Dearest Family,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KATIE TOMORROW - 15 years
old!!! Their family celebrated her birthday today - Michael and Laura both
came home from Logan and Claire was making her favorite dinner - French dip
sandwiches and I'm sure a birthday cake. I don't know how Katie could
squeeze one more thing into her life - she is trying out for cheerleading
this week and that's SO stressful!!! I hope you have a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY
KATIE!!!
SUSANNA - it was SO good to talk to you this
morning and I'm VERY happy you are living closer to me. I would love to
care for Jackson some time so you could have a little break - I'll get my
"playpen" out to see if it is still safe - I have stored it for many, many
years so it may be too old and if it is I'll throw it away and get another
one or I could go to your home to take care of him. Susanna and Steve are
in a small house that is close to the State Capitol in Salt Lake and they
like it. JESSIE - I'm SO happy you were able to come home this weekend and
also happy that your Mom could go to San Diego and meet your eye doctor. I
just know that with all the "up to date" medical care for eyes that you will
be able to get the help you need. RON - Thank you so much for taking the
pictures of the Montana Mission Home and the Billings temple while you were
in Billings last week - I JUST LOVE THEM. Ron went into the Mission Home to
get the directions to the temple and when he told them he wanted to take
pictures for a former Mission President's wife, the lady he talked to said
the missionaries and Mission Presidents during the time we were there paved
the way for the building of the temple - WHAT A NICE THING FOR HER TO SAY.
I just came home from having dinner with the
Weinerts - EVERYONE was there and that was SO NICE!!! RICKY had brought a
friend girl from Logan and she is darling - Marty Hyer from Lewiston. BOYD,
BARJI AND PRESTON were there and that little Preston is still such a good
baby. He NEVER cries and is just content to be with people. MARY ANN AND
DAVID were there and they told about their new little "kitty" - David had
cats when he was growing up and as Jeannie says, "He knows all about them" -
Ha!!! SARAH was there too and it's hard for me to believe she will be
graduating in the Spring. The Young Women and Young Men in their ward met
with Elder Hale of the Quorum of the Twelve and Sarah told us about that -
it was special.
BRETT AND BOB - Thank you SO much for all your
help yesterday. They came over in the afternoon and made a place for my 50
gallon container of water for preparedness and THEN they trimmed and sprayed
my apple tree. This is the saga of my apple tree: when we got a new
manager in the condos last year he didn't trim my tree and when I asked him
about it, he said that was not in his contract. It was too late at that
time to trim it so I just waited until March of this year when it was
supposed to be trimmed - he still didn't do it and when I talked to him
about it, he said he didn't know how. I called a tree service but they
didn't ever come. Margaret kept telling me that it was not my apple tree -
that it belonged to the association and I couldn't have it trimmed or
sprayed. I have lived here for five years and each year I have big
beautiful apples that are all wormy. I talked to Bob about it and he said
he had a trimmer SO he and Brett trimmed it for me yesterday and I AM SO
HAPPY. The tree has to be sprayed five times and I'm just going to do that
and let them penalize me - it seems SO irresponsible to not do anything
about it.
BOB AND CLAIRE invited to me to go to such a
special thing last night. The Davis High School Band had a fund raising
dinner dance called "Moonlight Serenade" and I have never been to a nicer
event. The jazz band played Glenn Miller music and some of the students
sang and danced - there were two drummers who played with the band and Brett
was one of them - you did such a good job Brett. IT WAS OUTSTANDING!!! It
was a very elegant affair and they served one of the best dinners I have
ever eaten - Claire's parents, Bob & Alice Ezell, were there also and we
were seated at a lovely table. Bob and I had halibut and the others had
prime rib and the servings were SO generous with baked potatoes, green
salad, sour cream, etc. and then cheese cake for dessert. Bob also ordered
daiquiris (sp.?) for us - strawberry and besides being so pretty they were
heavenly.
I was amazed at the decorations - it was held in
the school cafeteria and I have never been there. They had the most
detailed "skyline" backdrops and then large silhouettes of dancers all
around and trees with those little lights on them all lined up at the
entrance and also inside. The band members who were not in the jazz band
served everyone. Most of the people who were there danced in the middle of
the room - I COULDN'T GET ANYONE TO DANCE WITH ME - Ha!!! IT WAS JUST A
WONDERFUL AFFAIR AND I LOVED IT.
I had a GREAT time in Star Valley - we played
dominoes, did handwork, watched videos and ate. Margaret has a large
fireplace in her living room and it was SO fun to sit by it and just enjoy
life - I always feel SO guilty wasting time like that and I'm always glad to
get home. We went into Afton one day and Mary Ann Holman and I went to the
Family History Library. I couldn't believe all the genealogy I was able to
get - they have improved that alot since I was in a library many years ago.
Mary Ann is a professional genealogist and helped me alot and then when she
got to her home in Brigham City she accessed more of my family's genealogy
on her personal computer and sent it to me. I'm quite ashamed that I don't
know more about my relatives than I do. Bob - I need to check with you and
see if you have the same things she sent to me. She will help me when we
both find time to go to the library in Brigham City.
We got home from Wyoming just in time to go to
the Rodger's Memorial Theatre to see a program of singing and dancing -
Gershwin music. They do such a good job at the Theatre and it is all
volunteering - the performers were professional and I really enjoyed it.
I watch alot of the war news on television and I
am horrified when I hear about another helicopter crash killing all the
people in it. I don't know if they just keep repeating the same news or if
there are really that many crashes. It is going to last much longer than
most people thought. I worry about the missionaries - I know it must be
very difficult for Russell and the others to be confined to their apartments
for long periods of time. HANG IN THERE RUSSELL!!!
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 BXXXXXXXXOOOOOO