Fixing Broken Dad, Ouch!

It seems that a month has passed since I  collected pictures and shared my thoughts. Perhaps it's all the time spent with my dear Husband that has stretched the time. It started with my walk with Lavern in Genola in Monday,  such beautiful farm country.  

I just wanted to share Nell's cute picture of Penny, so I can save it. How adorable!  

I worked on putting away the remnants of Halloween decor and did the Autumn mantel in the dining room that day. 

In the midst of it all Gordon brought piles of sheet rock to hoist into the attic. 

I also did this fall display on the dining room table.  That night Dad and I watched Downton Abbey. 

On Tuesday I drove to Salt Lake for some junking .... See, they do have everything at DI, including the kitchen sink. Then....

I met up with Arlene at the temple. Not this temple, but I love this new temple in Tijauna, so I thought I'd share it. We actually attended the Jordon River temple, then went for some Zupas goodness afterwards. 

On Wednesday Gordon and Trudy came to work on sheet rock early ... 

Darby came too because she was to spend her day toting Dad around for his rotator cuff surgery!  I was off too work and worry at Treasures. 

So while dad was waiting and waiting (He was scheduled for 12 but didn't have his surgery until 4)

I switched out the big display at the south building for Christmas. 

After work, he still wasn't home. My texts had gone unanswered all day. I finally called the number Dad had given me for Darb when I redid my directory, last week and the number was out of service. 

A call to Becca for Darbys real number and I found out Darby had just heard from the hospital and she was heading up to get him. Such a relief.  Here he is hale and hardy, post surgery, before the nerve block expired. 

Here's a collage I did of my day. It was Veterans Day, and I posted the photo of my Dad in uniform on line. 

That night Dad was unable to sleep at all. 

I made him some breakfast before heading to work on Thursday.  He watched, according to him, about 10 episodes of flip or flop before he switched to the Hallmark channel's Christmas Romances!  I finished off my day with him watching them until 2:00 AM. He was hurting so bad  sleeping was sporadic and short lived. 

On Friday I stayed home all day nursing my boy!  Still in lots of pain, trying to get comfy.   

That night we were off to make root beer for the wards fall festival. It was Dads first time out!! 

Afterwards, we came home and had a nice visit from some of our favorite homies.

On Saturday I ran into work as Thursday had ended without the Christmas display being completed. I also needed to get more of the show stuff out of the van, and was meeting a customer/ friend there on a consult. 

When I got home Trevor and Scott were finishing up the leaf patrol for the day!! Thanks men! 

Today we were off to Highland  to welcome home Ryan and Jake!  Becca came too!  It's always fun I meet up with our grands! 

We figured out that it was 21years ago this month that we were in Hawaii with Moes and Heuers and they both brought home Hawaiin souvenirs that were  born 9 months later. Now 21 years later we welcome these wonderful 'Saturday's Warriers' again. 

Here's a mix of missionaries. The Four on the left were in Canada while the one on the right went to Japan. 

Here's Dad with Jerry Mason, who was one of his counselors when he was bishop!  It looks like Amy is picking his pocket here, but she actually just straightened his tie!  

And this is Dad with Ryan (Japan) and Jake (Canada). The Moes will move out of this house soon. It's hard to believe. We look forward to years of good times in their new house, though.

Now we are off to dinner with Trevor and Nell!! Happy Sunday all. We hope your week was amazing. 

Buying and Selling (And Building too)

What a week ... Whew!  It started with Dad and me heading south. I dropped him at the Lynn's in Cedar City where he met up with a couple of other guys from the office.   Dum dum de dum ... Store Tours episode 1    Which is a follow up on their fall walk, where they show managers what they need to change. Store tours checks for implimentation.   

I went with him to do my own version of store tours, DI stores that is. The cute haunted house and Halloween people are a few of the things I bought over two days for almost $150 in total purchases!! Think inventory! 

That night we met up at the hotel ...

and went to dinner. Afterwards we checked out Tai Pan Trading. 

The next morning he was off to Overton Nevada  with the guys and I was back at the St George DI!  I took a break to check out the antique stores downtown. 

I loved this cute store: Annie's Vintage Garden! 

This sign made me giggle.  Around 2:00 I headed over to the Lynn's in St George.

To pick up Dad!  I guess this is your conference table if you're a grocer!!   We headed home so we could vote before the polls closed. 

Of course we watched us some Downton   before bed! 

On Wednesday Gordon brought his construction trailer and parked it!  Yeah! Step one!  

I was off to work, doing projects for the coming show and gathering stock.

Dad visited 3 stores that day and came home to work on wiring in the attic. 

At work on Thursday I painted this cupboard. It had been a dark navy and hadn't sold. I love the red and may not sell it after all. 

After I got home I gathered more stuff for the sale 

I put some globes on new stands. 

And spray painted the ball for this globe craft!  It was finished up Friday. 

Dad went to Price and Richfield in preparation for upcoming frozen resets that day.

Friday morning I finished up some projects, like the little globe and painting a few things. I stripped off old fabric and reupholstered a chair with an old burlap coffee bag. 

Dad went to Price again that day then hit the Spanish Fork and Provo stores. 

About 3 I met Dad at the Rec Center in PG to do set up.   He got the stuff hauled in, while I sorted and arranged. Then he went off to welcome Ryan home from his mission in Japan at Moes while I finished set up, got things priced and made a list of price signs to make at home that night. And I'm not gonna lie, I did some pre shopping too.  

Meanwhile Gordon was framing!  

And framing. 

Friday morning I was off to the show. Margo loved this map I got from Wendy!  

This lady bought the chair I'd upholstered the day before. One less thing in the garage!!

This gal bought my Abraham Lincoln quote I'd made from game letters ( I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I did not have the heart to let him down) 

This mother and daughter bought vintage 40's wrist watches!! 

The show was terribly busy!  And tons of fun. 

Meanwhile, Dad was at home building the beds and wall for our Peter Pan Festival of Trees display. This will be the Darling children's nursery !  

He finished up in time to head to Titan's birthday party for some fun of his own! 

Adi and Elias came, as did Eva and Lu. 

and here's our Zach!

Happy big 5 Titan, the last of our cousin triplets to turn!! 

Back at the show I was catching up with friends all day!  It's one of the best parts of a sale for me! 

But all good things must come to an end. Dad came and helped me load out and we finished in an hour. Then we spent a half hour helping load friends.  Last of all  we had dinner at a Mexican place on main in PG. before ... 

meeting up with Moes and Heuers  (including the two newly returned missionaries Jake (Canada) and Ryan.) to see this silly musical!! 

Today we were off to our respective church meetings. Afterwards it was fun to have Brittney and Spencer come up to visit!  

Then it was time to head to Trevor's house to have breakfast for dinner. 

It was great to see everyone, as always. 

Emily's Birthday, The Christmas Drawing, A Dead Phone and Halloween Fun Times!

So the big news this week is that my phone gave up the ghost ... right in Sunday School with Spencer sitting beside me for the last time, as he will now be teaching Primary with Brittney!  Lucky for me I could look off his phone for the lesson.  Thanks Buddy!

So you get many fewer pictures this week than usual given the dead phone situation, and the post will likely be shorter too.  Lucky you!  

On Monday, I finally got the house back to rights, after my tea party ... the dining room table sat by the window from Tuesday through Monday, YIKES!  I also spent hours blogging, as you may recall, I lost a completed blog ... I love technology.  Dad and I finished up the day watching Downton Abbey!

Tuesday was Emily's birthday and I got to talk to her on the phone for almost an hour, which was lovely.  I spent most of the day working on organizing my craft room ... I'm getting so close.  In fact I was actually able to do a couple of projects on my craft room table this week, and that is progress.  The Temple is closed for a couple of weeks, so Dad and I hung out after dinner and he chose 'Austenland' for our movie of the evening! No wonder I love that guy!!

... and Thanks to Emily and Dad, Wednesday was one of the most fun days in recent history.  thanks Emily for moving to Texas and inviting us to come down, and Dad for being unable to go down, due to work.  I'd arranged some days off to go, so when the guy I'd traded to get off last Wednesday had already had me work his day, I left it as is, so I was free Wednesday.  

That morning my friend Joanne texted to see if I wanted to go to Kim's open house in SLC.  I'd gone to Kim's Tea Party a couple of weeks ago, and loved it, but thought it would be fun to go with this group of blogger friends ... there is so much to see at Kim's afterall.

Above is a picture of Kim's house.  I took a ton of pics, but so did my friends, and I got them to send me enough to do a Pollyanna blogpost about the day.  That left me with a few to share with you all.

After Kim's house we went to her daughter's store, Retro Betty's.  I loved this antique 1940's award winning Halloween costume ... the collar is made of crepe paper ... 

Afterwards we went to Zupa's in Sugar House ... the same one that I last had a meal with Emily, before taking her to the airport.

On Thursday I did the family Christmas gift drawing, which is included at the bottom of this post.  Then it was off to work.  After work I sort of shopped my way north, picking up stuff for upcoming Festival of Trees, then hitting the DI in AF before joining Dad at Trevor and Nell's to babysit, as they'd gone to a concert that night.  I had the cutest picture of Dad with Penny, but its lost forever.  Though its not hard to imagine a cute picture of Dad with Penny!

On Friday I did more craft room organizing and put together these craft kits to sell at the 3 Dotters' show I'm doing this weekend.   I did some repairs on items for the show as well, before making dinner for Dad and Cheryl.  After dinner the Pecks stopped by to see the attic and see if they are interested in taking it on.  I showed you Trudy and me at the house they just finished flipping last week.  They are looking for the house for their next flip, at the moment, and think they can sandwich us in!  Yeah, he does awesome work, and we are so excited!! He'll be doing the insulation and sheet rocking that Dad can't do with his shoulder injury and surgery coming up.

And thanks to Emily we started watching the Big Bang theory that night.  She pre-ordered  last season for us for my Birthday and it came this week!  Happy me, we are having so much fun!

 On Saturday, I got going early making up a craft to take to Eva and Eleanor's Halloween Party that they had invited me to.  I stopped by Becca's house with Titan's birthday gift, that included these Menion PJs, and found him watching Despicable Me, which he'd gotten for his birthday!  Score!!

Then Eva and Eleanor's party was super fun, and it was the perfect way to spend Halloween afternoon.  We had fun Halloween snacks on cute Halloween snack trays and drank drinks of out tiny plastic cups.  Then we worked on the craft I'd brought, and it was so fun to craft with my kindred crafting spirits!  Nell is sending me some pictures she took, so I will add those when I get them.

 Meanwhile, back in the attic, Dad was working hauling out years of storage.  He came up with about 15 years worth of financial records, many of which he could now dispose of ... I loved the smoky autumn smell he created burning them ....

 Of course I lost the picture I took of Spencer helping him move the bath tub into the bathroom, but even without proof we appreciate all Spencer did to help out with this project.  As you can see by the time I got home, it was pretty well cleared out, but I did get to work on it for about an hour with Dad.

Its amazing to realize that Dad hauled the heavy old cistern out onto the balcony by himself.  Whoa, he has skills!

Today was pretty typical ... I went to our Sacrament and Testimony meeting and then to Sunday School.   In Sunday School we talked about a scripture in Ephesians that really struck me. 

Ephesians 6:1-3

 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

 2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

 3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

Its pretty basic, but I realized why this scripture is so true.  If you honor and obey your parents, who want the best for you, like your Heavenly Father does, then you do things that are good for you.  Like eating healthy, getting exercise, you will avoid harmful substances.  Obeying your parents will mean that you stay away from harmful relationships in your youth, you will be peaceable, as in you will not fight with others.  You will not steal, or commit adultry, or break any of the other commandments, that lead to angry relationships, or getting in trouble with authorities.  All of that leads to a long life, because you are more likely to be healthy, and stay away from dangerous behaviors.  Thus it is a commandment with a promise!

Anyway, next I was off to Dad's second sacrament and testimony meeting.  I bore my testimony about how the saints strengthen each other.  I love that part about my membership in the church.

After church I did some reading, I finally started the second book of the Joseph Smith Papers, see what a good thing having a dead phone can be?  So that was our week!!

And here is our exchange list for 2015.  Love you all!

Brittany - BriahnnaMike - Spencer

Ashley - Brittany

Andy- Becca

Darby- Brittney

Trevor - Davin

Nell - Ben

Ben - Ashley

Hanna - Sam

Davin - Mike

Briahnna - Nell

Emily - Andy

Sam -Hanna

Becca - Trevor

Brady -Darby (they have the same letters in their names just rearranged, anyone ever notice that before?)

Spencer- Emily

Brittney- Brady

Kai - Ian

Alex - Zach

Charly- Abigail

Kim - J. Scott

Ian -Titan

Zach- Elias

J. Scott - Adilyn

Eva - Alex

Elinor -Madison

Penny -Beki

Elias - Kai

Adilyn -Penny

Kenna -William

Beki -Reagan

William -Eva

Abigail - Kim

Titan - Charly

Reagan- -Kenna

Madison - Elinor