The Week that Started with a Parade and Ended with the Death of the 5th Ward.

 Monday was Labor Day, marking the unofficial end of summer ... Dad and two of his boys went out for the big Onion Days 5K ... Dad and Trevor won 3rd in their divisions, and Davin won 5th in his ... not too shabby.

 Dad got up early to start Mountain Man breakfast in the dutch oven, before heading to the race, so when he met back at home with other family members for the parade he just put the finishing touches on breakfast, while making homemade root beer.

Trevor meanwhile, was discovering the best seat in the house for the parade.

 This year we put some chairs out side the fence for a better view and a better spot for catching parade treasures too.

 Briahnna and Nell chose the back row.

 Elias choose Aunt Emily's swing ... amazing its still there after all these years.

 Brady stayed home to sleep as he worked a graveyard that night, and I was upstairs in bed, still sick with the stupid flu.

 After the parade, Dad and Becca went to see Les Miserables at the high school.  We have a very good community theater group and they do just one play a year, and I missed it.  The little girl shown with Becca is the daughter of the man that played  Jean Valjean.  They were neighbor's of Becca and Brady's in Lehi.  The little girl, who played Cossette was in Becca and Brady's Sunbeam class.

 This is Dad with the Ewells from our Orem ward, who now live in Elk Ridge, and who do the community theater play every year, in fact they met doing the Payson Community Theater play 20 years ago.

 On Tuesday I was feeling better, but was still very weak.  Darby stopped by to show me some pictures of a house she was looking at in Provo and to tell me that her condo SOLD!  In just 10 days on the market, what a great realtor she has!!  The visit was quick, but I loved having company, as I was so sick of being sick at that point I could have screamed.

I loved this picture that Emily sent me of Bekie's first day of  preschool.

I went to work on Wednesday and Thursday, though Wednesday I was super tired, and slow, by Thursday I was back to full speed, thankfully.   Wednesday night Dad bought us Subway Sandwiches and we spent the evening reading.  

 On Friday I had committed to go and pick up some wood from a friend that I met back in my Butler 8th ward days, the first time around, Robyn Brown.  On the way I hit a couple of garage sales, then stopped in  at Brambles, shown above, a shop in Provo that I like.

 There was some time to hit a DI in Salt Lake before heading to the Browns to pick up the pallet wood, she'd offered me on Facebook .... of course it was fun to visit, for the first time in 20 years!  Robyn is the one that challenged me to start reading the scriptures every day, that was when Emily was a baby, so you can see what an influence she has had on my life over the years!

 Back in Payson it was time for a ward dinner, the 'death of the ward dinner', as Steve Kew put it.  They were realigning ward boundaries in the stake and Steve heard something that made him think the ward was a goner ....  Here we are with some good friends, the Yorks and the Bachelors, both of whom, as it turned out, were in the half of the ward that went a different way than our half of the ward.

Then on Saturday morning, we had our  last function as a ward ... this is our relief society breakfast ...

 Here I am shown with Pat Zeeman, the wife of our last bishop in the 5th ward, she's now in the other ward ... and Rebecca Peery, who is in our new ward with us.  Rebecca did a very nice presentation on her experiences working on painting murals for various temples!  She has also been one of my visiting teachers for the last year and something.

After the breakfast, I rushed to meet Scott and the grand kids at Lagoon, for his work Lagoon day.

 Above is my first view of my grand children at Lagoon.

 It looks like Dad and Uncle Brady are having the most fun on Puff the Dragon!

As you can see below, it took some doing for Ian to try to convince Zach he was having fun.  What a great older brother!

 Fun in the sun sure makes you thirsty!

 Kim came and brought some friends too, but we only saw them at lunch.  They later had Kim's folks stop to pick them up so they could stay longer, and Ashley and Andy were disc golfing in Ogden, so that worked out perfectly for all!

 So that was Lagoon, Dad and I traded cars so he could go to an inventory, while I drove all the kids home.

Then there was Sunday, our last in the 5th ward.  Here Karry hold's Andrea, my visiting teaching partner's, little boy.  I have visit taught Kerry for at least 5 years ... its hard to believe she'll be in another ward.  They just better take good care of her ...

So the meeting was at 5 when we found out officially that our ward had been cut in two and each half given to a neighboring ward.  I know its a good thing, our ward has been too small to function well, and I am excited to meet new people.  I will, however, miss Jane Johnson, the Ekins, the Yorks, the Bachelors, the Stringhams, Georgia Durrant, brother Fernilius and other ward family members. Fortunately for me, they all still live near by!!  :-)

Flea.o.logy, Floods and Flu

 Since I am so late getting this blog post done, I am just going to do a short version of the week.

Normal events, like going to work and stuff, won't be mentioned, so fill those in in your mind.

The first notable event happened when Brittney and Spencer were driven to the airport, early, by Becca.  They flew out to South Korea, so a college semester there.  Becca was their driver...

I spent three days working, too hard as it turned out, on items to sell at flea.o.logy that weekend.  I'd had so many different things happen with Dad being sick, and other events since mid July that I was very behind hand.

I also worked on decor for our new fleaology circus image, including this funny clown head to greet customers.

I took a break on Wednesday, meeting Dad at Mama Chu's along with these cute girls for Ashley and Becca's birthday lunch.

 Then when Dad and I got home we did the ASL ice water challenge ...  (or should I say, 'flooded ourselves')

It was fun to see this picture of Adelin in the birthday outfit we got for her ... Love it!

I also loved this picture of William eating pudding ... what a look!!

While walking Thursday Ginny and I saw one of our neighbors out in his field.  We had wondered about his tall crop and talked to him, he told us it was sugar cane ... we didn't even know it grew in Utah.

I also noticed during that walk that I was feeling winded, which was very weird.  When I got home and mentioned it to Dad, he wondered if I had a blood clot too, since that was his first symptom.  Work that day included lethargy, aches and pains and the beginnings of a headache.

On Friday I  knew I was sick ... but with people coming to set up I was in and out of the house anyway.  I had made price tags at work, which I have never done before, so I also put tags on most of the stuff I had ready to set up in my booth space, which turned out to be a blessing ...  Of course I also wasn't quite ready with our new entrance for our circus theme, so I sat in the house and made the strip curtains and the pennant banners for the fence.  

When Nell got there around 6 it was a major relief ... she took over with greeting dealers and letting them know where they were to set up.

Dad also got home early and took on the responsibility of putting together my booth space.

 ... Saturday morning we were all ready with something like 43 or 44 dealers, including ourselves ... Eva even set up store ...

 Kim Barker from our ward was the charity that collected our entrance fee to help us know how many customers we had .... she used the money to help defray the cost of invitro.

... above we see Briahnna and my friend LaVern, as well as Becca and her family, showing what great support I get from family and friends.

This dealer, Parchment and Pallet, was with us for the first time ... bringing the total of dealers with trailers to three.  

On Sunday, I was still sick ... had turned out to be the flu, in case you were wondering.  Dad gave my  Sunday School lesson ... he also went to the Onion Day's fireside and heard a g g granddaughter of Joseph Smith speak ... I ended up finding an article on her in Meridian Magazine, so we could talk about it.

That evening he took off to attend the last regular concert in the park ...  while I stayed home and moaned and groaned some more.