Dearest Family,
This next week is "Birthday Week" in our
family!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TIMOTHY ON WEDNESDAY AND HE WILL BE 12 YEARS
OLD. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SUSANNA ON THURSDAY AND SHE WILL BE TWICE AS OLD AS
TIMOTHY - HA!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ROY AND PATRICE ON FRIDAY AND THEY WILL
BE "THIRTY SOMETHING"!!! I HOPE YOU WILL EACH HAVE VERY SPECIAL DAYS - I'M
PROUD OF ALL OF YOU!!!
We celebrated some birthdays in the condos last
week - six of us went to the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and then to a
Mexican restaurant for dinner. That is the second time I have seen that
movie and that is VERY unusual for a person who NEVER goes to movies - BUT
I think that is such a cute movie and it was fun.
It is "Election Time" and as I see so many signs
in yards around town I think about Annie and her campaign. This is really
the first time I have been very interested in elections so it is fun for me
- win or lose Ann!!! It's difficult for me to understand why anyone would
put alot of effort, money and worry into a campaign that requires a great
deal of work and very little compensation, if any. I am also interested in
many of the gubernatorial races and some Utah congressional races.
Russell - how are your English lessons coming?
I really should send you some letters I receive from my Thai friends who
studied with us. I cherish their letters because I know exactly what they
are trying to say but they say it in a different way. I look forward to
your Mom sending us parts of your letters so we can hear about your
success. The Thai language is a "tonal" one and if you use the wrong tones
to some words it gives them an entirely different meaning - is it that way
with the Malagasy language?
I was SO thrilled to go to the Davis High
football game on Friday night. I don't go until it is about halftime and I
never want to sit in the bleachers because it is SO crowded so I just stand
next to the stadium. The Davis High Band performed and Brett's drum line
ended up right in front of where I was standing - I could almost touch
them. That band is SO VERY GOOD and it is very special for me to see Brett
as part of the drum line that really sets the tempo for it. It is also very
special for me to see Sarah as a cheerleader. She was right in the middle
of the cheerleaders so I wasn't as close to her as I have been before - I
waved to her but I'm not sure she saw me. The games are really for the
young people and they look at me as if to say "what are you doing here"? I
leave right after halfttime so I avoid the crowd - Davis lost to Northridge
by 42 points.
Patrice - thank you SO much for those wonderful
pictures of Emily, Timothy and Jesse. I hope you don't mind but I forwarded
them to my Utah family and Ann's response was "Gosh, Emily is gorgeous"!!!
It is so fun for me to see Emily and Timothy dressed up for Cotillion and it
brings back very special memories - the fair picture of Roy with Jesse and
his friend also brings back fun memories. Roy looks like a little kid and
Jesse's smile is worth a million dollars!!! I hope you will send me a
picture with you in it next time. There is a cute couple who have just
moved into our ward from Little Rock - he just graduated from law school
there and they have bought one of those homes East of the condos. I met her
today and she says she REALLY misses Little Rock - I will go visit her and
we can "miss it together" - Ha!!!
Jeannie - thank you SO much for your long
letter. I am SO grateful for computers and the internet so I can keep up
with my family and I appreciate more than I can say how much I love to
receive "updates" from each of you. I said in my letter last week that the
entire Weinert family went to Nauvoo - I WAS WRONG. Ricky, Barji and Boyd
were unable to go. Jeannie said they had a GREAT time and she, Rick and
David were able to attend a session in the new temple there and Mary Ann and
Sarah did baptisms. They said it was beautiful and very different from the
time we visited there many years ago as a family - do any of you remember
going there? I didn't like it at that time so I need to go back. My
friend, Helen Jane Lemon, has put her papers in to go on a mission and she
says if she isn't sent to Nauvoo she isn't going - Ha!!! I know that every
minute will count in the Weinert family between now and when Mary Ann and
David are married - their plans sound SO exciting!!!
I haven't heard from John since the Montana
Missionary Reunion - he said at that time that he was VERY busy and that is
good!!! I look out my window here and the trees in the condos are just
golden and the ones up on the mountains are all different colors. I hope
John and Laura are taking lots of automobile trips when they can to enjoy
the beautiful Fall colors - I don't remember when the Utah mountains have
been prettier.
I was also wrong when I said the entire Woolley
family went to San Diego during UEA vacation. Annie said that Ron and Jimmy
went and took their wet suits so they could do some surfing - I am assuming
that Lee Anna went also. I know Jessie was thrilled to see them and I want
to hear how she is doing.
Bob and Claire are SO good to drop in when they
can. I am always SO happy when I have people tell me about Dr. Mellor and
how he has helped them with different surgeries and this week has been
special. Two people with whom I work at the temple have talked about this
great doctor without even knowing he is my son. Claire gave a wedding
shower this past week for a young woman - she is a daughter of one of
Claire's good friends who was critically injured in an automobile accident a
few years ago and is confined to a wheelchair. I also heard about the
success of this shower.
I have been "up to my ears" with DUP this week -
Ha!!! We had our monthly meeting on Wednesday and since the member who was
supposed to have it had a "quilt on" in her living room she had it at the
home of one of her sons. Her last name is Leonard and that is a very
prominent name in Davis County and there is a "Leonard Lane" where some of
her children have built homes. It was fun to go to this home and it is in
an area where I could see the Weinert home at a distance except there were
too many trees in the way. Jeannie is a good friend of the wife of this
Leonard family. I went to a DUP luncheon on Thursday after going visiting
teaching.
I made your pumpkin cookies Annie to take to the
sisters for a Halloween treat.
My neighbor, Margaret, has an older sister who
was a close friend of my sister, Lela. She and her husband are here this
weekend from Chicago to attend a family funeral and it has been fun to visit
with her. Margaret went to Phoenix yesterday to attend a family funeral
too. I guess it is our ages - Ha!!!
I must mention the "Washington Sniper" for my
"journal". I have my own ideas about who I think it is but they differ from
most everyone elses - I think he is connected to the Al Quida terrorists.
I just hope they catch him soon - it's unbelievable that he can elude SO
many professionals who are searching for him. We are living in perilous
times and IT IS NOT MY AGE!!!
That's all the news. I STILL HAVE LOTS OF ICE
CREAM - (left over from the Missionary reunion) - so if you get hungrey for
ice cream come visit before I give it away which should be soon. I wish I
could send it to Russell - ice cream was almost unavailable in Thailand.
I LOVE EACH ONE OF YOU SO VERY, VERY MUCH.
PLEASE BE SO VERY, VERY CAREFUL IN EVERYTHING YOU DO. Grandma B
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