On Monday we started with a stop at Dave and Bri's to pick up some household goods for Spencer, she also had some great tote boxes for us, I'll show you one later. It's great when she reorganizes, cause we all benefit. Ashley will be getting some espresso cups too. After that we stopped to drop the goodies at Spencer and Britt's house. The bonus here is obvious. I can't believe how grown Cam is.
And as we were leaving Cam ran to meet her Mom and Van as they came back from school.
The whole business of the trip was to pick up this cupboard I'd found on FB marketplace in Kaysville. This pic was taken on Saturday after I had masked the glass, but I wanted a before picture. The cupboard is for the shop to replace the cupboard I showed you last week that is coming home to replace the European cupboard I am selling to Becca ...
And of course, if I am going to Kaysville we are going to hook up with Doug and Shirley. We met them for dinner at the Big Bear Diner in Layton, so of course, why wouldn't we stop by to see the amazing Meg. Here she is with her stepsons, lucky guys.
And here are the blackberry sweet rolls she made (the blackberries came from her garden, we got to taste test them too.)
And here is just one aspect of her beautiful garden.
And another ... She is such an amazing woman.
We also took a moment to add a new temple to our list, it is our 71st, the Layton Temple.
Back at their house we get to say hi to their missionary (Andrew's son) who is serving in parts of what was Ben's mission, back in the day.
Tuesday saw Alex head off for his first day of College,
as Cam headed for her first day of Pre-K.
We met up with the birthday boy at Golden Corral, as Emily calls to wish him a happy birthday,
We tried to do a do over this classic photo.
Here are a few of the tries.
Thanks for stepping up, Ashley, for a new August Birthdays photo.
A good time was had by all.
Gather indeed.
For the boy who owns the day.
After lunch we headed home where Dad dropped me off and headed to an extra temple shift. Your cousin Matt came by with a loaf of Sourdough bread that Brianna had made for us. They wanted to say thanks for Dad repairing the deck back a few months ago when Becca sold the house Brianna and her first husband had lived in after they moved to Utah for his cancer treatments. Her folks and brother had come with her and stayed in the house so her brother could finish high school. Then it was time to sell. Sounds like everybody wins.
And speaking of winning, that Night when we went to Nadine's, I found out what is at the end of my rainbow! Pure Gold indeed.
We watched the second episode of this 3 part series. Always a good time.
At work on Wednesday, I moved things around to make room for Halloween decor that Shirley was bringing me to sell to make money for Trevor's family big charity project this fall. You can see that below the colorful transferware, I've made room for the silver plate flatware that I sell by the piece, mostly for making silverware.
These crafted and collected treasures fill up the table where the silverware used to call home.
Pretty cute stuff, eh?
That night after dinner, when we were watching Happy Gilmore (in honor of Ashley, who loves it.) I made this little cabinet of curiosities.
Here it is in its place at the antique mall on Thursday.
BTW, on Wednesday day Dad went to the family history center to save his grandpa from being sealed to the wrong father, then he mowed the lawn and went to the doctor. Yep, he's that cool.
On Thursday he went back to the temple for another shift.
But most importantly it was this girl's birthday. Happy 37th!
I celebrated by hanging out with my book club. This is me and Judy.
Suzanne, Ann, Sandy's d.i.l and Sandy as Ann tells about her adventures of being out of water with her two sons in the desert in South-Eastern Utah, after two expected springs in a row were found dry, and were all airlifted by Helicopter last week. Whoa.
Everyone was spell bound, thankfully since most of us were not too thrilled with the book, Little Men, by Lousia May Alcott.
On Friday I headed to the Payson Library for their annual book sale.
The box/bag that Bri had given us was the perfect tool.
I laughed to see this unlikely set of twins sharing their wagon with a pile of books. It was so cute. But the next day when I went back I saw a repeat, when I saw Brother Peterson at the book sale with his twins, similarly ensconced sharing their wagon with books as well. Though they are 6 months older than these twins, so they were looking at the books and tossing them out of the wagon.
Friday night we met up with the Moes and Heuers at the Heuers for Halmark night number two, though we did end up watching a net flix movie instead.
Jeff and Robin eating her birthday cake. She shares her birthday with J. Scott.
The potluck was yummy. Randy made this zucchini egg bake that was lovely, and Robin made her peas and cheese cube salad with slivered almonds, that I love, we also enjoyed Randy's homemade salsa. We brought garlic bread and a peach cobbler made with the rest of the peaches we'd been given by Dave and Bri and Doug and Shirley too.
It was all so very yummy.
Cute movie.
Early Saturday these two crazies went off together to run in preparation for their marathon and 1/2 marathon, respectively next week. They ran down Payson Canyon, where the races will happen next Saturday.
Here Becca finishes up her 10 miles, Dad ran 6.
On Saturday, as I mentioned I was back at the library filling yet another of Davin and Bri's gifted box/bags. I smiled at this young man's t-shirt and thought of how much my boys enjoyed the movie.
In the late afternoon, Dad headed off to meet up with Trevor and his f-i-l at the BYU game. I stayed home and spent four hours painting the afore said cupboard, which is still not done. Pictures to come.
They got to see Brittney's mom and Parks,
as well as Van, lower left, and some of his cousins.
At church we got to see the Fletcher twins at the same time, as the new one in the ward spoke, and the old one came to see him do it. On the left is Delon, who used to live in our ward, before it was chopped up in February of 2024. He and his Brazilian wife have two kids and two adopted younger foster kids, so still a young family. Whereas his Twin Leon, just moved into the ward with his tall blonde wife as they are downsizing for retirement. I happened to be looking at the organist when Brother and Sister Fletcher's names were read in as new members last week. I could tell she thought it was Delon with a new wife. She was not happy about it. I went up to her after and told her that the two were twins, and she said that she had looked them up on tools and already knew that. Kind of a funny story.
So that does it for our week. Dad will head up to the park for the final Concert in the Park for 2025. While I stay home and try to finish up my 18th book for the month, a new record for me.
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