Our Week by the Numbers

So, our blog approach this week is looking at the numbers ... starting with the fact that our trek for this week was cancelled, leaving us with 0 treks.  In other words, there was no time spent at Mosida this week. 

We did have a chance to celebrate as 1 member of our family who won the Teacher of the Year award for region 10 in Texas.

Going Kayaking with Dad on Tuesday and Ann on Friday made for 2 Kayaking trips for me, and a lot of fun.  Ann and I pick up garbage when we're on the pond, and this is a beach ball she found out floating. 

My friend Craig from work (and also Hannah's folks' neighbor) went fishing on Hobblecreek and brought 3 fish he had caught into the antique mall to share.

Here are two smaller ones, I was amazed by the polka dots, especially the red polka dots. 

Dad ate the two big ones ...  I cooked them just the way Craig suggested, and Dad said they were better tasting than any he remembered.

Dad went running 4 times this week, as usual.  On Saturday he runs past the Payson Temple.  (He also did his shift at the temple on Thursday.)

We're sure you'll be thrilled to know that we fit in 5 episodes of Midsomer Murders, which we are enjoying.  They are like Agatha Christie novels, which focus more on figuring out who done it, than about the evil of the murders themselves.

On Thursday after work I hosted book club ...

And there were 6 of us who could attend.  We talked about Sir Walter Scott, as the book was about his romance with his wife.  He's such an interesting man.  I volunteered to host because what a perfect excuse for a tea party, with Scottish scones and Scottish shortbread. 

We all had a blast.

I managed to go to 7 garage sales this week.  In fact, the one above is at the Hale Center Theater that I went to twice.  So perfectly colorful. 

The others were all around Payson.  I thought this one was kind of funny.

There were huge four by four-foot square boxes, and as you see, one couldn't reach the bottom without someone doing an inside job.

There were at least 8 connections with art this week ... starting with the first piece here, which is by Kristen Tye, I noticed it at Trevor's in the living room.  She is the gal who is the niece of the Lehtinen's who are now the mission leaders Finland. Ulla gave me her name and when I checked out her work, I loved it ... see picture 5 for the one I would like to own. I had no idea that Trevor and Nell had purchased her work a few years ago. 

Number two is the turkey plate I found this week for a friend who is buying for her turkey collecting friend.  Number 3 is an artist I like.  I found a children's book with her illustrations this week.

4 is a bunny I screen shotted because I want to paint him.  The wall collection in number 6 shows the unframed sketch, by an artist Trevor and Nell like that we gave them, and how great it looks framed, and in this collection of the artists art. It's on the far right.

The elf is another screen shot I hope to use in making handmade cards to sell at the mall. 

And the last is a picture of Penny with her first quilt.  Her mom bound it and she did the rest.  What an adorable little artist.

You can tell by our 8 snippet that we spent some time at Trevor's and in case you are curious it was to put together this hanging garage storage rack.

I think they had a lot of fun.

This is the 9 pictures Ashley posted of her garden.  Pretty amazing and beautiful.  Well Done!!

There were 10 trips to thrift stores and antique stores for me this week.  Working three days at two stores, covers these two shots.  The first is of a display of jewelry I put into Treasures, the second is of me with my friend Joanne Bettos who lives just up second north from me ... who came into The Grove during the one day I work there each month. At the time of this picture, I was trying to see if these mother-of-pearl antique readers would work for me ... They worked well, but after seeing this picture I scratched the idea, you'll be happy to know.

We also got to attend 2 Finnish missionary wedding receptions.  Between the two weddings we were able to see 11 different missionaries, who served in Finland with us. This is Jackson Howe who we served with on our first mission.

The groom is Aaron Paige and his wife Samm Griffith.

At Spencer Woolley's reception we ran into McKenna Terry, James Phelps, Bryatt Stoker, Alyssa Plant, and Max Fennimore.

Here we are with Spencer and his Bride, Samantha Elton.

Harlan Stevens and his bride of a year, Elena. 

Additional missionaries are Anna Petersen in the black and Adam Sellers in the blue shirt. 

Last of all meet the Prop Master for the current popular show about 12 apostles and, well, it's called The Chosen.  The three black items on the left are Swedish Bank Stamps from the 1800s that I found at a flea market in Helsinki.  He's using them for details on a desk in an upcoming episode he's filming.  

He also bought this Bauer Arts and Crafts ringware ewer from me.  It's from the 40's, but has the copper details, as well as having leather wrapping the handle which is kind of biblical looking.  He said every house has a washing station for washing feet near the front door.  I thought that was totally cool, because I get it. 

So, to add a few details to our week, here are Jeff and Robin as we stopped by to drop off something at almost 10 Saturday night ... after the wedding receptions.  Always so fun, and we got to visit with Matt a bit just as he moves to Alaska to live in a dry cabin. 

I also wanted to include a few more pictures of Barbie Movie visitors ... like Becca

and her girls.

As well as fellow crafter Trina, far right, who bought matching t-shirts for her girlfriends when they saw the movie. 

But my favorite is our Ian, second from the left as he and his friends, dressed for the big event, head to the movie after a stop at In and Out Burger, because girls are not the only ones who appreciate Barbie, evidently.

And Dad wanted you all to know that the water heater is due to be replaced as he works on our sauna room...

and that he got the east wall framing started on our Carriage house cum gathering room. 

And last of all a fun picture I found of Minerva Teichert. 

We just hope you all had a number of fun experiences this week, making memories. 

 

All That's Pretty in Pink

So, we started our week at Mosida with two wards from Elko, Nevada.  This is the tallest boy, with the shortest boy on their trek.

this is one of their medics, he's a doctor.  In fact, they had 5 doctors ... so why are there 5 LDS doctors in two wards just over the border of Utah in Nevada?

This couple does reenactments of the Pony Express Ride in June every year.  We plan to be out on Redwood Road for the reenactment next June.

They started out with a dedicated medic hand cart ... 

They brought this chuck wagon to set the mood.

Chuck cupboard and all ... it belongs to the Pony Express people.  Soooo cool 

                                                 Here is my new pioneer dress from China

Trek 2023 or Bust.

Charley was reenacting nothing, she had her own drama, as she is about to get her braces on. 

Dad went to Cosco and bought a laptop and a new personal computer, which we really need.  Both are archaic and slower than sludge.

Monday after morning trek work, I headed out to see Eleanor ... who was doing her piano lesson downstairs by the time I got out my phone for pictures.  Here we see Nell with their new puppy and Penny with a crocheted 'ghosty', she ordered from Eleanor.  Isn't her pink dress with dots the cutest? Eleanor did a great job of painting my toenails red and dotting them with white ... I have my own pedicurist now. 

I needed perfect toenails as my art group was meeting on our friend Jann's birthday to honor her.  She passed away last spring.  

Everything was perfect ...

Including the heirloom China.

Margo and Connie

Kimi and Becky

Shirley, Margie, Trina and Joanne, our host.

Me with Shirley

The whole kitten-caboodle. 

There was a half hour family history video of Jann done by a neighbor last year.  That was perfect.

and Tuesday morning ... how many senior missionaries does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Here they come as we await them at Fort Seminoe.

But LeAnn had a visitor to keep us entertained while we waited.

Its time for the Jens and Elsie Vignett Dad brings over the hand cart.

Here we sisters chat while waiting. 

LeAnn has the red shawl on from the Red Shawl story some groups choose to do.  She is always cold ... when we huddle in the shade, she sits on the edge of the shade so she can get some sun too. 

Now Brother Marvin, pulls his wife, as they take the cart back to its space.

Just too cute.

Sisters Crump, Marvin and Newman.

Lavern shared her memory grouping with us ... the Mosida is written in arrowhead chips. 

When we got back we found that a truck had broken down, and that Elder Smith had come over to look at it ... he is with Elder Marrott, our Young Service Missionary.

On Wednesday, Sister Marvin had the history ... she told about this tea pot her g g grandmother owned in England ... she was a new member, but was struggling with not drinking tea.  The word of wisdom was not a commandment at that time, but she wanted to be obedient, but it was a struggle.

One night Hannah dreamed that she had died and was at the gates of heaven... she had her tea pot in her hand, and tried to throw it away from her .... it stuck to her, she could not get it loose.  When she awoke she went out and took the tea pot out back and broke it ...  Obviously someone put it back together, I thought that was a fun story.

Here we are at the river crossing.  This young man and his sister, in the pink dress, were my visual aids for Emily Wall and her brother Joseph.  It's a story from the women's pull.  

I love the sisters lined up on the side of the river ...

Now its time for the Priesthood walk.

and here is an after picture of the Doctor and his wife.

Sister Newman and me.

and this is how some girls keep in touch ... yep, that Reagan and Bekie, facetiming.

That night we went to see a movie of the play Oklahoma which was done in the 90's with Hugh Jackman.

lots of people were there in Pink to see the new Barbie movie. 

Here is Kelsie, Barb's daughter with her friends when they went to see it. 

a shot from the preview in our theater of Barbie. 

 

Yep, its us again.

A real Barbie.

When I worked on Thursday Keith came over and showed me this picture of him as a baby, that he had colorized ... yep, more pink.

These are going around, I'm the Barbie on the bottom right, yeah, I don't see it either ... but the gal on the top left, shared her 'Barbie persona on the top right ... I think they got that one right.

and speaking of getting it right ... yes, we did. Spencer is our baby, and it was his birthday on Friday.

I'm greeted by pink morning glory on Friday.

Then it was off to Salem Pond for some kayaking...

Me and Ann 

that's me again,

This is a picture that Janie took of Ann and I at the fountain end of Salem Pond.

and here is our Janey.

Dad spent his Friday finishing up at Darby's

Darby said thank you with a gift certificate tree.

Here it is at home...

I ran to DI after kayaking and before work ... This gal put together a 500 piece puzzle to make sure it had all its parts .... whoa. 

At work these cute kids came in ... she had crocheted mushrooms

I got pictures so I could share them with Lu. 

After work we met Mary at Magleby's for her birthday.  I thought this floral was just stunning.

These double pink roses are just perfect.   She added the yellow roses to represent her friend who died about 6 weeks ago. 

Here we all are, except for Chuck who was feeling ill, and me, as I take the picture.  Happy birthday Mary.

On Saturday, after a morning junking, we headed to Salt Lake to meet Spencer and Brit and their kids ...

Nice boots!

Dad got a Calzone.

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Brittney and Cam ...

love these kids.

Here are all of us after lunch for Spencer's birthday ... it's crazy that my baby is 33.

Back at the house playing with Moose.

and reading ...

Ooooh la la, a pink box from his sister Britt.

And his wife who is making a strawberry - lemon curd cream pie, his favorite, for his birthday ... more pink.

and a new pink swimsuit for Cam.

Kimi wanted to get in on the pink Barbie stuff too.

And this is Krista's nod to the pink Barbie movie attendance rage. 

Krista with her exercise group .... hahaha.

Today we got to meet our Sister missionaries.  The gal by me is Sister Perkins. Dad and she did relatives around me, and she is his 7th cousin, but through the Snow line, not the Perkins line.

We actually spoke in church this week for Pioneer Day, and all these missionaries came back to join us.  I thought that was so lovely.   Dad talked about Levi Savage and I talked about Emily Hill (Woodmansee)

At home Dad put up the Mad Hatter Tea Party Weather Vane, that had come, and which he said he'd have up for our Pioneer Day Celebration.

Can you see it on top?

About 7 the kids started to arrive for our celebration.  I thought it was so cute that McKenna put together a Pioneer outfit.  How cute is she?

Here she is with Trevor and Nell's puppy, with Reagan and Adi looking on.

And look what Eva got for her birthday last week Pink Crocks.  How perfect.

Here we have Hannah, Scott, Dallas and Darby.

Nell, her grandma George, J. Scott, Eva and Trevor.

Elias, Adi, Eleanor and Titan.

Dad with Becca and Brady, and Trevor.

Briahnna, Nell and Grandma George.

Becca, Brady and Dave.

When you have to eat Darby's homemade delicious tiramisu with a spatula.

Ready for fireworks.

Grandma, Scott and Janelle.

Let the fireworks begin.

with Adi doing a sideshow.

and Eva snuggling the puppy. Rosie.

The lights and smoke were bothering J Scott's eyes. 

and to all a good night ... from Scott, Darby and Dallas.

We had a great week and loved seeing most of our local grandkids.  We hope your week was grand as well.