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Party Party Party.  We as a whole family, had a 60th anniversary party at the home of Bill and Lorie Welch.  Russell and Becky came with their whole family.  Jenna and Mason Runs Through and two children came on Aleigent  Airlines.  Connor brought a special girl named McKenna.   Colton came on the airplane with Jenna and Mason.  Tessa and Leah and McKenna and Connor drove back home with Becky and Russ.  My three brothers came, Dee, Randy and Gay. Bonna came.  We had pulled pork, mac and cheese,  Salads and a bakery cake.  Justin brought lots and lots of drinks  Hanna came with her husband Jacob.  The ones missing were Sarah and Jack W. and Jake,  Chuck's son.  Jack and I have 6 Great grand children (at this time).  Jenna's children are Fern Gay and Mason Evens Run Through IV.  They call him Four.  Sarah's children are Preston and Levi.  Anna's girls are Penelope Star and Lilly Wanda.  Lots of pictures are coming up. We had a photographer come after dinner to take all kinds of pictures.  She did individual pics and lots and lots of groups.  Bill and Lorie had 2 tents set up and with the shade trees, it was much cooler out side than in the house.  Lorie did so much work and acted like it was no big deal to put on such a wonderful party.   

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Party Party Party.  We as a whole family, had a 60th anniversary party at the home of Bill and Lorie Welch.  Russell and Becky came with their whole family.  Jenna and Mason Runs Through and two children came on Aleigent  Airlines.  Connor brought a special girl named McKenna.   Colton came on the airplane with Jenna and Mason.  Tessa and Leah and McKenna and Connor drove back home with Becky and Russ.  My three brothers came, Dee, Randy and Gay. Bonna came.  We had pulled pork, mac and cheese,  Salads and a bakery cake.  Justin brought lots and lots of drinks  Hanna came with her husband Jacob.  The ones missing were Sarah and Jack W. and Jake,  Chuck's son.  Jack and I have 6 Great grand children (at this time).  Jenna's children are Fern Gay and Mason Evens Run Through IV.  They call him Four.  Sarah's children are Preston and Levi.  Anna's girls are Penelope Star and Lilly Wanda.  Lots of pictures are coming up. We had a photographer come after dinner to take all kinds of pictures.  She did individual pics and lots and lots of groups.  Bill and Lorie had 2 tents set up and with the shade trees, it was much cooler out side than in the house.  Lorie did so much work and acted like it was no big deal to put on such a wonderful party.   

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Jack and the three boys ready for church with Jack's wrecked truck.

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Jack and the three boys ready for church with Jack's wrecked truck.

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Justin working with his cousins, Scott and Wade at the Brown Creek camp ground.

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Penelope Star Carroll,  Born, January 2018

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Penelope Star Carroll,  Born, January 2018

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Marjory and the siblings after grandpa Fost's funeral.

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Marjory and the siblings after grandpa Fost's funeral.

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Hannah, Maggie was under the exposure line, sorry Maggie

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Hannah, Maggie was under the exposure line, sorry Maggie

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Sisters, Sarah and Anna visiting Hannah.

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Sisters, Sarah and Anna visiting Hannah.

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The little Grand children were looking somewhere else.

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The little Grand children were looking somewhere else.

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wildlife at the cabin.  Loved to catch pictures of the young male deer.

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wildlife at the cabin.  Loved to catch pictures of the young male deer.

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All 5 gathered at the Catclaw house.  Joy and Chuck are the small ones.  

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All 5 gathered at the Catclaw house.  Joy and Chuck are the small ones.  

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Jack's family in 2006,  Bill, Bud and Mike.  Donna and Lib.

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Jack's family in 2006,  Bill, Bud and Mike.  Donna and Lib.

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Joy with her masters degree in Provo Utah.

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Joy with her masters degree in Provo Utah.

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A good start at the Grand children total.  At Justin's fire house bay.  Jenna #1 holding Leah #15

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A good start at the Grand children total.  At Justin's fire house bay.  Jenna #1 holding Leah #15

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Guess who gets all the attention,  Jenna

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Guess who gets all the attention,  Jenna

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Date Night at a Christmas party for Jack and Marie

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Date Night at a Christmas party for Jack and Marie

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Visit to Utah.  Jenna, Colton and Connor Becky and Jack at Loa Utah.  Up in the mountains at Loa.

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Visit to Utah.  Jenna, Colton and Connor Becky and Jack at Loa Utah.  Up in the mountains at Loa.

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Mom and Dad's vacation to Hawaii. At the Arizona Memorial with college girl Joy

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Mom and Dad's vacation to Hawaii. At the Arizona Memorial with college girl Joy

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Washing dishes. Justin, Joy and Russ in Chandler

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Washing dishes. Justin, Joy and Russ in Chandler

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Fun times at the Flake campout at brown creek.  Russ and Chuck with cousins.

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Fun times at the Flake campout at brown creek.  Russ and Chuck with cousins.

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Bill and Lorie, newly weds at Christmas in Gilbert

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Bill and Lorie, newly weds at Christmas in Gilbert

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All 3 boys in scouts.  Bill in 12 year old scouts, and two cubs. Fire place in Chandler.

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All 3 boys in scouts.  Bill in 12 year old scouts, and two cubs. Fire place in Chandler.

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On vacation with our friends in California.

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On vacation with our friends in California.

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Mom with Bill in the new E. Willetta house

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Mom with Bill in the new E. Willetta house

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Two young people, AKA Jack and Marie with a little kid named William Ross Welch. 42' home

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Two young people, AKA Jack and Marie with a little kid named William Ross Welch. 42' home

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My sisters and Stacie in Hawaii pineapple plantation.

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My sisters and Stacie in Hawaii pineapple plantation.

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Jack and Bill ready for church at the E. Willetta house, Phoenix

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Jack and Bill ready for church at the E. Willetta house, Phoenix

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Fun times at campout at Brown Creek.  Cousins with the big boys. 

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Fun times at campout at Brown Creek.  Cousins with the big boys. 

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Joy and the big boy Jack Jack.  He needed big name for a big boy and a cousin and Grandpa named Jack.

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Joy and the big boy Jack Jack.  He needed big name for a big boy and a cousin and Grandpa named Jack.

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We saw deer every day.  The grand children could get near them.  Some were actually tame.

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We saw deer every day.  The grand children could get near them.  Some were actually tame.

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In the back yard , Sam with Lorie. We were dressed up for church.

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In the back yard , Sam with Lorie. We were dressed up for church.

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All the sweaters,  Grandma Flake's masterpiece for Christmas. 

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All the sweaters,  Grandma Flake's masterpiece for Christmas. 

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One of Jack's trucks. The four Welch guys dressed up.

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One of Jack's trucks. The four Welch guys dressed up.

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Bill, the great hunter, with his fox from the woodpile.

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Bill, the great hunter, with his fox from the woodpile.

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Forgot to have us more centered.  Iowa at a family picnic in Williamson.

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Forgot to have us more centered.  Iowa at a family picnic in Williamson.

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Bonna always helping with the boys when she visited.

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Bonna always helping with the boys when she visited.

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The three sisters at the house on Willetta Street, Phoenix

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The three sisters at the house on Willetta Street, Phoenix

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An incident that happened to Justin when he was about three.  We were in town for shopping or some other reason,  we stopped by Jack in the Box for a sandwich for Justin to eat at home.  As soon as we got out of the car, Justin had his sandwich in his hand.  On to the Lab females was out  and she grabbed the hamburger out of Justin's hand and swallowed it paper and all.  Justin was very angry and wanted to go back to town to get another sandwich.  I said no.  From then on we remembered to keep the sandwich in the sack and not let a dog grab it.  

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An incident that happened to Justin when he was about three.  We were in town for shopping or some other reason,  we stopped by Jack in the Box for a sandwich for Justin to eat at home.  As soon as we got out of the car, Justin had his sandwich in his hand.  On to the Lab females was out  and she grabbed the hamburger out of Justin's hand and swallowed it paper and all.  Justin was very angry and wanted to go back to town to get another sandwich.  I said no.  From then on we remembered to keep the sandwich in the sack and not let a dog grab it.  

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The baby Joy, all dressed up and ready for church.

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The baby Joy, all dressed up and ready for church.

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At Snowflake,  taking pictures of the couples.

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At Snowflake,  taking pictures of the couples.

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Bonna gave me this note:  Marie was the oldest girl in a large family.   This gave her lots of child rearing experience.  I remember coming down to stay with her in Phoenix for a few weeks in the summer so she could help with my school clothes.                       When I got out of high school she moved to Chandler and I spent time with her in that home too.                                                                                          Once when her and Jack went on a well deserved night out, I would take care of the three older boys. I told them for every kernel of pop corn the spilled on the floor they would have to go to bed five minutes early.  There were no kernels on the floor.                                                                                   Marie took  me to the movies in Paradise Valley to se "The God Father".   While waiting in line we were entertained by Dick Van Dyke.  That was before he stopped drinking.                                            I think I've had a better relationship thru the years with Marie than any of my other siblings.  She's been a great example and always had my best interest in mind.  She and Jack have been there to help my girls and me when we needed it.     In 2018 Marie, Karen and I went on a quilting retreat at sea.  That was one of the most fun vacations I've ever been on.                                           I'm very grateful for the memories I have of Marie being my sister.                 Bonna

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Bonna gave me this note:  Marie was the oldest girl in a large family.   This gave her lots of child rearing experience.  I remember coming down to stay with her in Phoenix for a few weeks in the summer so she could help with my school clothes.                       When I got out of high school she moved to Chandler and I spent time with her in that home too.                                                                                          Once when her and Jack went on a well deserved night out, I would take care of the three older boys. I told them for every kernel of pop corn the spilled on the floor they would have to go to bed five minutes early.  There were no kernels on the floor.                                                                                   Marie took  me to the movies in Paradise Valley to se "The God Father".   While waiting in line we were entertained by Dick Van Dyke.  That was before he stopped drinking.                                            I think I've had a better relationship thru the years with Marie than any of my other siblings.  She's been a great example and always had my best interest in mind.  She and Jack have been there to help my girls and me when we needed it.     In 2018 Marie, Karen and I went on a quilting retreat at sea.  That was one of the most fun vacations I've ever been on.                                           I'm very grateful for the memories I have of Marie being my sister.                 Bonna

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This year is right now.  I hope I can remember better.  We are planning a party for our 60th wedding anniversary on the 16th of April.  We made tentative plans at Christmas time.  Becky and Russ were here for a short visit.  My part is to make a memory presentation for view.  I just competed a BIG part by getting this record together.  Many hours of typing.  I am tired of it but also proud that it is finally done.  Yea for Grandma.  Jack has some trouble with his mobility and takes a cane or a walker with him always.  We still have the sheep.  That is Jack's hobby and it keeps the grass down also.  I have been typing non stop and after the party, I shall retire to my room and sew silly little birds and men.  Just 2 women in the 12 day series.  We are unable to travel by car because Jack cannot breath over 3500 feet altitude.   Now the kids come to us more than before.  We both can get out for shopping and church.  I watch Joy's two boys twice a week so Mike can get some work done.  They are fun kids. Joy went to California on spring break. both dogs stayed with us.

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This year is right now.  I hope I can remember better.  We are planning a party for our 60th wedding anniversary on the 16th of April.  We made tentative plans at Christmas time.  Becky and Russ were here for a short visit.  My part is to make a memory presentation for view.  I just competed a BIG part by getting this record together.  Many hours of typing.  I am tired of it but also proud that it is finally done.  Yea for Grandma.  Jack has some trouble with his mobility and takes a cane or a walker with him always.  We still have the sheep.  That is Jack's hobby and it keeps the grass down also.  I have been typing non stop and after the party, I shall retire to my room and sew silly little birds and men.  Just 2 women in the 12 day series.  We are unable to travel by car because Jack cannot breath over 3500 feet altitude.   Now the kids come to us more than before.  We both can get out for shopping and church.  I watch Joy's two boys twice a week so Mike can get some work done.  They are fun kids. Joy went to California on spring break. both dogs stayed with us.

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We are allowed to have the meetings of Sunday on the computer.  The sacrament service is not broadcast.  The Sunday meeting is just an hour long.   Around the start of summer, I asked the Bishop if I could start attending in person.  He gave me  permission as slowly the pandemic was being less severe.  Masks were required and we sat on every other row.  No shaking hands or personal contact with anyone but our own family members.  At least we were starting to get some normalcy in some areas.  The stores were suffering from the lack of shoppers of the last year and a half.  Many businesses closed and the normal supply and demand of goods suffered in so many ways.  There was a great toilet paper shortage.  Ha Ha I had been hording TP for several years.  I told all family members to ask  us if they had shortage of TP.  We did not suffer any shortage.  We did not go places very often.   I was making a real special Christmas gift for my family. I had a pattern for the '12 days of Christmas'  made with felt and hand embroidery.  Well I worked steady from June to December and was able to complete 4 sets.  I had to divide two of the sets between the 4 boys with a promise to get the other half done by Christmas of 2022.  When I finish this record and we celebrate our 60  years on April 16th, 2022 my priority is to finish the ornaments of myself and my 4 boys.  I have stated that I am out of the Christmas sewing gifts forever.  The ornaments are just so cute.  They are made out of wool felt and they need to be kept in a box lined with cedar wood.  I rounded up all the boxes over the last part of the year.  It was so fun to give this beautiful last gift to them.   I will have to designate in my will which deserving person  ends up with my set.  I have enough nice Christmas projects to go around to all the grandchildren.  As I am writing this, I am inspired to go through the real good Christmas projects and run a lottery with them to distribute a memory of me after I depart this life.  Now I see such a value to write a history and bring back to mind the important things of family.                     Jack W. was hoping he would pass the language requirement for Arabic.   At the very end he could not pass the test to read the language.  He transferred over to regular Navy and over to the bases in Virginia.  At times he was out to sea on a war ship.  He was in communications.  He routed all messages on to the appropriate area.  he likes his work and is very proficient,  He also has found the girl he is in love with.  He was Married to Samantha before he came home for a Christmas break in December.  Samantha has heritage of Hispanic and Navajo.  She is from Texas and quit the Navy before Christmas.  Jack W. was assigned to Okinawa in the new year.  He has been asked to continue in the Navy after his hitch is over but he is mostly undecided about that.   It is a personal wish of mine that the Military would be better about helping the recruits have an environment of honoring their religion.  That is a problem for many young people that need support for staying on the right path.                        My 60th high school reunion was held in SF in July.  Jack had to arrange for his oxygen device could last through the party.  We were at the social hall in SF.  Quite a number of the Snowflake kids were there.  We just went around the room and told an experience that we remembered from high school.  It was really fun to hear the memories.  The food assignment was bring what you can.  Jack could hear better than I could so he caught up on the news better than me.  Noreen Ellsworth had married Sherill Butler as they were both widowed.  Ailene Butler had died and Larry had married Pam Lucas that we knew in Chandler.  We were reminiscing about the ones in the class that were related.  Keith Webb, Pam Fuller, George Papa, Me, Ruth Toronto (married my cousin).   I asked Bobby Greco if he had heard from my Friend Flora Fitzsimmons.  Later I found out that she had passed away.  Have not had contact with her for 59 years.    

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We are allowed to have the meetings of Sunday on the computer.  The sacrament service is not broadcast.  The Sunday meeting is just an hour long.   Around the start of summer, I asked the Bishop if I could start attending in person.  He gave me  permission as slowly the pandemic was being less severe.  Masks were required and we sat on every other row.  No shaking hands or personal contact with anyone but our own family members.  At least we were starting to get some normalcy in some areas.  The stores were suffering from the lack of shoppers of the last year and a half.  Many businesses closed and the normal supply and demand of goods suffered in so many ways.  There was a great toilet paper shortage.  Ha Ha I had been hording TP for several years.  I told all family members to ask  us if they had shortage of TP.  We did not suffer any shortage.  We did not go places very often.   I was making a real special Christmas gift for my family. I had a pattern for the '12 days of Christmas'  made with felt and hand embroidery.  Well I worked steady from June to December and was able to complete 4 sets.  I had to divide two of the sets between the 4 boys with a promise to get the other half done by Christmas of 2022.  When I finish this record and we celebrate our 60  years on April 16th, 2022 my priority is to finish the ornaments of myself and my 4 boys.  I have stated that I am out of the Christmas sewing gifts forever.  The ornaments are just so cute.  They are made out of wool felt and they need to be kept in a box lined with cedar wood.  I rounded up all the boxes over the last part of the year.  It was so fun to give this beautiful last gift to them.   I will have to designate in my will which deserving person  ends up with my set.  I have enough nice Christmas projects to go around to all the grandchildren.  As I am writing this, I am inspired to go through the real good Christmas projects and run a lottery with them to distribute a memory of me after I depart this life.  Now I see such a value to write a history and bring back to mind the important things of family.                     Jack W. was hoping he would pass the language requirement for Arabic.   At the very end he could not pass the test to read the language.  He transferred over to regular Navy and over to the bases in Virginia.  At times he was out to sea on a war ship.  He was in communications.  He routed all messages on to the appropriate area.  he likes his work and is very proficient,  He also has found the girl he is in love with.  He was Married to Samantha before he came home for a Christmas break in December.  Samantha has heritage of Hispanic and Navajo.  She is from Texas and quit the Navy before Christmas.  Jack W. was assigned to Okinawa in the new year.  He has been asked to continue in the Navy after his hitch is over but he is mostly undecided about that.   It is a personal wish of mine that the Military would be better about helping the recruits have an environment of honoring their religion.  That is a problem for many young people that need support for staying on the right path.                        My 60th high school reunion was held in SF in July.  Jack had to arrange for his oxygen device could last through the party.  We were at the social hall in SF.  Quite a number of the Snowflake kids were there.  We just went around the room and told an experience that we remembered from high school.  It was really fun to hear the memories.  The food assignment was bring what you can.  Jack could hear better than I could so he caught up on the news better than me.  Noreen Ellsworth had married Sherill Butler as they were both widowed.  Ailene Butler had died and Larry had married Pam Lucas that we knew in Chandler.  We were reminiscing about the ones in the class that were related.  Keith Webb, Pam Fuller, George Papa, Me, Ruth Toronto (married my cousin).   I asked Bobby Greco if he had heard from my Friend Flora Fitzsimmons.  Later I found out that she had passed away.  Have not had contact with her for 59 years.    

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The biggest news for this year was the pandemic.  We decided with Bill and Lorie's family to hold our  Sunday meetings in our homes together.  Lorie made dinner most of the weeks but we had dinner at our home and I gave  the lesson as it was my turn.  Chuck gave very complete lessons because he has been Gospel Doctrine teacher in his ward.  He has searched the scriptures more than anyone in the family.  While he was sick, he spent the time he was alone just searching the Book of Mormon.  He wore one book out.  All the family took turns.  It really make the lesson come alive as we had to study a few chapters each lesson.   Jack W. was home from his mission in Paraguay,  he spent a lot of his mission fixing and helping people with computer problems.  He surprised his parents and joined the Navy.  He was off to Virginia for training in the Language department  to learn Arabic.  He didn't give the family any time to talk him out of it.    Sam was on his mission in Denmark and Ben was in Florida.  Both boys did lots of service and most of the proselyting had to be done electronically.   They both loved their missions.  Sam got to skype with his family every week.  Saved them from writing letters.  Sam was on his way to Denmark with a layover in Holland where he met a couple going to Africa.  As they talked to each other, the couple (Michael and Karen Boone) and Sam realized that they were both descendants of  Jesse N. Smith and Augusta Maria Outzen.  We cover the world.  Especially  doing good works.   Ben had a great time on his mission.  He looks so much like Chuck at the same age.  All his pictures show him smiling and happy with his companions.  Emma reached her dream of going on a mission also.  She went to Nebraska in the middle of winter.  The winter was very harsh.  They did not get to do much proselyting in the cold weather.  Emma served at the trail center by the Winter Quarters temple for part of her time.  She also served in Western Iowa for a few months.  She was checking to see if some of Jack's family was in the area.  Jack came from Lucas county which  is in the center of state.  Emma was so much fun to exchange letters with.  I laughed and loved her adventures.  The Picture of her singing to the cows was the best.  When Emma came home.  Almost the first on her list was to get married to Tre Millit.  As a couple, they had a very hard time finding a place to live.  It was decided that an addition and remodeling of Anna's house would work out for them to share the home.  They called Chuck  to do the work of building it into a two family home.  Bill helped them on weekends at times.  Bill has many many construction tools to do great work in building.  Emma got married in the Gilbert Temple on September 19th.  Only Mother and Father and one sibling were allowed to attend.  Her reception was the same place as Sarah and Anna chose for theirs.    Jake decided to have a wedding that year also.  He had been very close to his girl friend, La Mara Stratton for several years.  Their wedding was in the back yard in Mesa October 10th.  The pandemic continued to be a problem for all of 2020.  Joy had to teach school by computer.   The schools had been closed and the students could chose if they listened and participated in the home setting.  Many of the students fell behind in skills they only learned in a classroom. I agreed to come to Joy's house and watch her boys while she taught twice a week.  Luke was a real screamer.  Jack teased him and they just made lots of noise.  We went to the park when it was nice out.  Luke liked to play golf.  He also liked to knock balls into their neighbors yard.  He is a hand full at times.   I can always pick him up and put him where I want him to go.  He likes to wrestle on the floor.  We just role around and he likes it.   I was needing to loose some weight around the end of summer.  I went to the Red Mountain place and started out pretty well.  After the first month, I didn't loose very well.  I am just discouraged about my weight.  I found out that my kidneys are not functioning as they should. I was referred to a nephrologist  to help me get back to better function.  I could not visit him in person because of Covid  but He understood my medications by phone call.  He took me off of several meds and had me repeat the blood and urine tests.  I will go to him in person some time.  We got our Covid shots over at the Stadium in Glendale. There is a good freeway around South Mountain that saved us from going through central Phoenix.  We went twice and both of them were in the middle of the night.  Better than waiting in line without an appointment.  This was eventful year.  I hope there are no more pandemics.     

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The biggest news for this year was the pandemic.  We decided with Bill and Lorie's family to hold our  Sunday meetings in our homes together.  Lorie made dinner most of the weeks but we had dinner at our home and I gave  the lesson as it was my turn.  Chuck gave very complete lessons because he has been Gospel Doctrine teacher in his ward.  He has searched the scriptures more than anyone in the family.  While he was sick, he spent the time he was alone just searching the Book of Mormon.  He wore one book out.  All the family took turns.  It really make the lesson come alive as we had to study a few chapters each lesson.   Jack W. was home from his mission in Paraguay,  he spent a lot of his mission fixing and helping people with computer problems.  He surprised his parents and joined the Navy.  He was off to Virginia for training in the Language department  to learn Arabic.  He didn't give the family any time to talk him out of it.    Sam was on his mission in Denmark and Ben was in Florida.  Both boys did lots of service and most of the proselyting had to be done electronically.   They both loved their missions.  Sam got to skype with his family every week.  Saved them from writing letters.  Sam was on his way to Denmark with a layover in Holland where he met a couple going to Africa.  As they talked to each other, the couple (Michael and Karen Boone) and Sam realized that they were both descendants of  Jesse N. Smith and Augusta Maria Outzen.  We cover the world.  Especially  doing good works.   Ben had a great time on his mission.  He looks so much like Chuck at the same age.  All his pictures show him smiling and happy with his companions.  Emma reached her dream of going on a mission also.  She went to Nebraska in the middle of winter.  The winter was very harsh.  They did not get to do much proselyting in the cold weather.  Emma served at the trail center by the Winter Quarters temple for part of her time.  She also served in Western Iowa for a few months.  She was checking to see if some of Jack's family was in the area.  Jack came from Lucas county which  is in the center of state.  Emma was so much fun to exchange letters with.  I laughed and loved her adventures.  The Picture of her singing to the cows was the best.  When Emma came home.  Almost the first on her list was to get married to Tre Millit.  As a couple, they had a very hard time finding a place to live.  It was decided that an addition and remodeling of Anna's house would work out for them to share the home.  They called Chuck  to do the work of building it into a two family home.  Bill helped them on weekends at times.  Bill has many many construction tools to do great work in building.  Emma got married in the Gilbert Temple on September 19th.  Only Mother and Father and one sibling were allowed to attend.  Her reception was the same place as Sarah and Anna chose for theirs.    Jake decided to have a wedding that year also.  He had been very close to his girl friend, La Mara Stratton for several years.  Their wedding was in the back yard in Mesa October 10th.  The pandemic continued to be a problem for all of 2020.  Joy had to teach school by computer.   The schools had been closed and the students could chose if they listened and participated in the home setting.  Many of the students fell behind in skills they only learned in a classroom. I agreed to come to Joy's house and watch her boys while she taught twice a week.  Luke was a real screamer.  Jack teased him and they just made lots of noise.  We went to the park when it was nice out.  Luke liked to play golf.  He also liked to knock balls into their neighbors yard.  He is a hand full at times.   I can always pick him up and put him where I want him to go.  He likes to wrestle on the floor.  We just role around and he likes it.   I was needing to loose some weight around the end of summer.  I went to the Red Mountain place and started out pretty well.  After the first month, I didn't loose very well.  I am just discouraged about my weight.  I found out that my kidneys are not functioning as they should. I was referred to a nephrologist  to help me get back to better function.  I could not visit him in person because of Covid  but He understood my medications by phone call.  He took me off of several meds and had me repeat the blood and urine tests.  I will go to him in person some time.  We got our Covid shots over at the Stadium in Glendale. There is a good freeway around South Mountain that saved us from going through central Phoenix.  We went twice and both of them were in the middle of the night.  Better than waiting in line without an appointment.  This was eventful year.  I hope there are no more pandemics.     

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This year brought changes to our world.   We knew things were going to be very different due to the world wide pandemic that was in every nation on earth.  Then in the fall, a very negative person was not elected president but pulled off a huge fraud and was able to get himself into the White House.   He had lots of help with the fraud.  The years would tell how our world and our personal lives would be changed and unfortunately, not for the better.   So much for the world view.  The problems around the pandemic soon affected us as far as quarantine and going out of our homes was concerned.  We were supposed to wear masks for every place we went.  Church was canceled as the pandemic got worse.  Our beloved president of the LDS church had to make an agonizing decision to close the temples world wide.   My sister Bonna and her husband Bill had full blown cases of Covid and were home bound for two weeks.  They were really  sick.  The riots in the big cities were a great tragedy for all the people that were just trying to live a normal life.  The riots were staged by the subversive groups in out country.  The rioters were paid to destroy as much of the cities as possible.  Our president at the time refused to pay for the rioters damage.  In the next year, we observe that the new non president made sure that the cities were reimbursed for the damage, and agreed to make the tax payers suffer for it.  Nice set of values we were forced to accept.  Also the new non president signed the order to open the borders to any person or criminal could just come on in.  Disaster is beginning to take shape every day with the so called leadership we have.  We no longer have a democracy.                                  I spent the summer at the cabin alone for most of the 4 and 1/2 months of the summer.  Jack could not go out very much at all.  I had Joy's dog with me for a month while her family went to Iowa for a month long vacation.  They also have a  corgy puppy that they travel with.  We did not have a fence up in Pine so I had to be with Kona when she was outside exploring.  If I went back to Gilbert, Kona had to come with me.  I was still sewing at the temple every other week and we all had to wear masks at all times.  I was not very pleased with the masks but rules are rules.   I was trying to learn how to replace the pants zippers that got broken at the temple.  It took me about 1 1/2 hours to replace one.  the other seamstress was much better at that skill.  I want to be able to do all the needed processes.  One of the times that I was going back to Pine,  I had Kona with me and the car battery was bad.  I tried to get service at one of the Walmart stores in the valley but there wasn't any appointment times available.  I decided to drive on up to Payson.   There was a big wreck out of Slate Creek that held traffic up for more than an hour.   When we got going again,  into Payson the traffic was slowed again.  The tech at Auto Zone had no idea how to put a battery in my Chevy because the battery was covered over with a top part.  I had to buy the battery at Auto Zone and have the Chevy Garage put it in.  Cost me $50 extra bucks for service at the Chevy Garage.   Poor Kona was so thirsty, she drank a cup of water out of a large circle K cup.  she was a trouper.  She was completely well behaved the whole time.   By the time Jack showed up two weeks later,  I was very vocal with my displeasure.                                             Anna and Mathew Carroll had a baby girl  named Penelope Star. They call her Penny.  I found out that Penelope was now becoming a popular name for girls.  I just laugh every time I hear it.  We did get a real nice picture of most of the family,  Chuck was out on his bike.  I got it made larger for the family room in Gilbert.   Russell's whole family was there.  Connor was on his mission in Tennessee.  Jack W and Colton were back from their missions.  The girls that were married were not there and we don't have pictures of the GGchildren.   

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This year brought changes to our world.   We knew things were going to be very different due to the world wide pandemic that was in every nation on earth.  Then in the fall, a very negative person was not elected president but pulled off a huge fraud and was able to get himself into the White House.   He had lots of help with the fraud.  The years would tell how our world and our personal lives would be changed and unfortunately, not for the better.   So much for the world view.  The problems around the pandemic soon affected us as far as quarantine and going out of our homes was concerned.  We were supposed to wear masks for every place we went.  Church was canceled as the pandemic got worse.  Our beloved president of the LDS church had to make an agonizing decision to close the temples world wide.   My sister Bonna and her husband Bill had full blown cases of Covid and were home bound for two weeks.  They were really  sick.  The riots in the big cities were a great tragedy for all the people that were just trying to live a normal life.  The riots were staged by the subversive groups in out country.  The rioters were paid to destroy as much of the cities as possible.  Our president at the time refused to pay for the rioters damage.  In the next year, we observe that the new non president made sure that the cities were reimbursed for the damage, and agreed to make the tax payers suffer for it.  Nice set of values we were forced to accept.  Also the new non president signed the order to open the borders to any person or criminal could just come on in.  Disaster is beginning to take shape every day with the so called leadership we have.  We no longer have a democracy.                                  I spent the summer at the cabin alone for most of the 4 and 1/2 months of the summer.  Jack could not go out very much at all.  I had Joy's dog with me for a month while her family went to Iowa for a month long vacation.  They also have a  corgy puppy that they travel with.  We did not have a fence up in Pine so I had to be with Kona when she was outside exploring.  If I went back to Gilbert, Kona had to come with me.  I was still sewing at the temple every other week and we all had to wear masks at all times.  I was not very pleased with the masks but rules are rules.   I was trying to learn how to replace the pants zippers that got broken at the temple.  It took me about 1 1/2 hours to replace one.  the other seamstress was much better at that skill.  I want to be able to do all the needed processes.  One of the times that I was going back to Pine,  I had Kona with me and the car battery was bad.  I tried to get service at one of the Walmart stores in the valley but there wasn't any appointment times available.  I decided to drive on up to Payson.   There was a big wreck out of Slate Creek that held traffic up for more than an hour.   When we got going again,  into Payson the traffic was slowed again.  The tech at Auto Zone had no idea how to put a battery in my Chevy because the battery was covered over with a top part.  I had to buy the battery at Auto Zone and have the Chevy Garage put it in.  Cost me $50 extra bucks for service at the Chevy Garage.   Poor Kona was so thirsty, she drank a cup of water out of a large circle K cup.  she was a trouper.  She was completely well behaved the whole time.   By the time Jack showed up two weeks later,  I was very vocal with my displeasure.                                             Anna and Mathew Carroll had a baby girl  named Penelope Star. They call her Penny.  I found out that Penelope was now becoming a popular name for girls.  I just laugh every time I hear it.  We did get a real nice picture of most of the family,  Chuck was out on his bike.  I got it made larger for the family room in Gilbert.   Russell's whole family was there.  Connor was on his mission in Tennessee.  Jack W and Colton were back from their missions.  The girls that were married were not there and we don't have pictures of the GGchildren.   

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I was preparing to go on a sewing cruise with my 2 sisters.   Karen was to room with me and   Bonna had a friend named Stacy that she had worked with in the past.  We had two rooms on the balcony level and we opened the back door so we had a double veranda.  We had so much fun making our quilt tops and going to the Lido deck.   Bonna and her friend both had wild ideas of fun and they were very fun to be around.  We could see so much being up high on that floor. The shopping was fun also.  We got the quilt tops done with a day or so to spare.  I was going to start radiation  the day after we returned.  I was getting anxious about the treatment and about the whole ordeal I was going through.  I could not tell my sisters about the cancer and my concerns because I had not told Joy and Russell about any of it.   I wanted to be alone and deal with my loss by myself and they were trying to understand what I was sad about.   I sort of fell apart the last day.   When it was time to  disembark and get a car for the trip back to Gilbert,  I decided to get my own car and drive solo.  The drive made me feel better.                         I explained to my sisters what I was so emotional about on the last day of the cruise.   I know I was not a happy camper that day.  Russ said he did not mind that I hadn't let him know about it.   Joy was trying not to get upset with me for the delay in the information.  I explained to her all  the procedures I had been through.  After I explained to her about the biopsy and the surgery,  she was OK.   If the cancer was not treated as I had done, she would be super upset.  Mothers and daughters, what can I say.  My love for Joy increases as I see how much she cares for her family and tries to help her old parents.  All of our children try to help us when they have the time in their busy lives.                                             I got new hearing aids this year.  I had to change audiologists because the one I was going to would not help me with problems of my devices.  I paid for new ear molds and he would not do the work to get the left one to fit.  As soon as the new doctor saw the left mold, she fixed in just 5 minutes.  The new audiologist is Dr. Sadowski.  She has a very advanced education in the hearing field.  I hope she is around (doesn't retire) for awhile.  She gave Jack a complimentary hearing test and told him how much better he could hear if he had one or two.  He said NO.  He thinks it is a waste of  money for an old guy.  So let him be almost deaf if he wants to.  I went to the radiation treatments starting in February.  They were not bad.  I just had to lay under the machine, half naked, and enjoy the ride.  Dr. Dhillon was my oncologist  and he was super nice.  really tried to make things as smooth as possible.  I will be so glad when this treatment is over.  For the last day of my treatment,  I made gumdrop oatmeal cookies for that office.  I liked everyone in that radiation office, but I hope I never have to go back.                                               We increased the great grandchildren count by 2 in November.  Same day in fact.  Levi Jones, son of Sarah and Tanner, and Fern Gaye Runs Through were born on November 28th.  One in Arizona and the little girl in Wyoming.  Jenna and Mason moved back to Utah in the spring and put off blessing Fern Gaye until April of 2020 in St. George.  Becky was out of this world thrilled with her first grandbaby.                                                           We still had the summer in the cabin.  Jack was not doing well in the altitude of Pine.  He went to a very good doctor in Pine and was able to get a large oxygen machine for use at night or sitting in a chair.  he could not work without getting out of breath and going back to his chair.  He did not spend very much of the  summer up in Pine.  At the end of summer, we made the decision to sell the cabin.  Tough choice for me but it had to be done.  we just put a sign up on the road.  We had several calls and then found a party that met the sale price and wanted it for the purpose of summer rentals.  We were a little sentimental about not wanting it to be for commercial purposes but we needed to sell it and we got cash.  we did not tell our neighbors what the situation would be of summer rentals.  Neil and Larry would find out the next year.  The new owners renovated the place in a major way.   They put new appliances and cabinets in the Laundry.  The kitchen was completely redone.  All the furniture was thrown out.  The loft was made into an enclosed bedroom, and they put  a full bath in upstairs.  The stairway was turned into a custom curved stairs with  a rot iron rail for the outside.  We did not see on the electronic ad any changes in the bunk house.  It is beautiful now but it is sentimental to look at  the changes.  If Jack has regeneration to his lungs  (wish wish) we could buy it back again.    

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I was preparing to go on a sewing cruise with my 2 sisters.   Karen was to room with me and   Bonna had a friend named Stacy that she had worked with in the past.  We had two rooms on the balcony level and we opened the back door so we had a double veranda.  We had so much fun making our quilt tops and going to the Lido deck.   Bonna and her friend both had wild ideas of fun and they were very fun to be around.  We could see so much being up high on that floor. The shopping was fun also.  We got the quilt tops done with a day or so to spare.  I was going to start radiation  the day after we returned.  I was getting anxious about the treatment and about the whole ordeal I was going through.  I could not tell my sisters about the cancer and my concerns because I had not told Joy and Russell about any of it.   I wanted to be alone and deal with my loss by myself and they were trying to understand what I was sad about.   I sort of fell apart the last day.   When it was time to  disembark and get a car for the trip back to Gilbert,  I decided to get my own car and drive solo.  The drive made me feel better.                         I explained to my sisters what I was so emotional about on the last day of the cruise.   I know I was not a happy camper that day.  Russ said he did not mind that I hadn't let him know about it.   Joy was trying not to get upset with me for the delay in the information.  I explained to her all  the procedures I had been through.  After I explained to her about the biopsy and the surgery,  she was OK.   If the cancer was not treated as I had done, she would be super upset.  Mothers and daughters, what can I say.  My love for Joy increases as I see how much she cares for her family and tries to help her old parents.  All of our children try to help us when they have the time in their busy lives.                                             I got new hearing aids this year.  I had to change audiologists because the one I was going to would not help me with problems of my devices.  I paid for new ear molds and he would not do the work to get the left one to fit.  As soon as the new doctor saw the left mold, she fixed in just 5 minutes.  The new audiologist is Dr. Sadowski.  She has a very advanced education in the hearing field.  I hope she is around (doesn't retire) for awhile.  She gave Jack a complimentary hearing test and told him how much better he could hear if he had one or two.  He said NO.  He thinks it is a waste of  money for an old guy.  So let him be almost deaf if he wants to.  I went to the radiation treatments starting in February.  They were not bad.  I just had to lay under the machine, half naked, and enjoy the ride.  Dr. Dhillon was my oncologist  and he was super nice.  really tried to make things as smooth as possible.  I will be so glad when this treatment is over.  For the last day of my treatment,  I made gumdrop oatmeal cookies for that office.  I liked everyone in that radiation office, but I hope I never have to go back.                                               We increased the great grandchildren count by 2 in November.  Same day in fact.  Levi Jones, son of Sarah and Tanner, and Fern Gaye Runs Through were born on November 28th.  One in Arizona and the little girl in Wyoming.  Jenna and Mason moved back to Utah in the spring and put off blessing Fern Gaye until April of 2020 in St. George.  Becky was out of this world thrilled with her first grandbaby.                                                           We still had the summer in the cabin.  Jack was not doing well in the altitude of Pine.  He went to a very good doctor in Pine and was able to get a large oxygen machine for use at night or sitting in a chair.  he could not work without getting out of breath and going back to his chair.  He did not spend very much of the  summer up in Pine.  At the end of summer, we made the decision to sell the cabin.  Tough choice for me but it had to be done.  we just put a sign up on the road.  We had several calls and then found a party that met the sale price and wanted it for the purpose of summer rentals.  We were a little sentimental about not wanting it to be for commercial purposes but we needed to sell it and we got cash.  we did not tell our neighbors what the situation would be of summer rentals.  Neil and Larry would find out the next year.  The new owners renovated the place in a major way.   They put new appliances and cabinets in the Laundry.  The kitchen was completely redone.  All the furniture was thrown out.  The loft was made into an enclosed bedroom, and they put  a full bath in upstairs.  The stairway was turned into a custom curved stairs with  a rot iron rail for the outside.  We did not see on the electronic ad any changes in the bunk house.  It is beautiful now but it is sentimental to look at  the changes.  If Jack has regeneration to his lungs  (wish wish) we could buy it back again.    

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We had a nice year in the spring.  We always had many projects to complete.   We planned a trip to Quartsite with our friends  for the last week in January.  Many older people took their trailers and motor homes down there and camped on the desert.   We had a good time with the Everets and the Willises.   I was busy working at  the temple and sewing on my days off.  We were getting ready to go back to the cabin.   That was the high light of our year.  Before we went to the cabin, Joy let us know that there would be another babe in the fall around Thanksgiving.   Joy and Mike had wanted another baby about 2 years after Jack Jack.  Joy had an easy pregnancy before and she was hoping this would be the same.  We had several visitors  at the cabin.  Anna and Emma came with Chuck once just for a weekend.  The girls slept in Jack's room and he shared my bed.   In the fall, I had my usual medical check ups and blood work.  My annual mammogram came back with an area of concern in the left breast   They wanted to do some further studies on that area.   The next step was a biopsy.   A biopsy is no fun.  The procedure mad my whole breast purple and was painful for many days.  After the biopsy, it was determined that the diagnostic plan was to go to surgery for a minor lumpectomy.   The term they used was pre cancer.  I wanted to get the surgery done soon because I had plans for January of 2018.   We got the lumpectomy done in December and I had a month to recover.  It was hard to wear my clothes and I wanted to stay home most of the time.         

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We had a nice year in the spring.  We always had many projects to complete.   We planned a trip to Quartsite with our friends  for the last week in January.  Many older people took their trailers and motor homes down there and camped on the desert.   We had a good time with the Everets and the Willises.   I was busy working at  the temple and sewing on my days off.  We were getting ready to go back to the cabin.   That was the high light of our year.  Before we went to the cabin, Joy let us know that there would be another babe in the fall around Thanksgiving.   Joy and Mike had wanted another baby about 2 years after Jack Jack.  Joy had an easy pregnancy before and she was hoping this would be the same.  We had several visitors  at the cabin.  Anna and Emma came with Chuck once just for a weekend.  The girls slept in Jack's room and he shared my bed.   In the fall, I had my usual medical check ups and blood work.  My annual mammogram came back with an area of concern in the left breast   They wanted to do some further studies on that area.   The next step was a biopsy.   A biopsy is no fun.  The procedure mad my whole breast purple and was painful for many days.  After the biopsy, it was determined that the diagnostic plan was to go to surgery for a minor lumpectomy.   The term they used was pre cancer.  I wanted to get the surgery done soon because I had plans for January of 2018.   We got the lumpectomy done in December and I had a month to recover.  It was hard to wear my clothes and I wanted to stay home most of the time.         

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This year was fairly routine.  I had resigned from my temple assignment.  The call was for two years and I served for two years.  It made it easier in the summer with going to the cabin.  Early in the year Chuck let us know that Sarah was expecting a baby.   I have to think about the aspect of being a great grandma.  The Jones family gave her a shower for the baby in May.  She got  many many presents.  She already knew it was a boy.   We came down from Pine for the blessing.  Another nice dinner at the Jones home.  The babies name is Preston.  All babies seam to grow into whatever name the get.  We made improvements every year in Pine.   I was really tired of the turquois wall in the living room and over into kitchen.  I got white paint and put on two coats.  It looked much better.  I saw a decorating idea in Utah and I wanted to copy it.  The bricabrac idea to glue several different  sizes of plates together and glue a center ornament or ceramic piece in the center.  The plate could be placed on a shelf or glued to a PVC pipe and planted in the yard.   I gathered plates and centers from thrift stores and made about six stacks.  My theme was red and white.  It looked nice on the wall but we only enjoyed it for  1 and 1/2  summers.   I hurt my neck while driving in Pine.  I waited until I was in Gilbert to find medical care.   They sent me to a therapist on Val Vista for exercises and stretching  the muscle.  I needed to get more therapee in Pine, so I got referred to a Payson therapist.   I finally was able to move my neck after about 3 weeks.   There are some good medical people up there.  I had to get a particle out of my eye and there was a very good eye Dr.  in town.  I felt like I was being lazy without a church position.  I asked Lorie if she would check in the Gilbert Temple if they could use a seamstress.   She asked  Brent Rigby if I could come and alternate with Jan Roach.  After a few weeks,  Brother Rigby called me to see if I still wanted to come and be part of the laundry team.  I came one week to watch Jan and get an idea of the work and see what she did with the different articles that needed mending.  I got started and found that I liked working in laundry and I knew  what was needed on towels and the other clothing pieces.  In the laundry we were able to talk to each other and have our water container with us there.   Turns out that Bonna and Bill Smith had rented the Rigby family the house they were in.  They didn't buy a house because they were hoping to get back to Utah where mot of their families were.  They had a baby boy while they were in Arizona.  That made seven children for them.    The Rigbys did get called back to Utah about a year after I started serving.   Hope Lane was called to supervise the clothing.  She knew  almost nothing about sewing, but Domanique was a little more knowledgeable about our work.  Domanique's  mom was a good seamstress, and helped us out with some of the projects.  We mended towels upon towels  and the same ones over and over again.  The later supervisors cut down on the towel mending and also discarded  a lot of jumpsuits as they came to the laundry.            

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This year was fairly routine.  I had resigned from my temple assignment.  The call was for two years and I served for two years.  It made it easier in the summer with going to the cabin.  Early in the year Chuck let us know that Sarah was expecting a baby.   I have to think about the aspect of being a great grandma.  The Jones family gave her a shower for the baby in May.  She got  many many presents.  She already knew it was a boy.   We came down from Pine for the blessing.  Another nice dinner at the Jones home.  The babies name is Preston.  All babies seam to grow into whatever name the get.  We made improvements every year in Pine.   I was really tired of the turquois wall in the living room and over into kitchen.  I got white paint and put on two coats.  It looked much better.  I saw a decorating idea in Utah and I wanted to copy it.  The bricabrac idea to glue several different  sizes of plates together and glue a center ornament or ceramic piece in the center.  The plate could be placed on a shelf or glued to a PVC pipe and planted in the yard.   I gathered plates and centers from thrift stores and made about six stacks.  My theme was red and white.  It looked nice on the wall but we only enjoyed it for  1 and 1/2  summers.   I hurt my neck while driving in Pine.  I waited until I was in Gilbert to find medical care.   They sent me to a therapist on Val Vista for exercises and stretching  the muscle.  I needed to get more therapee in Pine, so I got referred to a Payson therapist.   I finally was able to move my neck after about 3 weeks.   There are some good medical people up there.  I had to get a particle out of my eye and there was a very good eye Dr.  in town.  I felt like I was being lazy without a church position.  I asked Lorie if she would check in the Gilbert Temple if they could use a seamstress.   She asked  Brent Rigby if I could come and alternate with Jan Roach.  After a few weeks,  Brother Rigby called me to see if I still wanted to come and be part of the laundry team.  I came one week to watch Jan and get an idea of the work and see what she did with the different articles that needed mending.  I got started and found that I liked working in laundry and I knew  what was needed on towels and the other clothing pieces.  In the laundry we were able to talk to each other and have our water container with us there.   Turns out that Bonna and Bill Smith had rented the Rigby family the house they were in.  They didn't buy a house because they were hoping to get back to Utah where mot of their families were.  They had a baby boy while they were in Arizona.  That made seven children for them.    The Rigbys did get called back to Utah about a year after I started serving.   Hope Lane was called to supervise the clothing.  She knew  almost nothing about sewing, but Domanique was a little more knowledgeable about our work.  Domanique's  mom was a good seamstress, and helped us out with some of the projects.  We mended towels upon towels  and the same ones over and over again.  The later supervisors cut down on the towel mending and also discarded  a lot of jumpsuits as they came to the laundry.            

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We were still in Gilbert and there were some family things that were happening this year.  Chuck's daughters,  Sarah and Anna both were planning their weddings for March.  Anna had a date at the temple for her sealing on March 6th.  She had known Mathew Carol since she was 11.  She played the violin and Mathew played the cello.  They never had any other romantic friends in all those years.  Mathew served a mission and Anna went to nursing school.  She had not finished yet when Mathew came home.  Anna was 19, a year younger than Mathew because she skipped a grade back in early elementary school.  Sarah wanted to announce her engagement first on New Years Day. Chuck gave each of the girls $5K to plan their receptions.  Anna wanted to be frugal and have $ left over.  She and Mathew had simple tastes and wanted to get ahead with their lives and their futures.  I helped Anna with her dress and it was perfect for her.   They both wore yellow Converse shoes for pictures and dancing.  Justin did the Pee Wee dance for tradition.                 Sarah had a very elegant reception.  her dress was the Mermaid style with a form fitting top down to the thigh area and a small train that was flared into  the train with tiers of ruffled fabric.  Both girls had pictures before the wedding and got the hems of their dresses soiled.  The dresses had to be dry cleaned before the receptions.  Sarah married Tanner Allred Jones from Mesa.  Tanner has very nice parents.  His mother, Andrea was from the Gila valley.   Both his mother and father were super nice to everyone in Sarah's family.  They gave a nice dinner for the couple at their home the night before.  Tanner and his family had a landscaping  business and had their home and yard fixed up so lovely.  That home is made for giving parties.  Mathew has very very many relatives in Mesa.  His mother was a Grosscost.  The dinner before the wedding was at a LDS church and it looked almost like Stake conference.  All the tables in the building were set up.  If you were not a Caroll or a Grosscost,  you were almost a foreigner It was a very nice get together for all the families involved.  Sarah had her temple sealing on March 13th.  Anna and Mathew moved into an apartment along Southern  Mathew was such an attentive husband.  He wanted to have a nice mixer for Anna's birthday in October.  He wanted the family to help with the cost; it was a nice mixer and will last many years.  They also had 3 dogs.  When we were at the reception and had a chance to visit with Mathew's grandparents, we found that his Grandma Grosscost was Katherine Smith.  She and I were descendants of none other than Jesse Nathanial Smith.  We were of the same generation as each other.  So Anna and Mathew were distant cousins to each other.  That was very interesting.  I guess not so much as there are cousins and relations in that family all over the globe.                                                                     My brother, Dee and his wife Jean had an anniversary party at their home in Globe in June.  It was a wonder that dear Jean had lived this long.  She had been in bed and an invalid for more than 30 years.   She was not even able to come to her daughter, Katy's wedding in Mesa.  The party was nice and we met several friends that we knew.   We were at the cabin in June and had to de winterize it.  Just get the water heater full again.  We had to redo the plumbing every so often.  Chuck did lots of plumbing projects for us. I took my embroidery sewing machine and did several projects up in loft.  I took all my thread colors so I could do any of my projects without having to get certain colors from trips home.  I still had to come to town for my temple assignments.  We were on the road every week.  I had been going to Charleston, South Carolina for several years to a sewing retreat in downtown Charleston.  In years past I had taken Joy and several of the granddaughters.  We always had a great time.  For two of the years,  Jack decided to go so we could drive.  We went by Iowa usually to visit the Welch family for that year.   2015 was the 20th year that Laura Thompson gave the retreat and that was the final year for her.  I loved going and loved taking my girls.  The projects we did were nice and sometimes not very practical.  Most of them never got done.  Just in my drawer for UFOs.  The rest of the summer was back to Pine.  Justin's family visited us several times and we had fun with the side by side quad.  We took it all the way back to the Verde River for a picnic one afternoon.  The service road was 10 miles and we could only go 30 mph.  We did have some rest stops along the way.   The kids would ride their scooters down the incline on the drive way.  Mattie managed to drive her scooter off the end a few times.   The deer would come to the yard after a rain and bring their fawns with them.  That was the cutest animals that came around.   In the last 2 years,  we had elk come up to the yard.  I did not like the elk.  Our place was the last actual yard on the wash for large animals to walk down.  We also had apple trees that the elk liked.  We had two really good fruit years during our stay.  The plums did real well one year and the apples did well another year.  The elk would ruin a small tree if we tried to get one started.   I gave a sewing class one year to the RS sisters.  I did some seminal patchwork on some shirts and a quilt to show them.   There were some interested sisters   but that type of sewing is rather complicated.  They saw me do it any way.  In the fall we were back down on the desert for the winter.   My cousin, Ken Hatch passed away in on of the winter months up in SF.  We went up and stopped at the cabin on the way back.  We didn't try to use the AC to heat it, just stopped by to check the place.  It was cold and the snow was just melting all over the drive way.  It would be easy to get snowed in if we tried to stay any time in the winter months.

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We were still in Gilbert and there were some family things that were happening this year.  Chuck's daughters,  Sarah and Anna both were planning their weddings for March.  Anna had a date at the temple for her sealing on March 6th.  She had known Mathew Carol since she was 11.  She played the violin and Mathew played the cello.  They never had any other romantic friends in all those years.  Mathew served a mission and Anna went to nursing school.  She had not finished yet when Mathew came home.  Anna was 19, a year younger than Mathew because she skipped a grade back in early elementary school.  Sarah wanted to announce her engagement first on New Years Day. Chuck gave each of the girls $5K to plan their receptions.  Anna wanted to be frugal and have $ left over.  She and Mathew had simple tastes and wanted to get ahead with their lives and their futures.  I helped Anna with her dress and it was perfect for her.   They both wore yellow Converse shoes for pictures and dancing.  Justin did the Pee Wee dance for tradition.                 Sarah had a very elegant reception.  her dress was the Mermaid style with a form fitting top down to the thigh area and a small train that was flared into  the train with tiers of ruffled fabric.  Both girls had pictures before the wedding and got the hems of their dresses soiled.  The dresses had to be dry cleaned before the receptions.  Sarah married Tanner Allred Jones from Mesa.  Tanner has very nice parents.  His mother, Andrea was from the Gila valley.   Both his mother and father were super nice to everyone in Sarah's family.  They gave a nice dinner for the couple at their home the night before.  Tanner and his family had a landscaping  business and had their home and yard fixed up so lovely.  That home is made for giving parties.  Mathew has very very many relatives in Mesa.  His mother was a Grosscost.  The dinner before the wedding was at a LDS church and it looked almost like Stake conference.  All the tables in the building were set up.  If you were not a Caroll or a Grosscost,  you were almost a foreigner It was a very nice get together for all the families involved.  Sarah had her temple sealing on March 13th.  Anna and Mathew moved into an apartment along Southern  Mathew was such an attentive husband.  He wanted to have a nice mixer for Anna's birthday in October.  He wanted the family to help with the cost; it was a nice mixer and will last many years.  They also had 3 dogs.  When we were at the reception and had a chance to visit with Mathew's grandparents, we found that his Grandma Grosscost was Katherine Smith.  She and I were descendants of none other than Jesse Nathanial Smith.  We were of the same generation as each other.  So Anna and Mathew were distant cousins to each other.  That was very interesting.  I guess not so much as there are cousins and relations in that family all over the globe.                                                                     My brother, Dee and his wife Jean had an anniversary party at their home in Globe in June.  It was a wonder that dear Jean had lived this long.  She had been in bed and an invalid for more than 30 years.   She was not even able to come to her daughter, Katy's wedding in Mesa.  The party was nice and we met several friends that we knew.   We were at the cabin in June and had to de winterize it.  Just get the water heater full again.  We had to redo the plumbing every so often.  Chuck did lots of plumbing projects for us. I took my embroidery sewing machine and did several projects up in loft.  I took all my thread colors so I could do any of my projects without having to get certain colors from trips home.  I still had to come to town for my temple assignments.  We were on the road every week.  I had been going to Charleston, South Carolina for several years to a sewing retreat in downtown Charleston.  In years past I had taken Joy and several of the granddaughters.  We always had a great time.  For two of the years,  Jack decided to go so we could drive.  We went by Iowa usually to visit the Welch family for that year.   2015 was the 20th year that Laura Thompson gave the retreat and that was the final year for her.  I loved going and loved taking my girls.  The projects we did were nice and sometimes not very practical.  Most of them never got done.  Just in my drawer for UFOs.  The rest of the summer was back to Pine.  Justin's family visited us several times and we had fun with the side by side quad.  We took it all the way back to the Verde River for a picnic one afternoon.  The service road was 10 miles and we could only go 30 mph.  We did have some rest stops along the way.   The kids would ride their scooters down the incline on the drive way.  Mattie managed to drive her scooter off the end a few times.   The deer would come to the yard after a rain and bring their fawns with them.  That was the cutest animals that came around.   In the last 2 years,  we had elk come up to the yard.  I did not like the elk.  Our place was the last actual yard on the wash for large animals to walk down.  We also had apple trees that the elk liked.  We had two really good fruit years during our stay.  The plums did real well one year and the apples did well another year.  The elk would ruin a small tree if we tried to get one started.   I gave a sewing class one year to the RS sisters.  I did some seminal patchwork on some shirts and a quilt to show them.   There were some interested sisters   but that type of sewing is rather complicated.  They saw me do it any way.  In the fall we were back down on the desert for the winter.   My cousin, Ken Hatch passed away in on of the winter months up in SF.  We went up and stopped at the cabin on the way back.  We didn't try to use the AC to heat it, just stopped by to check the place.  It was cold and the snow was just melting all over the drive way.  It would be easy to get snowed in if we tried to stay any time in the winter months.

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I was called as an Ordinance Temple worker this year.  I thought I might like to do that at some point of my life, and 2014 was a good year to do that.  I had plenty of white dresses and I did have shoes.  I did buy some other shoes. I would be on my feet more with this calling.  The new workers had lots of memorizing to serve the patrons that came to the temple.  I came in extra times and studied hard when we were given study time.  It took me more than a month to get all of the material together.   After that, the position was easy.   Just getting there was hard work.    For one of the yearly quarters, I decided I could take the early shift, 5:00 AM to 11:00AM.  We had to be in a short prayer meeting at 4:50.  We always served in a session at that time and I enjoyed the early morning time at the temple.  The Celestial room was beautiful with the sun coming up through the front windows and lighting up the chandelier.  Many of the positions were just to be at a certain place to direct patrons and make sure the doors to sensitive areas were avoided by patrons.  I made many  friends and saw many people that I had not seen for a long time.  We had to help the handicapped patrons enjoy the spirit also.  I learned what it was like to get up at 3:00 AM to be ready to leave home at 4:20 to be on time.   There was almost no traffic at that hour.  The rest of the day after I got home was dedicated to rest.  I did some sewing for myself during this time.  I made a nice temple dress with machine embroidery on it.  I wore that very often.  In the spring of that year, we made a decision to go to Pine and look at possible cabins to buy.  We contacted Sally Randall to show us some possible property.  We went up on a Saturday and looked at several places in our price range.  The one we looked at on Bradshaw Rd.  was pretty much what we wanted.  we had a good friend that had a mansion in Strawberry.  Lloyd Willis came over and looked at every aspect of the cabin and it's location on the flood plain and the heating-cooling system.  It looked good from all we could determine so we bought it.  There were some strange things about it that we did not anticipate.    In the late summer, the woodpeckers descended  on all the wooden cabins and the trees around Strawberry and Pine.  We had lots of damage from those nasty birds.  We tried to put a net in the back to discourage them, but they always found a new place to peck on the wood.  We had good neighbors there.  Larry an Olga were permanent residents.  Their house was an actual house that they bought for about half the cost of a cabin looking place.  While we had the place, we replaced the roof just on the front porch.  Jack and the boys, Hank, Sam and ben,  fixed the logs on the walk ways.  We had the asphalt coated after 3 years.  Chuck came up and helped make the barn garage door into a double door twice as wide as the original.  As we were moving 5 years later, we had pavers put in around back and over to the fire pit.  Lloyd Willis and I put in a nice fire pit the second summer we were there.  Lloyd brought over his posthole digger and had me dig down to the rock drainage layer.  Then we leveled off and poured mortar on top of the dirt circle.  After we finished the foundation, the bricks that slopped in were placed around it.  It was a great fire pit when the rain finally came so we could have fires.  I also burned many pine needles and branches in that pit.  It was made so that the rain and snow water drained through that center hole.   The summer time at Pine was spent getting to know the neighbors there and at church.  We could go to the Senior Dining room for $3 dollars any day from Monday Through Friday.  The ladies liked to play cards on Wednesday.  I never had played anything except Gin Rummy that Mr. Gunn taught me to play.  I learned all the rules to 'Hand and Foot'.  Pretty fun game for four to six players.  I did lots of yard work cleaning up pine needles and pulling up thousands of little jack pines.  The grandsons,  Hank, Sam and Ben helped us on several weekends.   One night the boys were playing outside of the bunkhouse and saw a Javalina in the yard.  They got all excited and ran back to the bunkhouse, yelling about being scared.  The had fun walking over a half mile to Highway 57 to get some fudge.  Our family had some very nice visits at the cabin.  We had one regular quad and a Ranger side by side quad that we went places with.  I rode the smaller one up the mountain on Hardscrabble Rd.  When I was there by myself.  I ran out of gas and was going to walk back to the cabin to get more gas.  A girl that lived up that way was going home and gave me a ride both ways.  We had plenty of wildlife in our yard.  The Does would come down the was almost every day.  We saw Javalinas several times.  One day a Mother javalina came up to the yard and was eating the deer food.  She had a baby that only wanted to walk right under her.  We saw that javalina when it was about 20 pounds heavier later in the summer.  The three holidays of summer, Memorial day, 4th of July and Labor day were serious business for Pine.  Everyone with a cabin or friends of people with a cabin showed up then.  The town was prepared with a pancake breakfast and venders all over the town center.  We had visitors for many of these times.  Justin and Aly brought their family up for many holidays and some good long visits.  Aly could do her research work at the cabin.  My sisters came to visit us.  We had planned to have a Thanksgiving dinner there on year, but the weather turned bad and was too risky for travel between Payson and Pine.  Becky and Russ and family came a few times.  They really wanted to see the cabin.  I tried to take enough pictures to have the memories recorded on film.  Chuck liked the area for bike riding.  he challenged himself to make it up to Happy Jack before we needed to sell the cabin in 2019.  I found some nice areas to walk around the cabin.  My favorite was up Bradshaw to Hardscrabble and across on 87 back to Bradshaw.  

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I was called as an Ordinance Temple worker this year.  I thought I might like to do that at some point of my life, and 2014 was a good year to do that.  I had plenty of white dresses and I did have shoes.  I did buy some other shoes. I would be on my feet more with this calling.  The new workers had lots of memorizing to serve the patrons that came to the temple.  I came in extra times and studied hard when we were given study time.  It took me more than a month to get all of the material together.   After that, the position was easy.   Just getting there was hard work.    For one of the yearly quarters, I decided I could take the early shift, 5:00 AM to 11:00AM.  We had to be in a short prayer meeting at 4:50.  We always served in a session at that time and I enjoyed the early morning time at the temple.  The Celestial room was beautiful with the sun coming up through the front windows and lighting up the chandelier.  Many of the positions were just to be at a certain place to direct patrons and make sure the doors to sensitive areas were avoided by patrons.  I made many  friends and saw many people that I had not seen for a long time.  We had to help the handicapped patrons enjoy the spirit also.  I learned what it was like to get up at 3:00 AM to be ready to leave home at 4:20 to be on time.   There was almost no traffic at that hour.  The rest of the day after I got home was dedicated to rest.  I did some sewing for myself during this time.  I made a nice temple dress with machine embroidery on it.  I wore that very often.  In the spring of that year, we made a decision to go to Pine and look at possible cabins to buy.  We contacted Sally Randall to show us some possible property.  We went up on a Saturday and looked at several places in our price range.  The one we looked at on Bradshaw Rd.  was pretty much what we wanted.  we had a good friend that had a mansion in Strawberry.  Lloyd Willis came over and looked at every aspect of the cabin and it's location on the flood plain and the heating-cooling system.  It looked good from all we could determine so we bought it.  There were some strange things about it that we did not anticipate.    In the late summer, the woodpeckers descended  on all the wooden cabins and the trees around Strawberry and Pine.  We had lots of damage from those nasty birds.  We tried to put a net in the back to discourage them, but they always found a new place to peck on the wood.  We had good neighbors there.  Larry an Olga were permanent residents.  Their house was an actual house that they bought for about half the cost of a cabin looking place.  While we had the place, we replaced the roof just on the front porch.  Jack and the boys, Hank, Sam and ben,  fixed the logs on the walk ways.  We had the asphalt coated after 3 years.  Chuck came up and helped make the barn garage door into a double door twice as wide as the original.  As we were moving 5 years later, we had pavers put in around back and over to the fire pit.  Lloyd Willis and I put in a nice fire pit the second summer we were there.  Lloyd brought over his posthole digger and had me dig down to the rock drainage layer.  Then we leveled off and poured mortar on top of the dirt circle.  After we finished the foundation, the bricks that slopped in were placed around it.  It was a great fire pit when the rain finally came so we could have fires.  I also burned many pine needles and branches in that pit.  It was made so that the rain and snow water drained through that center hole.   The summer time at Pine was spent getting to know the neighbors there and at church.  We could go to the Senior Dining room for $3 dollars any day from Monday Through Friday.  The ladies liked to play cards on Wednesday.  I never had played anything except Gin Rummy that Mr. Gunn taught me to play.  I learned all the rules to 'Hand and Foot'.  Pretty fun game for four to six players.  I did lots of yard work cleaning up pine needles and pulling up thousands of little jack pines.  The grandsons,  Hank, Sam and Ben helped us on several weekends.   One night the boys were playing outside of the bunkhouse and saw a Javalina in the yard.  They got all excited and ran back to the bunkhouse, yelling about being scared.  The had fun walking over a half mile to Highway 57 to get some fudge.  Our family had some very nice visits at the cabin.  We had one regular quad and a Ranger side by side quad that we went places with.  I rode the smaller one up the mountain on Hardscrabble Rd.  When I was there by myself.  I ran out of gas and was going to walk back to the cabin to get more gas.  A girl that lived up that way was going home and gave me a ride both ways.  We had plenty of wildlife in our yard.  The Does would come down the was almost every day.  We saw Javalinas several times.  One day a Mother javalina came up to the yard and was eating the deer food.  She had a baby that only wanted to walk right under her.  We saw that javalina when it was about 20 pounds heavier later in the summer.  The three holidays of summer, Memorial day, 4th of July and Labor day were serious business for Pine.  Everyone with a cabin or friends of people with a cabin showed up then.  The town was prepared with a pancake breakfast and venders all over the town center.  We had visitors for many of these times.  Justin and Aly brought their family up for many holidays and some good long visits.  Aly could do her research work at the cabin.  My sisters came to visit us.  We had planned to have a Thanksgiving dinner there on year, but the weather turned bad and was too risky for travel between Payson and Pine.  Becky and Russ and family came a few times.  They really wanted to see the cabin.  I tried to take enough pictures to have the memories recorded on film.  Chuck liked the area for bike riding.  he challenged himself to make it up to Happy Jack before we needed to sell the cabin in 2019.  I found some nice areas to walk around the cabin.  My favorite was up Bradshaw to Hardscrabble and across on 87 back to Bradshaw.  

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This year started very well.  Jenna married her long time best friend,  Mason Evans Runs Through III, in the St. George temple on February 20th.  Bill and Lorie,  Justin and Jack and I rented a Suburban and drove to St. George the day before.  Justin stayed with us at a little bed and breakfast suite behind a ladies house.  The lady was so upset when she found out that 3 people shared her place instead of the two she was planning on.  Jenna's family had a dinner in Leeds and the reception in Washington.  Bill and Lorie stayed in a nice motel on the West side of St. George.  We had stopped at Lee's Ferry on the Colorado on the trip up.  The views of the cliffs there were beautiful.  The air was so clear you could see 100 miles.  Back in Gilbert,  Hannah had planned her wedding for April 19th.  Her wedding and reception were all just pain beautiful.  I helped make a lovely dress for her out of one she found at Tuesday Mornings.  She paid $40 dollars for it.  The skirt was just lovely but the top was too small and to revealing.  I fixed that by making a new, appropriate top and using the skirt just as it was.  Becky, Russ and Leah came down for the wedding.  Jacob Thompson was an only child of Kathy and Dan Thompson.  They put on a lovely dinner and more parties after the wedding.  The reception was on Redfield St.  just down From Bill and Lorie.  The Price family lived next door to their daughter Sherry with a large open yard between.  Lots of people that knew the Welch family and the Thompson family were there having a great time.     Justin did the Pee Wee version dance to (Tequila).  That was the standard for all the grandchildren's  weddings from now on.   That was all the weddings for 2013.  Now for a great event in the same month.  Joy had wanted to start her family far many years.  Her marriage to Mike Robbins was so wonderful for her and Him.  Joy had already found a very nice home to buy and large enough for children (and dogs).  Jack Thomas Robbins was born in Mesa on April 12th.  Joy had an easy birth and we call the beautiful little boy Jack Jack to separate the other Jacks in the family.  The name really fit him well.  Later, Jack W. went to the Navy so we could just call Jack Robbins plain Little Jack.  Joy had a great maternity leave for her insurance with the schools.  She took the rest of the school year to stay home with her baby.   

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This year started very well.  Jenna married her long time best friend,  Mason Evans Runs Through III, in the St. George temple on February 20th.  Bill and Lorie,  Justin and Jack and I rented a Suburban and drove to St. George the day before.  Justin stayed with us at a little bed and breakfast suite behind a ladies house.  The lady was so upset when she found out that 3 people shared her place instead of the two she was planning on.  Jenna's family had a dinner in Leeds and the reception in Washington.  Bill and Lorie stayed in a nice motel on the West side of St. George.  We had stopped at Lee's Ferry on the Colorado on the trip up.  The views of the cliffs there were beautiful.  The air was so clear you could see 100 miles.  Back in Gilbert,  Hannah had planned her wedding for April 19th.  Her wedding and reception were all just pain beautiful.  I helped make a lovely dress for her out of one she found at Tuesday Mornings.  She paid $40 dollars for it.  The skirt was just lovely but the top was too small and to revealing.  I fixed that by making a new, appropriate top and using the skirt just as it was.  Becky, Russ and Leah came down for the wedding.  Jacob Thompson was an only child of Kathy and Dan Thompson.  They put on a lovely dinner and more parties after the wedding.  The reception was on Redfield St.  just down From Bill and Lorie.  The Price family lived next door to their daughter Sherry with a large open yard between.  Lots of people that knew the Welch family and the Thompson family were there having a great time.     Justin did the Pee Wee version dance to (Tequila).  That was the standard for all the grandchildren's  weddings from now on.   That was all the weddings for 2013.  Now for a great event in the same month.  Joy had wanted to start her family far many years.  Her marriage to Mike Robbins was so wonderful for her and Him.  Joy had already found a very nice home to buy and large enough for children (and dogs).  Jack Thomas Robbins was born in Mesa on April 12th.  Joy had an easy birth and we call the beautiful little boy Jack Jack to separate the other Jacks in the family.  The name really fit him well.  Later, Jack W. went to the Navy so we could just call Jack Robbins plain Little Jack.  Joy had a great maternity leave for her insurance with the schools.  She took the rest of the school year to stay home with her baby.   

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I had been up to Snowflake again because the family had decided that my Mother could not spend nights alone.   I wanted to be home for Christmas so I got the powers to be to OK her to spend Christmas in Gilbert.  Everyone agreed and we brought her oxygen machine and a few clothes down for her to be here until January.  I started telling them that Mom belonged in a care facility.  I could not take care of her at my home because Jack nor I had the strength to do everything for her.  She did well here.  She did not like the train.  I never heard it but she did.  We put the cammode  in her room here and she was able to get there by herself.  I took her back in January and finally got the family convinced to put her in Webb's care facility in SF.  She went willingly and said she really could not stay in her house alone.  She did well in the home.  The director, Mary Webb, was so kind to her.  Mom had more visitors than any other resident there.  She was doing fairly well until the staff was urged to give her more calming medications.  Then she was to drugged to eat her meals.  I tried to visit pretty often.  In March,  Jack and I, Justin and Aly, Joy and Mike and Sophie and Dillon went on a terrific cruise to Hawaii.   It was to celebrate our 50 years of marriage.  We had a really good time.  Sophie got a double ear infection and was fussy for about 2 whole days.  I was throwing up once and the medics made sure I stayed in my cabin and did not infect anyone else.  I was better in the afternoon.  Dillon  had his 5th birthday on board.  Dillon started  going to the kids club and liked being there anytime of the day.  We were off sightseeing and all of us went on land.  We met up with LuAnn Bryant, Jack's niece and she entertained  Jack and I on the Sunday we were there.  We went to the Baptist church and then whale watching in the afternoon.  We went to the top of one of the volcanoes of the big island.  It was cold up there.    In June we decided to take all of the family that could go to San Diego for more celebrating.  Russ came from Utah with his family and Bill, Chuck, Justin, Joy and Jack and I drove over in our cars.  Bill brought his boogie board.  We had a double condo and we all fit pretty well.  The ladies went shopping at Costco and bought about $300.  worth of groceries.  Joy was a little surprised at the grocery bill.  She did not ever buy groceries for a crowd like that.  We had a family picture on the beach that Mike timed his camera to take.  We were in white shirts.  Aly informed the whole family that she was expecting a baby later on in the year.  That way, nobody was first or last to know.  All of us went to tour the Air Craft Carrier, Yorktown.   There were several retired aircraft on the deck.  That was great for the grandsons and all of us enjoyed that attraction.  We went to the Mormon Battalion memorial.  We got pictures of most of the grandsons panning for gold.   The family bought seasonal tickets to Sea World.  Some of the family went 3 times.  The rides were good and that was a great attraction.  I was feeling bad one of the days.  Joy sat with me a Sea World for an hour or so.  I went back and took a nap.  After that I was fine.  About the end of June, Mary called me and let me know that my Mom was turning a little worse around that time.  I went up to see about her and she was failing a little more.  I put her in her wheelchair on some days and we had an outing.  The Nurse Practitioner for the area came around and told us her lungs were sounding congested.   On a Sunday evening, I was visiting with Laura Wiltbank in Mom's room when we noticed that she suddenly went kind of subconscious.  The nursing staff came in and said she was just not to aware of her surroundings.  We got everyone on the phone and all the boys were able to come except Dee.  Dee had to stay in Globe with Jean.  The did some talking and decided to give her a blessing of comfort and to bless her to be ready to be in the place that the Lord wanted her to be in.  Barry gave the blessing and felt the spirit give him the right words for the blessing.  Mom continued in this state for the next 2 weeks exactly.  She was not to have any nourishment or liquids.  I gave her mouth care and made sure she got turned from side to side on time. She was semi lucid and knew who I was.  She did not want anything and just slept and was awake at times.  By the first of July, I needed to go home and see about my family.  We had been taking turns sleeping in the room with mom.  I was home and getting ready to make the trip back up when Randy called in the Middle of the night.  He said Mom had passed in the early hours of her 94th birthday, July 2nd 2012.   She was peaceful and had no pain.                 Becky and Russ came to SF for grandma's funeral .  The whole middle section of the chapel was reserved for mom's funeral.  So many of our cousins were there that I had not seen in so long.  Dee and spoke and the grandchildren sang on of the hymns.  Sank and Tonna played a prelude.  Dude dedicated the grave.  We had a wonderful time just visiting with everyone.  The Relief  Society sisters served a wonderful meal for a large crowd.  Most of our family started home soon after the dinner.  Some of our children took the route home through ShowLow and Salt River canyon. Some of us, Jack and I and some other of our children took the route through Heber and Payson.  At the Roosevelt turn off, everyone had to take the detour to Globe because there was a desert fire down by Fountain Hills.  It took much more time and more miles to get home.  The day was very pleasant, and we saw so many people we knew.  The headstone was already in place because it had been set except for my mother's date of graduation from earth to heaven.   The headstones for my 2 deceased siblings were small but they were appropriate.  Lonny died in 1959 and Joy Flake (my daughter's namesake) died in 1953.                                                                      In December,  we had another very wonderful event in Justin's family.  Madalyn  Grace Welch was born on December 21st at Mercy Hospital in Gilbert.  She has very dark eyes and she has her own special features.  She looks like a little girl that will keep her parents up a few nights at any of her stages of growing up.  She is called Maddie from the start.  Her date of birth is one day after her cousin, Maggie.  Maggie's birth date is December 20th.  Just realized that both of these beautiful girls are known by their nick names. 

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I had been up to Snowflake again because the family had decided that my Mother could not spend nights alone.   I wanted to be home for Christmas so I got the powers to be to OK her to spend Christmas in Gilbert.  Everyone agreed and we brought her oxygen machine and a few clothes down for her to be here until January.  I started telling them that Mom belonged in a care facility.  I could not take care of her at my home because Jack nor I had the strength to do everything for her.  She did well here.  She did not like the train.  I never heard it but she did.  We put the cammode  in her room here and she was able to get there by herself.  I took her back in January and finally got the family convinced to put her in Webb's care facility in SF.  She went willingly and said she really could not stay in her house alone.  She did well in the home.  The director, Mary Webb, was so kind to her.  Mom had more visitors than any other resident there.  She was doing fairly well until the staff was urged to give her more calming medications.  Then she was to drugged to eat her meals.  I tried to visit pretty often.  In March,  Jack and I, Justin and Aly, Joy and Mike and Sophie and Dillon went on a terrific cruise to Hawaii.   It was to celebrate our 50 years of marriage.  We had a really good time.  Sophie got a double ear infection and was fussy for about 2 whole days.  I was throwing up once and the medics made sure I stayed in my cabin and did not infect anyone else.  I was better in the afternoon.  Dillon  had his 5th birthday on board.  Dillon started  going to the kids club and liked being there anytime of the day.  We were off sightseeing and all of us went on land.  We met up with LuAnn Bryant, Jack's niece and she entertained  Jack and I on the Sunday we were there.  We went to the Baptist church and then whale watching in the afternoon.  We went to the top of one of the volcanoes of the big island.  It was cold up there.    In June we decided to take all of the family that could go to San Diego for more celebrating.  Russ came from Utah with his family and Bill, Chuck, Justin, Joy and Jack and I drove over in our cars.  Bill brought his boogie board.  We had a double condo and we all fit pretty well.  The ladies went shopping at Costco and bought about $300.  worth of groceries.  Joy was a little surprised at the grocery bill.  She did not ever buy groceries for a crowd like that.  We had a family picture on the beach that Mike timed his camera to take.  We were in white shirts.  Aly informed the whole family that she was expecting a baby later on in the year.  That way, nobody was first or last to know.  All of us went to tour the Air Craft Carrier, Yorktown.   There were several retired aircraft on the deck.  That was great for the grandsons and all of us enjoyed that attraction.  We went to the Mormon Battalion memorial.  We got pictures of most of the grandsons panning for gold.   The family bought seasonal tickets to Sea World.  Some of the family went 3 times.  The rides were good and that was a great attraction.  I was feeling bad one of the days.  Joy sat with me a Sea World for an hour or so.  I went back and took a nap.  After that I was fine.  About the end of June, Mary called me and let me know that my Mom was turning a little worse around that time.  I went up to see about her and she was failing a little more.  I put her in her wheelchair on some days and we had an outing.  The Nurse Practitioner for the area came around and told us her lungs were sounding congested.   On a Sunday evening, I was visiting with Laura Wiltbank in Mom's room when we noticed that she suddenly went kind of subconscious.  The nursing staff came in and said she was just not to aware of her surroundings.  We got everyone on the phone and all the boys were able to come except Dee.  Dee had to stay in Globe with Jean.  The did some talking and decided to give her a blessing of comfort and to bless her to be ready to be in the place that the Lord wanted her to be in.  Barry gave the blessing and felt the spirit give him the right words for the blessing.  Mom continued in this state for the next 2 weeks exactly.  She was not to have any nourishment or liquids.  I gave her mouth care and made sure she got turned from side to side on time. She was semi lucid and knew who I was.  She did not want anything and just slept and was awake at times.  By the first of July, I needed to go home and see about my family.  We had been taking turns sleeping in the room with mom.  I was home and getting ready to make the trip back up when Randy called in the Middle of the night.  He said Mom had passed in the early hours of her 94th birthday, July 2nd 2012.   She was peaceful and had no pain.                 Becky and Russ came to SF for grandma's funeral .  The whole middle section of the chapel was reserved for mom's funeral.  So many of our cousins were there that I had not seen in so long.  Dee and spoke and the grandchildren sang on of the hymns.  Sank and Tonna played a prelude.  Dude dedicated the grave.  We had a wonderful time just visiting with everyone.  The Relief  Society sisters served a wonderful meal for a large crowd.  Most of our family started home soon after the dinner.  Some of our children took the route home through ShowLow and Salt River canyon. Some of us, Jack and I and some other of our children took the route through Heber and Payson.  At the Roosevelt turn off, everyone had to take the detour to Globe because there was a desert fire down by Fountain Hills.  It took much more time and more miles to get home.  The day was very pleasant, and we saw so many people we knew.  The headstone was already in place because it had been set except for my mother's date of graduation from earth to heaven.   The headstones for my 2 deceased siblings were small but they were appropriate.  Lonny died in 1959 and Joy Flake (my daughter's namesake) died in 1953.                                                                      In December,  we had another very wonderful event in Justin's family.  Madalyn  Grace Welch was born on December 21st at Mercy Hospital in Gilbert.  She has very dark eyes and she has her own special features.  She looks like a little girl that will keep her parents up a few nights at any of her stages of growing up.  She is called Maddie from the start.  Her date of birth is one day after her cousin, Maggie.  Maggie's birth date is December 20th.  Just realized that both of these beautiful girls are known by their nick names. 

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    Joy and Mike    March 21.      In Welch's back yard.

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This was a good year.  In March Joy and Mike got married in our back yard.  Mike is an intelligent , red headed, assured man.  I made Joy's dress then she lost weight and we had to alter the top a little.  Mike's family came from the east and we had a very good time.  My Mom was in town also and she attended.  Later, In May, Justin and Aly had a little girl.  Justin said she looked Italian and named her Sofia Ann Welch.  Dillon stayed with us most of the time Aly was in the hospital.  When we took him up to see his mom, he told us she was in room number 0.  That was really good for a 4 year old,  In the summer of 2011, my mother was having some problems that she needed supervision with.   She got out of bed at night and wandered around the house hallucinating and hurting herself.  Justin took a travel trailer up to her house for me to live in so I could spend the summer with her.  I started right in cleaning her house.  She had not had a vacuum cleaner for 2 years.  There were all kinds of areas to clean.  Her cupboards and drawers had not been cleaned out for a very long time.  She would not let me replace her cookware for some that were less stained and black on the bottoms.  I told her I would take them to Gilbert and clean them up.  We took Mom to the Dr. up above ShowLow.  Dr. Riech was excellent to my Mom.  She got a chest X-rey and the Dr. went over her medications.  My Mom had the meals on wheels deliver her lunch every day.  If she had leftovers, she would throw them out the back door.  All the neighborhood cats hung around the door for a handout.  I tried to talk her out of doing that because it was a mess out there.  She had some big weeds growing around the flagstone on the back of her place.  It was sometimes a real trial to get along with her.  Karen told me that her little schemes to upset the apple cart were just what kept her going.  She just sat in her chair and thought about how to cause a stir in the lives of her family.  She made a big deal about her microwave breaking.  Then she was mad about the pizza party we had for her birthday.  She fussed at almost every women in the family at a neighborhood party Randy gave.  I was ready and more ready to come back home in the fall.  Joy and Mike and Jack came up for the town celebration.  Justin and Aly and Dillon and beautiful Sophie came up and stayed at the hotel just to the south end of Belly Button.  I walked over and had breakfast at their hotel and took Dillon the back way to grandma's house.  We had a good time at the parade and sight seeing around town.  Someone else wanted to take Mom to the parade but didn't take her to the BBQ.  They just brought her home and she missed getting BBQ beef.  I resigned from the FHC before the summer so I didn't have to come back to pick up in the fall.  I felt sad that I would be away from the place that had so much information.   When I got back to town in September, we started watching Dillon and Sophie on Wednesdays again.                                                       Joy and Mike on their wedding day.   We did lots of preparation ourselves.    

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This was a good year.  In March Joy and Mike got married in our back yard.  Mike is an intelligent , red headed, assured man.  I made Joy's dress then she lost weight and we had to alter the top a little.  Mike's family came from the east and we had a very good time.  My Mom was in town also and she attended.  Later, In May, Justin and Aly had a little girl.  Justin said she looked Italian and named her Sofia Ann Welch.  Dillon stayed with us most of the time Aly was in the hospital.  When we took him up to see his mom, he told us she was in room number 0.  That was really good for a 4 year old,  In the summer of 2011, my mother was having some problems that she needed supervision with.   She got out of bed at night and wandered around the house hallucinating and hurting herself.  Justin took a travel trailer up to her house for me to live in so I could spend the summer with her.  I started right in cleaning her house.  She had not had a vacuum cleaner for 2 years.  There were all kinds of areas to clean.  Her cupboards and drawers had not been cleaned out for a very long time.  She would not let me replace her cookware for some that were less stained and black on the bottoms.  I told her I would take them to Gilbert and clean them up.  We took Mom to the Dr. up above ShowLow.  Dr. Riech was excellent to my Mom.  She got a chest X-rey and the Dr. went over her medications.  My Mom had the meals on wheels deliver her lunch every day.  If she had leftovers, she would throw them out the back door.  All the neighborhood cats hung around the door for a handout.  I tried to talk her out of doing that because it was a mess out there.  She had some big weeds growing around the flagstone on the back of her place.  It was sometimes a real trial to get along with her.  Karen told me that her little schemes to upset the apple cart were just what kept her going.  She just sat in her chair and thought about how to cause a stir in the lives of her family.  She made a big deal about her microwave breaking.  Then she was mad about the pizza party we had for her birthday.  She fussed at almost every women in the family at a neighborhood party Randy gave.  I was ready and more ready to come back home in the fall.  Joy and Mike and Jack came up for the town celebration.  Justin and Aly and Dillon and beautiful Sophie came up and stayed at the hotel just to the south end of Belly Button.  I walked over and had breakfast at their hotel and took Dillon the back way to grandma's house.  We had a good time at the parade and sight seeing around town.  Someone else wanted to take Mom to the parade but didn't take her to the BBQ.  They just brought her home and she missed getting BBQ beef.  I resigned from the FHC before the summer so I didn't have to come back to pick up in the fall.  I felt sad that I would be away from the place that had so much information.   When I got back to town in September, we started watching Dillon and Sophie on Wednesdays again.                                                       Joy and Mike on their wedding day.   We did lots of preparation ourselves.    

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Welch.

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On my mother's birthday, this year, My two sisters and I got together in ShoLow and took her to eat Mexican food.  We had a nice visit but later she complained to Karen that she would rather have gone to Kentucky fried Chicken.  My mom was getting a little slower and needed a little more care. She got a bad infection in her eye that didn't get attention until she had to go to the hospital.  She was sent to Gilbert to have surgery from and eye surgeon. They had to take out the eye ball and sew the eye shut until the nerves healed.  She didn't get along very well with the socket empty.  She came to our house and we took her to Phoenix to an Oculist that painted an eyeball for her that looked very much like her other eye.  It took all morning but she was more comfortable.  I was still going to the FHC one day a week.   I was still learning things and reading some of the books for Canadian history and research.  I made a power point presentation with a lot of help from Joy.  It covered the Grand Pre history of the Acadians and their expulsion from Nova Scotia.  I used that power point for several presentations.  I went out to a large retirement trailer park out by Apache Junction to present that subject.  There was a big Genealogy meeting in Tempe at the LDS institute.  I used my material there and then one last time at our church building for a genealogy group that met together with several stakes.  

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On my mother's birthday, this year, My two sisters and I got together in ShoLow and took her to eat Mexican food.  We had a nice visit but later she complained to Karen that she would rather have gone to Kentucky fried Chicken.  My mom was getting a little slower and needed a little more care. She got a bad infection in her eye that didn't get attention until she had to go to the hospital.  She was sent to Gilbert to have surgery from and eye surgeon. They had to take out the eye ball and sew the eye shut until the nerves healed.  She didn't get along very well with the socket empty.  She came to our house and we took her to Phoenix to an Oculist that painted an eyeball for her that looked very much like her other eye.  It took all morning but she was more comfortable.  I was still going to the FHC one day a week.   I was still learning things and reading some of the books for Canadian history and research.  I made a power point presentation with a lot of help from Joy.  It covered the Grand Pre history of the Acadians and their expulsion from Nova Scotia.  I used that power point for several presentations.  I went out to a large retirement trailer park out by Apache Junction to present that subject.  There was a big Genealogy meeting in Tempe at the LDS institute.  I used my material there and then one last time at our church building for a genealogy group that met together with several stakes.  

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My mother, Marjory Flake, was getting older.  She was 91 in July.  She was still living in the house they built in the 1990s.  She was blind and all the light and dark just ran together for her.  She did like to go to the temple in SF.  She could manage just fine if she was led to the place she was supposed to be.  I was still going to the Family History Center but I could ask for time off because I was classified as a volunteer.  We could go to Iowa or Utah for a vacation or take time for a special occasion if needed.  Jack liked to work with Bill and his boys on Saturdays.  There was always a project at Bill's house.  We had time for the grandchildren and played with them at times.  I babysat children while the parents went to girls camp.  Bethy was really sick one year that they went to camp LoMia.  I didn't feel good either but we managed to get everyone  fed and clothed for the week.  I think we came back to my house once to clean my home after there work was done.                                                     Jack and I decided to go on a weeks cruise to the South  East Alaska passage.  We drove to Seattle and boarded the cruise ship along the wharf.  We enjoyed the dinners and all the activities.  The best was the harbors of the towns where we were able to go off the ship. The whales were the best.  The Hump Back whales go to Alaska to eat krell  so they have fat stored up in their bodies for the time they go south to have their young.  We saw whales do bubble feeding.  we went to a Salmon BBQ one night.  It was pretty good.  On the way back, we looked up Lory and Henry Orseth on the Puget Sound across from Seattle.  We got to go on a picnic with all of the Orseth family.  Joey does not live there but he was able to come.  Henry has twins.  Jennifer and Christopher were in their teens.  We wanted to stay in touch with them.  If Christopher was able to fill a mission, we wanted to offer them help financially.  Henry was a hard worker but he had a little bit of a learning disability.  They were very sweet to us.  We learned later that Joey had died.  He was a little wild for some of his life and he tried to get by without too much work 

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My mother, Marjory Flake, was getting older.  She was 91 in July.  She was still living in the house they built in the 1990s.  She was blind and all the light and dark just ran together for her.  She did like to go to the temple in SF.  She could manage just fine if she was led to the place she was supposed to be.  I was still going to the Family History Center but I could ask for time off because I was classified as a volunteer.  We could go to Iowa or Utah for a vacation or take time for a special occasion if needed.  Jack liked to work with Bill and his boys on Saturdays.  There was always a project at Bill's house.  We had time for the grandchildren and played with them at times.  I babysat children while the parents went to girls camp.  Bethy was really sick one year that they went to camp LoMia.  I didn't feel good either but we managed to get everyone  fed and clothed for the week.  I think we came back to my house once to clean my home after there work was done.                                                     Jack and I decided to go on a weeks cruise to the South  East Alaska passage.  We drove to Seattle and boarded the cruise ship along the wharf.  We enjoyed the dinners and all the activities.  The best was the harbors of the towns where we were able to go off the ship. The whales were the best.  The Hump Back whales go to Alaska to eat krell  so they have fat stored up in their bodies for the time they go south to have their young.  We saw whales do bubble feeding.  we went to a Salmon BBQ one night.  It was pretty good.  On the way back, we looked up Lory and Henry Orseth on the Puget Sound across from Seattle.  We got to go on a picnic with all of the Orseth family.  Joey does not live there but he was able to come.  Henry has twins.  Jennifer and Christopher were in their teens.  We wanted to stay in touch with them.  If Christopher was able to fill a mission, we wanted to offer them help financially.  Henry was a hard worker but he had a little bit of a learning disability.  They were very sweet to us.  We learned later that Joey had died.  He was a little wild for some of his life and he tried to get by without too much work 

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This year was a year of change for some of the family.   I am still a missionary and learning more about the Welch family genealogy.  Some of the ordinances have been done.  I learned lots of details by reading the US and State census records.  The Family History Center serves the winter visitors in the winter months.  We have some really nice people come in to do their research, and some of them will work the shifts with the other missionaries.  Some visitors are there just to spend time and get attention.  We have really good computer help from people that worked in the tech field before retiring from the industry.  There are always young missionaries at the center that want to serve but are unable to be away from their families due to physical restraints.  There were some sharp kids in this category.  I remember Joseph Jensen.  He was a boy scout in Bill's ward.  He was just in the early stages of scoliosis.  He was doing computer work that helped out the tech missionaries solve problems as new methods of genealogy came from Salt Lake.  He was able to get married several years later to a disabled girl.  I was on the Canadian genealogy committee.  The research was a little more complicated than US type.  The Canadian census was only updated 80 years.  I looked up all the people for my mothers line on the 1911 census.   My mom's records were very complete up to the years that were available to her through 1990.  I found some marriage records and some immigration information for her grandparents.  One very interesting fact was the name of the town where many of her ancestors lived.  The original name was New Berlin or Berlin Town.  As the 1st world war was with Germany,  the name was changed to Kitchener to honor the Prime Minister of England at that time.  Jack had moved some of the better truck parts to the property on Redfield.  Lorie said that she wanted them moved or sold in one year.  They had a nice fence put up by the barn so the pasture side of the property was not visible.  The status of the property and the parts was not crystal clear for many years.  The sheep kept the weeds and other vegetation down so the weeds were not a problem.  We traded the sheep back and forth so they would have feed most of the year.  Young Jack raised a pig for Future Farmers one year.  He took it over to the County fair for judging when it was fed out.  He made a little money on it over the feed bill.  It was a good experience for him.   They had to weigh the pig every  so often to keep it within the weight limits.  We used the dining room table that Joy brought from Canada.  It was a good sturdy set and we have had it for many years.  We got other furniture to fill this house.  We bought two daybeds and a nice leather sectional.   we found a very nice bedroom set in fountain hills.  We got some new furniture and some out of Craig's  List. Joy also gave us a leather chair for the big bedroom.  We had to have the piano moved by someone who knew how to move pianos.  We got a Mr. McCleland that had tuned the piano before.  he was moving it with his grandson.  He ended up breaking the pedal part off.  He took the fee for the move and did not even give us a discount for the damage.  Our neighbor Leroy Johnson fixed it for us a year or two latter.   

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This year was a year of change for some of the family.   I am still a missionary and learning more about the Welch family genealogy.  Some of the ordinances have been done.  I learned lots of details by reading the US and State census records.  The Family History Center serves the winter visitors in the winter months.  We have some really nice people come in to do their research, and some of them will work the shifts with the other missionaries.  Some visitors are there just to spend time and get attention.  We have really good computer help from people that worked in the tech field before retiring from the industry.  There are always young missionaries at the center that want to serve but are unable to be away from their families due to physical restraints.  There were some sharp kids in this category.  I remember Joseph Jensen.  He was a boy scout in Bill's ward.  He was just in the early stages of scoliosis.  He was doing computer work that helped out the tech missionaries solve problems as new methods of genealogy came from Salt Lake.  He was able to get married several years later to a disabled girl.  I was on the Canadian genealogy committee.  The research was a little more complicated than US type.  The Canadian census was only updated 80 years.  I looked up all the people for my mothers line on the 1911 census.   My mom's records were very complete up to the years that were available to her through 1990.  I found some marriage records and some immigration information for her grandparents.  One very interesting fact was the name of the town where many of her ancestors lived.  The original name was New Berlin or Berlin Town.  As the 1st world war was with Germany,  the name was changed to Kitchener to honor the Prime Minister of England at that time.  Jack had moved some of the better truck parts to the property on Redfield.  Lorie said that she wanted them moved or sold in one year.  They had a nice fence put up by the barn so the pasture side of the property was not visible.  The status of the property and the parts was not crystal clear for many years.  The sheep kept the weeds and other vegetation down so the weeds were not a problem.  We traded the sheep back and forth so they would have feed most of the year.  Young Jack raised a pig for Future Farmers one year.  He took it over to the County fair for judging when it was fed out.  He made a little money on it over the feed bill.  It was a good experience for him.   They had to weigh the pig every  so often to keep it within the weight limits.  We used the dining room table that Joy brought from Canada.  It was a good sturdy set and we have had it for many years.  We got other furniture to fill this house.  We bought two daybeds and a nice leather sectional.   we found a very nice bedroom set in fountain hills.  We got some new furniture and some out of Craig's  List. Joy also gave us a leather chair for the big bedroom.  We had to have the piano moved by someone who knew how to move pianos.  We got a Mr. McCleland that had tuned the piano before.  he was moving it with his grandson.  He ended up breaking the pedal part off.  He took the fee for the move and did not even give us a discount for the damage.  Our neighbor Leroy Johnson fixed it for us a year or two latter.   