On Monday I headed up to the Grove to rearrange and add small pictures. Two of them sold by the end of the week.
Then back to the house to get ready for the Teancum and Brooke Clark family, sans the mission they took to the MTC last week, as well as Brooke's parents who have lately moved into our ward. This was Dad's dinner party as he had met the new couple at church last week. The Clarks were divided off our ward a year and a half ago, a sad day. They always sat behind us, and we enjoyed them so much.
Of course a house tour was in order, as always.
'Of course the biggest deal that day was Ashley's 48th birthday ... Looks like 'she's still having fun, and she's still the one!!
Tuesday and I am loving the geraniums in the kitchen window. It reminds me of a painting done by Karl Larsson, that I have hanging in our Scandinavian Design family room.
Cousin Jason is still having fun too, and he'll be 52 this year ... he's traveling with his girlfriend and finally made it to the Great Wall of China!
There was a moment to remember our Ben as well, when this gal came into the antique mall wearing a gold fingerprint necklace like the one's Nell arranged for us to get to remember Ben after his death 7 years ago. She lives in Salem, and she looked on her list of clients and found that she had done Ben's fingerprint medallions. What a lovely gal.
Thought I'd share another customer's wheels.
Meanwhile at home, the city crew came out to ....
repair the light pole that was struck last week.
Then it was Wednesday, and our grands started heading back to school. These are likely not in order, as we borrowed them from various places at different times to collect the set, but we'll start with:
Penny
Eleanor
Reagan
Titan
Mac
Madi
Adi
Eli
McKenna
Zac
Charley
Beki
William
Abbie
Bennie
and here is a grouping of Sam's School Badges ... who knew.
Dad figured out that this year we have 2 preschoolers, 8 in grade school, 7 in junior high, 2 in high school, 5 high school graduates and 1 working on a master's this year.
While I was at work on Wednesday, Becca and Dad 'staged, Spencer and Britt's house as they were headed down from her folk's house in Cody, to start Van in school. Their container has still not arrived, so Becca used her own guest bed mattresses, and her real estate staging goods to welcome them when they arrived.
I think it all looks pretty good.
What a good sister is Becca.
At work on Thursday my friend Tiffanie came in and bought this spool cabinet.
Dad had the temple that day but managed, between Wednesday and Thursday to jump through all the hoops to install the new to us stove he found on Marketplace to replace our former stove (That Nell and Trevor got while living here during our first mission) which had, after losing two burners, finally lost the oven ... It doesn't look a lot different, but it reminds me how lucky/blessed I am to have such a very handy hubby.
In further grand news, Charley got her braces on.
On Friday morning we finally found a time that worked for us and for the 18 year and one month old Eva for our traditional sushi birthday lunch.
How fun is her Dad?
Afterwards while driving to Draper to an art sale in the Barn where your cousin CS and his bride had their reception last year, we drove past the local theater there and Dad noticed they have Shrek coming up and one of our former missionaries is playing Princess Fiona. I gasped because it had become Fiona week for me.
Both the books I was listening to, had a main character named Fiona.
She was the Nanny in this book.
One of our favorite customer's Fiona had come in with her husband this week as well. How fun is that four Fiona's by Friday.
At the art show I met this young woman, Hannah Julia Warnick and fell in love with this portrait of her cousin. It was the first thing I saw, and in the end the one fairly expensive painting I bought. Believe it or not she asked for this picture of the two of us. It may have been her first time to get real money for a painting.
I also bought this angel print from this man ...
and commissioned a painting like this, as the original had sold.
Here we see the new home of the girl with her head on a chair, the one over the door is one that we got at Art and Soup last year, but hadn't framed it. So, since I had other art from this show to frame I framed her too. The yellow egg painting that was here got moved to ....
here.
Then I added this handcart pioneer print to this grouping.
On Saturday we had quite a quickie wind burst and storm, it looks like the pot that had the violets broke, alas.
and it took down this branch too.
For lunch after church today we had our first Bacon bits and tomato sandwich. We've had zucchini for weeks, but not much in the way of ripe tomatoes.
This afternoon Dad had a Barbershop Concert at the Springville Art Museum. I thought Nell looked like this portrait.
And they have a huge Birger Sandzen. I found one once at DI, not nearly as large, which I ended up selling, as I didn't love it that much. Still fun to see this one.
I'm shown here with a Randall Lake painting. He and his wife were in our ward at the University Village when we were in school.
Here they are at the front of the room. I guess the word got out because there were twice as many people as last year.
Here's a close up of Dad singing.
And Dad's cheering section. The couple on the right is a gal who grew up in our ward on Butler Hill, Paige Coleman Erickson and her husband, Ryan. Dad had posted on FB, and Mitchell Baird and Nadine Evans came as well, though they left before the end.
When we came out this fire had just started, north of Springville in Buckley Draw Canyon which is south of Slate Canyon. There have been a lot of worries about wildfires this year.
Dad of course hadn't had his fill of music for the day, so he went to the concert in the park while I mused on a title for this week's blog.
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