BIG BIRTHDAY BASH FOR DON 77TH DAY !

We celebrated Dons 76th bithday in style today,

Sunday, April 13th with dinner. Wannie,James

and his friend, Chase were there. We ate hommade

rolls, roast beef and gravey, asparagus, corn and

choc chip cookies. Don got phone calls from his

girls, a couple of sons--in-law and a couple of grand

kids. He had a wonderful day. Wannie gavie him a

new Tilly hat that he's excited to wear on the river crusie.He played with is new lap top for hours! 76 Years Young !

CRAZY???? ABOUT BOOKS????

I know that all of you

are crazy about books.

Me too. But...I wish

I was a super fast

fast reader so that I

could even read more!

A woman in my book

club told me that I had

weird tastes in books.

Maybe she's right. Look

at some of these titles I've

read lately: Diary of a

Mad Man; Hard Times;

Diary of a Mad Man;

Quiet Flow the Don;

The Red and the Black; Eugene Onegin; Glass Castle; Vinegar Hill; Winter of our Discontent;Angle of Repose; Moll Flanders; Grayson; The Assistant; and STILL working on Gene Christophe -- the most frustrating and l o n g e s t book I've ever tried to read!

BOOKS FOR ORPHANS

Today three ladies and I put together ten picture books (pictures cut from magazines) for little kids in orphanages. Twenty-four pages in each book: birds, fish, jungle animals, farm animals, modes of transportation, food, flowers, kids, kids, kids, seasons, music and dance, reptiles, insects and etc. It has taken us a long time to compile 240 pages but we finally did it and today we put them together. It was supposed to be a RS work activity but only three showed up! Ah, the blessings they missed!

OLD POEM FROM 17TH CENTURY

Hope, oh! thou wretched soul, Home, home and be valliant!

Only wait then, wait, and surely thou shalt see the sun of lovely Joy.

Up! Up! and give thy sorrow and all thy cares good-night;

And all that grieves and saddens thy heart be put to flight.

Not thou thyself art ruler when all things must obey,

But God is Lord decreeing--all follows in His way.

And even though all Devils came and opposed his will

There were no cause for doubting, God will be steadfast still.

What He has undertaken, All His divine decree--

Exactly as He ordered at last shall all things be.

REMEMBER TO PRAY

Father let my voice be heard
Not in anger rashly stirred.

Bless thy children whom I meet,

Let they Gospel keep them sweet,

As I travel forth each day,

Be thou with me all the way.

Good to others let me do;

Virture, preace, and joy persue.

_T.R. Bray

FAMILY

"BE TRUE TO WHO YOU ARE

AND THE FAMILY NAME YOU BEAR"

WHAT IN THE WORLD ???

If you want to know "What in the world" is going on....one good way to find out is to ask Don. He keeps up on the news daily in the newspaper; watches the news, talk shows, debates, etc. on TV and can answer about any question you ask! He also reads Botton Line faithfully and has just finished a great book called Presidents and Prophets ! And the Book of Mormon? How about 12 times or more! Yes! Keep on reading, Don. You are admired.