So, this is how the cookie crubls. Yep, this is the huge 26,000 sq ft home of one of the cofounders of Crumbl Cookies. It was on the home tour this past week.
Kathy, who I work with went to see the home when it was on home tour and took pictures of all the bookcases, because a couple of months ago the decorators for the home came in and bought about $2500 worth of books. $1,500 worth of the books were from me, I am guessing some of the books in these pictures went through my hands on their way to the Cookie Crumbl home.
In other news, that is sooo last week, the Okada family went to Hawaii for their Mom's birthday. What an amazing reunion for them. Loved all the pictures but these were our favorites, you know, the Okada-Perkins part of the fun.
And then on Monday, in a quiet little corner of my bathroom, where the sun only ever shines in the 'north side' bathroom window in the garret, very early in the morning, around the week of mid-summer, I decided to capture it. The light here comes through the eyebrow window in the room, and through the brackets that hold up the window shelf. I think it's just delightful, so I thought I'd share. Yes, as a matter of fact, I am very easily entertained.
I made up these floral hats on Monday for the big bins I am putting together for supplying the shop when we're on our coming mission.
And in our wild garden, the vines have climbed the door. I've not tidied the little house yet this year, now with the climbing vines I hate to break up the sweet scene.
Not sure what is going on in this sweet scene, but this is a fun picture I borrowed from Nell's facebook.
and here is an oldie of Nell and me at one of our final fleaologies, this one at Olson's Garden Shoppe from back in the day. (I was searching for Fleaology Garage Sale pics to advertise the sale we had yesterday. It just gave me warm memories of our partnership back before we headed out on our first mission ten years ago.
Other cute ones that popped up were McKenna and Adi in my kitchen when it had white cabinets,
and even earlier, this one of Kimmy when the cabinets were brown. How blessed I am to have so many wonderful grandkids ... of course every one of these are girls, but our grandsons are just as adorable.
Something else adorable is this gal who came into Treasures on Wednesday to buy an old ladder, because SHE is building a tree house. What a great time to be a woman!!
It was a pretty quiet week through Thursday. I did bins on Monday and Tuesday, Dad worked on projects and went to the temple to do a shift twice. Several times this week we got to watch Midsomer Murders (Thanks to the Kews who introduced us) every night. I love ending our days in England, and soon it will happen all the time.
On Friday after sorting stuff for the garage sale the next day, I spent the rest of the it cleaning the house and organizing my bin sorting stuff in the carriage house, getting it all tucked away, to make room for our Mosida reunion the next day. I even managed to get the table set for the party.
Friday was the celebrated midsummer day for the Scandinavian countries. It's always the closest Friday to midsummer day which is June21. I found this celebration on some Swedes Insta account. Looks fun.
In Finland the usual midsummer celebration includes a fire on a raft in a lake. Our lovely friends, the Londons, who live in Morgon (these are some of their grands) do not have a lake, so they just have a big BBQ for family and friends.
Here are some of the invited guests. Lynn London is in the yellow, the pendant necklaces that 3 of us are wearing are made by a jewelry company called Kalavala (After the name of their epic creation poem)
And the Londons decided to borrow a Mayday celebration from the Swedes. but in this case its a midsummerday pole.
Here Rick London gets the Maypole ready to go.
Lynn steps in to control the Maypole traffic.
This gal is somehow related to a Finn, and grew up in Sweden. She knew all the maypole songs and was nice enough to sing them as they wove the ribbon round and round.
It really was so fun to watch.
It was fabulously pretty.
This gal is somehow related to a Finn, and grew up in Sweden. She knew all the maypole songs and was nice enough to sing them as they wove the ribbon round and round.
Rick London with the Shurtz who served as the office couple between our two Finnish missions.
The Shurtz, Sister Wade and a friend who served a mission in the Finnish Temple.
Finnish T-shirts
More partiers.
Then it was up bright and early to have an antique garage sale with friends, this is Chuck. It's always nice to have these garage sales, because it's mostly the people who did the original fleaology in my yard that join me for these garage sales, so it's sort of a reunion.
Keith had his worst sale ever. We also had a gal name Teri, and her friend who came. Teri left at 11 sales were so slow. Our friend Bruce also brought some things to sell, though he could not stay as he was running the Strawberry Days sale at the Grove. I did the best with $350, but I was selling stuff at closeout prices.
Clancy is Katie (Sherri Oldhams daughter who runs fleaology now) and I gave her a Josef Original birthday figurine for her birthday cake next month when she will turn 7.
I don't know if you can tell but he is wearing a crown he made of some paper clamps I had for sale. I just love this family, he's in my Primary class.
Here is the whole Worthin family.
My friend Julie took this picture of the smoke and ash coming off the fire in the hills above Eureka. It clouded the sale and dropped ash on eveyrthing by afternoon.
After Dad helped me get everything taken down, he headed to SLC where he sang with his chorus for a local celebration
He got home right at 6:00 and had to run up and find his pioneer clothes etc. Here I am with my co-hostess, Sister Parker who dreamed up the idea of a pioneer reunion mystery dinner, thanks to Titan, actually. (Remember his murder mystery party for his 15th birthday that they held here?, that's what gave Sister Parker the idea. It turned out to be a huge stretch for me, but I am very glad I did it, now that its over.)
Fancie Nielson came into my period kitchen with a device and pointed it at us. I was shocked!
Here Sister Parker adds butter to the table while Sisters Munro and Weight look on.
Here we see Brothers Weight and Munro, with our adopted Indian daughter, Sister Nielson.
Elder Munro as Orrin Porter Rockwell, sort of.
In the carriage house.
Francie was such a good sport, dressing in this adorable pioneer era Indian outfit. I thought it was amazing.
Sister Munro looks great too.
Here we all head out to get our pioneer picture in front of the garden house. Have I mentioned how much Hollyhocks make me happy? And they were soooo popular in pioneer times. Sister Parker saw the picture of Girl in the Hollyhocks in my entry and wanted to know the artist's name. I was thrilled that I knew it was John Hafen, one of my very favorite paintings of all time.
Here are all those Mosida Missionaries, I think we all had so much fun. Thanks for your fab idea Titan.
Down on our end. I am standing my Sister Olson who we had not met before, as they served the year before we went out to Mosida. She lives in Elk Ridge and brought a sugar free desert. (Her husband can't tolerate either sugar of gluten, but that was super fun for this girl)
I think its safe to say a good time was had by all.
At church we had two especially good looking elders and asked I if I could take their pictures. (you know me and brown eyes, right?) They are Emily's perfect missionaries, as the first one is from Tokyo and the second is from Texas. We figured that the Elder from Tokyo would have been born after she left her mission. How crazy is that?
And here are the Mitkos, at their little get together on the Pacific Crest trail for a little family reunion. Mike never got to see him on the Appalachian Trail last year and didn't want to miss the chance this year.
So much handsome.
The Momma's boy
The Mitkos extraordinaire!
Here are Kai and Charley at the Sauna and Cold Plunge place.
find your location on the map.
Now its time to see our Father's day gathering. Because I am lazy, and there are 50 pictures of our father's day gathering, you're getting them pretty much in random order. This was a favorite group shot that day.
Me and my boy. (Did I mention he was my prettiest baby?)
Nellie and her little girlie.
Something seems to have come between the Okada-Perkins.
Papa gets a shoe supply for England Thanks all.
Waiting for Dad's gift that the kids went together on.
Oh my, new shoes for his mission.
Lord of the Manor.
The proudest papa of all the Father's Day celebrants.
In the parlor
Dave and his girlie.
All the Summers all Summer long.
just never want to say good-bye
He's got the whole wide world, on his hand!
It was his idea, what fun grandkids I have.
The air was smoky because of the fire out by Eureka, I tried to edit it out, but no.
Some Perkins men. Look how tall ...
These two are a month and an inch apart.
But who knows, Titan looks taller in some pictures, and Elias looks taller in others. You choose. And the main point is that Reagan is still adorable and petite.
The Adorables, our only true littles. Since they're headed back to Harvard this fall, they will be sorely missed. I think Dad and I should just go to England, while they're gone to distract us from missing them so much.
Hugging cousins.
Not sure how Mac will handle their departure.
Papa
Mimi
cuter and cuter.
Have I mentioned how frustrating it is to take picture with a window/door behind. This is the best I could do and you can't even tell that is Adi, with my hand on her shoulder.
But we always have a good time anyway.
Parks akimbo, I love it.
In the parlor.
a Summer and some Perkins.
Eensy Weensy Spider ...
A-OK
Summers time and the living is easy ...
Let's reenact a picture taken 17 years ago on the swing that Emily built in high school that is still hanging there in serviceable shape, 22 years later.
Adorable!
Trevor and his girls.
and their mother recording the moment for posterity.
So that was our week. Its was very unbalanced activity-wise, but a week of wonderful memories none the less. We hope you are all well, and enjoying your family and friends too.
