Dearest Family,
HAPPY LABOR DAY WEEKEND TO EACH ONE OF YOU!!! I
am personally happy to see the beginning of the Fall Season which is my
favorite season of all. We have had such a HOT and dry Summer but it has
been a WONDERFUL Summer for me and I hope you can all reflect back on all
the GREAT things we did together as a family as well as individuals and be
grateful for them. I don't like to see our swimming pool close - they'll
probably keep it open as long as it is warm enough. I swim every morning
and love it.
The Bobs are in Lake Powell and according to the
weather news, they are having good weather. They left on Thursday morning
and they had alot of wind that night and that is very scary in Lake Powell
but it is nice now. They are coming home tomorrow I think. I see alot of
cars pulling boats on the freeway so I know there will be a crowd at all the
lakes and camping spots.
John is camping in the Uintas and that sounds
just WONDERFUL!!! I talked to him on Friday afternoon and he sounded
excited - he LOVES the outdoors and he was going with some friends. He has
such a good healthy lifestyle - I can't help but wonder what they eat when
they camp like that. I feel sure they don't make "S'MORES" or roast hotdogs
- Ha!!!
The Weinerts are going to do a little golfing
tomorrow as a family so I'll look for them on the golf course. I was with
them for the Davis High/Brighton football game on Friday night and I enjoyed
that SO much. Barji and Boyd brought little Preston and he is such a
darling baby boy and they are such darling and proud parents - it was fun to
see so many of their friends come to see the baby. Boyd's brother, Danny,
was there also and he is at BYU and came home for the weekend. SARAH is a
beautiful cheerleader and she's the main reason I went to the game - it
scares me to see them throw her in the air and then just have the other
young girls catch her but they practice plenty so I'm sure she's safe. Mary
Ann and Dave had planned to come but they changed their minds so I didn't
get to see them. Mary Ann is moving to Salt Lake this weekend and will
start at the University of Utah next week - GOOD LUCK MARY ANN AND STUDY
HARD!!! (She tells me that she only reads the parts of my letter that
mention her - Ha!) I haven't seen Ricky for a long time and I wouldn't be
surprised to have him come home this weekend too - he loves Logan and Utah
State. Davis High won their game by about three touchdowns - they have a
good team.
Jeannie and I were kinda' late in getting to the
game and I believe the entire student body was there with everyone else from
Davis County. We took the first seats we came to and tried to save some for
Rick, Boyd and Barji and after we were there for a few minutes we discovered
we were right next to the Davis High Band - WOW - they are SO loud!!! I'm
sure Brett had to "pull some strings" in order to get excused so he could go
to Lake Powell. The band is exceptionally good and I love to see some of
the young band members conduct their music. I want to go to all the games I
can and I'll make sure I get there early next time - Ha!!!
I'm betting the Roys go camping this weekend
unless Roy is on call. I remember this is a beautiful time in Arkansas to
go fishing and maybe float the Buffalo River. I have thought about Emily
all week as she has started school at Central High - what a GREAT experience
for her and I hope she will write and tell me about it. This is a new
experience for their entire family to have their three children all in
different schools - I hope they get their carpooling and activity schedules
all worked out so they are NEVER alone!!! The many child abductions this
past Summer scare me to death!!!
Bishop Woolley and his family probably don't
have a minute to spare - I'd like to have a hidden video of their family's
activities this year. Annie had told me about a proposed school board
meeting with the members of their district and she was worried because they
were going to have to deal with budget problems that would involve
increasing taxes. There was an article in our paper about it and they are
going to have to do that and it said the present school board had inherited
the problems. It's fun to have a daughter who is involved in community
affairs like that and I'm proud of you Ann. Lee Anna has moved into her
dorm at BYU and Jimmy is practicing football in this terrible HOT weather
and Ann says he is almost too tired when he comes home to even eat his
dinner. Russell is probably going to go back to Madagascar and I'm happy
about that and I hope he is too. He has enjoyed Johannesburg and it's great
for him to have all these experiences. I'm anxious to hear how Jessie likes
San Diego and her school. I'm also anxious to see little Jackson again - I
know he has changed A LOT since I saw him last. I keep hearing about the
nurse shortage here in Utah and I'm sure Susanna is tempted to start working
again.
The first BYU home game was on Thursday night -
it was also the night of a wedding reception for a young woman in my ward
that was being held in South Salt Lake. I was very interested in seeing how
the quarterback, Brett Engemann, could handle the job after being injured
two years ago so I stayed home from the reception. I felt VERY guilty but
the game was good and he is going to be a good quarterback unless he gets
injured again. I remember when he was a friend of Susanna and her friends.
I went to Logan yesterday afternoon for the Utah
State/University of Utah football game. I LOVE to go there and it brings
back a million memories. One of the men in the condos who went with us used
to play football at Utah State and he asked me how I liked football when I
was a student there - I really don't believe they had football for the first
few years I was there because there weren't any men - they were all in World
War 2. I don't remember ever going to a game. I looked for Ricky yesterday
but didn't see him - hope he was there. I know Michael and Laura are at
Lake Powell so they wouldn't be there. The U. of U. won the game but Utah
State held them pretty well up until the last quarter. Margaret has a
"platinum card" for everything so we park right outside the gate and have
seats on the 50 yard line - her entire family went too and took their motor
home - they have LOTS of fun together.
Rosie, Carol Ann and Arts' daughter called me
one day this week. She is losing her hearing and says she has inherited
Granny Mellor's deafness and she wants Bob to help her if he can. She is
just 35 years old and she is worried and I don't blame her - I'm sure that
is a genetic problem since all Daddy's sisters also have it. I told Rosie I
had a hearing problem too and she said, "Yes, but you're not 35"She told me
that Carol Ann was in Las Vegas to be with Jimmy during an operation on his
little baby boy. I guess he has real problems - they thought it was water
on the brain but Rosie said it is that his brain is not growing. I hope
they can help him. Did you know that Holly Lockhart had her baby soon after
the Mellor reunion? The baby was at least a month premature and had to stay
in the hospital for a little while but is doing fine now - she had another
baby girl.
That's all the news - I think. I LOVE EACH ONE
OF YOU SO VERY, VERY MUCH. PLEASE BE SO VERY, VERY CAREFUL IN EVERYTHING
YOU DO. Grandma B XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO