Celebrating 4 birthdays, and our Last Family Dinner with the Talleys

 

Last week was awesome, full of friends, family and fun ... above, on Monday the 9th, I hosted our We Can group... we had 13 people who came, our largest turnout ever ... we worked on making Christmas ornaments for our tree for Festival of Trees, then had our pot luck lunch.  Yummy.

 

That night Dad and I went to Taylors for our FHE group.

 On Tuesday I drove to Kaysville, with the couch in the van, to pick up the chairs my friend Arlene has reupholstered, and then dropped the couch with her for the same purpose.  Then we went to lunch and talked about old times.

 

My book club ladies came by the house to pick me up that night and we went and saw Austenland together, as we had read the book together a couple of years ago!

 On Wednesday I worked hard to put together a new booth.  All of the unrented booths are getting rented, and since I had some stuff in those unrented booths, and lots of left overs from flea.o.logy, I thought I better.

Thursday was more of the same, and then that night Dad and I drove up to Highland as Jake was opening his call. As you may note in the picture, he is going to Canada, and his friend just happened to be wearing a 'Canada' shirt ... if you can't read the caption it says, "Canadian Fast Food"

 

Afterwards we ran over to Maui Chill for some cool yogurt goodness!

 Dad took the day off on Friday, and made the climb ... doesn't he look like Samuel the Lamanite in the top picture?  Anyway, he found a huge strip of graveled tar paper missing,  no wonder that room's been leaking.  oops.


Fortunately, Coralee, had a strip of the material, she hauled over in her wheel barrow ... it was just enough and she wouldn't let us pay her ... and ... voila .... no leak.

That night Dad and I met the Heuers and Moes for dinner in Orem, then we attended the play at the Hale Center Theater together.  Good times, as always, were had by all!

 Saturday, Dad got up early to run, while I helped Emily set up the yard sale that we were doing to help raise funds to help pay for Eva's little vacation at Primary's.

When he got home, showered and packed we headed south to St. George and Overton, where he was overseeing inventories.  He dropped me at DI in St. George, then drove the hour to Overton, while I shopped beyond my hearts content.  Found some goodies, of course, before he picked me up 5 hours later.  We went and saw Austenland again, then had dinner at the Golden Corral. 

We spent the night at a hotel with a Mormon church next door, which was perfect as Dad left early to do his inventory, while I slept in, got ready for church, had breakfast at the hotel before going to sacrament meeting next door.  Dad joined me about halfway through the meeting, then we headed home.

 As you can see it was family dinner day, and Janelle and Trevor hosted a soup night, which was a super good idea, and everything was yummy.  We also celebrated four birthdays, all grandchildren, and all occurring within a week of each other.  Kai on the 8th, Alex on the 11th, Elias on the 14th and Becki on the 15th.  How fun is that.

Above is Scott holding a poster he used to win the Historian Position in the 6th grade.  Pretty cute, eh?

 Since it was Emily and Sam's last family dinner for a long, long time, and since Britt and Ashley were there too, I found myself close to tears ... I just savored the time with so many of my beloved children so close. 

 We had a small intro to guitar class ... and also got to hear Trevor and Spencer playing the guitar a bit, which is always fun.

One last picture of the bearded brethren before Sam heads south ... oh, and a memorable picture of Becca, aka tutu head!!