Thanksgiving 2008 with Joni & Kevin

We spent our Thanksgiving Feast

at Joni and Kevin's this year. There

were nine of us (nothing like last year

with all the family! but nice people all the same!) Donna and family stayed

in DC; Jeanne's family had their "traditional" Thanksgivig with friends; Angie's family and Michelle and James were in Tuscon! Delicious dinner, movies, games and site seeing. We couldn't have had more fun! Joni and Kevin are perfect hosts. Ummmm

Road Trip With Donna and Darryl

Donna and Darryl took us on a great 4-day road trip to check out fall colors in some New England States. We had so much fun. My favorite places was a waterfaull in N.Y. and Walden Pond in Mass. David and Kate are doing well and guess what? Donna "loves living in a city". Well, that is really all she's really known! Provo is more city than Don and I like but he won't move now -- I waited too long and he's too tired!

Pictures from New Mexico

Here are a few pictures from New Mexico

The Wanda-er and Spouse in New Mexico

We met Don's sisters and their spouses for a reunion in Chama New Mexico and rode on the narrow-gauge rail train from Chama up over a beautifully autumn-colored mountain. Later we followed Bud and Helen to Albuquerque where we stayed a couple of days and then they took us on a 4 day journey thru the beautiful mountains of New Mexico. We saw many delightful towns and small cities - one tht looked like it had been moved out of Old Mexico; one that was a resort town; and a couple with wonderful museums. The two high lights of the trip were wandering over the White Sands National Park and going to the largest balloon festival in the USA. We played cards every night -- even when we were staying in motels.

Mt. Nebo

Today we took a ride over part of Mt. Nebo.

We found a new road that brought us out

at Santiquin. Very nice drive. Wish you

were here with us!

ATV-ing With Family

The day before we going to Tucson to see Mylie blessed we had a great day with Kevin, Joni, Lisa, Jeanne and Dave ATV-ing on the Elk Ridge.

A Day With Mylie

We loved spending the day with Richie, Angie and Mylie on her blessing day. She was so cute in her beautiful gown -- and so good all the day. Richie gave a beautiful blessing and Angie prepared a delicious lunch for everyone who came. It was a lovely trip to Tucson for us.

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Blog? Fog

I like to read another's blog

But writjng mine is like a fog

That covers me in yukky mist

But! Urge Me On! Do INSIST

That I TRY AGAIN to blog

...Maybe practice wil lift this fog.

Second Try

Picture (s) From the College Campus Tour

Donna and family have returned home and I'm trying to do thos blog by myself. We'll see....

Max, Logan, and Riley (staying here for a coule of days) went to Seven Peaks yesterday and Joseph was allowedby his dad, to go along. He was five minutes late getting home though so I hope that doesn't ruin his chances of coming here again....he left today for a ward camp out.

The other boys are at the mall. I'm going to try and load a couple of pixes of our Campus tour.

Traveling With Donna and Kate !

What fun to go with Donna and Kate to Logan and Rexburg --then on to Yellowstone and the Tetons -- Later we picked up Don and David and went to San Juan County. More later...Just got a new password, etc. so I could get on my blog again.

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.

HADASHA AND THE GILDED CHAMBER

A couple of weeks ago I gave the ladies of LeLibre a book report called The Gilded Chamber. It was about Hadasha (Ester from the Bible) who was snatched away from her cousin's home and taken by force to the harem of the Persian King, Xerxes. She was terrifed that she would be taken to the soldiers in the barracks and so when being interviewed by the eunuch in charge of the harem (whom she thought at first was the king) she uttered words that caused him to think she had been sent by the Goddess Ishtar. He was so taken with her that he set her apart from the other concubines and girls who had been taken and trained her over the next year on how to please the king. When a year passed and the king called for her she was dressed as Ishtar herself and following Hegai's instructions she became the king's favorite and was made queen. Read the book of Ester in case you can't remember her story and see what she did to save her people from destruction!

VACATIONING IN BLANDING !!

It is Easter Sunday and we have just returned from "vacationing in Blanding". We (a) took Ozzie and LaVerne to Bluff and picked cliff flowers (always fun) (b) at lunch at the Twin Rocks Cafe (c) drove around the Valley of the Gods (4) came home by way of Muley Point (5) played cards until midnight with Ozzie and (6) went to the Monticello temple with Jeanne. We had a nice time.

LEARNING TO BLOG

While Don is struggling to set up his portable computer - with hours and hours of help from Darryl, I am struggling to figure this blogging thing out! Gonna try to add a picture of Don and I now. Who can guess where the picture will go??? Angie! I need you! You must be out looking for an apartment!

Have been fighting with this blog site - trying to figure it out (like how to do things) and so am experimenting again. Let's see what happens this time.

If it works out I will have a picture of Don, Angie and Wanda standing in front of the Mormon Battalion Monument in downtown Tucson!

Tripping Off To Tucson

February found Don and I off to Tucson via Blanding. We stopped there to (a) check on the house (took us half an hour to get into it because the renter had left four feet of snow on the driveway and grass) (b) keep an appointment with the income tax man and hand him our completed tax information (Don couldn't find the bag he put it in so we had to cancel that appointment till March 20th and (c) have a game of hand and foot with Joe and Marilyn (we did and the guys won - bummer.)
On to Pheonix where we stayed overnight with Bob and Nancy (great visit) and then on to Tucson for five nights with Angie and Richie (by four days we smelled like fish and they were happy to see us go!) Richie gave the best Gospel Doctrine lesson I've EVER heard. Great teacher. Angie cooked the best pork roast I ever ate (get her receipe). We saw Kartchner Caves (pretty awesome) and had the best 'eat-out' dinner ever at the Texas Steak House. Angie knew how to make a reservation there and we walked in with 150 people waiting and zipped right past them. She's awesome.
While at their house I made four necklaces that are gorgeous and we visited old town Tucson where poor Great Grandfather Hunt's fingers were covered with red and orange condums. The art gallery and down town Tucson are wonderful! So is the Mexican food.

Hey, Here I Go With My New Blog Spot!!!

Touring in Turkey !

Last September Don and I took a marvelous tour in Turkey. Here is a picture of us in Istanbul!

The most fun, however, was touring in Cappadocia and along the southern coast. What an adventure we had!