Slower than Molasses in January

It was a fairly slow week that started with the highlight of the week, when my nephew Scott joined us for dinner. Isn't his vintage sweater the best.  As it turns out it became vintage while he owned it, and now he looks like a hipster.

We had Navajo Tacos, just to introduce him to the local fare. Then we did a house tour, where he had lots of comments and questions.  It was really super fun to have him.  He will be coming out in January in the future to participate in this planning meeting again for Alysa, so we hope he'll stay with us in the future. We just love him!!

We'd taken down the rest of the Christmas decor that day.  Without the Christmas details the mantel in the dining room looked bare, so I added in my bouquet of tomato spoons,

Then I brought in this trophy from the family room, and added the rest of the collection to that.

This is how it looks with the silver in various stages of patina, showing up against the various colors of carved wood.

On Tuesday Reagan's thirteenth birthday happened.

I also took in a load of goodies to the Grove.  Within three days, two of the eight items on this shelf had sold, along with another that I took in the same day.

And of course, I thought it would be fun to do an AI illustration, as seen here.

The sun set that day was amazing.

I worked on Wednesday and Thursday and decided

to see what my kitchen would look like with some blue and white delft and toile patterns. 

On Friday I priced goods to go to Treasures the next day.  Dad and I went to the ward for a Primary Workers dinner and training that night.

On Saturday I took the priced items into Treasures, did a bit of junking and picked up some dinner for a gal in the ward who was in a car accident. When I got home, Dad had a surprise for me.

Because also on Friday I told Dad that I wanted to take down the spice rack behind the stove, so I could put delft tile stickers on the tiles there, like those shown in my little AI kitchen study. My idea was to put the spices in the cookie sheet drawer near the stove, and on Saturday, he had 'er done.

He took this old drawer, put wheels on it and outfitted it to hold my cookie sheets and muffin pans.  It rolls into the space to the south of the stove.  Very clever Papa.

Today I was in Primary again and we had 9 children there.  Wow.

Here is my teaching partner, Janness Morgan, as she teaches.  I think we are going to enjoy teaching together.

Dad went to an earlier ward for their ward conference.  Then he headed to SLC where some members of the chorus were singing the national anthem at the Hockey Game.

Which made us think of Andy, and his days playing the sport.

Then wouldn't you know it, Andy put up a new profile picture on Facebook.  It's crazy that our kids/in-laws are getting some gray mixed in there.  

Well, that was our week, it was slower than molasses in January.  We just hope you had more fun things to do than we did.  But I am not gonna lie, it felt pretty good

 to just hang out.