It's All About that Hair; Hair Color...

This picture brings the whole week together.  It's a selfie we took on April 3rd, the day we went to the Church History Library and found out a mission to England was a possibility.  I fixed our hair to go with the title of the blog for the week.  It was a great week, and the best part was getting our official call so that we can get started on the computer program training that's been making me nervous. 

Dad went to Ken Macey's funeral on Monday, he was 81.

On the first row we see Dad with Stan Peterson and John Allen, the next is with John and Trish Allen, the last is with Doug Wright. The second row shows Lori Peterson and Lisa Snarr, the next shows them with Dad, the third is Dave and Debbie Karpowitz.  The bottom row shows Stan Peterson, Leanne and Toff Reeves, and last of all is Dave Davis and Bill Summers.

and took pictures of all his old friends.  By the way, if you must know, dad spells funeral R.e.u.n.i.o.n ! And how fun to see the picture of Ken with dark hair, it was always pretty gray when we knew him.

The first row shows, Janelle and Ryan Macey, then Dad with Rich Elgren and Al Leavitt, the third is of Dad with Church Kunrad.  Row two starts with the Macey's four daughters, then the picture of Ken Macey on the Retailer Magazine before we knew him, the last on the row is Rich Parkinson, Rich Elgrin and Marla Parkinson.  The last row shows Al again, then David Rice and Scotty Hymas. The second on the last row is Dad with Brody Maceye, and last of all is Bruce Keysor and his wife. 

Here are Ken and Robin with their family taken some time before Robin passed five years ago.

Dad helped me to use this picture of a Bishop's Wife's get-together that was last Sunday, to make up my first post, as the Stake Historian, to the Church History Site online.  Of course there should be many more to come, plus we still need to get a History Specialist in each of the wards.  We now have only 1.

Just a couple of pics to celebrate my pretty flowers.

What a showoff my pink Hollyhock is this year.  This is all one plant.

I'm still waiting on the Crawling Nasturtiums I bought the seeds in Canada on our Anniversary Cruise last year.

Dad's Tuesday was made up of working on Barbershop and Church business, before making me some more spools for rolling trims, which I so appreciate. He finished off the day by working at the Stake Offices.

On Tuesday Alysa had her first sleep over.  It's something she has been looking forward to since we met in mid-January, when she hugged me at the end of her IEP meeting at the Utah State Developmental Center, and said "Can I sleep over at your house?"  Since our first lunch date on campus in mid-February, we've been working toward this goal, and we had so much fun.  Here we are at DI after going to Treasures, so she could see what I do, and getting McDonalds via the drive through.

At our house we worked on a book with all the pictures we've taken of our get togethers, including the months of field trips we took before qualifying for the sleep over.

Of course, we added the red-head picture I made up to show how much she looks like her grandmother Julie.

Here's the whole book, including the queen and princess picture I made from a picture she had taken last time she visited her mom.

And how cute is her new Avatar?

Because I found her a pink wig, and she loves it so much.  It so fun when a gift is such a hit.

She was sweet and patient and played on her phone for a couple of hours while I worked on filling yet another merchandise box for the store to be set out while we're on our mission.  It was really fun to have her there to visit with me on and off.

The next morning, she made breakfast for us all, and I took her back to the Hill before heading to work.

I worked on my sewing booth again at work on Wednesday.

The biggest part was to move all the books off this shelf that were not sewing or craft related, which made room for more spools on the top shelf, and an additional flat lace card display as well.

I even mounted another hat holder on this bookcase.

I really am just having too much fun with rolling and rolling ribbon and lace and finding spools and cards to do it.

Thursday at work was definitely red-head day.  We had already met and visited with 10 different red heads, started with the cutest strawberry blonde baby, before I decided to start taking pictures and got four more red heads.

Britt on the other hand would not be satisfied with just red hair.

Here's the pic she did when it was shiny and new.

I've also been working on the murder mystery for our Mosida Reunion that's coming up this weekend. This house is near the Mormon Pioneer Trail up by Coalville, and is the faux meeting place.  It's actually my friend Debbie's Mom's house that was built in Hoytsville in 1864, which was before the railroad came through, which is officially the end of the Pioneering era in the USA. This house is also the house that made me love historic houses, at the age of 8 or 9, when Debbie took me up there for a visit. 

Here is Britt at the Homeless Shelter serving dinner along with Alex and his girl.

As you can see here, doing service makes you feel good.

As does hiking, as you see our J. Scott on a hiking high.

Becca gets it too.

Of course, Kai will someday write the book on a true Hiker's High!

And this photo represents Friday.  I was sitting out in the Carriage House working on filling boxes, when the title of a new email flitted across the top of my phone screen as I was adjusting the sound on my book on tape. Scott had just left to go to his Barbershop preshow practice, so I called him and read him our call.  Of course we were 99% sure it was a go, but it's nice to know we're good to go.

Here is Dad on stage that night.

And it was fun to run into friends, Rebecca and Bob Arnold, he not only sings with Dad in the chorus, he also lives over by the Payson Temple, carpools with Dad, and they are serving a service mission at the MTC.  Whoa.

We were also grateful to see some family.  Thanks for coming Edi and Tom.

The afterglow was also fun.

Probably one of Dad's favorite things about singing barbershop.

On Saturday we were off to see my niece Jill's oldest, Brynn, as she was married in the Draper Temple.

Afterwards we met on the top floor of the Zion's bank building downtown for the wedding breakfast.  I loved the decorating, especially all the blue and white Chinese lanterns.

Here Jill shares the joyful spirit she felt as Brynn was born, a feeling I well remember when I had my wonderful babies.  I remember Dr. Krehl Smith asking me why I was crying, and I said, It's the spirit.  I was surprised he would ask, for I was sure he felt it too. He later told me he just wanted to make sure I was not in pain. 

Here we see Dad as he gets acquainted with David Black, Brooke's new husband (I so wanted to write Brookity, which is what I called her as an adorable toddler.) They are also newlyweds, as they married in the spring.  Congrats, we felt bad that we didn't get to go to their wedding too.  Oh, how I love Clark and Jo's kids. Being an Aunt is the Best.

We got back in time to go to see this edition of Pride and Prejudice done by the Springville Community Theater with my book club.  One of the other gals was not able to go at the last minute, so Dad bought her ticket.  This production was perfect for a guy because it was played almost like vaudeville.  They took all the jokes and played them boldly and strung the story line on the funny bits.  It was definitely lively.  The most interesting thing is that there were three gals in Mennonite caps, and it turned out that one of their relatives was playing the part of Georgiana Darcy.  Who knew?

Here are our Elizabeth and Darcy, oh, and one of the ladies in the caps is shown bottom right.

Today was Church, and 4 hours for Dad at the Stake Center, while I worked on the storyline for the mystery party that will be our Mosida Reunion on Saturday. 

Oh, What Do Old People Do in the Summer time?

 

They go to the doctor, to movies, to the antique store, and secondhand stores, and church meetings, and to the temple and they mow lawns and they go to Barbershop Practices and Performances, and Plays, and Garden Show Tours and art show and sales, and they to wedding receptions and garage sales, and they also visit other old people who are not well.  They also go to church and write Blogs.  There you have it.

So, our week started with my final medical test to get clearance for our missionary papers to go in.  We've been working with a sister from the missionary department who was ready to send our papers back the previous Tuesday.  I told her I had an appointment for Friday of last week, so she said to let me know how soon I could have the test.  It turned out to be Monday, so she held on to them.  Dad called with the clean results of the test, and she sent them off.  We're still waiting for our official assignment, but no one anticipates a problem.  Yay.

I spent the rest of the day and part of Tuesday finishing up the 20 gal bin that is the 9th of 18 I'll need to have ready for restocking my booths, thanks to Becca and my friend Mary.

Tuesday night I went and saw The Bread Winner, with Nate Bargatze.  As much as I like the comedian, I was not a fan of the movie.  Lucky Dad got to hang out with the Stake Presidency instead.

At work on Wednesday, I laughed when I saw that someone had brought us an empty box (for packing up orders, we love recycling boxes) from the Mosida packing plant, that made me smile.

I brought in the first of the hats I hope to fit into the 'Haberdashery' booth.  

I thought this was a fun genealogy shirt, and sent it to my favorite Genealogist, Robin.

Here July and Kathy work together getting a crazy quilt put back into a locked case.

Oh, oh, Julie caught me.

Emily went to the Alamo with her family this week and checked some of the casualties for relationships.  This was Dad's closest relation, he was a fifth cousin, several times removed.

When I got home from work, Dad reminded me that we had the Wright wedding.  Here is Johny's mom on the left, then Denise and Todd Ekins and then Johny.

Here they are as they finish a dance.

Dad and me with the bride and groom.  I taught Johny in Primary when he was 4 or 5, oh my.

And here we are with Emily's folks, the groom's grandparents.  They lived in our ward when we first knew Emily, then they moved to Bear Lake, while Emily and a sister and their kids stayed in the house in the ward.  (Emily was the nurses aid that we hired to shower Grandpa Perkins the last year he lived with us.

Dad gathered a few of the pictures from Kai's hiking adventures.

He has now finished up around 900 miles of the trail.

The full trail is around 2700 miles, Dad says he about as far north as San Francisco.

On Friday, after working some on bins, we did some errands then headed to my favorite DI, then to the Bins, shown above, in West SLC, I could not believe how many people were there picking.  I managed to buy $25 worth of books, by weight, while Dad ran and got Cafe Rio.

We took the food with us to Tooele where we stopped and ate the goodies with Joyce.  We had hoped she'd be up to attending the garden tours that were being hosted around the valley, but she was just not up to it.  Still, we had a nice visit and caught up.

I met a guy at Treasures about 6 weeks ago who was buying antiques to fancy up his yard for a garden tour.  That is how I found out about it.  It was the best of those we saw and the only one where that we took pictures. The others were mainly nicely landscaped properties, and there were very few flowers, which are always my favorite feature.   This 'old jail' was part of a float last year, and our friend decided to cut it in half and add it to his shop of western curiosities.

The red diamond railway sigh is what he bought at Treasures that day.

There were a lot of animals including these lop-eared bunnies.

Also, several of these stands with miniature scenes in them.

He had a full-size Pegasus, that must have once been at a Mobil gas station. 

Next it was back to SLC, where we attended this performance of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Marion Pack was one of our missionaries and now teaches school out in Saratoga Springs.  She does a good job. 

Here we are with Marian after the show.

On Saturday I was off to garage sales until 2:00.  Dad ran some errands while I was gone.  I bought this rusty old roller skate to make into a spool for winding with ribbon or lace.  I thought it was adorable.

Eva and her folks stopped by to get a Popup for Lu who has gotten into another arts show. Way to go Lu! Eva said she's been wanting to read Wuthering Heights and since I happened to have a copy ....

Then we were off to SLC again, this time we went to the 135 show at the Cottonwood Country Club.  I thought that this version of Girl with a Pearl Earring, was interesting, as a collage of Buttons.

So fun.

We are trying to slow down on buying art, as we prepare for our mission, but managed to find these three.  Interestingly enough, all three pieces of art are from people we have bought from before. I thought it was interesting that the little strawberry painting was by a gal who recognized me and remembered that I had bought a mushroom painting from her a few years ago at Flea.o.logy.  It turns out she lives just down the street from Sheri Oldham.  Dad found a picture of the mushroom art in the upstairs hall.

These are the $100 pieces that Kristen Tye brought.  The one on the bottom left is the one Dad wanted, while I like the one on the bottom that is second from the right.  I needed one of her small ones to finish off the display of her and another artist's, works, that is in the main floor hall.

Then it was off to see the Beehive Statesmen's Summer show.  This quartet sings with Dad's chorus The Saltaires.

So that was pretty much our week.  We went to church today, and watched Follow Him, besides taking dinner and visiting with my Primary teaching Partner, Janness Morgan, who was hit by a car while out walking on Friday.  It was pretty harrowing, a young driver whipped around a corner as the light turned, while she was still in the cross walk.  She says she remembers nothing until the paramedics helped her into the ambulance.  She had to have staples in her head for extensive cuts, and said she was bleeding like crazy, but they put her back together and she went home.  Whew.