A Seussish Week of Wonder

And we jumped right into our week by giving neighbors rides.  I picked up Lillian to take her to the doctor's in Spanish and Dad took a young man to work in Springville at the same time.

When we got home, I got the Dr. Seuss birthday party invitations put together and mailed.

For our last ever Dr. Seuss party, as the local grands are aging out.

My friend Jann called to facetime for a bit, and it was fun to catch up.  We'll see each other next week as our craft group gets together for the first time in over a year.

Then Dad and I got to work making changes in the Parlor.  I decided I wanted these 100 years old shutters hung by the windows.  They are from an old hotel in Idaho.  That required some tweaking, like moving the desk to flat against the wall.  That meant moving some paintings and carvings in this grouping around to accommodate the shutter placement.

Here are the shutters in place.  You see that the quilt cupboard was also moved to be flat against the wall on the left.  The shutter there meant the removal of one of my Teichert prints.

I also brought in this old foot stool and reupholstered it, so we don't need to pull the coffee table over to use as foot stools, when we're in the chairs.

With moving the quilt rack to the other side of the red checked settee, so we needed smaller chairs against the door. Thankfully I had gotten two chairs free when we took Ashley to pick up a bed last fall, and reupholstered them to match the footstool.  I may even use the same fabric to make a couple of pillows, but that remains to be seen.

On Tuesday we went to lunch with Karen and Jerry, for their combined late birthday, Mexican food celebration in Springville.

It was fun catching up.

We also realized it was Finnish Kalevala Day.  Seemed perfect that this Finnish Literature day of celebration fell in the same week as our American Literature day of Celebration, Dr. Seuss' birthday.

I also worked on putting together a menu for Dr. Seuss Breakfast for Dinner for the upcoming party.  The IHOP pic is to show you all why I bought the red hots.  At the table Cam wanted some to eat some, and her Dad put them away and said, you don't want those they are too hot, and she said, very sincerely, "But WHY Daddy, Why?"

That night we had a lovely dinner with some of the missionaries from our second mission, which we always enjoy doing. Around the table: Mary Troseth, Sarah Amestoy, Parker Fenton, Dessi Anderson (Staggs), Eli Staggs, Bryatt Stoker and Dad.

Wednesday my cheater quilt center piece came.  I ran across it on line while looking for my last Austen book for the Austen/Dickens book case display in the parlor on Monday.  First I found a kit that one can make a replica of Jane Austen's quilt, she and her sister made, that was $280 dollars ... um no  But I kept looking and found this center piece, it was $10, and came from SLC, which is why I got it in essentially 2 days from the day I ordered it.

This is the completed kit, so I see the cheater piece I got is for a much smaller quilt, but still, as I am using it for a throw in our bedroom, its just right.

Dad took off to Darby's to work, and was excited to see that the countertops in the kitchen had been installed.

This is Cindy Gabbitus, she's a good customer, and we had to go through a lay-a-way transactions that had  so many layers of mistakes, involved, (I only had one mistake, it was a combinations of errors that reminded me of the first Cat in the Hat book) that I asked for a selfie, just to remember all our laughs. To start, one dealer put another customer's payment on her own layaway, on to Cindy's, so that when Cindy came in pay her's off she had to make a credit card payment of the same amount to the other lady's account.  Then another dealer, for no apparent reason, thought the answer was to create the other gal's payment to the first layaway, without actually adding money to the till. So now when the gal comes in to pay off the payment on her's, she has to pay a payment that was already showing as paid ... yeah, its all confusing, but Cindy, who says of all the lay-a-ways she has done over the last year, only one did not have a glitch, but she can laugh about it and we're just glad she still loves us. 

A new 'old' laundry products display I did that day.

And Dad finally got the tiny screw into this knights helmet mini bar (plus a rivet as well), so I could add it to my English display.

After dinner we played a little scrabble.

Then we hung the Seuss animal garland, 

and set the table for the Dr. Seuss Birthday Celebration the next day.

On Thursday I headed to work, after making the buttermilk syrup, and pastry shells for the green omelets and spinach turnovers.  I had an interesting day and met some new people who live in Payson and wanted to see the house.   I got home and made up the omelet mix to fill the pastries. Dad had put the ham in, and Spencer cut it up for us. Eleanor made colorful Truffula Tree Cupcakes, that were yummy besides being pretty.

Here's the big people table...including fox in sox on the far right.

And here is Van doing an impression of Dr. Seuss's book, "I am Not Going to Get up Today!"  He fell asleep on the way down and slept through dinner, but then we had his cousins wake him up for activities and prize drawings.

Here are all the kids with the stuffed animals before the drawing for stationary supplies.

A Seussish crew working on a puzzle ...

they did it!

Campbell found the red bench to be just the right size.

Adi and Lu.

Becca sneaks in a little bit of social media time for her business.

Eva and Darby corralling the youngsters.

Girls making choices in the book drawings.

Nenna chooses, I Can Read with my Eyes Closed.

Nell made some Lorax masks for Photo shoots.  Adi chose the Lorax in the stuffed animal drawing as well.

Becca's bigger kids with the masks.

upside down Mac in his mask

And upside down Van too.

Nell and Van in matching hats

Spencer and his Lorax kids.

Trevor and his Lorax kids

Making Music.

Wenches on Benches.

Bugging Bug's (niece)

The Cat in the Hat reads about that.

Here's Trevor in his secret Dr Seuss persona.

What do you think?

Cam's all ready to go.

Trevor and Nell's Kiddos and us uns. 

On Friday morning, the house is clean and the dishes are done, and the Grinches take a nap for fun.

This is how we used bed risers to make the table tall enough for the red children's bench from the family which happened to be the perfect length.

I ran off to add some goodies to The Grove.

Kinda fun that these hats all look so Seussish.  Do you know he had a hidden room with a collection of 150 hats?

I ran into my friend Marci who was also adding goods to her booth.

I got home in time to go to dinner with Steve Kew who was in town to move the rest of his tools from his shop in the house into storage, before the house is listed this coming week.

It was fun to go to K's kitchen and see Phil Stevenson again,

We liked seeing this mural in downtown Provo by 

Colby Sanford, one of Trevor and Nell's favorite artists.

On Saturday I spent a long time making the two broken bobeches into one.  It took a long time and is not perfect, but its better than spending $50 on one on line for one bobeche. Dad came up with the crochet ball and jar ring to hold it until the glue set. our clever papa.

Then Dad took off to go to a Barbershop concert in Salt Lake, that third guy has a Theodore Geisel look, don't you think?

He was there for a couple of hours and got home in time to do a house tour for the people I met at the store on Thursday.  Their names are JaeLin and David Steel. They live up on Goosenest, which is named after the ranch that the Dixon's, who built our house, owned.  They knew where the ranch and road name came from, so that was cool.  It was named after the flock of wild guess that still inhabit the Payson canyon area in the summer, which is just over the ridge from where the road and ranch are/were. 

It was our most involved tour so far, as they were there for an hour and a half, with lots of questions. They've invited us to dinner at the end of the month and to see their house.  Really nice people.

Today Dad and I went to church, had a great Fast and Testimony meeting, then we both subbed in Primary.  In the afternoon Dad set me up with pictures to do the blog, then left me while he went to a Stake Conference Choir practice.  He got home just in time to drive out to Genola to catch a ride with the Crumps to Tooele, where we were putting on a fireside for a stake that is coming to Mosida this summer.  There we ran into Rachel Curfew, who is the mom of one of our missionaries from our first mission.  She's been a great follower of the Missionary Parents Face Book page that Dad moderates, and it was fun to see her.  Her daughter Hayley West.

Rachel was nice enough to take a couple of pictures during our Happy Campers skit.  Here we see LaVern as the Narrator, Sister Child as the 'fashionista' and me as 'Miss Attitude',

In this shot, I explain to our narrator and to Sister Newmen, as 'Little Miss Perfect' why I refused to use stinky bug spray, and am therefore sporting many bug bites.

Well, that was our crazy. Seussish week.  We had a lot of fun!  We hope you had a good time this week as well.