Yeah Monday ... I spent the entire day blogging our trip. Dad spent the day at Spencer's house again. Then we headed to Lindon to eat at the Island of Hawaii Grill with these party makers. We talked about our upcoming trip to Hawaii, so that was fun. The food was good, other than the seriously worst coleslaw I've ever eaten, and eat it I did, because it was my cruciferous veggie for the day. (They are the most healthy vegetables known to man, you should eat one a day too)
I love this picture that Hannah put up as her profile picture ... Davin and Bri and the kids, along with Hannah went out to the Salt Flats to take some pictures, How fun is this one of Hannah and Bri?
On Tuesday, Dad and I spent the day in Salt Lake, he was working at Spencer and Brittney's condo again, and I, of course was out collecting inventory for the shop. We took lunch and dinner with us, and finished off the day at the old Butler 8th ward to participate in a Senior Couple missionary fireside. Here is Dad with a bunch of old bishops, Bishop Hein, who sent Emily on her mission, Dad, Bishop Essen, who is currently the bishop and former Bishop, and former Stake President Stevens who is also a former Mission President to London England. He and his wife presented and lead the discussion.
Here we are with them. They had a former Finnish Missionary and his wife serving there, while we were serving in Finland. Sister Stevens was released from the General Primary Presidency to serve with her husband in England. It sounds like their experience serving was similar to our own.
On Wednesday Dad went to Salt Lake to work on the sub- flooring some more. By the end of the project, he had gone through around 20 drill bits. He was very proud of his 'saw horse', using their old oven and their new range hood to hold up the boards to saw.
Then Dad went to his Barber shoppers' practice that night.
I worked, then went to Young Women's that night. The Mia Maids and Laurels worked on covering journals.
Aubrey is quite the artist, and drew this young man for the cover of her journal.
Here are the mighty leaders, Becky, Cheryl, Caitlyn, Me, Bonnie.
And a few of the resulting journals.
I worked on Thursday, and Dad worked at the temple. This bowl is a part of a bathset that we have had for sale for almost 20 years. Its the bowl, a pitcher, a two piece sponge holder and a potty. It was hundred and fifty bucks, which was cheap, but no one wanted it because of this repair. I thought that was the best part. They had to drill two holes for each 'staple', then insert and glue them to stabilize the cracks. The metal bits do not come through on the pretty patterned inside of the bowl. I thought I'd add a picture here, because it shows how well the Victorians made things work. Here is their old saying "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without."
That night I went to my book club
When I got home, I opened my package, which had come that day to find my new replacement shoes .... does anyone else get hooked on an item, and hate to see it get worn out?
On Friday night we got to go and babysit these cute kids.
They always show us dances and gymnastics. I love that Adi is wearing the hand knit socks we sent from Finland.
On Saturday I got together with my friend and soul mate Wendy to go up to the Market Beautiful, which was happening at the State Fair Park.
We ran into lots of dealers that we know, including this gal who has booths at Treasures.
Alice, a long time dealer at the Acorn Show, that I used to do, had this rocker for sale, how could I resist?
Here's we are with the owner of Copperhive Vintage.
We had a great time, and it was fun to catch up.
While I was doing my thing, Dad was doing his thing. Above, is John Sasine's quartet, he is the chorus director, and it is the bass from his quartet who came that day to coach kids from all along the Wasatch Front at Skyline High School. They had over 140 kids who attended.
After church on Sunday we had our presidency meeting, which is really a staff meeting. I'm excited about upcoming temple trips..
We also got news that day that a new branch was formed in Lohja, Finland, making 30 congregations in two stakes, plus 2 districts. They're were many lobbying for this congregation, since Lohja is 30 miles away from where they have been meeting with Espoo members. This picture shows that they don't have the same guidelines about taking pictures in church that we do.
On Sunday evening, we celebrated Dr Suess' birthday, one day after the fact.
I was pretty happy with how the cake turned out.
Becca and her kids really got into it.
It hard to get a non blurry picture of Madison, but I tried.
Here's some of our funny Suessish food. Who Hash, Poodle Noodles, Red Fish-Blue Jello, Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Suess Spinners, Trufella Trees and Maisy Eggs.
Nell was home with a sick Eva, but sent some Suessish goodies as well.
We set up a kid table in the kitchen,
And a senior table in the parlor. Terry Kew said, she remembers starting at the kid table for meals, and how happy she was to move to the adult table ... now she wasn't sure how she felt about eating at the Old Folks table ... hahaha. Notice how well the old red and white pennant banner from Fleaology goes with the room and the theme. Yeah!!
Darby brought Trevor and Nell's kids, since Trevor is our of town for work, and Nell was home with a sick kiddo. Darby and Scott put together the Suess game and helped the youngster play it, which I appreciated.
Then they put together a large puzzle.
With the help of Aunt Brittney.
It was tricky on the uneven surface of the coffee table, but they stuck it out. Eleanor is Fox in Sox ...
Finally it was time to sing Happy Birthday to the father of legendary tale and philosophy. Then the kids chose Kinder eggs, which we'd brought home from Italy, and that was that for a couple of years.
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