From NYC to Cornwall

 So our week started out with a visit to this cute little bear boy.  Dad spent the day at his new house, framing in a closet and other things.

That night we met up with Steve and Wendy to see The Pirate of Penzance, for our first time.  It was at Skyridge High School in Lehi.

 I loved the police women … so fun and especially …

The police chief … he was hilarious.

On Tuesday we took one of Dad's ministering sisters to the $5 Tuesday theater in Spanish.  Here's Dad with his doppelganger, too bad he wasn't wearing his red bow tie with white dots.

  We saw Isn't it Romantic … which may or may not have been a waste of time.  Not recommended, but I did like seeing NYC with flowers everywhere.

I was off to work on Wednesday, while Dad headed to SLC to work on Spencer and Brit's condo some more.  That night, he went to his Barbershop practice, while I went to Mutual.  Where we played 'A Minute to Win It'

Transporting cotton balls with Vaseline on your nose ...

Sliding Oreo's down your face for a snack. (This is Aaron Jaussi, a member of our bishopric)

Finding tic tacs in whipped cream with your face ...

Flipping a spoon into a cup, Bonnie caught my first flip.  Whoa!!

I was back to work again on Thursday, and tried to sell a gal on this hat that perfectly matched the vintage dress she was buying.

 Having bought a brown transferware set and a red transferware set in the last month, I decided to bring all my transferware together, and I like it!

a fun side note is that that morning, I was spray painting and it was a bit windy.  Yep, look how stylin' it makes me … fortunately it washed out that night, I just didn't have time to do it before work.

On Friday we were back in SLC, Spencer was working from home, as he waited for the flooring to be delivered.  Dad worked at the house, while I went junking again.

We got back in time to go to see Green Book with the Kews in Payson … and now we have our own IHOP so we don't even have to go to Springville for late meals.

On Saturday Dad headed to SLC to help Darby put up some more horse panels, then he went back to the condo to help Trevor, Becca and Spencer laying some flooring.  I stayed home and did some house work, I know its hard to believe.  I may or may not have snuck in some reading as well.

We met up in Lehi for some Teppanyaki, which included sushi for the two of us. We appreciated the Heuers for expanding their plans to include us.

Afterwards we went to see Newsies at the Hale in Orem.

Aren't we cute? We love these people.

On Sunday we were able to attend our ward before heading to Riverton for Sister Hoosier's homecoming.  Here are the Finnish missionaries who joined us to celebrate.

If you remember, from our mission, the time we went to help some sisters put together Ikea furniture in the dark for an investigator, these are the Sisters.  Sister Hoosier is in the white. 

One funny thing is that Aaron Jaussi's parents live in this ward, so we got to meet his mom, and I showed her the Oreo eating picture.  Also Nancy Webster, who lived in our Cottonwood Heights ward, back in the day, now lives in this ward and we got to catch up with her, which was so fun.

 The church was just around the corner from Darby's so we stopped by hoping for a visit … but Darby and Dallas were on their way to Wendover … so we took a picture of the new panels and headed to …

See Dad's cousin Marva who is in an assisted living place in West Valley.  This is a picture of their common ancestor. We had a nice visit and tried to help her fix an issue on her Kindle.  Thanks for your help Robin et al.

Next we stopped at Spencer and Brit's place to heat up our dinner, that we had brought along.  We got to see all the flooring that Spencer stayed up late Saturday working on his own after his helpers left.

Such a cute family, even if we couldn't get Bear to 'look'.

Then we were on our way to Bountiful to Sister Wade's 80th birthday  Wow!  Here we are visiting with Jared and Kati-Susanna Cohen, who we made friends with while in Finland.  She's a Finn, and he's the American who came for a visit and sent HUGE packages to the Mission Office that we later delivered, if you recall from our mission letters.  Such a lovely couple.

This is the pic they took of us.

Dad chatting it up with former missionaries.

Us with the octogenarian.

 I guess we converted Darby to the true wall color.

So that was our week of fun and entertainment, 3 of the 4 movies and plays were set in NYC, the other play, and the book I am currently reading were set on the Cornwall Coast.  

From Palm Trees to Truffula Trees

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.