Date Night

Yes Scott does actually take me out on a date once in awhile. We were able to go into Salt Lake City on Friday to see the Utah Symphony and the Tabernacle Choir perform at the Conference Center, It was a Gift of Music Concert with special guests Erich Kunzel of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra,who conducted the symphony & Denyce Graves and Brian Stokes Mitchell, sang with the choir and the symphony. It was very good, the only thing is that we were a little late (like everyone else) and I had on high heel sandals and we were hurrying so fast that I ended up with a big blister on the bottom of my foot, not only does it hurt to walk any ways with just having the surgery and out of my cast for a couple of weeks now I have to hoble with this blister on the bottom of my foot. Well after the performance, I decided to just go barefoot to the car, which was parked at the Triad Center (for those of you who do not know how far that is it is about 4 blocks from the Conference Center)so my feet were pretty dirty, but it did feel better than trying to get my sandals back on, since my feet were swollen. I know wha feel sorry for me, no I should have worn a different pair of shoes, but I didn't think we were going to be late, Scott got tied up with a meeting at work and he works in Springville, so that is why we were late.
Saturday, my niece Lori came down from Farmington and I held a Cookie Lee jewelry open house. It was fun to see all the jewelry and fun to see Lori, she looks so cute being pregnant, and due in the next 4-5 weeks. I appreciate her coming and showing all her jewelry. If any of you would like to see a catalog (a plug for you Lori) go to www.cookielee.biz/lorifarnsworth to see a great selection and priced right jewlery. Thanks Lori for taking time out of your busy schedule to show off your jewelry!!! After everyone left we just did the normal Saturday stuff. Grocery shop, trim bushes and clean up the yard and get it ready for winter. By the end of the day I was tired, and noticed that I was starting to have a runhy nose and coughing, well I now have a full blown out cold and coughing like crazy. So now I know that winter is coming. A great way to start it out. Yuck!
No pictures this time, my head was not on right to remember to get it out to take any. So have a great week anyways!!!! Hope I didn't bore you to much I just don't know how to say anything in a few words. Sorry.

Over for Sunday Dinner!

Not much happened this weekend. We started to get things put away for the winter, cleaning out the garage trimming bushes and getting fall things down from the attic to decorate the house for Halloween and Thanksgiving! I can't beleive that it is already that time of year. I love the weather at this time of year, just not looking forward to the cold. Yesterday Amy and Matt came over for dinner. It was nice to see them and to be able to see the baby. Matt took Preston out to see the puppies, he set him down in the pen with them and they started to attack him. He wasn't to sure about them. He started to cry when they started to lick him. Of course we all just laughed.
As you know this past weekend BYU slaughtered UCLA. Scott not a big BYU fan has been teasing one of the young men in our ward, who is a big BYU fan. When Scott and I got home from the store there on our front door was a big sign with the "Y" logo on it saying BYU 59 UCLA 0 and then it said "BYU baby" we both started laughing Bo had been at our house. So at church Scott went up to Bo and said I noticed you had been at my house? Bo just started to laugh, the only thing is that he had a red tie on and Scott said it looks like you wore the wrong color isn't that the Utes colors, Bo came back with no this is the blood of th Y's after the game or something like that. It will be an interesting season with these two going at it. I hope that you all have an enjoyable week. Enjoy the weather no matter where you are. SMILE!!!!

Out with the Girls!!!

I know it hasn't been a week. I was able to slip out for the night with a couple of my friends (yes I do have friends) Natalie Kelly (who does my hair) and Karla Patten, they both live in our former ward in Pleasant Grove. We started by going out to dinner at Yapona which is a Japanese resturant in American Fork. Very delicious! When in town you must try. And then we went to Thanksgiving Point to a presentation of Taste of Home Cooking School. We had a lot of fun watching them cook and having drawings for prizes, of course we didn't win anything, but it was fun watching others in their good-luck. Then home to a husband reading and a son doing his homework. Back to the real world. Thanks Natalie and Karla for a great night. It was good to get away for ahwile, even if it was for only 5 hours.

What a Week!

It all started on Wednesday here is our story. Well as you know our dog Ellie had pups, but only 2, last Wednesday I went to have the pups dew clawed. Came home and thought I better put an add on to KSL. COM to sell them, but first I wanted to see how much lab pups were selling for, so I started looking and couldn't see very many lab pups for sale, I was now about on the 7th page when an add caught my eye, it read kinda of like this "We have 2 1/2 week old puppies we need to sell now, due to their mother has died tragically." I couldn't believe it. I turned to Scott who was home with a bad cold and said that we need to help these people. So we called and told them that our dog had puppies, but only 2 and thought we could help with nursing them. As it goes we now have 8 more puppies that Ellie is feeding, they are so cute and we were so glad that Ellie took to them like they were her own. The family that we are helping wrote us this letter. "We wanted to let you know how much we have been touche with your phone call to heop out and the answer to a prayer that you were to our family. We have been telling everyone around here about it, and I just wanted to let you know what a true blessing your family has been to us. We think it was such a miracle that your Ellie only had 2 puppies in her litter, that we had the add posted on KSL, that you read it and then had the motivation to call us, and that she accepted the pups so well. It just brings us to tears to think about it all. Thank you so much!' The Betteridge Family. Scott and I now know why Ellie only had the 2 pups, it wasnt' by conicedent, They were led to us. Here is a picture of Elllie and her new family.

Well that was Wednesday what a day.

On Friday my sibblings and Scott and I got together for a barbecue at my sisters. We have been meaning to get together for the longest time. We decided to start seeing each other once a month, all of us taking a turn at our house or what, or where ever. It was great to be with them and my Dad and Joan. My brother Stan was just called as their Stake President in their stake, so he told us of his experience and how it all came about. It was so neat and the spirit was so strong. I know most of you are still in shock and thinking "Stan a Stake President", And yes the Church is still true! Just kidding Stan. We are all so proud of him and know that he will do a great job, both Stan and JoAnn have big callings, JoAnn is on the Primary General Board, and doing a great job. as always. We love both of you, Stan and JoAnn, thanks for being such great examples to us.



Well now comes Saturday! Our ward put on a Fair and Rodeo for the neighborhood, and it was so fun, I had the kids come to enjoy the day with us, so Heidi brought her boys and Lisa brought the girls and Mik. I even invited the people that we are feeding their puppies (the Betterridge's) they came and brought their 2 boys and little girl. We all had a great time!!!! It started out with an early rise for the 5k run, which Bradley did. Then a pancake breakfast, then parade and then all the games which consisted of coin dive, bean bag toss, donut on a string, pie eating contest, tug of war, egg toss and assorted foot races, and horse rides, after that we had lunch which Scott was helping (as you know his is an old man now and only old men cook) the High Priest Group Leaders were in charge of cooking the hamburgers and hot dogs, beans, corn on the cob ect. It was great. All of the condements like tomatoes and onions and the corn were grown in our ward garden. Now after all of that we had the rodeo, first there was the mutton busting, then the chicken catch, we were suposed to have a greased pig catch but the time was running out, our stake had a regional conference that started at 4 for the priesthood and then the adult meeting at 7 so hopefully next year we will get all of the other things in for the rodeo. We all had such a good time and what a great thing to bring our neighborhood together. A lot of work went into all of this and we are very appreciative for the willingness to do this. Thank you to Scott and Laura Carnagie, what an awsome job well done.

Enjoy the slide show of the kids having fun!!!!!