FEBRUARY'S OVER?

The olden days

We were taught and entertained by a great talk given by Sister Judy Judd.  It was on forgiving others and ourselves.  She always does a sweet and spiritual job with her talks.  We love her.  Kinsey Rife also gave her homecoming talk on forgiveness.  She was a great missionary in Houston.  I was wonderful to see Matthew Cherry and Whitney Wilcox back from their missions.  They will report in March.  They looked so good.

It was so warm Monday that I even pulled some weeds on the berm.  I am hoping that soon I will be able to kneel down to do it.  Nixon was a great help.  The 2014 Olympics are over and we did think USA would do better.  We couldn’t watch 5 days of it because our TV kept pixeling (have no idea how to spell it.)  We were so proud of all the Utah athletes.  We sit right in front of Pikus-Pace's  in-laws at the football games.  They are so proud of her.

It was a beautiful day to go to the temple Tuesday.  We were the witness couple again.  We get chosen so often but we just love going to the temple.  It is so warm that dad is golfing with Brad.  Shocker!  It was so nice that we worked in the yard all afternoon.

Wednesday we went to a special viewing of the original works of the artists Bloch, Heinrich Hoffman, and Schwartz.  It is the first time some of these works have ever been out of their countries.  It is at the BYU Art Museum.  The works are called Sacred Gifts and it was indeed sacred.  I am so thrilled we were able to see such beautiful gifts.  We went with some of the young women in our ward.

 Friday was a fun day in that we went to Ava's first competition.   She performed with 2 other girls.  They were so cute.  Every person got a trophy.  Ava was so excited.  They did a very good job.  She loves to dance.  Ava's little group took first place.

the one in the middle

This little guy will go anywhere his dad does.

It was held at Thanksgiving Point and while there, Dad got very worried because he was short of breath and very dizzy.  This has been happening for a few months but it was just getting worse.  I immediately went outside and called Dr. Cragen.  We saw him a few hours later.  They took some blood and put him on a monitor.  Three things are stuck to his chest and hooked to a phone and a monitor so if anything weird happens they will know immediately.  When something does happen  Dad pushes a button and it lets the monitor people know what he is doing at that time.  Dr. Craig Halliday is the one we always see and we like him.  He has ordered a cat scan,  stress test and a new prescription  He doesn't think it has anything to do with the heart. 

Saturday started us off with a viewing of a woman Dad baptized in 1964 while on his mission.  He also baptized her 2 daughters and son.  They knew him as soon as we walked in the room.  We were early so they had a few minutes to just visit and remember old times.  They were so glad he had gone to the viewing.  Her name is Jeanne(Jean) Clark and her work has been in the Ensign and many museums.  It is nice to know someone you baptized has had an influence of many others.  The restored gospel is so true.

We went to Spanish Fork to get the last piece of material I need for my quilt.  I only needed 2/3 of a yard and no one around here had it.  The quilt is from all the scraps I had from the towels I made y'all for Christmas.  It's crazy but I love it.  It's probably the last one that will be chosen by one of the grands but I love it anyway.  It has many memories.

We love all of you and are praying that David will pass his orals.  Please join us.  The Lord is mindful of everyone and loves every one.  We love this knowledge.  We love each other and doing things together although I am now driving and Dad holds on for dear life.