Good People All Around

So we start the week with a nod to Finland.

And move on to a new visiting ministry for me.  Shelley is my new partner and we visit Heidi now.  We also took birthday goodies to my former partner Patricia Steadman, and another sister we minister to, Raelene Dewitt. 

I also picked up a chicken dinner for Dad to take to Trevor and Nell's kids on his way to his barbershop Practice in SLC that afternoon.  He also spent a half an hour with the girls. 

On Tuesday we headed to Logan with the Mosida missionaries, where we were fed a lovely lunch by stake leaders from the Mendon Stake who had trekked with us last summer. 

This gal has Norwegian heritage and rarely finds anyone on Relatives Around Me, I told her I was sure we would be related, and we were.  It's like for me, when I rarely find anyone on my Dad's side. 

Here Dad visits with Elder Marvin, who is also a returned Finnish Missionary.

Paul Willie tells us stories of his Grandfather James G. Willie, who built this home that he, Paul, later bought and restored. He spent years restoring it, and now volunteers to share it with visitors like us. 

Here's the whole group from Mosida, Sister Pittman, Gurrs, Lathrops, Newmans, Marvins, Crumps, Brimhalls, Hardmans and Perkins.

Paul Willie also showed us videos of members of the Willie Handcart Company.  This is a later picture of James G. Willie.

Here we are watching them. 

The Marvins stand on the porch of the house after our visit. 

LaVern took this nice picture of the restored house. 

Next, we went a few blocks to see his grave. 

We stop to see the girls on the way home ... Penny is where her crochet loop as a crown, she's always so fun. 

Here's Eleanor doing some schoolwork. 

We also grabbed other pics of people we love on line, Cam and baby Parks.

Parks with his parents. 

On Wednesday I headed off to work, and Dad went to the basement to work on his spa room. You see all the notches he had to cut as he frames the ceiling.  This room was the original kitchen in the house.  The bathroom off the kitchen upstairs originally was a staircase that went down into this room. Our current kitchen was the dining room. 

Dad thinks the black ceiling is the result of the cooking that went on in this room.

And back in Tennessee is Kai on his hike.  

So beautiful and he is making so many friends. 

This village sponsors support for hikers.  I loved the post below from Brittany telling about the support from the locals that these hikers get. 

And yes, we're coming into fleaology season.  You can tell by the piles of goods I have stacked everywhere.  I spent much of Wednesday and Thursday reorganizing booth space and making plans. 

I'm getting rid of my 'man' booth at treasures and will be sending all the stock to fleaology.  Except, for these two lovely duck decoys, that I brought home to grace the Carriage House Lodge. 

I worked at The Grove on Friday, which is always fun, then Dad and I went to dinner and to see One Life.  It was so interesting, but honestly, most of the movie is actually either shown or hinted at in the preview.  Still, we loved it, and as always are thrilled to be able to celebrate the acts of good people. 

On Saturday Dad and I divided and conquered.  Here he is with Chuck Fratcher at Sharon's funeral.  We had originally had it worked out for me to make a quick pass at Kylie Moe's bridal shower in Saratoga Springs, and then I would meet Dad at Sharon Fratcher's funeral in Orem.  Then we would switch vehicles and Dad would head to SLC for another barbershop practice, while I took the van home. 

Then the chorus leader asked Dad to pick up a young man for the practice who lives in Provo.  That meant no funeral for me, but then I got to stay as long as I wanted at the shower.

Here's Dad with Nate, who was Ben's best friend growing up. 

Nate with his family.

The three youngest Fratcher boys.  Robert, Nate and Aaron.  When Chuck and Sharon joined the church, they had four kids and Sharon had had her tubes tied.  After joining the church they decided to have more children.  She had a reversal and was told that she had a 5% chance of having more children.  We're so glad they did.  If it weren't for this family's boys, I doubt Ben would have ever become a reader, which made all the difference to his life.  (This super intelligent family got him hooked on the likes of Robert Jordan)

Here is Dad at his chorus practice.  The young man he picked up, Henry Curtis is second from the right on the front row.  Of course, Dad was thrilled to discover that his Grandfather served with Dad in Finland on his first mission, he was even in the group of 24 missionaries that Dad went to the LTM (Language Training Mission) in Idaho. 

The practice was part of the chorus' program to introduce Barbershop style singing to the next generation. 

Meanwhile on the other side of the lake, I was meeting up with Robin at Barb's for Kylie's wedding shower. 

Everything was adorable, like the balloon arch, and the toast bar that Kylie, an avowed foodie, imagined. 

What a cutie.

I think there were about 30 some odd in attendance.  I got to visit with John's mother, and she was lovely. 

Kylie Ann, Brandon's wife won in the scratch off event!! 

And here Krista's oldest shares some lip stick with her littlest. 

Since Barb and I were matching I thought we needed a picture too. 

Dad took this picture of the roof this morning to show our springtime snow from the balcony.

Here is Alex with his other grandmother. 

Today we went to the farewell of the Parkers, who were the directors of Mosida our first year.  While there we ran into Jenger Terry the mother of one of our covid missionaries in Finland. 

Here we are with Elder Cole who also served during our first year at Mosida. 

Here we are afterwards at the Parker's home for lunch after the farewell.

We laughed at the speed limit in their Eagle Mountain neighborhood on the way home. 

And last, but not least is Trevor in a picture taken this week in New Zealand as Trevor prepares to bungee jump. He is pointing to the bridge he jumped from.

and there he goes. 

Dad was also asked to talk in stake conference on April 21st to talk about our mission to Mosida and encouraging seniors to go on missions.

 

The Week That Started with a Friday and so on.

It must be spring, as Dad saw the first returning Turkey Buzzard on Monday, when he got home from his run.

That afternoon we met up with some Moe's and relatives to see Barb's granddaughter Kami as she performed in this production at the Hale Youth Theater. 

Here's a shot from online of the cast members at the end of the play. 

We had dinner later at Rumbi Island Grill.

Kami and her Grammy.

Always a good time.

On Tuesday Sister Pittman came by with a thank gift for the Mosida Year Book we handed out a couple of weeks ago.

On Tuesday I headed into the mall to bring in an 18 slot demitasse cup and saucer display.  I brought in the rest of my demi collection to go with it, and when I counted I have just about a hundred sets of cup and saucers in the booth now.  I also brought in a pennant banner I'd made earlier in the day.  See, I do sometimes use my craft supplies. 

The sign says "Accoutrements for Tea"

Here's the new little shelf.

We were sorry to hear that Charley had to go to the Emergency room to help out with some stomach pain the poor girl has been suffering from.  We love you Charley, so sorry. 

More Pics of Kai on the trail.  Doesn't he look happy?

Here he is at one of the shelters.  It makes me want to go hike this trail.

At work on Wednesday, a bus full of art students from Eagle Mountain came in to shop.  They had been to the Springville Art museum.  This gal asked if we had anything tatted.  I gave her this tatted doily, the last of a dozen I've sold over the years.  She shows on her phone a picture of one she made, as her Dad has taught her to tat.  He learned from his mother when elementary school age.  Now he does it to relax.  I love it. 

This young man was interested in this old Sax. 

Many, many of the students bought rings.  When this gal bought two I asked her if she'd like me to bag them, as I didn't think she could fit them on her fingers, which she then did, by rearranging the rings.  She is wearing a total of 17.

Dad ran into Dane Rigby at the temple on Wednesday, Dane was one of the Wade missionaries who came after Dad left. They have since met up at reunions. 

Dad saved his name paper, because of the birthdate .. it was in 380 AD, you don't see that much, but another worker told him he done one, a Chinese name, that was from 825 BC, whoa. 

Here is some handiwork from Patchwork Perkins getting ready for tile at Ashley's after he got done with his session at the temple. 

More Patchwork.

There is the shower pan in place. 

Thursday was Pie Day, so after I got home from work, and Dad completed his session working at the temple, we went to the ward Pie Party. This funny device spatted about one in 7 kids with whipped cream ... yep, she got it. 

There were coloring pages.

and the find the gummy bear in the whipped cream contests. 

On Friday I worked on the craft room again, and Dad worked on fixing up one of the sets of carriage doors in the carriage house, reinforcing it so it didn't drag on the ground.  Then we went out and saw Cabrini, one of those movies that has been released by Angel Studios.  We both felt so uplifted by the movie and shed not a few tears.

Dinner was at Los Hermanos in Lindon.  Yum.

They seated Dad in the correct seat. 

On Saturday I met up with these friends, Lilly, Ann, Mary, Me and Raelene DeWitt, my neighbor, to attend a Tea Party at Moon's Historic Book store in the Riverwoods in Provo. 

This gal is from the company that made reproduction fabrics from a 200 year old quilt made by Jane Austen and her mom and sister.  I actually found the central printed piece for not too much money last year online.  I used it to cover the tea cart at my last Austen Tea Party. 

Here are four of the five of us.  Raelene was so excited about the fabrics that she headed up front before we could take a group shot. 

There were several young women wearing more authentic clothes. 

Reid Moon has 5 of Jane's 6 novels in the first edition.  Here is Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, as all her books originally came out in three volume sets. 

The tea things matched perfectly. 

Here I am with the repro quilt and a candle stick Jane Austen owned, its valued at $75,000.

This gal approached me and asked my Instagram.  She's a follower I met 7 or 8 years ago when she came into the store looking for corbels, as Nat Reed was building her a She Shed.  She is on IG as hummingbird.cottage.vintage 

After the tea I went to Farmhouse Peddlers in Orem to do a Scavenger hunt with Rhyming riddles in the store.  A bit frustrating, but I managed to complete the challenge. 

When I got to PG to join Dad who was already hanging out with Trevor and Nell's kids, look who I found hanging out in Eva's car. 

I got Penny and Eleanor to go with me to put new stock into my booth at The Grove, then we stopped for some junking at DI and Pizza.

That night we watched a couple of movies with Penny and J. Scott. We watched the live action Little Mermaid with Penny, then Dan in Real Life with J. Scott. Darling Penny made us Popcorn, and their sweet little dog, Rosie kept us company. 

How pretty and spring like are these two, all ready for church wearing floral dresses with green included for St. Patrick's Day protection. 

Here's our adorable Eva Jean, she went to a school dance with friends Saturday night, and had friends over today ... did I think to get a picture,  No indeed I did not.  But she was a good sport and posed on the stairs.

When Eleanor got done with giving me a pedicure, she gave Rosie a bath.  What a sweetheart. 

And here is Dad's and my nod to our Irishness ... he has me beat by one percent ... 

After church with the two younger girls, we headed to Payson to teach our Primary Class for the first time.  All went well.  Then it was back for an afternoon with the kids at Trev's, before heading to Nell's Mom's house for a lovely dinner.  Here are our table mates ... Nell's sister Alexis and her family.

Nells grandma, Her Mom, Penny, Eleanor and their cousin.

Last, but not least, are those dressed in white ... the Scotties and the not a Scotty dog. 

So that was our week.  We had a lot of fun, and had a little bit of time to serve too.  We loved our time with the kids, both those in our Primary class and our grands.