brought
a delicious curry and she has promised to send me her recipe - it was VERY
hot but I loved it. They featured the Thai dancing group on Channel 2 one
day this week - Margaret called me and said "turn your television to Channel
2" - I never watch that channel so I was happy she called me.
We had such a fun time on Friday visiting with
Janet Reeves - Steve's Mom has been here from Florida to welcome her new
little grandson, Jackson. I have been calling him Wesley but it is Jackson
Wesley or the other way around and they will call him Jackson - I love both
those names. Janet, Steve, Susanna and baby Jackson, Ann, Jessie, Barji and
baby Preston, Jean and I all met at the Garden Room in the Joseph Smith
Memorial Building for lunch. It was SO good to be with Janet again and we
all had such a good time but we missed Claire and John's Laura - they didn't
have enough notice to make arrangements to be with us. Speaking of names -
I couldn't remember what Steve's Father's name is and when Janet told me it
is Doyle, I just drew a blank and said I had never heard of that name
before. When I came home it dawned on me that Boyd Packer's brother's name
is Doyle and he was a good friend of mine in Brigham City.
That's all the news for now. I don't worry when
I am away for a few days if I am with Margaret because Jeannie can always
get in touch with me because of her friend who is Margaret's daughter. I
LOVE EACH ONE OF YOU SO VERY, VERY MUCH. PLEASE BE SO VERY, VERY CAREFUL IN
EVERYTHING YOU DO. Grandma B XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXOOOOOOOOOOOOOO