All The Things

This is the thing I just finished, my mini art gallery.

This is the thing Becca and Brady did ... they watched a Harry Potter marathon.

This is my first thing for outdoor Halloween decor for the year.

This is the display thing I saw at Jordan Commons when we met up with Jeff and Robin to see 'Fly Me to the Moon' ... Wicked is coming at Thanksgiving.  That is some THING I have been looking forward to for a long, long time.

This is us doing the selfie thing, after the movie, which we all thoroughly enjoyed.

and this is the Big White Cupboard thing that I amazingly was able to fit into my garden booth at Treasures.  

I had to move a lot of other THINGS around to make room.

But I like the look now, this booth has been sort of buried looking for a while.

And then, there's the Book Club thing I do every month.  This time it was Lilly's thing ... she lives in our apartment, no room for 9 folks to gather around and talk about books there.

Here's the other ladies doing their thing ... and the thing is, that on the far left of the first book club picture is Cindarella, who has been staying with us since Monday evening.  She will be with us until next Thursday, as I am leaving to do the Fleamarket Thing in California next Friday.  We met Cindarella in Finland in 2017 when we attended a YSA thing at the largest wood burning sauna in the world. We have been friends with her on Facebook ever since. 

Jeff and Robin were doing some THING different. and as you can see it involves legos.

We so wished we could have supported them in their legoing, but alas we had a house guest who was interested in other things. 

Here's a couple of things Dad accomplished this week.  He made salsa for his second time ...

and then he made 500 of these little things. We each take Amla powder, Turmeric powder, and a capsule filled with Ginger Root powder.  All three of these things are anti-inflammatory. 

 On Friday we did one of Dad's favorite things, and that is that we went to a funeral for the baby girl in this picture.  She is also the wife of one of his two best friends from high school.

Here are some pictures of Janet from High School.  She and John had a thing going all though High School and married a year after graduation.

Uncle Rick was also friends with John and he and Wendi did the four-hour drive thing to attend the funeral. 

And here is the new widower between his high school besties... the Thing is that Clark, shown on the right, was widowed 8 years ago.  Another thing is that Dad ran into his 2nd most serious girlfriend, Mary Clark.  She was a relative of Janet's and Janet had lined them up initially.  That was his Junior year at Olympus.  He met Deanne in his Senior year after moving to Cottonwood. 

Here's a thing we did on Saturday, we went on a buying appointment for a couple who is trying to close out 3 storage units they've been paying for for 20 years.  This piano in their home reminded me a lot of our old oak piano. 

This is Dad with the gentleman who, as it turned out, fulfilled Dad's thing for finding connections.  He is the cousin of a guy Dad went to high school with. 

The lady's grandfather, shown here, was a Texas Ranger in his youth. I invested in something that belonged to him, that will be a housewarming gift for Emily and Sam.  The thing is, we won't visit them in their new house, so that should give me time to fix it up a little. I hope they love the thing. 

Here's a thing this crew does well.  They hauled out two weedy bushes and then replaced them with this nice bush from their back yard.

The other thing is that we have been benefited by their hard workingness too.  I think it was Adi who tore down my overgrown Virginia Creeper that had overtaken this arch way.  Of course they were here to mow our lawn, thanks for that too. 

These are some things that are happening in India.  Parks is adjusting to his new bathtub.  How cute is that? 

The family went to visit a Lotus Temple.

Van decided to share a thing he's been learning at school, meditating. 

Here is Spencer with Parks, wearing funny palm tree hat things with the Lotus Temple in the background.

And one of the most important things of the week was our chance to celebrate J. Scott, as he celebrated his 22nd birthday. 

Another thing we did was to take Cindarella to the Timpanogos Temple.  She met her friend in the upper right-hand corner and ran into another missionary she had met in Finland, Spencer Bellon.

When we took her to church with us this morning, another of Dad's favorite things happened.  This gal (Courtney Jensen) sat by Cindarella in Relief Society (We teach primary) and after she introduced herself and said she was from Finland, this gal mentioned that she is a quarter Finnish.  How did we not know that?  Dad had met her father up in Elk Ridge, last year, when we went up there to do the fireside for the stake that was going out to Mosida for a trek.  Small, small world, a thing Dad loves!

And last of all, but definitely not the least ... is one of our favorite THINGS.  Teaching Primary.  We have been teaching this class for around 8 months, with six of these young ladies. They are all adorable, and so so so much fun.  This week was the icing on the cake, though, as the two girls on the front row, to the right and are twins, just moved into our ward ...  How perfect is that?  

As I was leaving sacrament meeting, one of my favorite things happened.  I felt a prompting.  These two little girls were sitting on the end of a pew, and the one in pink was crying.  I stopped and introduced myself to the mom and asked if they were visiting.  I thought the problem might be that the little girl was visiting and didn't want to go to a strange primary.  The Mom said she is Emily Wright's (The nurse who came in and shower Grandpa every week back in the day) sister, and they had just moved in with Emily and her kids.  So, I asked how old the girls are, 8, and asked when they turned 8, and voila!!  I told the sad soul that she and her sister would be in my class, and that we have 6 other girls in our class, not one boy, and that we have so much fun ... she brightened right up, and I walked them into Primary.

What a lovely thing it is when we get to do all the things we love.  I hope you had good THINGS in your life this week as well.  I'd love to hear about it, if you'd like to send me a text!