A recap of the Last Three Weeks

I can’t believe it has been three weeks since I wrote on my blog. We have had an eventful three weeks. The first week we just went to Apple and exercised. Then Friday we went to Grace to see my mother-in-law. We stayed there until Sunday afternoon. We also went to Soda Springs to visit with my sister, Joy, her husband, one daughter, and four grandchildren. Sunday, we went to church with Mom. Then next week we went to Utah on Thursday and got back at midnight. That was really late since we had 9:00 church the next day. While we were there, we stayed with Michael & Tanya. It was good to be there again and get to know the little girls more and they us. I went walking Friday morning with Natasha. And we had a very nice visit. She also talked with me about two hours the first afternoon we were there. I think that is the most she has ever talked to me. I really enjoyed it. Friday afternoon we went to see Mama in American Fork and then Kim and Kimberly in Orem. Altho’ we got back too late to play Pinochle, we enjoyed the visiting with them all. Saturday morning we did have time to play Pinochle after Michael got home from his private counseling job. It was a very unusual game. I took one round taking everyone of the tricks. Michael & Karl got double Pinochle, and by the time we finished (altho’ Tanya and I went out first) both teams ended up with the same amount of points. We all said we probably wouldn’t see another game like that. We were late for the family reunion, but they started late. We just had to finish that game! Uncle Earl & Aunt Beth and their daughters put on the reunion. Uncle Earl wouldn’t let anyone help pay for the Pavilion. When I stopped to remember that he was one of the vise-presidents of the Chevron Corp., I knew he could handle it OK. It was so good to see everyone who was there. Michael came and brought all four of his children to the lunch only. Kim & Kimberly and their three were there at the church. At the church Jenny, one of Uncle Earl & Aunt Beth’s daughters, had gotten photos of all of her dad’s siblings and their children and grandchildren. It was very interesting to see all of them and how they had changed. I hadn’t seen many of my cousins for 20-30 years or more. It was very good to see them. Some said they didn’t recognize me. It had been four or five years since I had seen everyone but my mother, sister and her husband and my own children. Since then I had my surgery and got my health back. Week before last Richard & Téa got us here on Wednesday with Anya. Richard had brought the other five children up Tuesday to Téa mom and then left and went back down to get Téa and Anya left the hospital. We met at Gang Plank and had a lovely visit. Anya had been in the hospital since Saturday afternoon with SRV. The season for that is usually over by April. She suddenly got dusky then gray while they were visiting a friend in Orem. Richard told me when I talked to him Sunday night that if they had been anymore further from the hospital than two to three blocks that she wouldn’t have made it. Téa also mentioned that they (and I too) were very thankful that she didn’t get into trouble at night while they were traveling. They couldn’t have seen the change of color while it was dark and it would have been too late when they found her. SRV causes a cold in adults and older children but in tiny babies it can be fatal if it is untreated. Karl & I were visiting after we found out about Anya. He asked if it was a new disease or the medical profession didn’t have a name for it. I got to thinking that when Michael got pneumonia after having the croup really bad and then Karen got it too; they both ended up in the hospital. Karen responded to the treatment; she was in an isolette with oxygen and she sounded terrible when I brought her home. Bryan was the only one of our children who didn’t get sick. Michael was only 2 ½ and Karen only eight months old. Michael didn’t respond to antibiotics and they just about lost him. He had been down in Spanish Fork with my parents ( all three of them were) because I had had my gallbladder out two weeks before. We brought Karen back to the hospital in Ogden (we were living in Roy at the time). Bryan didn’t get sick at all for which we were very grateful. Anyway, when I tho’t about it I tho’t I bet they had SRV. They just didn’t know what to call it. We left the next Thursday for Utah. We were able to see Richard & Téa and the children on Monday. We saw them again Thursday night at Anya’s blessing and Cheanna’s baptism then met them at Arctic Circle just before they left town for Phoenix on Saturday. We are thankful that we got to see them as much as we did. Cheanna’s baptism and program was really special. She was dressed in a beautiful white dress and looked so clean and pure. Anya also had an all white dress on. Richard gave them both beautiful blessings. Karen & Kylie came up from Blackfoot and Shani, Jon and Macie were there too. Bishop John officiated. Duncan gave the talk on baptism and did a fabulous job. His parents said that he wrote most of it himself with a suggestion here or there. Most of it he had given at his friend’s baptism a few months ago. We sang three songs, Cheanna’s favorites. After Richard baptized Cheanna, and after they were dressed, Karl, Kylie, Karen then I gave talks on the Holy Ghost and how he has helped us. It was all so very nice. Afterwards, we had a luncheon in the multipurpose room at the church. I am so thankful that they were able to come up here to have those ordinances done. Yesterday was just a laid back day. Today at 4:30 pm our bishopric issued new temple recommends to everyone. They said that the church is going with a bar code on the recommends now because some people were lending them to other people so they could go, some even trying to sell them on e-Bay. It is uncomprehensible that people would do that. Since our recommends were only 11 months old, they just had to sign the new ones. President Fulks was also there from the Stake Presidency. They said that they would be activated tonight or tomorrow and we should/ could use them this coming week. The people of the church have six months to get their new recommends signed. I guess it is another sign of the times. It is another testimony to me that the Lord knows what is going on in this world and how he moves and gives President Hinckley the revelations that we need to keep us on the straight & narrow. We will start back to work at the FHC this coming Wednesday and then Saturday. Altho’ we have been busy these three weeks, I’m looking forward to returning to the FHC.