The Storied Life of Jack and Marie Welch by Joy Robbins https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc As you recollect memories of Jack and Marie's 60 years together, please write those memories down. Photos can be added, and maybe someone else's story needs some extra detail. en-us 2021-12-31 21:23:55 UTC 2022-05-03 03:48:38 UTC hello@padlet.com Joy Is Born joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/1969832355 A nation's hopes and dreams are realized as the caboose is born into the world. ]]> 2021-12-31 21:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/1969832355 Marie got super sick joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/1969832404 2021-12-31 21:48:20 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/1969832404 Family Trip to Mission Beach joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/1969863557 2022-01-01 00:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/1969863557 January 1962 - Jack came back from Washington state to Phoenix. https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/1969876981 2022-01-01 01:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/1969876981 mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/1977874696 From Marie, Jack had written several letters but they ended up in SF (Snowflake). They finally were delivered in Mesa. I was back at my dad's cousins home in the last half of January. Jack and I continued to date, usually on Fri. or Sat. nights. I would not date him on Sun. We were getting kind of serious about the future. Jack was talking about marriage in the near future. I was not sure because I was in school and only 18 and we had different ideas about religion. Our dates were, going to eat or going to the drive-in movie that was along main street, close to Kenneth and Velma's house. We did not date every weekend because I had to study sometimes. Jack had a beautiful car at the time. It was a Studebaker Coop, painted a beautiful blue. Jack said the color was a combination Sky blue, Chrome and Regular Blue. Made a great color. About the end of March, I was not doing so well at school. I was not spending enough time at my studies. On one of the dates, we just decided to leave for Winter Haven, California and get married. We could get married in one hour according to the phone message. We went back to Mesa to get some of my clothes and other stuff. The Hatch family had gone to the church for something. We left after gathering some things that Jack needed at his place. He lived with his aunt, Bessie Arnold on 14th Street in Phoenix. ]]> 2022-01-06 03:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/1977874696 Year of '61, from Marie. In '61 I was 17. I had turned 17 in November of '60. I was a Senior at SUHS. I had a full load of classes and played clarinet in the band. I reluctantly took 4th year seminary. (wasn't my choice) I also taught the Sunbeam class in the ward Primary. That was a very full year. I got involved in most of the activities around Highschool. I didn't date because I was not one of the more popular girls. I had lots of friends that were the same. I was just a late bloomer, I think. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/1984254510 The Band activities were the most fun.  We were the marching band during the football - Basketball season and concert band the rest of the year. As concert band we had to learn to play with dinamics. Marching band blared out as loud as possible. The music classes were invited to participate in the NAU music festival every spring. We were housed in the various motels along rout 66. We spent time shopping at some of the downtown stores, walking to and from the college, and hanging out in the student union. playing in the mass concert band was very memorable. 
      I did go to some of the dances solo or with a friend. I did hang out some with a family friend.  Wayne Boring and his family had lived several places and settled in SF (Snowflake) that year.  My parents had been friends with Jim Boring and family for many years. 
    I will stop and publish after a few paragraphs because the program wants to be reloaded.]]> 2022-01-10 16:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/1984254510 More of '61 . About Wayne. He is still a good friend. I have one long ago memory of Jim B. and family. Back in the '40s, My Mother was in the maternity hospital doing their "lying in" period of 10 days after the birth of brother Lonny ( Lon James Flake) in Oct of 1948. I was 5. My Dad decided he would go deer hunting out around Heber. He took the 3 of us out with him to stay at the Boring house close there. I will call him Dude (Barry) had burned his hands and had healing places on his fingers I remember just not liking that visit at all. Dude kept fussing with his fingers and I have never forgotten that stay with the Boring family. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/1984371382 Back to '61. I taught the Sunbeam Primary class in the ward that year. To this day I am sure I was called as  a 16 year old because my darling sister, Bonna was one of the most ill behaved 3 yr. olds in the class. Those children were sweet at times, but the behavior was mostly terrible. We had a nice classroom when it was available. With 2 wards in our building, 2nd ward RS (Relief Society) had meetings every other week, (I believe). My class had to meet in the Jr. Sunday school room on 2nd ward RS days. The children did not behave even 5 minutes in that room. I was in Primary as a married women for many years. I look back on that '60 to'61 Primary time and wonder why the presidency of Primary was not more supportive. I think the bigger fault was mine because I was to shy to make an issue of that situation. I love Primary and I matured greatly from my year as Bonna's teacher. Better update this again. ]]> 2022-01-10 17:30:10 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/1984371382 Marie Again. In the months ahead of graduation from HS, I was making plans for the future. I had an idea that I would like to go to nursing school in the fall. I applied to the Good Samaritan Hospital school. I rode in the old cattle truck with my Dad to Phoenix and took the entrance test at the hospital that spring. When the results came back, my math skills and language skills were too low to be accepted. I was pretty upset and felt defeated. I applied to ASU and was accepted. I did not know anything about a large university and was overwhelmed by the whole campus. My parents made arrangements for me to stay with our cousin, Velma Hatch. They lived about 8 miles from ASU. That was my biggest problem for the year. I didn't have a car, the city bus drivers went on strike, and the other rides I was able to find were not always reliable every day. As I look back on better ways to have handled that time, I should have made a choice for general education and not nursing for that first year. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/1984499059 I helped my Mom make one of my graduation dresses. We bought a little lavender suit in Holbrook. I didn't like it very much and only wore it a few times. I do remember the formal dress for the Baccalaureate exercise. I purchased the fabric for that dress in downtown Phoenix. The fabric was pink, my favorite, and had white flocking on sheer background. I found the perfect pattern and worked very hard to line the top and put the shaping pieces in correctly. Someone else made that same pattern and didn't think the shaping pieces mattered. The bodice and sleeves of that dress were not as directed and fell flat. I remember as I am writing this because less than a year later (April 6 1962) that dress was my wedding dress. enough for today(Jan 10 '22)]]> 2022-01-10 18:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/1984499059 More about April '62. We left Mesa and stopped at Aunt Bessie's house for Jack to pick up some of his clothes and other things. We started driving to Yuma with our good cloths on. I was wearing my pink dress and Jack was in his Suit that he had graduated Chariton Iowa in 1056. We traveled at night but stopped some place along the way to sleep for an hour or so. We arrived in Yuma but had to wait for a jewelry store to open to shop for rings. We got to Winter Haven, I think around 10:00 AM, and found the Wedding place. We had our blood drawn there and had some time to look around the town. We the hour was over, we returned to the Wedding place and the Proprietor married us. Short and Sweet. Those events I remember very well. Many of the details later are not so clear. But Jack and I were married for this life and I was very happy. The Temple marriage was my future goal and looking back, we should have taken a little more time and included family more. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2007091312      We did some sightseeing in Yuma.  We went to the Old Territorial Prison on the 
Arizona side of the river.  My great grandfather, William Jordan Flake was sent there for having two wives. It was nice visit. 
We returned to Phoenix as I had to go to school and Jack Had a job at the Arnold Pickle plant. He had called one of the Arnold family before we left for Yuma that he was taking one day off to get married. More memories later  ]]> 2022-01-23 12:15:29 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2007091312 For this Memory, I found some letters that I wrote to my Mom from the before and after of our quickly planned Marriage. On March 20th, I wrote my Mom and told her that Jack and I had gone out on the weekend and I returned back to the Hatches house pretty late. Velma and Kenneth were pretty upset with me and threatened to send me home or have probation for awhile. I did not have Jack pick me up there from that time on. I wrote my Mom a letter a few days Later, April 10th. I'm putting it in for history purposes. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2030967004 2022-02-05 21:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2030967004 Dear Mom, We finally got us an apartment and I just love it. It is a brand new one, Kind of on the outskirts of town. It is on 52street and sort of on a hill so maybe it won't get to hot up here this summer. We are gradualy getting things to set up housekeeping. We don't have any dishes or silverware and I can't find any that pleases me. I would like to get a service for four of Mel Mac. I went shopping last night because Jack had to stay in Globe overnight on his route. I found some pretty good silverware but I couldn't get any that matched all the rest so we don't have any yet. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2031005555 The first time I took the car to school, I was pretty shaky about the traffic but now it's OK. I just needed a little practice. I got my stuff from Hatches yesterday and everybody is OK. They have been having quite the exciting life. A guy they knew quite well from Idaho was killed and is going to be buried there and I got them pretty shook up. I'm going to be busy with school and trying to manage this house, but I think I can do it if I manage my time right. Sue, Roberta and I were supposed give 3 guys a steak dinner this week but now Roberta is going to get her cousin to come and I hope Jack and I can make it. When we come up, probably in 2 or 3 weeks, I want to talk to you and see if you don't feel better about things. Please don't get mad because it won't do and good because what is done is done.   Signed     Marie
   I put this part with lots of detail because I want my posterity to know the facts and history.  
   We made a nice home there for 3 months. In July we moved all of our belongings down to Aunt Bessie's house (second story) and went on Jack's vacation to Iowa. All the family met me and I got to know about Iowa.  We stayed 3 weeks. We got home and stayed with Aunt Bessie for a few weeks.  I actually did some sewing there. We found a 40 foot trailer in a park on 32nd street and left it where it was.  It is a really good place with about 10 trailers and the owner was right there. Ross and Mildred came down to Phoenix in the winter and rented a very small house in the park.  I think they enjoyed the warmer weather.   
   At the end of 1962 I found a job at a place called Bratt's Ice Cream. I worked there for several months and into 1963. Jack took me along on some of his out of town work trips. We went to Las Vegas, Tucson, the Verde  Valley, Flagstaff and through Holbrook.  We stayed over some times or made one day trips.  We found out that we were in Phoenix 14th ward.  There were many nice people in the ward and they helped us prepare for getting to the temple. 
      I was called as a primary teacher to a CTR class (I think).  I liked the kids and we had a good class.  We attended regularly and had some very good friends. I worked about 4 day a week and we could attend one of the Sunday meetings. Sunday School or Church.  All this was new to Jack but he was a good sport and began to grow in the gospel.
   I forgot to include Jack's baptism in 1962. We agreed to have the missionaries come to teach Jack.  Before my school was over we set a date for the baptism and 
Cousin Rey Flake came to the ward building on 18th St. and McDowell to do the ordinance.  We were introduced to a man by the name of G. Homer Dhuram.  I had no idea who he was but later found out.  was very nice to shake hands with him. 
  We were busy through the rest of the year but no major events that I can recall now "2022".  
      ]]> 2022-02-05 22:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2031005555 January 1963: We have been married for 9 Months now. Life is good and we are happy. Ross and Mildred are here in a small house close to Aunt Bessie. Ross was hit by a car when crossing Mc Dowell road close to Bessie's house. He did not break any bones but is quite bruised up. He will be in the hospital for a few days. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2031030341     My Dad came down to Phoenix in Feb. He brought us a beef roast and I cooked it in the oven.  We sure liked eating it for several meals. We live on a frugal housing and grocery budget.  I get to have one meal at work and Jack gets a meal allowance if he goes out of town. 
  We went on vacation again to Iowa. Jack bought an older pickup truck and fixed the back for a home made camper so we could sleep in it while on the road.  It worked out pretty well. Saved the price of a motel for 4 nights. Jack likes to fish in the farm ponds in Iowa.  The family plans a Sunday gathering when we are there. All the ladies are great cooks and I enjoy meeting and visiting with them. We usually stay with Ross and Mildred in Norwood Iowa. We also traveled around to the different homes and have a meal and a tour of their farm.  This year we went over to Bonapart  Iowa. It is close to the Mississippi river. A first cousin of mine, Darel Flake lived there and raised turkeys on Uncle Vernon's farm.  They gave us a nice meal, a tour of the turkey farm and offered us a nights stay. We decided to go back to Norwood but their hospitality was super. 
   We came back to Phoenix and resumed our work. We were able to put money into savings with our work and no payments on anything. I did some sewing for out trailer. I made curtains and things for us to wear I got a pattern to finally fit Jack and made him some work shirts.   Later on in the fall we realized some great news. We were expecting a baby.  Even by Christmas time, I did not look pregnant.  I got busy and made some clothes for myself and a baby. We shopped around and found a crib that was used by a lady that had twins. Her boys only wanted to sleep in the same crib together.  I think that crib cost us $20.
    We put the crib in the bedroom with our double bed. There was only about18 inches
for a walkway between the beds but we were getting ready.  That was the year that President John Kennedy  was shot, It was November and that's how I remember  that day.  
I turned 20 years old that Nov. I worked for awhile and did not have much nausea. I quit after a few months to relax and get ready. That was a big year I'm glad we remember the great times of our couple only time. End of 1963]]> 2022-02-05 23:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2031030341 Ahh 1964: very important events. On Jan. 4, we were ready to go to the temple. My brother in law Bud, AKA Ross Galen, was visiting from Iowa. We went to the temple and I wore my first real pregnancy dress. Marvel Smith (4H teacher) was the Matron of Mesa Temple. She was so kind and excited that we were there. She personally helped me get my clothes together for the session. She was a great help to make me feel less nervous. She told me how I looked so glowing and like a beautiful bride. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2031058606     In that time period at the temples, the wedding and the endowment were done on the same day.  That was an exhausting experience. My parents, Dee and several members of 14th ward came to be with us. I think we had lunch afterwards.  That part I don't remember to well. The next day we decided to go for a drive around Camelback mountain and anywhere else we might find interesting. Dee and Bud Welch were with us and we also had a good visit with them.  
     From January to May I was busy sewing and generally preparing for May. I was able to go out of town with Jack some. We went to Las Vegas once and other towns in Arizona. We planned a baby for April 28th. Nice plan for inexperienced couples.  Mothers Day was the second Sunday of May and no baby. I was so upset about my plan that I refused to take a carnation for mothers. Well the next Saturday, things were starting to move in the right direction. After several hours of light to medium contractions, we went to the hospital.  Things slowed down  to almost nothing during the day.  Doctor Schaller sent us home and said to wait until the contractions were closer and stronger.  Well by Sunday Morning, early, that is what happened.  William Ross Welch was born about 8:00 on the 17th of May.  Jack's birthday was coming up on the 24th. I would have been frantic if I was still PG by then.  Our son Bill was named for his Welch Grandfather, Ross William Welch. Now it was time to go home with the new baby.  With 7 siblings younger than me, I should have had some idea about newborns . Nice plan but not applicable in real life. Our trailer was small and a new baby really cramped in. The first night was a real experience. The baby was hungry and not able to tell day from night. Every day was a little bit better. We knew we didn't want this arrangement for very long so we began to look for a house. We just used want adds in the Phoenix newspaper. We found a home on Willetta St. about  half a mile from the trailer.  We had money saved to get a better deal on a house.  We bought the house at 3245 E. Willetta with cash to the original mortgage for $9.000.  It had three bedrooms and 1 bath.  We moved in when Bill was about a month old. We were in the same ward and that was great.  We got out of the house when Bill was 2 weeks old. We had a great time showing him off to our friends. We needed furniture for the house. there were no large appliances and we needed almost everything.  We did have kitchen stuff and towels. We bought used things when we could find them at auctions and newspaper ads.  It was slow to put it together but eventually we had what we needed. It was a pleasant neighborhood as far as physical surroundings were concerned. There were wonderful  people that we got to know well and others that were less desirable. Aunt Dorothy was great and we had nice relations with most of the close neighbors. The Cook family on the corner, two houses from us were great. Bill had a good friend named Theron. Later on the boys got in lots of trouble with their activities. I will try to write them down as the years go by. I continued to teach Primary. There was a nursery at church, but Baby Bill would have nothing to do with that. He wanted to be with Mom. He was good in meetings so that was OK. We just got along on Jack's earnings and saved money.  Our house payment was about $67.00 and utilities were under $10.00.
     We went on vacation to Iowa with the new kid and had a good time. We tried the 60s version of disposable  diapers.  they did not work to well.  When in Norwood, every morning, I was out by the water pump washing out cloth diapers.  Donna Sellers had a washing machine so we got clean diapers when we stayed with her for a few days. We went to Snowflake some weekends. My siblings called Bill 'Billy the kid'. The Flake family really liked our visits. 
Bill grew very fast  and was good baby after the first adjustments of parents. The crowded bedroom was much better after we were able to move to the housel  ]]> 2022-02-06 01:27:52 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2031058606 1965 We were a family of three and we did everything together. One child is easy to transport and do reg things with. We got involved with the ward people and other friends. We had a good front yard that we watered with a sprinkler. The street was wide enough for my dad 'Fost' to park his cattle truck and spend the night with us. He was almost a regular visitor on Monday. He brought cattle to the auction in Tempe, mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2031067793 We had a wringer washer when we first moved in. I knew how to us it because that is what my family had during my childhood.
     the neighbor on the right of us made fun of my washing and clothesline. I washed lots of diapers and the sun was my drier. I understood solar energy and had a great tan to go with it. Jack was still going out of town sometimes.  He was getting tired of the long drives. He still drove from Taylor with the cucumbers during the season in Aug through Sept but that was super hard on his sleep. 
     A lot of that year was routine because we were tied down with a home and child.  Toward the winter, Ross and Mildred came
down and stayed with us for a few months. By Christmas, we knew we were going to have a second baby. I was not sick, just a little peaked in the mornings. I don't recall to many special events during the year. Bill learned to walk and get around pretty well. We had to make sure the gate to the front was closed because Bill got out and was sitting by the curb when I missed him one day. He liked to play outside and inside too. He was growing up and was lots of fun. If I find some more info through my keepsakes and papers, I will write more for this year.  ]]> 2022-02-06 01:54:51 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2031067793 1966: This was another great year for the family. Russell Flake Welch was born on June 13th. We remembered the 2 night problem from before and waited till the contractions were good and hard. Good thing we made it in good time to the hospital, Russell was born before we reached the delivery room, He was a skinny and very long boney kid at 8lbs 8ozs. Largest Welch baby and easiest to birth. He was laying in the bed when the nurse was in to check on us. Baby Russell was less opinionated than his brother. He was easier to satisfy and grew ever so fast. He was always a big boy. He drank lots of milk and the Dr. put him on 2% milk to slow him down and still satisfy his hunger. Russell was mild and more self entertaining than Bill. The summer was hot and most days Russell just wore a diaper. At birth, I will have to say, Russell looked like a tiered old man. His soft spot on the front of his head was so large it almost met his eyebrows. When he was relaxed, his heartbeat could be counted by the flexion of his soft spot. Right away he became a very handsome kid. His smile was so contagious. Also, he always had such a droll sense of humor. He is very strong and very observant. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2031111411 Russ is is a quiet, brainy, reserved person. To get to know him takes time and open mind  to catch the fun of his sense of humor. Bill decided he was done with diapers about that time.  He was great at knowing where to be and what to do at the most important time for dry clean underwear.  Good kid.  Both boys grew like crazy. We went through groceries pretty fast. I made little suit top coats for them to wear to church. They were too light in Snowflake. Winter was not the right time to visit grandparents. We just did the work that we had to get done every day. Jack was home more now that 2 of them were needing care and mom needed help and relief after all day.  Weekends were getting yard work done and Sunday to church and a good dinner. I those days, Primary and Relief Society were held during the week. I would try to get to Relief Society to have a break and some adult socializing but sometimes it was just to much of an effort. 
   The kitchen table in that home was by the window to the back yard, There was a small pantry store room beyond the table It was nice to have the extra place for all kinds of things, but we knew we had to have a better dining area. Some of the houses in the neighborhood had the back wall of the kitchen taken out clear to the doorway. That opened up the kitchen  and a family room was added on with a laundry room and additional bathroom.  We thought about the addition for several years and hired a brick mason that lived in the ward to lay the foundation and the walls.  We got an electrician to do the wiring. We could not go forward with anything until the electrician came to finish up. It took several months to get him out  there.  when the pluming and electrical were done, we put the ceiling in and put  paneling on the walls. 
We could all get around the table and have more floor space to move in. We also made an outside room at the end of the driveway for a freezer and tools. the family room roof extended out and over the outside room there was a breezeway between and the gate to the front was right there. Made the house nice. I may type more later, my memory cells are not as bright right now.  ]]> 2022-02-06 04:01:28 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2031111411 In 1964 we bought a blue and white Plymouth for a family car and for me to do errands. That car was easy on gas and just the right size for 4 or 5 people. One great feature was, it had no refrigeration. Just the windows open to keep cool in the hot summer. Also about that neat car, the windshield was pitted from being sandblasted in Page, AZ. Really sandy there and what I call the wind belt of the west. That little car was our transportation to the hospital the 4 times that we produced our special, special boys. Served us for 10 years as I remember. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2033945936 now back to 1965.  Jack was still driving truck, but now he was working in the Arnold's Pickle Co. warehouse more. It was good to have Dad home most nights, We usually  got to church on Sundays, and I was still in Primary.  I liked the association with the other ladies and a break from the house with two boys. It was a break for them also.  These years after the children came were so routine that big events were sometimes extra work. Jack's parents came down in the winter. They stayed with us for several years until our family got bigger. If I come across keepsakes or pictures. My memory may get some help for this time more than 50 years ago from 2022.  ]]> 2022-02-07 19:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2033945936 In the early summer of this year 1967, Jack decided to change jobs and work for the Snowflake family in the slaughter house and meat business that they owned. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2034080331 He went the SF (Snowflake) early Monday mornings and came back Friday, late at night. He usually had to do some business for the slaughter  house. He would pick up things they needed and be ready to go Mondays.  It was hard to get through a week with no adults around, and the boys and I were pretty lonely.  In May of this year. we moved up to SF into a house that belonged to Cousin Jake. It didn't have very good heat, and the weather was still quite cool. We fixed the one tiny bedroom for Bill and Russ. Russell would not keep his blanket on at night and was fussing because he  was so cold. After a few nights, he started keeping the blanket on better. Russ learned to walk in late June and July. We would go to Grandma's house at least once a week for lunch. We didn't have garbage pickup and the neighborhood cats would get into the sacks if they were not in a closed  room. I saved trash till Grandma's garbage was picked up. We had a pretty fair stroller so we walked to  the grocery store. One trip there, Bill fell off the back where he was hanging on and bumped his head pretty bad. He had a nap after I determined he did not have bad effects from it. What a contrast from equipment of later years. We rarely had anyone in the car with seat belts, and babies and children were not restrained. We planted a garden in the back of the property. I weeded for awhile every week when the boys took naps. We came back after we left SF to harvest some of the veggies. We didn't get much and one of my cousins was feeding the leftover plants to cattle. Was a good experience, and we did eat some of the potatoes. There was a toy car there in the yard made from sheet metal. It was so heavy, it was hard to push. The boys and neighbor kids did have a good time with it. We left it there when we moved back to Phoenix. We got to go to the parade on Pioneer day. Snowflake can really celebrate during July.  My cousin Glen lived across the street and a few other kids were close. Bill did play with them sometimes.  We came back in the fall to our little house on Willetta. I was glad to be back in the city.   
       Big news for 1968, we were going to have another BOY.  I was a little more sick this time. The locals blamed it on the heat. Funny that they did not know about the difference in Phoenix heat and SF heat.  Jacks Parents came down again and stayed for about four months. It got a little close in the kitchen at times. I told them that I wanted my own mother to help me after the baby came in February. I guess there were feelings, but I stated my preference and that was OK. The boys got a new swing set in the back yard  and they had a good time there.   ]]> 2022-02-07 20:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2034080331 We were getting ready for a third boy. We were never forewarned about the gender of our babies, but I always said it was a boy to be safe. Ross and Mildred (Welch) always went for walks every day. There was a Bayless grocery store about 3 blocks away. They liked to pick through the produce for bargains. Mildred would cook up something with what they found. Chuck was born on February 22. He was a pretty kid. Nice smooth skin. A little shock of hair that was unruly in the front, and nice big brown eyes. The most remarkable thing that happened with him, was that he decided to sleep all night at 3 weeks. I just woke up in the morning and he had slept straight through. He had trouble with ear infections for a few years when he was a small kid. He was never able to say where it hurt, so I had to learn to read the signs. He didn't have anything serious enough to damage the ear drums. Bill and Russ were very good about playing with Chuck when he got more social. This was quite soon because he wanted to be part of the fun they had. Forgot to state his full name. Charles Dean Welch. He was named with his dad's middle name and had so many personality and physical traits just like dad. All of our help left so we were a family of 5 again. We enjoyed the extra room in the house and the family room was good to play in. It was an experience to go shopping or anywhere with 3 boys. Most of the time, I would wait until evening to get the groceries and other shopping. Church was always a little hard with 3. We did try to get through the whole meeting every Sunday. Church always fell during nap time. That year was a challenge for us. I washed diapers for Russ and Chuck for several months. Also dishes had to be washed. I need all of nap time just to catch up from the times that all three were in motion. We look back on that year as a very busy time. When Chuck was at least a little older, I began babysitting two girls weekdays. They were Cindy and Leeanne. They were nice girls and played well with the boys and sometimes the neighbor kids. The money helped us save up for our plans to move to a bigger house. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2034169365     After Russ was out of diapers, life was better.  Just busy with all the work that needed to be done. I still had the wringer washer and hung clothes out on the line. 
    Ross and Mildred were down again. They were in an apartment about 3 miles from us. When I was brave enough, I put the 5 kids in the car and packed a lunch to go there and have a carpet picnic. 
I watched those girls for more than a year. They were really well behaved. Better than the Welch boys sometimes. As I remember, I still was in Primary. Bill was in the Sunbeam class and he could not say his L's or R's very well. His speech was interesting. He also had a stutter. Later in school he was in speech class. He did speak plainer but the stutter was with him even into his adult years. He is a brilliant man and that has not held him back. Our boys were growing up and the neighborhood was not expanding much for them to explore. They got some more friends at times and other neighbors were a challenge. Enough said. We were getting that house paid for and did not add any debt with the addition. I hope to get some of my pictures in this history. That I will work on. I know I have more info for these years. Hope to add more ]]> 2022-02-07 21:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2034169365 1969: Wow time moves on. When Chuck was talking pretty well, He saw a baby at a church function and asked me if we could go to the store and buy a baby. He had the special sound to his words. He had a lot of trouble with his R's and L's. His teachers had a hard time understanding his words. by the time he reached kindergarten, The school said he needed more speech therapy. He could go to ASU Tempe to students of speech and spend an hour twice a week for treatment. He did well but I was still taking him up in north Phoenix during first grade. He eventually got better. Russell had some of the same issues but the school had a special teacher that gave him some help. When Chuck was still under a year, Russell fell out of the tree in the yard and broke his left leg below the knee. He got a nice cast clear over the foot and some crutches. He didn't learn to walk with the crutches but got along just scooting. He wore the plaster thin on the heal and we had to get some more put on before he was healed. He scooted around the church parking lot with the primary kids laughing at the plaster trail. I did say boys were interesting. We went most everywhere with carrying him around. It was another very busy year, and we were wanting to have more room for our family to do outside things. As the boys were old enough to go to school, we wanted a better situation than having them walk and cross McDowell Road. There was no public school kindergarten at that time. I took Bill up about 2 miles north to Aldersgate kindergarten for part of year to help him be ready. We had the boys in church classes and we had many, many books to read. Library books and as many good other books as we could buy. All this helped them. Now, I am happy that we made the effort to help their minds be ready for formal education. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2034288787    I finally graduated from Primary in '69.  I was a councilor in Relief Society. I served with Sheila Land and Georgette  Inman.  I was the Homemaking councilor.  We had work meetings every month for us to do crafts and get things done for a 'bazar' once a year. I was very inexperienced and had trouble living up to the position.  I had never conducted a meeting, and was very unsure of my abilities. It got better with time. The biggest challenge was the money making part. The bishop wanted the Relief Society to raise funds for the wards money needs. I worked hard and made lots of articles.  We sold all of the camp quilts we could make. We did sell some food items and made some money.  
    That year. we had a Sister that had learned to do free motion machine embroidery.  Her Aunt was coming to our area  and several of us wanted to learn how. We got a lady to watch the children at her house while we were in class. I used the thread and patterns then and in later years. 
       That year was one of the last times I could say I was a stay at home mom.  We were always busy. We started thinking about Food Storage that year.  We got some 5 gallon cans from somewhere and Jean, my Brother's wife, stopped at our house to get a few cans.  I think they were in Tucson attending U of A at that time.
They had 3 girls at that time.    I think we had a little dog that year.  We named her 'Peaches'.  She was a little fluffy black dog that was kind of cute.  Nothing special, and we didn't have her for very long. I think we decided we didn't want a dog right then.  
       We were still thinking about a bigger home. Our idea was some farm land that we could have some large animals to keep our boys busy.  We had a friend that grew up in Taylor and worked in real estate. Gary Mc Cleve had found a piece of property in Chandler that He wanted to make a deal on. We went out to look at it  and it was a good prospect for us to go into with him.  We had been saving money like usual and had minimal debts.  I wanted the deal to go through and I came up with the Idea that if I went to work, we could swing it sooner.  That needed to be a few years later because I wanted to wait till the boys were nearer to school age.  I was constantly sewing one thing or another. I made my boys shorts out of scraps from my pants.  They played in little shirts I had made also. As they grew older, they had tricycles and later small bicycles. The first one Bill had and learned to ride on got left in the ally one garbage day and ruined it. We had more later. 
      We didn't have more children right through the next 4 years, but they were busy. As I find pictures and paperwork, I can add more to these years.
     


]]> 2022-02-07 23:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2034288787 This year, The Relief Society changed Presidents and I was put in the nursery. That is probably where I belonged all the time. Trouble is I was in charge and no one wanted to take care of me. I did not mind, It was my turn. The kids that were old enough for first grade could walk from the church on 40th St. at Oak to Papago School on 36th St. The kids were safe then. We didn't think about them being unsafe walking 4 blocks. One thing that happened this year. I had taken Bill to school one morning. Chuck was asleep so I thought he would be OK till I returned about 15 minutes later. Well he wasn't there. I was talking to someone on the phone and the phone operator came on the line with Sheila Land to tell me that Chuck was at her house with his shoes on the wrong feet. He woke up and decided I might be at her house. That was more than a half a mile away and across two main streets. He had to cross McDowell and 36th St. to get to her neighborhood. Somebody up there loves our family. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2034348657 That year we had enough money saved to make a payment on that Chandler property we were looking into.  The piece was southeast of the town and across a canal from a small airport.  Actually moving out there was in the future but we made the first step. 
     We bought a stock tank to use as a wading pool for our boys. We filled it with a hose and had to drain it by siphoning it our to the lawn when it was dirty.  Leaves and things would get into it and dirt in the wind. Jack made a cover with 2 sheets of plywood and piece in the middle to lift it up or take it off.  the boys had a very good time with it in the hot summer.  We made a sandbox also. We had to cover that to keep the cats out of it.  A rain made the sand real heavy before it dried.  My Dad took the stock tank when we moved in 1974.  We always went to Iowa in the summer to see the relatives.  We stayed in the house at Norwood some years.  Ross and Mildred had an older mobile home that the family had moved to the farm. Mildred liked to be near the pigs that she raised. Ross had an car accident at a rural store where they were parked. He was kind of sore and not able to to much. 
      No one lived at the Norwood house and we had no food there.  Jack would go out early to fish and leave us there to get up and ready for the day.  The boys got hungry before we made it to the farm.   More later. I hope I can get some of the pictures I have saved into the text of these years. They will tell a better story than words.]]> 2022-02-08 00:45:06 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2034348657 When this year started. We had the three boys and they were busy all the time. We had a good back yard with toys and other stuff. We had some good neighbors and some that were a challenge. The boys played outside in good weather and inside on rainy or very cold days. We were involved in all church activities and had good friends. The Inman family with their three boys were playmates a good share of the time. That was the year Russell broke his leg. I think I described that in one of the other years. First broken bone it the family. Russell was the more timid one and we shall see the scrapes he got into over the years. When Russ broke his leg, I bought him and the other boys a few dime store toys and pastimes. We did not go to Snowflake while Russ was in his cast. We got home from the emergency hospital and decided to call the grandparents about the news. Russell was on the phone and told Grandma that he broke his EGG. Grandma told that story for many years. We went on vacation that year. The Iowa families got together at the town Hall in Williamson. It is a rural town north of Chariton. We had a very good time. I hope to add pictures. Bill was in 2nd grade at Papago school. That year Arizona added Kindergarten to the public schools. I think it was for half day and they did not have lunch for either AM or PM class. The purpose of the kindergarten was to get the 5 year old students used to being away from home settings and just have playtime for 2 to 3 hrs. Russell already had all that, but he did enjoy kindergarten. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044059416    We had  a Ford truck That was just the one seat for passengers. We found a camper shell for the back and had a boot made for the boys to go back and forth while we we en route. We had planned to go to Iowa about the middle of the July. The family called to tell us that Ross had a stroke and was in the Chariton hospital. He had told Mildred that he was not going to recover from this.  He lasted only a day or so and then died.  We had to speed up our plans and rush to go back for his funeral.  he was a hot day for the funeral.  Our son Bill came with us to the funeral and the cemetery over in Clarke county.  The other 2 boys stayed with someone that watched the smaller children.  The weather was really warm that year.   We did have a family gathering after the funeral. 
I think most of the family were happy that Ross did not linger in the hospital or the care home for a long time. The family was OK with the life Ross lived and his passing with loving family around. ]]> 2022-02-12 21:32:32 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044059416 We made a big payment on the Chandler property this year. we were anxious to move our family out of the city as the were getting to big just to entertain themselves in the back yard or with friends in the neighborhood. One day they invented a game with Theron Cook using a rope and a garbage can. They put the rope across Willetta St. with one end tied to the can and the other in tied to something more solid. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044078592 They caught two cars in the game before an adult saw what was up.  Russell had some sort of stick with nails in it. He threw the stick into the street and a lady got it in a tire just as she came  along.  Jack took her tire and got the shop to fix it within about 2 hrs. She told us that the whole incident  was very disturbing to her.  Jack said it was  disruptive to him also.  The boys had a small bicycle that they rode around the neighborhood.  The thing to do with that bike was to ride it over to the bamboo field.  Almost every time they did, they got a flat tire.  They were on foot until Jack could fix the flat. 
   Bill was 8 years old in May of '72.  He was baptized at the Stake building on 18th St. in Phoenix.  Same place that Jack was baptized   back in 1962.  H e got started in cub scouts. 
We were getting very anxious to get out of the city. We made a decision for me to start work ant the Motorola plant on 52nd St., night shift. I wanted to work the school year as Bill and Russ were in school all day and I took Chuck to a friends house so I could sleep for a few hours in the morning. Jack took care of the boys and got them to bed before I had to get up and go to work at 11:30 PM. I was on a microscope looking at transistor wafers in the furnace area. It was not hard work but life was really hectic. I had to work 6 nights a week. Saturday was my night off and it worked out good for getting prepared for Sunday. I quit when the boys were out for the summer. ]]> 2022-02-12 22:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044078592 In the fall of '71 we were getting more anxious to get out to the city. We made the decision that I could go to work at night and get on with our plans sooner. In the fall of '71 I started the 3rd shift at the semi conductor plant of Motorola on 52nd St. I was on the microscope in the furnace room for wafer production. The wafers were eventually made into transistors for production of many products that used them. It was a rough year because I was working 6 nights a week. We made our payment and were getting things ready for the move. I took the summer of '72 off so I could be with the boys. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044098354 2022-02-12 22:58:52 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044098354 This is the year that Bill was baptized. His birthday was the 17th of May. He was baptized at the Stake Building on 18th. St. in Phoenix. Same place that his father was baptized in 1962. I took the summer off to be at home during the boy's summer vacation. We went on a vacation to Iowa again. The boys were 4, 6 and 8. This was an easier trip because we had zero babies in diapers. This year on the vacation, we were at Uncle Bud's house and the boys were riding a lawnmower around their house. Chuck grabbed the exhaust pipe on top of the motor and burned his hand pretty bad. We got an ice block and had him keep his hand on it as much as possible. We were able just to walk into a doctors office for Chuck to see him. He was pleased that we put him on ice. I think we got a prescription for some ointment for him. He had a bandage on till it got better. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044116537 I went back to Motorola in Sept to work in the piece parts division.  I was back on the microscope looking at small parts that had been sent through a furnace on metal trays and then cooled of.  I worked only 5 nights a week, and that was much better.  Russ was in 1st grade and Bill was in 3rd.  Bill was playing some version of football at school and knocked his front tooth out clear to the root. The school saved the tooth and our dentist put the tooth back in and said it might stay in and take root again. It did stay in for a few months, but it came out  and bill has one front tooth where two permanent teeth were before. 
     I had a friend close to the school that watched Chuck while I slept for about 2hrs in the mornings. I would get some more sleep after supper and Jack could watch the boys and get them off to bed. I would wake up in time to get to work at 11:30.  I had time to sew  a little bit during this time. Made myself some pant suits and stuff for the house.    
   On our way home from Iowa, we went to the Rocky Mountain National Park. The elevation was over 11,000 feet. It was very interesting for our family.  We had our breakfast in our camper of cereal and milk.  We stopped at fast food places for the other meals.]]> 2022-02-12 23:49:48 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044116537 This is memories of the beginning courtship of Jack and Marie. We met in the summer of '61 at the cabin that the Arnold family owned in Taylor. Jack thought my brother, Dude and I were adopted because our skin was dark from our summer tans. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044135650 Jack remembers the night that he and my Dad, Fost were driving their trucks down to Phoenix. They were stopped at Senica on the Apache reservation. My Dad was taking me down for my college year at ASU. They were talking about our truck not having the High and Low gear working. I was out of the truck and just walking a little and seeing a triantula on the ground. I never saw on before. The station owner just got a broom and smashed it. Later on that fall, Georgia Lee Arnold Allen suggested that he give me a call. He went to the trouble of finding my phone number. We started dating in late November and into December. Jacks parents came to Phoenix in December and they took Jack up to Washington State to see his sister Margaret. I went home to SF and came down to the valley in January,

]]> 2022-02-13 00:20:23 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044135650 Jack flew to Denver to get a new semi truck and trailer for Arnolds. I was in SF for something. Jack stopped by in that truck to get back to our trailer. We went back to our employment and were getting ready to go to the temple and the first baby. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044142237 2022-02-13 00:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044142237 This year for Iowa vacation, we had a station wagon to go there. The first thing that went wrong was the car heated up. We went to Ballard's garage and they flushed the radiator with a can of lye. The next thing was the radiator was leaking. We got a motel for that night. Next day Jack went to get the water pump fixed while I entertained the children. We walked around the motel and just passed the time that day. Third; we could not run the air conditioner the rest of the trip. It was super warm through Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. We made it to Chariton and Jack had to replace the radiator with one from a wrecked car of Tommy Loney's. That was the trip that we had the most problems until in the '80s. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044158417 2022-02-13 01:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044158417 I was still working the night shift at the Motorola plant. Around April and May, I had hard time working 6 hrs. of the AM because I was pregnant. I knew I would be quitting for good at the end of the school and I wanted to work and bring in $ before we were going to move. That spring was kind of a blur but we got through it and then I could stay home. We decided not to go to Iowa that year. That year Bill was in 3rd grade. He tuned 9 in May. He went his whole 4th grade at Papago. by the time we moved he was 5th grade at Knox school in Chandler. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044197619 Russell was 7 in June. He was in 1st grade at Papago school and 2nd grade and also 3rd grade there. Sometime in the fall, wonderful timid Russell put a pinto bean in his right ear. he was doing some kind of craft project and put the thing in his ear while doing something else. It was a Saturday and we were all home. We didn't know what to do. We finally decided to take him to emergency. First of all the doctor tried to irrigate it out with water. I didn't work. They sent us to a hospital in northwest Phoenix to a specialist in that kind of surgery. We had to wait a few hours until it was safe for him to be in major surgery. Too close after a meal could be not good for the lungs. Well to get the bean out, they broke his eardrum. The bean could not stay in because it would swell. ]]> 2022-02-13 03:05:24 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044197619 In the fall, we went back to the specialist that had done the first surgery. He was going to repair the eardrum. The operation takes the whole ear forward from the back. They repair the eardrum with some veins that are in that area. Russell had a whole headful of bandage. The first day after surgery, I came up to see him, and he had a cord of some type hanging from the ear. He had pulled the packing out of the ear canal. He just pulled a piece out and did not affect the operation or the healing. For the next surgeries on him, I told the Doctor to cut the packing in short pieces so he would not pull the whole thing out. This is not the end of the ear saga. In later years there will be more. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044211018 2022-02-13 03:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2044211018 mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2045127397 2022-02-14 00:53:36 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2045127397 Great Event just 4 days into this year. Justin was born on the 4th of January. At the end of '73, we were trying to have this baby by 12/31 for tax purposes. On new years eve, we went to Papago Park for me to climb some of the hills to get the labor started. Didn't work, just made me miserable. Karen and Bruce were in Mesa and agreed to come for the evening of Jan. 3rd to watch the older boys. The labor was long but Justin appeared just fine. He weighed 7 lbs. 1 oz. Smallest of the Welch boys but He grew extra fast. All His brothers weighed 8 pounds +. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2054169053 2022-02-17 22:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2054169053 Jack had some problems with his back and could not work around Oct. and Nov. of 1973. He was in St. Joseph hospital for a few days in traction to relieve the pressure on the nerves in the spine. It helped some but no lasting effects. Jack's Dr. let him out of the hospital for Justin's birth but that was about all. We were planning our house out in Chandler and getting some materials together. Jack went to Home Depot to get some sheet rock. He lifted something and injured his back even more to the point that he could hardly walk. We managed to get Justin home on a Friday. The Sunday following was Fast and Testimony meeting. We decided to have Justin's blessing done on this day. I was wearing my hair up in a bee hive and made it through the birth without messing it up. My parents were able to be there so we did it on the 6th of January. Jack and I left as so as the blessing was over and the grandparents stayed at church with Bill, Russ and Chuck. What a great story, Yes? Jack went back into the hospital the next week to have the discs in his back out. We could not go see him because we just were not able to get out of the house with Justin so small. After 2 weeks, on a Sunday we were able to go see Dad. He was in great pain but the nurses loved little Justin. We were able to visit and not disturb the routine very much. At about 3 weeks, Jack was able to come home but couldn't do very much but get up and down to the bathroom. He was able to watch Justin while I went to Relief Society on Thursday mornings. Jack, Justin and I drove the pickup out to Chandler to talk to Reed Kirby about renting the farm for hay until we could get a house done and moved out there. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2054195988 2022-02-17 22:40:15 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2054195988 Since Jack was not in the hospital or resting at home, he decided to get started on the Chandler house. He found people to start the rough plumbing and another guy to pour the foundation. We did have an exterminator come and spray for termites before the foundation was in. We had to have our Phoenix house completely done because of termites a few years back. Jack found some trusses that were out in west Phoenix. He got somebody to help him to move them out around South Mountain and over to the Chandler place. Jack borrowed a fork lift from Arnold Pickle Co. to put up the trusses. After the rafters were up, the fork lift was in the yard west of the house site. The neighbors were irrigating and ran water in the yard around the fork lift. We got it out by laying 2 by 6 boards in front and drove it out. We were trying to get the house ready to live in by the summer. We wanted to have the kids ready to attend Chandler Schools by Sept. After Phoenix school was over, I took all the boys to SF until the house could be livable. My brother Gay came to Chandler to help Jack put up the furring on the walls. Jack put the sheeting on the house and had a foam roof on top of it. We came back from SF in July. The sheet rock was all on and two of the doors. The front door was not on. In the front door space was a piece of plywood. None of the floors were in and the bugs and flies made themselves at home. The swamp cooler was on and working, but the kitchen was not in. We got my cousin, Phil Smith to come out and custom make the cabinetry for the whole house. There were 2 baths and a TV shelf unit. I finished the stain and varnish on all those cabinets. After most of the work on the walls and built ins was done, we found a place selling a house full of used carpet. We used almost every room to put in 3 bedrooms and the living room. in the 4th bedroom we put in new indoor outdoor carpet. I did the tile in the bathrooms and kitchen family room areas. About that time, Jack hurt his back again and was not able to work much. His Neuro Surgeon told him to go to bed and only up for the bathroom. The rest did help him get over such extreme pain and he gradually was able to do the work but had to watch the lifting and especially the twisting movements. The boys got into school at Knox School up on Knox Road between Arizona Ave. and Alma School Rd. It was a new School and they rode the bus. Bill was in 5th grade and Russ was in 3rd grade. Chuck was in 3rd grade. The teachers were excellent. Bill started playing the trumpet in band. I found a great piano teacher for Bill and Russ. Mrs. Larkins was our teacher for the next 18 years. When Justin was a baby, he was not demanding for attention. I was able to have him sleeping or watching me while I did so much work on the house. By Christmas time, we had a front door and the floors all in. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2054371742 Arnolds payed Jack on the pay role for all of the time he was not able to work.  We had an income and more time to get the house livable.  We had some furniture to bring with us but our living room furniture was not very good.  Phil Smith also built  the captains quarters bed for the boys room.  We found a king size bedroom set in Phoenix.  We had never had a king size before. The family room couches were part of  the living room couches we had in Phoenix.  I found some other upholstery fabric  and recovered them.  I made curtains for every window in the house.  Some of the nicer ones (living room and master bedroom were after Joy was born.  
       Justin would not eat solid food very well. I put eggs in the formula for his milk so he would have protein. His eyes were watering pretty bad one time so I took him to the Dr. on the square to see what was wrong.  I was guessing pink eye.  We had some calves that had pink eye.  The medication for the calves was purple and stained the face up for awhile.  we got some human drops for Justin.  
    Russell was up for baptism in July of '74.  But we need to revisit the 'bean in the ear'  episode. Russ could not get water in his ear because the eardrum was not in place yet.  We put cotton soaked in vaseline in his ear to get him into the baptismal font.  The bishop in Chandler was Bob Tarwater. Lots of the ward members lived outside the city limits. There were several dairies in the area. Lots of Hay fields and many Hispanic families that were employs of the farms.  People came to the ward from some 10 miles out.  I knew Sue Skousen from my college days and Jane and Rulen  Johnson had moved out from 14th ward a few years earlier.   Beverly Parris was one of the first sisters to make friends with us. She has been a great friend for the rest of my life.  We met in the old original church that was down on Boston St.  That building was in use for so many years.  Several additions had been added over the years.   Mitch and Louise Jones lived on McQueen Rd. and had a little boy named Jake that was about Justin's age.  The months after July were full of lots of work and getting to know all the people in the surrounding farms and the ward members. It was a busy time but we were all young then and we could get lots of work done.   The boys were doing well in school and we worked in the yard lots of days after the summer heat was over.  I may remember more later. ]]> 2022-02-18 01:27:10 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2054371742 I think this year was more of catching up from the year before. Chuck's teacher for 1st. grade was Mrs. Castill. She was a very inspiring teacher and she had a great impact on Chandler Education. Chuck was very smart kid and was active in giving bus drivers, Sunday School teachers, School teachers and parents a bang for their buck. He got in a few fights with kids on the bus. He also made good friends with kids almost everywhere. Russell had to have more surgery on his ear. We changed Doctors to Dr. Dickson in Mesa. I got all the records form Phoenix over to the Mesa office. The doctor said he had to spend many hours just to read to read all the treatments from Phoenix. He had Surgery at Mesa Desert Samariton. The Dr. said that he had to make a large pocket inside the ear canal because some of the tiny bones had been destroyed from infection. His outlook for hearing aids was pretty certain at some point of his life. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2054441063 Justin was growing up.  He was lots fun for the big brothers. They did funny stuff with him on the farm.  We got a tractor to help out with heavy things and the boys could practice driving it with supervision.  We built a barn east of the house. It had big 10 inch poles for the supports on the 4 corners, then calf pens on the side. Jack put up wooden pens and wire pens for animals around the barn.  We started getting some live stock to raise dairy calves and some to fatten up for slaughter.   We went on vacation again to Iowa.  We got some young chickens to state before we left.  Bonna and Mark were going to come down to water them each day and the Parris's were going to check on them also.  For some reason the chickens got to hot and some of them died. Mark was very upset, but we told him it was not a big deal.  All the other animals were OK. We just had animals because we had a big place and the boys had their chores to do. Russell was in cub scouts since we came to Chandler.  The cubs were active and had the 'Pinewood Derby' every year.  That was a challenge for  parents and boys to get the cars ready. Our family made nice looking cars; we had more trouble getting the exact weight. We had a great time with the races and our boys and their father were good sports.  Some families put winning over everything else. 
Russell started playing the trumpet in the school band this year. 
    Bill went on a few hikes with his Cub scout group. His leaders were very active and made  sure the boys were working on the advancements. ]]> 2022-02-18 02:21:47 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2054441063 In 1973, we knew we were going to move in the next year and wished to sell the house on E. Willetta before we left. We were getting a little discouraged because realtors would bring clients that were not really interested to view the house. We spent lots of time keeping the house tidy for someone to look at for a part of every week. We changed realtors and had them go room to room and tell us what to improve. I took all my drapes down from the living room and replaced them with stuff from sears. We made some other improvements and a serious couple came through and agreed to buy it. This couple was completely qualified. The place got sold and we made some nice money for the years we lived in it and improvements we made. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2054455896 2022-02-18 02:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2054455896 When the house was sold and we were ready to move, we barrowed a 14ft van from Arnolds and crammed as much of our stuff in it as it would hold. The furniture went in first and all the other stuff on top. all of our clothes were hanging on a wire across the back. The stuff stayed in there until we got closets and dressers and a kitchen to stash it in. We found a used drop in range but we bought a dishwasher and a gold refrigerator for the kitchen. Neither I or Jack cannot remember about the washer and dryer. I think we bought a washer from some used appliance place in Phoenix. The washer gave us so much trouble and the dealer claimed he fixed it and with 2 or 3 loads it was broken again. Bad year for washers I think. Finally got a washer that worked all the time. We were the second house to go in for a water source. D'Wayne Sherwood (we will hear more of him later) was going to move into the neighborhood later and we got some landowners together to see what we could do. We decided to drill a well and let future home builders buy into ownership of the water company. The first water and disturbances of the pipe system caused the water to be slightly muddy. Seemed to me that the water was getting disturbed everyday before I needed to wash diapers. Muddy colored diapers were not the thing I was wanting. It was better when all the houses were in and the water settled before the mud came out. Beverly Parris was the treasurer in later years and she had a rough time with some of the members. Some would not pay any monthly dues and some used water to grow trees and many plants. The well was not drilled for irrigation. Once or twice, while we lived there the well dried up and it had to be drilled deeper. I don't know where the money came from because some of the members thought electricity and repairs were free for them. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2054500925 2022-02-18 03:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2054500925 In '76 Bill was 12 and received the Aaronic priesthood. He was so happy to go to 12 year old scouts. Brother Ethington was the scoutmaster and he was so good to the boys. He went on hikes even though he had deformed leg that caused him to have a significant limp. Chuck was baptized in March. We had moved from the old church downtown to a church close to Alma School and Rey Rd. Grandpa and Grandma Flake were invited. The time of the baptism got changed and I had no way of letting the grandparents know. They called just in time to get to the church but the got caught at the temple by Dude and family so they all came and had to be treated at the dairy freeze before parting company. Chuck started piano lessons. He was very enthusiastic about piano. He caught on very fast. Russell had such good grades that the school they wanted to place him in a gifted class. He decided he did not want to go in that class. Brother Ethington was the principle of Erie School at that time. He talked to Russ about the good things that would be for his future in that class. Russ decided to go into the class and do his best after that pep talk. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2054523447



]]> 2022-02-18 03:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2054523447 Bill was inducted into the 'Arrow of Light' achievement on one of the campouts that the scouts had. He could not talk to anyone for 24 hours. Jack told me why Bill would not talk to the family when he returned from that camp. We had many experiences on the farm. Our boys had space to do things without close neighbors. The Kirby family gave us a little chihuahua pup from their dog. We didn't have him long because he would bite strangers and steal eggs from the chicken coop. I don't recall what we did with him. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2063173117 2022-02-23 18:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2063173117 Jack was still driving into Phoenix every day to work. We had so much to do out there with animals and just keeping up with the flies and dirt. We were always busy. Grandpa Flake gave us his little welch pony, Chevy. the boys fed and watered him but did not ride much. Bill went out to bring him back to the barn but instead found him dead. That was a sad day. There was another horse story some where in those years. Jack bought a good quality mare and her male colt was called Leroy. We sent that colt to SF for Grandpa could see if he was any good. Grandpa liked him, broke him to ride and used him as his horse for many years. Jack bought calves and other cattle for us to feed out for market or sell to people that wanted beef. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2063230102 The boys were growing up and  getting involved in more activities.  Scouts, Cub scouts and school activities. All the boys were in piano lessons.  Mrs. Larkins was a good teacher that sometimes 'not often' tried to correct their mistakes by whacking their hands with a ruler.  Joy especially complained about that.  We had started having Labrador dogs to raise puppies for sale. We started with Babe a black Lab, and her daughter Dusty a yellow. ]]> 2022-02-23 19:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2063230102 In '76, we acquired two Labrador dogs. Babe and Dusty. When Babe had her first litter, Chuck went out to check the water and found puppies. He ran back to the house to tell us but left the water on. By the time we got there the puppies were swimming in the water. Characteristic of labs is that they can swim. For the first litters that we had, the family named the pups after 'Star Wars' characters. When we were selling the puppies, we had them on the lawn in front of the house, and we played with the pups as customers came to look at them. We sold many puppies. We later acquired an adult brown male named Brown Suede Shoes. He was a good dog and sired many pups. We sold lots of brown pups and he also bread females that we did not own. He also ran around the neighborhood being a pest. The Sherwood's said he came down there sometimes. He wandered to the Toone's house house once, and went inside. Corless told us that he was dragging a piece of meat off the kitchen counter when she caught him inside. He would stay home if we kenneled him. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2063265713 2022-02-23 19:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2063265713 Later in 1977, we realized that we were going to add another baby to our family. Bill would be 13, Russell 11 and Chuck 9. Justin would be 4 by the time the baby was due. The sisters in first ward gave me a baby shower. Marla Sherwood made a cute mobile for a crib with felt animal. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2063284891 We had planned our house with a large closet by the west end of the hall. I wanted to take out the wall and use the space for my sewing machine with folding doors to close it off when I was wanting to hide it. As I recall now, that year was very wet around Christmas. ]]> 2022-02-23 19:43:15 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2063284891 Now after the wonderful birth of # 5 Welch baby, I need to bring up an experience that was not so happy. I need to relate this because it did happen. The dog incident happened in January. Our dog Dusty had some pups out by the barn. Beverly Parris asked me to watch her little girl La Rey. I was 8 months pregnant and didn't move fast. We were going out to see the puppies and Justin and La Rey got there first. The kennel was open and as La Rey came up to look at the puppies, Dusty bit her right in the mouth and chin. Beverly was at Hartford school doing something for her daughter, Kendra. Jack was home so we went directly to the school with her and took her up to Desert Samaritan. They stitched her up and there was not too much damage to here face. They cut the shirt that La Rey was wearing off of her in the ER. My sister Karen had just delivered her first baby in the same hospital. I went up to the post partum floor to see her while I was there. I could not contain my distress with the dog bite and had to leave after a few minutes. Well there it is I can be sure that that incident is now in a record for history purposes. Done! Now we can go on to happier times. Later on I did a project for Beverly and her 3 girls. I embroidered a blouse for each of them. They were cute blouses and they wore them for awhile. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065270599 2022-02-24 20:15:00 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065270599 We had a beautiful little girl and the boys were old enough that I could leave Joy with them for short periods. As I remember that year, it seemed like it was raining a lot. We had a nice spring and were looking at summer and the boys being out of school. Around June, I got sick and could not do much except baby care. I went to the down town Dr. on the square but did not get better. I was trying to rest but did not improve. I called my mom, Grandma Flake to see if she could help us out. She was busy with their business and could not stay for very long. We decided for her to take me, Joy and Justin to SF and I could deal with my health there at their home. I went up to the Dr. in Lake Side and he told me to go to the hospital there or back to Chandler as he did not know what health problems I had. I went to Navapache hospital and had antibiotics and chest treatments for a week while Grandma watched my two little ones. It was determined that I probably had Pneumonia. I was tested for Valley Fever and TB. Both were negative. While I was home at Grandma's, Donna came down one day and wanted to know WHEN I was going home. Just Donna, I guess. We came back to Chandler and got back into the routine. I continued going to a Dr. in Mesa and had another Valley Fever test which was still negative. I slowly got better. The ladies from first ward brought us meals for another week. At sometime in these years before Justin went to school. We were outside doing some work and realized that Justin was not anywhere we could see him. The older boys and I were running everywhere and calling him to find our where he was. We kept going farther out and crossed Mc Queen and found him in the dry irrigation ditch across the road. So grateful there was no traffic and no water in the ditch. Bill was fourteen and going to Chandler High. He has after school activities so he need rides sometimes. Russell was at Willis Jr. High. Russ got good grades. Chuck was still at Knox Grade School. Russ and Chuck had been in gifted classes and had good times with some of the activities. Chuck had the same teacher in two of the grades. His teacher had a Valentines Day activity of a bakeoff for valentine desserts. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065324140 We Made a Valentine Cream Puff in a heart shape cake pan. Chuck's entry won both years. ]]> 2022-02-24 21:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065324140 Sometimes when I could not take Joy with me, Chuck would babysit. I came home after my errand and Chuck was crying because Joy was crying. Tender hearted Chuck. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065331173 2022-02-24 21:07:17 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065331173 Jack went to Iowa by himself one of the summers that Joy was a baby. When Joy was 1 year old, we all went that summer. We went through Eaglevill, Missouri on the way to Chariton. There were 2 competing Fireworks places and we stopped at one offering 60% off. Joy and I waited outside while the 'men' shopped. When they came out, they had large grocery bags full of firecrackers of every size. They spent about $100 dollars in that place. Many hours of fun, I guess. The family remembers how much enjoyment I got out of dressing Joy. I was told by one of the sisters in the ward that Joy did not leave the house without 20 yards of lace on here clothes. I ruined her because she actually had personal taste for a much more conservative wardrobe. We continued to raise dogs and had several Mothers and lots of puppies. Jack was still working in Phoenix most days. We learned how to remove the 'Dew Claws' in the first week after the pups were born. When the pups got sold, we gave the first puppy shot. We had some nice papered dogs and raised our prices if we were lucky enough to have Christmas puppies. Our first Lab, Babe got hit by a car on Mc Queen Rd. Jack had to shoot her because she was too badly injured. Jack cried when he had to put her down. One of the puppies from Babe came back because he was too active for the owners. We sent that puppy up to my brother Galen. The pup was named Baron but Gay's kids called here Darin. They did not neuter Darin and reported that he had many little black puppies all over the neighborhood. He left one year and never came back. He probably died somewhere around there. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065358744 2022-02-24 21:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065358744 We let our boys drive the tractor around the farm so they would have practice when they were old enough to get a license. We had a little dirt bike that they could ride down the center rode in the field. Russell had an accident on the bike partway down the field and only hurt his knee. Chuck was driving the tractor down toward the canal and turned pretty quick. He decided to jump because the tractor was going to flip over on the turn. He didn't get hurt at all but the tractor was upside down. Jack was in Iowa at the time and we had to phone him with the news. The accident was not too destructive to the tractor, it needed a new steering wheel and the whole crankcase full of oil. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065369112 2022-02-24 21:46:31 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065369112 I heard about an opportunity to make some $ at home from somewhere. It was sewing machine work on long skirts for a place in Sedona. I could pick up the fabric and thread in Mesa and do it at home. A good friend, Sue Paz Saldan, sewed for the group also. I could do skirts for about $4 - 5 dollars each and do as many as I could get done in a week. As a Christmas gift, the group gave us our choice of skirts that we could make for ourselves. I made a skirt that had shepherds and sheep on the front. I was to large at Christmas time to wear it. Beverly Parris wore it for me. At Christmas time from that year on, I always wore it. I loved that skirt. 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4]]> 2022-02-24 21:52:34 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065374707 On the way home from Iowa, Chuck, Justin, Joy and I stayed in SF on our way home from the trip. This is the great story of, Chuck vs. the Fireworks. We were in SF one evening, just visiting in the Grandparents home. We heard some popping sounds from outside and then more popping sounds. We went out and Chuck was jumping up and down by a travel trailer just out of the yard. He wanted to break a 'brick of fireworks apart and decided that burning them in the middle was the way to get it done. One of our favorite stories of all times. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065395185 2022-02-24 22:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065395185 Our boys were busy with the outside work and school studies and activities. We had a good dishwasher but the boys helped me with the dishes after Sunday dinners. We had the rotation marked on the kitchen calendar of B R C and the turns of clearing, rinsing and loading dishes. Justin was 5 years old and ready for kindergarten. He had a real hard time sitting in one place. He wanted to be active but he was fine when he was ready for 1st grade. Russell and Chuck were in Cub Scouts this year The leaders were active and the boys were having good experiences. One thing they did besides the annual Pine Wood Derby was to have a bicycle obstacle coarse. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065464556 2022-02-24 23:30:43 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065464556 I worked in Primary for several years. I was secretary when Beverly Parris was president. I took Joy with me for some of the meetings. So she went to primary from 3 months to one year. I left here with Bill and Russ after that and she was very unhappy to be left home when she was old enough to object. Beverly and I got a job cleaning the offices of Basha's warehouse in Ocitillo not far from us. we drove out there and did bathrooms, vacuuming and dusting three nights a week. We made a little spending money doing one of Beverly's side jobs. It was better than going to work full time. The boys remember that we lived on a pretty tight budget in those days. I learned how to make wheat bread and got a bread maker. We were getting wheat from the Safford area for the years supply program that the church was encouraging. We got some good plastic 5 gallon buckets from some supplier that supplied them for Arnold's Pickles We filled some with the wheat and sold them that way or just sold the buckets. We also got our first microwave that year. It was fun explaining to our boys not to put any metal in the wave. Never had a problem with that. Russell was 12 in June and ready to have the Preisthood. Bill was made a teacher in Priesthood but they passed the Sacrament togeather lots of Sundays. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065489382 2022-02-25 00:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065489382 Jack decided to slow down his work for Arnolds and do some business for himself. He had some ideas about taking old wrecked trucks apart and selling them to people who restored trucks or needed parts for repairing running trucks. It was a bold move but turned out to be profitable. The boys all helped with the truck yard. They were able to have transportation with a truck of their own when they were driving, and learned lots of useful mechanic knowledge. It helped them in the years to come. Bill was 14 in May and was made a teacher in Priesthood. Russell was a Deacon on his birthday in June. There were lots of boys in those age groups in the ward and They were active in all kinds of scout activities. Two of the hikes that the boys went on every year were the Revis Ranch horse or walking hike, and the Oricle cave by Tucson. That cave had a passage known as the Corkscrew. The boys came home very dirty from the Oricle caves. For the Revis ranch hike, the challenge was to bring home good apples, Most of the time, the apples were soft or smashed by the end of the hike. Chuck was still in Cubs for 2 more years. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065546008 2022-02-25 00:57:04 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065546008 Grandpa and Grandpa were called to the Leeds England reactivation mission. They let us take a nice Indian rug home. We intended to pay $200 dollars for it. I think we just did favors for them when they asked for payment. I wrote them as often as I could. They sent letters pretty often. We were getting more neighbors in our area. Some were very good neighbors some were just neighbors. We had a few minor disagreements over the irrigation water. The Dairy on our section sent their waste stuff to a drying pond north of us. In the winter they would burn weeds and make the neighborhood smell awful from the weeds and burning manure. The county inspector came out a few times until they quit burning it every year. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065563157 2022-02-25 01:12:40 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065563157 Justin was 6 that year. He was a good student. He went to Knox School clear up on the other end of town. We had a new Church house to attend. We got moved over to Rey Road and East of McQueen. The first week we were there, the plumbing did not work. The bathrooms were out of order on the first Sunday for meetings there. We still had the 3 hour block meeting time. The Williams Air Force members came into first ward for there area. Queen Creek was closer but we had families in the ward as long as we lived there. Around this time my brother Dude came back from Holland and got a house in Chandler. They had several children and wanted to hang out at our house. That needs to be enough said on that subject. The truck parts business was going pretty well at that time. Bill wanted to work for Kirby Farms that summer. He was spreading week killer in the cotton fields. Later they did some clearing off vegetation around ditches. Reed Kirby liked his work but Bill had other things he could make money at. Chuck also worked a little for them. He was clearing weeds out of a ditch over by Dobson Rd. We went over to make sure he wasn't dehydrated or hurt. I just kept at it. Russell was helping with the car parts. Chuck was a 12 year old Deacon on his Birthday. Chuck had a friend Garland that was 2 days younger than him. They went through everything together including their missions. Garland went to Hawaii. Chuck was more than thrilled to be called to Argentina. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065599388 2022-02-25 01:38:44 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065599388 1981 was a good year for business. Dogs and truck parts. The guys were really busy. Jack had some concerns about his back but not too bad for the work he did. Jack ran the parts business entirely in his head. We did not own a computer. Computers were not the thing in those days. In 1981 I decided I would go to school. I enrolled at Mesa Jr. College in a reading class. Just a 3 Hour class. I had a really good time and even used some of my concepts to help the boys in their school things. Joy went to the Paz Soldan's home while I was at school. We had a class in Relief Society on knit pants for men. I took the class and took off on my own to make all the guys pantsuits and some shirts for the boys. It was a great saving over buying the same quality suits already made. I even made a pair of Sunday pants for Justin. We have a picture of the boys in those Sunday clothes. That fad stayed in style for several years, I was also sewing for Joy. She had nice stuff. The next year for college I took English and Biology. I did well again and wanted more. I was interested in going into the Nursing Program when I could manage the hours. I also took Nutrition, Psychology, Sociology and a music class before applying for the 10 hour Nursing program. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065641170 2022-02-25 02:12:58 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065641170 That Summer, the church had a baseball program for the Aaronic priesthood boys. There were so many boys of that age they were split into A and B teams. The sportsmanship was okay until the schedule was for team A to challenge Team B. The game was at Barney Park and the parents turned out very heavy for the game. Talk about bad sportsmanship, The parents were the worst. Bishop Tarwater finally stood up and yelled at the parents for bad behavior. There were families that had brothers on both teams and so it was parents making too much noise about the whole affair. Bill was 17 that summer so he was a senior that year. Bill did not date much that I remember. He had a drafting class that he was happy with. Some of his work got misplaced at the end of the last semester and, the teacher was going to fail him for not completing the work. They found the drawings in time for the final grade. (1982). Bill and his Dad found a little ford Mustang for sale. That little car needed some work, but it was OK for going to school. Russell played football that year. The coach was pleased with him and praised him for 'playing' for him. Russ had a few girl friends and dated to the dances that spring (1982). Chuck had lots of friends, both guys and girls. He and Garland were good friends. They did fun things with the scouts and participated in the road show. "The Road Show was a tradition for the youth ages 12 through 18" I sewed for some of them during our time in Chandler. Justin was 7 and had a good year in second grade. He got good grades and liked school. Joy was 3 and stayed at a baby sitters home while I went up to Mesa Community College. We had lots of work going on around our place. We always did. Jack had many projects going on for after school and Saturdays. We had some neighbors down on Ocotillo Road that would come work for us. They were the Coleman boys. Those guys could sure eat plenty on the breaks that the group (Jack and sons and Coleman brothers) took. I got a bread maker from one of the sisters that was selling them. I started making bread from the wheat that we had. I had to learn how to make the loaves raise with whole wheat. We ate the bread but it hard to make sandwiches with it. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065660078 2022-02-25 02:29:27 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065660078 Bill got his drivers license that year. He drove the trucks that they worked on. There was always at least one ready to drive. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065665875 2022-02-25 02:34:39 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2065665875 This year 1982 was full of all kinds of fun things. I was still going to college, Bill would graduate HS , Russ would get his drivers license and Chuck would start HS. Justin was baptized in February. We had a neighborhood pre school with the mothers of 4 and 5 year old kids. We had about 10 children attending. We had stories, made crafts and did some outings with them. We went to the pizza place in town and watched them make small pizzas. We ate lunch there with the pizzas and they did it just for advertising. We had fun getting ready for the class and lots of fun doing it. Russell got his license in the summer. A girl he knew asked him to baptize her up at the church on Del Rio Street. He and Chuck drove one of the Ford trucks up there. Russ was a priest and could baptize but not confirm a new member. On the way home, they crossed Arizona Avenue at Germann. Russ did not see a car coming from the south and had a T-bone wreck with a lady hitting him in the passenger side. The ladies son was restrained in the car so he was not hurt. I remember that the lady had some issue so they were transported to Desert Sam. Russ was not hurt but was very upset and distressed about the wreck. The worst injury was Chuck. He hit the front of the cab on the impact and had a cut on top of his head. Jack and I got there as soon as we were called. There was some sort of gas station on the SE corner where Russ and Chuck were able to be out of traffic. We knew that Chuck needed stitches, The cut was not deep and Chuck had no other symptoms. He was just in a little pain. We took them up to the same hospital and got to talk to the other driver. Her little boy was OK. I think they just examined him and did some intervention of some kind with the little boys Mom. A grandma to the little boy was there too. Our insurance was good and settled the claim of the wrecked car and any medical issues. Russ did get a ticket but did not loose his license. We had more trucks for him to drive. It was convenient to have lots of Ford trucks around. Chuck and Bill worked in the fields that Summer. Bill started college at MCC that fall. He took some English class that covered entertainers of that time period. Russell played FB again. He went to the Prom that spring. Chuck took wrestling in school. He was small but very agile and did well in competition. At the wrestling meet with Mesa High School he had an ace bandage around his arm because the elbow was sore. The boy he was going to wrestle with saw the bandage before the match and went to work trying to injure that elbow. At that same meet, some parents were upset at one of the umpires and started a yelling match. The Principal called for law enforcement and threatened to stop the meet and send the whole crowd home one, Mesa first and the opposing group one half at a time. Sports riots can be bad. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2067886148 2022-02-27 03:24:15 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2067886148 In this year I was accepted into the Nursing program. I took the nutrition class in the summer so I get it done and have time for the demonstration that was part of the class. I presented the ways to use wheat with wheat sprouts, bread, wheat berries, and cereal done in the oven on a cookie sheet. I got an A and deserved it. Bill was still in college. He got together with some friends and formed the band "The Wilted Pickle". They did punk rock and practiced different places. Eventually, Russell played the base guitar for them. Russ had to learn how to play but he learned fast. They did gigs different places. One was at MCC. I was between classes and went to sit on the lawn to hear them. Bill pointed out that His and the Base guitar players mother was in the audience. Man was I skinny then. I was taking anatomy and microbiology that year. Bill got his mission call that year. He had been working on a different ford mustang that year to get it painted. He was sanding and putting the primer on. He was up in north Chandler with that car at a paint shop. The call came and we took it up to him before he got done with the arrangements for the paint. He opened it and the call was to Thiland. He was pretty thrilled. He was going to leave in the summer after his birthday. He spoke in church at the same time as Rick Jones. He decided to have his temple ordinance done the day before he left. We went with him and by the time we all got home, Bill was in a sort dazed state because of the impact of the experience. He had to have immune shots, Drs. exam, and a variety of LDS interviews. Getting all the suits and clothes took time also. He would stay at the Mission Training Center for 8 weeks learning the language. Most of the learning happens when the missionary is in their field of labor. We were told that our family would never be the same when the first child left the home for his adult adventure. It took 2 weeks for a letter to make it's way to or from Thiland. We just found out about the adventures later than they happened. We wrote to him every week and hoped to get letters that often. It was a shock to have him gone. At Christmas, Bill was able to have us call him. He gave us the time to call. I was still crying about missing him. We had an echo of the voices but we were so glad to hear his voice. Russell was dating some and was in FB again. Russ was a senior and had a good time in the last year of scouts. He had a good friend, David Ethington. The Ethington brothers were about the same age as Bill, Russ and Chuck. They spent many hours doing the same activities. Joy was 5 and ready to go to kindergarten on the bus. On days that I was in nursing class, Joy went to a neighborhood East of us to a baby sitter. I picked her up later. Joy knew which bus to take on which day. Joy went to a new school closer to us. It was Frye school. The class got down to business right away and did not spend much time with non academic things. Joy already loved books and was ready to learn. Joy was different from her brothers in the area of grades. She kept her grades up clear through college and was an 'A' student most of the time. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2067911066 2022-02-27 04:27:18 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2067911066 The brothers were not passive about Bill leaving. When we took him to the airport for his flight to Salt Lake, Russ and Chuck threw Bill's bed out in the drive way and moved Russ into the bedroom that was left empty. Now it was Justin and Chuck in the north east bedroom and Joy in the middle bedroom. It was different with Bill gone but we were still very busy. Dogs, cattle and keeping the acres producing hay in the summer months. We had neighbors that had hay equipment and would bale and stack the bales so we could sell hay during the winter. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2072136850 2022-03-01 19:07:16 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2072136850 In '84 we were still in Chandler. Bill was doing his best in Thailand and sending pictures in his letters at times. We did most of our mail airmail. If he sent packages it was 6 weeks or more to the States. Russell graduated from HS. In the summer, Jack went to Iowa and took Russ with him to drive a truck home. They towed a wrecked truck behind on the trip up to sell for parts there. They had a very successful trip and came home with a good amount of parts to sell. Russ worked with Jack most of the year after he graduated. He worked until he was 19 and waiting for his mission call. Chuck was having fun in high school. He lots of friends and clowned around a lot. Chuck got his drivers license and was able to drive to school. Justin was 10 and in fifth grade at Knox school. He did his chores and his school work. Justin and Chuck had a game they played on the driveway. At night when the June bugs were flying at night, the boys would hit them with a racket ball racket to see how many they could kill. We still had dogs and puppies. Joy was a serious about reading. She read everything she could find for her level and plenty of books above her grade level. I had some problems with my eye and had to have cortisone shots in the eyelid. Not fun. I was still sewing for the family. There was a RS activity, a fashion show for clothes we had made. Chuck and Joy modeled some outfits that Mom had made for them. I was in the nursing program for 10 credit hours. We did a clinical rotation at the Chandler hospital just three miles from our house. The clinical instructor was pretty hard on me. I needed someone to be that way because I was older and more set in my behavior. Joy had fun learning some of the body parts that I was learning. She said 'phalanges' for fingers and some other cute stuff. We were super busy with me going to class or the clinical. I took my allowed day off to bring cupcakes to Joy's school. She was going to Fry Grade school on Fry Rd. It was much closer to us. We still had lots of work. The older boys were so busy that they could only get the outside work done. I decided to get Justin and Joy to help me, or just keep me working on the cleaning. We cleaned the bathrooms and vacuumed the floors, then I took them to the park and got fast food as a reward for working. Sometimes I was up till midnight with my school work and study for the class I was taking. That was for a younger person than me, but I had determination. In the Summer we did more fun things like going to SF and trips to different places. Then in the fall it was back to work. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2072289415 2022-03-01 20:41:58 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2072289415 We had a real estate agent stop by the house and ask if we wanted to sell out. He was offering $35 K per acre. We looked at the terms and decided to make the deal. They wanted to Release an acre every year to protect themselves against the possibility of repossession. We started looking for a house to move into. We wanted to move after school was out and before the year 1985 - 86 started. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2072309629 2022-03-01 20:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2072309629 We had communication from Bill that he would be coming home from his mission in January. He had to decide on an 18 month mission or stay till June. He made the decision to come home so that another missionary could come into the country. The visa rules for Thailand were super strict. We were so glad to se him. He had been in the air for 24 hours from Thailand. We rearranged the bedrooms for Bill and Russ to take the master bedroom and bathroom. We took over Bill's room for Jack and me. All the rest of us had to share one bathroom. We were still thinking about selling the property in the summer. Russ was still working in the car parts and waiting to put in his papers as soon as possible around June. Chuck was 17 in January. He would be a senior in September. He had to make a decision about his last year of high school. He could drive to school and was a careful driver. He decided to continue at Chandler and he also graduated from Chandler Seminary. We decided to sell in the spring and started to look for a house to move into. We looked around rural Chandler without much luck. Helen Pace was a realtor and took us around on most of our scouting trips. We looked out in Queen Creek at some nice places but were not enthused to the point of buying. We found the place on Redfield that looked promising. The house belonged to a sister of Morris Cooper. We decided that was the one because it had 4 bedrooms and 1 acre of property. The street was still dirt. The neighborhood was going to pave the street just as we were making the deal. We ended up paying for the paving plus the price of the property. We were moving from a driveway that was dirt, so having a paved street right to the house was nice. We closed the deal on the Chandler property around July. The realtor for the syndicat demanded that we pay $500 dollars rent till we moved out. We started moving in August and we were done by the time the rent was due again. Bill helped move with all the boxes and the barn tools and all the furniture. We had considerably more stuff than we had from the move 10 years before. We had plenty of room to put things but it took awhile to get it all organized. We contacted the right people to get started in third ward. Joy and Justin would go to school at Greenfield Grade school down on Elliott Rd. Turned out to be a great school. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082564765 2022-03-07 21:14:41 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082564765 Joy was 5 and busy all the time. Joy had a habit of sucking the two fingers on her right hand. She wanted a Barbie doll because she had seen Barbie's on TV and around cousins homes. We made a promise if Joy could keep her fingers out of her mouth for 2 weeks, she could have a Barbie. If she put her fingers back in, even for a minute, she had to start the 2 weeks over again. She did it with only one slip up. Start of Joy's determination to achieve goals. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082603027 2022-03-07 21:48:43 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082603027 I graduated from MCC nursing program in December. I was so grateful to be be done. Justin and Joy sang Christmas carols at my graduation. Beverly and Bill Parris came up to the service. I started soon to look for a hospital job. Nothing came up that year so I just looked after the house, dog phone calls and all the other fun things at home. Justin and Joy played baseball in the summer. Justin's team had a rough time winning games but they had a good coach and played lots of games. Joy played on an all boy team and got 2 baby teeth knocked out during 2 separate practice times. She was a tough player and she had a good time. I volunteered as a nurse and helped a kid stop his bloody nose. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082617548 2022-03-07 22:02:04 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082617548 Russell got his call for the Raleigh, North Carolina mission. He was excited about going across the country to a place he had never been before. Russell had dated some in high school but did not have a girl that was waiting for him. He left before we had much of an idea about moving. He did not see the new house until he returned in '87. We took pictures, especially of the swimming pool, and sent him descriptions of the rest of the property. He started addressing his letters to the 'Welch Estate' and other labels. Russ sent pictures of his companions and all the green landscapes of the Carolinas. Letters got to him real quick and we could send packages that would get there before the cookies got hard. We wanted a letter every week and when the times between got longer and longer, I sent him a form letter to just fill out and send. More about this mission letter stuff later on in the family mission histories. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082638326 2022-03-07 22:21:41 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082638326 Bill was back in school for some serious study this time. He got a job with some brick layers as a hod carrier. It was heavy work and he knew he had no future in that line of work. Bill met a girl down in Mexico when a group of young adults went for a holiday at the beach. This is the first time we heard about Lorie. She was Ginger Rigg's cousin and bill had known Ginger for a few years in high school. Bill and friends were able to get the band together again. The Wilted Pickle did some more practicing and had some good times with 'They Don't Surf at Big Surf any More'. Bill was really busy and we did not see him too much. We still got letters from Russ when he would write or fill in the form letters. He had some nice areas to work in. He sent pictures of Myrtle Beach and some of the ocean around there. Nothing like Arizona. He was made fleet transportation missionary for his mission and got to drive around to the different areas to keep the cars running. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082654737 2022-03-07 22:40:03 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082654737 I got a Job at Desert Samaritan Hospital for work in the ortho area. It was a very good starting job. I was oriented for 2 weeks then I was to work on my own after that. I was not quite ready for working alone, so They had me follow the charge nurse for a few more days. I had been out of school for more than a year and getting the actual work done alone was pretty hard. Almost all of the patients got well and went home. We had very few deaths on that unit. At times the nurses would 'float' to another area for the night. I never minded floating to some where else for the night. My shift was from 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM. It was hard to get some rest. Joy and Justin were at school but the recent graduate was not. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082669191 2022-03-07 22:55:22 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082669191 Chuck graduated from high school that May and started working with his dad more or less full time. The Flake family had their campout reunion up near Springerville on Brown Creek. I could not get a change of schedule to stay up camping on Sunday. Chuck drove me back to Gilbert late at night so I could get to my shift at 11 o'clock. It was a hard night to get there with no sleep. Joy told me she did not have a very good time after we left because her cousins started teasing her. The campout was a good time for the family until some of a certain family decided to make it a showoff hit your cousins hate day. '86 was a full year. We were able to pay down the mortgage quite a bit with my nursing job. I was busy with a primary calling of In service leader. I had to give a lesson to teachers at our Sunday meeting once a month. I think I was scheduled to give the lesson only one time that I was working both Saturday and Sunday nights. Working as a nurse was different than school. At times, I was frustrated with medication compatibility. I had to ask other nurses when I was giving 2 meds at the same time. I did learn a lot in that year but also found that I did not want to be a hospital nurse. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082701075 2022-03-07 23:31:12 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082701075 Joy was 8 in February. She had a pink dress for her baptism. The fashion of a white dress had not started by that year. She had long hair and was still going to Greenfield school. She had a collection of Teddy Bears. She had a glass one that was her favorite. Her friends gave her teddy bears for gifts because they knew she liked them. Justin was 12 and into the scouting program. Gilbert had a great organization for keeping the records and the boys were all on track for their achievements. Justin liked the activities of scouting. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082712429 2022-03-07 23:43:17 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082712429 I was still working in early '87. Chuck was 19 in Feb. He was in no hurry to put in his papers or commit to a mission. What he was was a holy pain for several months. That is mildly stated. He did leave for his mission in Argentina before Russell got home. The house was much more organized and quiet with Justin and Joy as the 2 Juveniles around. Joy spent lots of time reading and Justin helped with the car wrecking business. When Russ came back he got back into helping Jack and he was ready to go to school in the fall. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082719653 2022-03-07 23:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082719653 Russell had some good friends form the mission that came to visit us. Joy was very interested in talking to them when they were at our house. One of those boys was a cello player, Russell kept track of his best buddies for a few years. Chuck was pretty homesick at the training center and had some thoughts that he was not up to serving. He had good trainers and they worked it out. Jack and I went over to Las Angeles to see Chuck as he was transferred from one plane to the next and was to meet the ambassador to get the missionary visas stamped and legal. We met him at his hotel on time and he was all verified to spend the 2 years there. We had a good visit and were able to go have lunch with him before he had to be with the other elders. That trip was certainly worth the time and effort. We were still in the puppy business in Gilbert. We had a nicer back yard to show the pups and grass under the pens that they spent good days in. We could turn the pen over every day and have a clean place for the pups to lay on. Kept the pups much cleaner. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082739108 2022-03-08 00:07:34 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082739108 Chuck was a very good letter writer. His first letter was about his arrival. He was not met in his first town by anyone and was confused about where to go. He found the address of the LDS church building in the town and headed that way. It turns out that that was the place he was supposed be. The missionary quarters was at the same address. Chuck picked up the language pretty fast and was so tan that he was just another Argentine for most of his mission. he always talks about the good time he had on his mission. When he came home, several of his buddies spoke Spanish and they had great times just kicking around speaking to each other in Spanish. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082752753 2022-03-08 00:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2082752753 Well 1988 was a pretty neat year. We needed a rest after that. We didn't rest too long before Russ and Becky announced another interesting piece of news. If you guessed the prospect of a new family member, you are right. Becky is pregnant, with a baby 'yes' to arrive in early December. Becky was hoping she could have a home birth as some of her siblings were born at home. Russ and Becky still lived in that second floor condo and it was just right for a family of three. Becky had some complications in the second and third trimesters. The amniotic fluid was decreasing too fast, and she had some premature labor. She was under the care of a Midwife but needed to see an Obstetrician for the fluid problem. She was sent to Desert Samaritan Hospital for IV Magnesium Sulfate to slow the labor and keep the fluid level optimal. Becky was feeling OK but needed to stay down sometimes for the best results of having a full term baby. They had a sonogram done. Jenna had her leg up in the area that here gender was located, so that Becky did not know boy or girl until the birth. Jenna was born on the 10th of December, 1998. Becky knew she wanted to start a family and she wanted to have children when they were still young. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2083283738 2022-03-08 05:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2083283738 Bill was moving ahead in school. He was also spending time with a lovely young woman. About Christmas time, 1987, Bill told us that he and Lorie Lameroux were planning on getting married in May of 1988. At least Russell wasn't planning anything like that before the big brother. We were very happy and had a very nice dinner with Lorie's Mom and her brothers. She is the oldest of 4 children and her father passed away when she was about 6. Other news was about the same as other years, Mostly. We still sold puppies. I was working but decided to quit at the hospital. I had a years experience and wanted other experiences in the nursing field. I went to registries for assignments in other places. Jack was always busy. At home, he spent time on the phone about parts, dogs or anything else he was working on. Jack was called as financial clerk for third ward. He had that position for 17 years until it was too hard for him to see the computer screen after an hour or so on Sunday afternoons. I got a few shifts at the hospital as a registry nurse. Some were interesting and not hard at all and some were just too awful to even remember now. I liked home assignments to work at night in a private home to watch a patient in order for the family to sleep. Sometimes a family member just stayed up and wanted to talk all night. I had to report this to the agency because they sent a nurse to relieve the family members. I wanted to get my paper work done. One assignment that I remember well was very elderly lady in East Phoenix. It was close to the area we had lived in with our trailer in 1962. She was in her 90s. Her daughter was past 70. The lady was dying with pancreatic Cancer and she deteriorated through the night. I was there to check her respiration rate and give her oral care. My most important function was to console the daughter. The question she asked was "Did I give my Mother enough water. Some of the situations I observed were almost spiritual. Well back to family in this very interesting year. Chuck was in Argentina and wrote letters most weeks. My Dad 'Fost Flake' had a heart attack after he and my Mom had been Square Dancing earlier in the evening. He drove himself up to the hospital up passed Sholow. He let my mom know about it the next morning when she woke up. He told her he would drive himself up just to see what his chest pain was about. I tried to call Chuck to let him know and that Grandpa was stable. Chuck said he got the message the next day. Well we were preparing for Bills wedding. I made a dress for Joy and for myself. I made a dress for a little girl that was a relative of Lorie's. Lorie's mom was expert at planning the reception. Lorie's Grandmother had a gift shop in downtown Mesa that had china and other beautiful gifts for weddings. They worked magic and her reception was so perfect. Made me feel better about my lack of daughters. The one I was privileged to have was one of the best anyway. We had a Birthday party for Bill and Jack on the 17th of May for us to meet grandparents and other family members. That party was fun and we got to know Lorie's grandparents. Her Grandma was very interesting and Lorie was quite close to her. The temple wedding was very lovely. My sister Bonna helped Linda get the rec hall decorated for the reception. A cousin made n Italian Cream cake for her refreshments. Linda wanted us to come to her house for the gift opening and to finish off the cake. Bill and Lorie found an apartment in South Mesa for what they could afford. Bill and Lorie were called to the primary as soon as the were in one of the wards in Mesa. Bill was in school and Lorie worked at Millers Outpost clothing store. Bill chased a kid down in the apartment complex for shooting their sliding glass window out with a BB gun. The family of that kid got kicked out of their apartment. After awhile, Bill and Lorie got tired of apartment living and found a little house that needed loving care on Park Street near downtown Gilbert. The back yard had no fence and the inside needed help. After inside painting, refinishing the cabinet doors, and work on the electrical outlets and much much more, the house looked much better. Lorie asked me to make balloon shades for one of the bedrooms. Well in the meantime, Russell was doing some wonderful work on his own. He went up to Utah to a mission reunion in the Salt Lake area. A certain tall, Brunet, and beautiful young woman saw him across the floor of a dance that was being held at the same time as Russ's visit. This unique lady informed the girls in her vicinity that that shy, tall stud muffin was hers. Rebecca Wheeler was not the least bit shy or a shrinking violet about meeting a brand new boy. I guess they hit it off pretty much because in a few months 'Becky' got transferred to the Mesa area of her employer to work in this area. We met Becky the night of Bill and Lorie's reception. We were all real tired from the day but we liked her right off from the first. Well very soon after that meeting, Russ let us know that they would be getting married around Christmas time. Things were moving fast. Two sons finding the one they loved so close together. Joy was absolutely ecstatic with happiness to have two new sistsers in law. She was really happy about weddings at that age. Justin was like all the Welch guys and just took the whole thing in stride. He did like the parties, but wasn't to thrilled about all the house cleaning. Bill had Russ as his best man but Russ just had a casual open house at our home here in Gilbert. Russ and Becky had a condo on the second floor up near University and Gilbert Rd. Becky was good at finding reasonable housing where every they lived. Becky's parents were getting a divorce at the time and didn't put on a big party type celebration. her parents were both able come to the Temple wedding and a small dinner at our house afterwards. We had turkey because her family did not like beef. They ate more vegetables and non meat protein. We had a small open house that evening. Grandpa and Grandma Flake were there and one of Becky's sisters and her husband. Some friends and neighbors of ours came during the evening. Marcy, Bonna's daughter was with Grandma and needed attention at all times. Bonna was having problems at that time, but she came for part of the time. We had a cake and stuff for self serve sandwiches. Russ was in school and Becky worked at her job all week. In Lorie's family that year, her brother went on a mission and her Mother remarried her step Father, Dennis Masterson. Was an eventful year. I was happy that I could accept work assignments when I wanted to. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2083289078 2022-03-08 05:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2083289078 We got our Chandler property back except for 2 acres that we had to release as the sydicate made payments every year. Jack had moved the car parts business there and it was very handy to have the old house with a bathroom and kitchen (and TV). Russ and Becky decided that they could live in the house for the time it took Russ to finish school. We worked on cleaning up the interior so it could be lived in. Jack went to town to find a drop in range for the kitchen. When we looked closer at that range, it had to be the one that we bought and installed in 1985. We didn't own the house in those years but someone had taken it out and sold it to that used appliance place in South Chandler. Strange things had happened there when we didn't own it. Becky and Russ had plenty of room. Becky's sister came to stay with them. Her Mother spent some time there also. One Christmas, most of their family came for the holiday. Becky said they were doing line dancing in the family room. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2083311233 2022-03-08 05:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2083311233 I had some nursing assignments that were interesting and some were not so pleasant. I ran some IVs in the home of a man that had valley fever. The family was of south east indian ethnicity. They were very kind to me on all the days I came. I also had a patient that had contracted aids. He was so interesting. He spoke Spanish and I tried to communicate as best I could. Just ran the strong antibiotic for several days. The drug that was on the list for the bad infections was Amphotericin. I learned to associate it with 'Ivan the terrible'. The nurses had to give Demerol before infusing the drug. If the patient slept through the infusion, that was good. I got another nice, easy assignment about this time. An acquaintance through the ward had parents that needed 24/7 care. I was hired through the nursing agency but the location was just one and a half miles form home. Mr. and Mrs. Gunn needed care during the day and someone to watch at night for custodial care. I did care for them for several years with different shifts. Mrs. Gunn passed away but nurses were still caring for Mr. Gunn till his death. I quit nursing in year 2000. I had another long term assignment that was advertised in the want adds. Paul Thorp was a quadriplegic living in Tempe. I worked for him for 9 years. His needs were bathing and personal care. His nurses did lots of extra things for him. We would sometimes do shopping for him, mend his clothes, and help him get to the airport when he needed to go back to New Jersey to visit his family. Some of his single nurses accompanied him on vacations and visits to his family. His sister also lived in the apartment. They were invited out to our place one Thanksgiving. Paul's sister was not around animals much, and thought a sheep doing it's natural activity was disgusting. I spent lots of nights doing home care and several assignments going to homes to do IV infusions. Lots of interesting people. The biggest challenge for these assignments was getting along with the patients family. Most were nice and appreciative. The ones that were critical of the care, or of the nurse herself, were absolute pains. I refused some repeat assignments because of hard to get along with families. I never regretted getting an education and serving as a nurse, but when I retired at 57. I was through with it. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2084784430 2022-03-08 20:15:32 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2084784430 In 1990, Joy was 12 and ready to go into the Young Women's program. Joy had good friends at school and church. About this time, Joy expressed her choice in fashions. No more of the Mama's ruffles and lace. Joy wanted a more tailored and plain garments. We did more shopping for clothes than looking at patterns and fabric. I had trouble giving Joy's outgrown clothes away because she was becoming a young lady now. She had great taste in her clothes. She did wear some of my shoes and at times she thought some stuff in my closet was OK. Joy was a student with lots of activities and the idea of learning to sew did not hold interest for her. Joy did well at cooking. She made cookies and could fix healthy stuff for herself. I don't really know How Justin, Jack and Joy worked it out while I was gone working or needed sleep. They were still healthy when I was done working. Joy did have some of her Prom dresses made by Mom. She had 2 very lovely dresses in her Junior and Senior years. Justin was 16 on the forth day of 1990. Yea! time for his license. Our children all knew how to drive very well before their 16th birthday. It just needed to be legal to drive on the highway. Justin went back to Iowa with Jack to be the driver of a vehicle returning to AZ. We all, Justin, Joy and parents went to Iowa one year. We did not go every year because we were just too busy. That was hard for Joy. There were no cousins in Iowa her age and she was not too happy to hang out with Aunts and Uncles and the cousins she hardly knew. She was a trooper and the fireworks stop in Missouri was a good reward for the trip. It was easy for Jack to get away when he wanted or needed to. With the registry and private patients, I could schedule time for trips with the other nurses. I didn't like to do extra shifts but at times I would. I still did a few visits for the registry. One patient was a man living with his Sister in Mesa. He had a severe infection in his foot and I was there to change a dressing. The guy was so picky he wanted sterile gloves for me to touch him and then he put his own fingers right on the stitches. I was there for about 1 hour and finally his sister intervened and told him to let me do my procedure. He called in later and asked for another nurse to visit the next time. YES! mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2084835761 2022-03-08 20:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2084835761 I still worked for Paul. He was returning to his beliefs in Catholicism. Whenever he took part in one of the activities of his church, he would talk to me about how sound the beliefs were. He did like to argue and put in a jab toward my beliefs whenever he thought he could make a point. He liked to make comments about plural marriage. I showed him in the Bible the practice in Old Testament times of that practice. He said they wee wrong in this. He only believed what was convenient for him. At least neither one of us was bored when I was giving care. I did get sewing done on the 3 hour shifts at night. I would come home after midnight 3 nights a week and Gilbert was still rural around our streets. One night someone threw paint balls at the car. Joy told me to watch out because there was some high school students that were doing that around the darker areas. She was right. I was at Gilbert road and Baseline and a lady ran into the back of me. Some damage and she got a ticket. I had some time to sew at home when the family was gone and I was not sleeping. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091819702 2022-03-12 18:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091819702 Chuck was gone for both of his brother's weddings. When Bill was married, there was a table set up for the reception guests to write notes to Chuck and Troy Lameroux that were both on missions. Linda Masterson (Lorie's mom) did a beautiful job with the reception. Wish I had some talent in that area. Lorie had a nice reception at the Church on Val Vista, north of Elliott. Dona made her cake and it was great mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091828394 2022-03-12 18:59:07 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091828394 Chuck came home from his mission. I remember on the way home from the airport he was trying to remember the English word for souvenirs. He was a little dazed for a few days after his return. He got a job at the John Deere sales place in Chandler and he really liked the work there. His Dad told him he needed to go to college and not make that job his future. He did get into college and got into the engineering program. Bill was a few years ahead of him but they both stuck with it and graduated. Bill god a job at Ron Wright's electrical engineering practice. It was a good place to work part time to work around classes. Russell worked for his Dad. That was real convenient when he and Becky moved to the Chandler house. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091837444 2022-03-12 19:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091837444 We enjoyed our grand baby from the time she was able to be away from Becky a little while. She was a Rollie Pollie girl with fat little feet. She liked us and we all made a lot of fuss over her. I took lots of pictures of her. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091841280 2022-03-12 19:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091841280 We were still very busy in all of these years. Justin was 17 an able to drive school. he drove one of the pickups that we had around. Joy was 13 and in Jr High. I went to girls camp with one of the third ward cabin groups. Joy had Sister Rosenbaum as her cabin mother. The girls in my cabin were all very nice. Our priestood Brother had to go down to Prescott because his nose bleed would not stop. I was the nurse while they were gone. I just had to get messages to the girls on medications to come to the lodge for their pills. We went on a hike of about 6 miles. It was very fun. The girls were supposed to get a canteen full of water to take with them. Some girls filled their canteens with soda or fruit drinks. Those girls were really thirsty by the time we were finished. The leaders were great and taught the girls so many lessons in outdoor activities. I offered the stake my services as camp nurse the next year. They waited until the end of May to take me up on it, I already had a schedule and could not get that time to be gone on short notice. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091850088 2022-03-12 19:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091850088 We got word in early 1991 that another Welch grand baby was on the way. Hannah Mae Welch, daughter of Bill and Lorie was born on Russell's birthday, June 13. Becky tried to convince Lorie to have a home birth. After several days of labor, Lorie and Bill could not stand the loss of sleep anymore. The midwife made arrangements for Lorie to finish her labor in Casa Grand and have the delivery at the hospital there. That arrangement was better for everybody involved. All babies are beautiful and we think every baby in our family is especially gorgeous. Jack always said that only 7 so far were cute and not just a red crying little troublemakers. Jack liked them when they started to smile and play baby games. Chuck was married in June also. It was a busy time for the family. Chuck bought a house in South Mesa. It was a twin home and just had a single garage. He was in school and working at Wrights. Marianne was working until Sarah was born. I didn't do much for the registry now. I had stopped working for the Gunn family through the registry because the daytime hours were just too rough. About 8 months later, the guardians of the Gene and Joann Gunn decided to quit the registry and hire nurses direct. For the most part this was a good system. Mrs. Letner hired her children and her sister to take shifts that were not covered by nurses or nurses aids. Still, the family did make me uncomfortable at times. That was the only hard part of the position. I was in RS part of the time. I could find the time after the work was done to make phone calls for the different needs the ward had at that time. We had a family that needed the 2 children watched for several months for the Mom to rest during her pregnancy with twins. I had a list of 20 ladies that I could call for once a month taking the 2 boys. Third ward ladies were very helpful. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091865343 2022-03-12 20:14:32 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091865343 Another Grandbaby was on the way in April of this year. Russ and Becky had moved to the farm. Colton Jacob Welch was born in the big bedroom in the Chandler house on April 12. First Grandson. He had a very distinctive nose. The night Colton was born, I had a nursing assignment to fly with a lady form Canada. She was a winter visitor in Tucson and had suffered a heart attack before her group was to return to Canada. She would be leaving for her home on a flight at 7:00 AM. She was flying first class. I was to be here in flight nurse. I was to connect her oxygen if she needed it and take her to the restroom at our connecting break in Houston Texas. We landed in Montreal, and she and her husband were to take a cab to their home. This was my first flight ever. The take offs and landings were pretty tough. I had to fly business class home. I drove home and arrived about midnight. It was a long day. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091878867 2022-03-12 20:48:50 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091878867 Joy was 16 and she had some health issues at this time. She said she fainted or something in our front yard. I did not see it. A few days latter she had the same spell at school. We found out that she was having seizures as symptoms of epilepsy. Her Great Aunt, Lyla Thane had the same disorder. We went to a neurologist for control of the episodes. One of the tests was an MRI. The closed tube was hard for her to endure. She had a seizure during the test and was knocking her feet and hands on the sides. After several exams, the neurologist said here disorder was microscopic. They put her on medication and let us monitor the effect mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091879284 2022-03-12 20:49:51 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091879284 Justin was 18 and was getting ready to Graduate. he was dating a girl in the ward. Jennifer was a very pretty girl and they spent time together. Justin was on the dessert with her family . They were riding in a low to the ground dune buggy and it flipped over. Justin was not hurt bad, but they took him to Banner Baywood on Power road to get checked out. It turned out that that family had no insurance to cover any accident that happened with that vehicle. Our health insurance had to cover all the bills. Justin had a touchy neck anyway. He had an injury in High School wrestling a few years before this wreck. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091886392 2022-03-12 21:04:08 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091886392 I was working for Paul in Tempe and the Gunn family in Gilbert at this time. I wanted to make enough of a salary to get our house paid off. I worked as many hours as possible. it was a busy year for us all. I still preferred to work nights. The only thing I missed was my sleep. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091892449 2022-03-12 21:20:15 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091892449 Joy was 14 and off to high school in the fall. She started ninth grade at the new high school on Elliott Road. The new seminary building was right there also. This was a different kind of school with one large building housing all the classrooms and the gym also. Joy still played the clarinet in band. Here uniform had to be dry cleaned after every game. I remember taking it to the cleaners a lot. Joy had good friends in the ward. She liked the extra activities and church stuff also. She went to girls camp in the summer. Her shorts were too short so her shorts and another girl's shorts were confiscated till after camp. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091898301 2022-03-12 21:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091898301 When we went to the doctors for Joy's seizures , they let us know that Joy was not cleared to drive until she was seizure free for 6 months. She was very disappointed but was able to get her license in the fall. Joy did not drive much before she was 16 and needed instructions for a 3 or 4 speed transmission. Jack found a small 3 speed car for her. She finally learned the gears but did not like the car very much. Later we got a different car and let her drive a small Toyota that had been the family car. My father, Fost Flake, was burned in a house fire this year. He was burned on the left leg and right arm pretty bad. He was flown to The Burn Center in Phoenix very soon after he was stabilized at the hospital in Show low. My mother, Marjory, came down in a pickup and spent lots of time with him. He was in bad shape as the doctors were trying to treat the burn and work around the heart problems from a heart attack in 1988. He was in County Hospital and then in a rehab hospital for most of the summer. He needed blood donated for his system to start recovery. My Dad had given a blood donation to me in 1953. I gave a unit of blood for him in 1994. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091901513 2022-03-12 21:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091901513 Another Granddaughter was on the way. Sarah Marie Welch was born on June 9th. Chuck and Marianne were her parents. Sarah was a large baby and Marianne had some problems with her pelvis afterwards. Katy Flake, daughter of my brother Dee, was on duty in the post partum ward when Marianne was there after the birth. She spent time just catching up on our family when she had time on her shift. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091906175 2022-03-12 21:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091906175 Justin was ready for his mission, He had all his papers in but decided to have his fairwell in church during January. When he got the the training center, the weather was very bad. lots of snow and storms. When he got to his mission area of West Virginia, the weather there was also terrible. Justin and his companion were on foot for that area. They did not get any activity accomplished except walk to the post office to get their mail and walk back. Justin had some over shoes that he bought from some missionary in Utah, and they came in handy for the weather. There was a sister Boone in the mission, and she and Justin found out that they were related. Justin was not the greatest of letter writers. The solution was for Justin to have a supply of post cards (stamped) and addressed to home. That worked and we have a record of his mission. He wrote once that his supply of cards and stamps was running low. If he was in a place that had no washer or dryer, it was expensive to do laundry. Transfers were also expensive. One of the things about a mission is to learn how to budget money. Justin was not an excessive person in the first place. He knew how to make the money last each month. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091913221 2022-03-12 22:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091913221 The West Virginia mission is entirely different in summer. Then the mission moto did fit. 'West Virginia Almost Heaven' from the John Denver song. That is when Justin sent great pictures. He spent some time in Morgantown, there is a college there and summers were interesting for coeds attending that party school. (Justin' words). mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091915760 2022-03-12 22:26:46 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091915760 We have a second Grandson. Bill and Lorie had Jack William Welch on November second. Lorie and Bill have the RH factor. Bill has A+ type and Lorie Has A-, By the second child, the blood builds up antibodies against the baby. There is the medication that is given after each baby to prevent this from occurring. Jack was born with a suspected problem with his lower spine. There was a question about possible deformity. The suspicion turned out to be nonexistent. Jack had the cry like an ice pick. High pitched and loud. My hearing aids went crazy when I was close to him. I watched all the grandbabies one day while the moms went to pick corn. Jack laid on the floor and cried for mama the whole time. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091920843 2022-03-12 22:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091920843 Joy is the only one home. The house is quiet and I can sleep most of the time. We have grandchildren over at times. In the summer the grandchildren are over with the adults for swimming. We do enjoy the visits. In the fall, Heather Ahrendt came to stay with us. She is Aunt Bonna's daughter. She had some difficulty at home and we picked her up from the county facility. She is really a sweet girl and she did everything we told her to do. She rides the bus to Highland High School. She took a French class that she was not doing very well in. I did not know that she was using that hour to see the school councilor every day. No wonder she was not learning any French. Heather was smoking every chance she got. She covered the odor in her room with some sort of cinnamon spray or after smoking cover up. She had to quit it with that smell because it got all over the house. She was 16 in October. We had a sweet sixteen party for her. Two of her friends came and her Ahrendt grandparents. Lorie made the food and I made a cake. Heather got grounded for getting caught smoking at school. She was off the phone for a week. While it was warm, she would take the phone and sit in the pool. In the spring, we had a meeting with her Dad, Damon , Bonna, and her Aunt Lori and Damon's brother. Things got out of hand and Damon was going to have her live with him for her Senior year at Westwood in Mesa. Bonna decided after the fact that that arrangement was not good. She and Damon got into a big fight and Heather did go to Damon's place after all. It was not my problem after that. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091930669 2022-03-12 23:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091930669 Justin was home from his mission. He again worked for his Dad. He had plans to work toward being hired as a fireman for anyone of the cities around the valley. He did get a degree in fire science from MCC while he was applying at the different cities. His good friend, Chance wanted to be a fireman, but he decided not to wait around to be hired. Chance got some experience with computers and made a career out of that. Chance also wanted to get married and family started instead of waiting around. Justin got a job out at the GM proving grounds north of Williams Field Air Force. He drove at night and usually got some sleep during the day. He took his lunch and liked lasagna. A frozen family size lasted awhile. Joy, Heather and Justin enjoyed each others company during the spring. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091944349 2022-03-13 00:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091944349 Jack kept working with his car part business out at Chandler. Saturdays were the busy days for men looking for certain body parts or engine parts. Jack worked all week to get enough parts for the coming weekend. Most of the customers were honest and liked to talk about years of their trucks and what parts would work. Jack kept all of the years of trucks and all the parts that were compatible with different years. He did the whole business without a computer or even writing stuff down. We had three different men cheat about the money. One guy gave Jack two fake twenty dollar bills. Another guy left without paying while Jack was talking to someone else. One guy was leaving some equipment with Jack for a loan of over $100 dollars. When he came for the equipment, he gave Jack a check that was not covered by the bank. Not too bad of an average for so many years. One night after Russ and Becky had moved to Utah, some thieves came into the house and took papers and loaded up a truck with tools and left. The empty truck was found by the police way out somewhere. Russ and Becky decided to move to a little town in Utah that had a wilderness program for kids. Russ was to be a maintenance person for cars and help around the school. We helped them haul round pen sections, A horse and all their furniture up to Loa Utah. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091951882 2022-03-13 00:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091951882 Joy graduated in May. she got a tuition scholarship to BYU Hawaii for the years of her bachelors program. She got a job at Pretty Party Place for the summer. The work was hard and she was glad to be done with it and leave home. Her idea of leaving home was to be very happy away. She admitted being homesick afterwards. The freshmen students were required to live in the dorm. Joy said that it was hard to study because the less than serious girls made lots of noise and did not study. When Joy came home after the first semester, her hair had grown about 8 inches. All the moisture by the sea. She and Justin were together during the Christmas break. Then the house was quiet again after she was back to Hawaii. Justin was busy again with work and helping his dad. Joy wrote letters sometimes. She seems happy and keeps her grades up. She wanted some plastic containers to keep the bugs out of some food she had in her room. She also wanted some paprika to repel bugs. She said the bugs just walked right through the paprika. The next fall, she was able to live in a house along the beach with 5 other girls. I was still working for the boy in Tempe and the Gunn family. I was making money and buying things for the house and putting some away. It was a busy time for Jack and me. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091973973 2022-03-13 01:47:11 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091973973 We are getting new grandchildren about every year. Anna Nichole Welch was born on October 19. Her parents are Chuck and Marianne. This makes 5. Two boys and 3 girls. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091978190 2022-03-13 01:58:38 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091978190 Jenna is 4 for most of this year. The Neighbor, Beverly Parris has a preschool at her house. Jenna went for most of this year. When they started again in the fall, Jenna did not go. When the family moved to Loa, Utah, Becky did home school for a little while. She used workbooks and visual aids from a home school support service. Jenna went to public school for part of the time before they moved to Leeds, down close to St. George. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091979612 2022-03-13 02:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091979612 Jack and I went to Iowa that summer. I stayed busy with a quilt I was making for Russ and Becky's baby that was coming in July. Connor Wheeler Welch was born on July twentieth. He was born at home and we came back from Iowa that way. That part of western Colorado and eastern Utah are more arid, but are pretty for the variation in the landscapes. I think we stayed long enough for Connor's blessing. I was lucky in getting that many days off. The way my nursing situation was, I could just ask for days far enough in advanced and I could usually arrange the time. We got another granddaughter later in the year. Mary Margaret Welch was born on December twentieth. We had everyone in the family together just a few days before Christmas. Joy was home and Russell's family was here. Chuck had moved his family to Oregon for just a few months, but they flew down for Christmas. Lorie had such a small baby, but she wrapped her up and got into the picture at the Temple. I got busy, mostly at work, and made 4 smocked dresses for the 4 girls. I made Sarah's and Anna's just from Marianne telling me how long the top should be and how long the skirt should be. We have pictures of the girls and Jenna was holding Maggie. I think that was the last time we got to include everybody. After this one, we were always short a family or parts of families no matter what. Justin doesn't make much noise as he works nights and sleeps during the day. I work for Mr. Gunn three nights over the weekends. I like the shift because I can get some rest during the night. I can wake up and go to check on the patient every hour or so. The granddaughter and her family live in the house and I have to work around them. A little friction at times. I can take my sewing machine to work and get a little sewing in some nights. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091985114 2022-03-13 02:18:42 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2091985114 Another year with Joy in Hawaii and Justin working with his Dad. I kept my working schedule with Paul and the Gunn family. I could do projects at both homes if the work was done. Nights at the job in Tempe were long and sometimes I did not get home until 1:00 AM. A lady ran into the back of my car in north Chandler one morning. I think her insurance payed us pretty well. The one good thing about being run into was that it was not my fault. Yea! We missed the whole year without any grandchildren being born. We did know that another boy would be coming in January of '98. Grandpa Flake had been getting back to some of his activities on the ranch since his burn accident. He was not well and had to go up to the Show low hospital. I was working on a Saturday night and came home as they called from SF that he had died. We made a trip up there that evening to see what was planned for the funeral. We got the plans made and we came back so I could go back to work my regular time. I could have taken some days off, but the plans were made so I didn't miss any shifts. My cousin Jake gave the spiritual part of the service. Someone said afterwards what a fine talk he gave. Jake replied, "Well I had a hell of a subject". It was a very fine service and the family provided the music. I won't mention the negative parts of the day. I was thinking hard about it but I decided to refrain. I have decided for certain that the Lord deals in rewards, so I don't have to. The only time I really grieved about my Dad passing was that Sunday morning. After the phone call, I sat in Jack's chair and cried and grieved loudly for about 30 minutes. After that I was never very sad. He had some rough times in the three years since the burn accident. He really did not want to live in the pain he had at times. Chuck was telling me that He and his family had been to visit the grandparents a few weeks before he died, Anna was up in the morning and said to Grandpa "I go with you?" That was the last time That family got to see Grandpa on this earth. To this day stories about Fost and his ranching and all the other crazy things he did come to life again with another story. Recently, when I was buying a new washer, a cousin Larry Flake, told me a story about my Dad chasing an inspector out of the slaughter house with a shovel. My children can tell stories about their Grandpa for hours. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2106912630 2022-03-22 07:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2106912630 I quit working for Paul in Tempe. It was lots of driving and the long hours were getting to me. The work for the Gunn family were enough to get a good salary. Joy had decided to stay in Hawaii for the summer. We made plans to go see her in July. She wanted her in line skates to skate around the campus. We went to the Polynesian Cultural Center one night. We were celebrating our 36th anniversary. They were paying special attention to couples that had long marriages. It was a wonderful experience, years later, I went with my sisters to the same place. 1998 PCC was ever so much richer of an experience. While we were at our hotel one of the evenings, we got a call from the campus police that Joy had fallen on her skates and had a broken arm. We took her up to the next town north of Laie to the hospital to get her arm set. She went to class, kept her job and finished the summer semester. She played the piano for rehab after her cast came off. Before the fall, we went to the Aloha Bowl marketplace on a Wednesday. We got gifts for the family and had a great time shopping. Jack went back on the plane after 8 days. I stayed for another 4 days. We went to Honolulu on the bus to the shopping center. I was checking out how I was going to get to the air port for my flight. Joy said that suitcases on the bus were not looked on very favorably. I caught a cab at 5:00 AM and made my connection. While we were there, Joy's friend was leaving for the mainland and we drove her to the airport for her flight. I walked on the beach some. I went to the Laie temple one day. I forgot my recommend at Joy's house and didn't have it with me. The temple president allowed be to attend after he talked to me for a little while. He was going to call my Bishop but the call didn't go through for him. That was was the only time I went to the temple without a recommend. that would not happen in a few years after that. Rules were made tighter after some abuses were made b by members. We had a nice surprise, Chuck and Marianne have a baby boy, Jacob Fost Welch was born on January 17th. Just 2 grandsons here in AZ as Russ and Becky have moved to Utah. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2106982594 2022-03-22 07:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2106982594 Joy was home for Christmas. She had originally planned to go to school on her scholarship for 1 year. She stayed for all four years. She needed a car for the forth year because she needed to go up the coast for her student teaching. Justin went over to help find a car and get her started with the insurance. They had a good time together. They had a picture of their 'Night on the Town' as Gunther and Gertrude De Spain. The De Spain tradition was invented by Russell as an alias for needed occasions. Russell's alias was Garth De Spain. We have so many wonderful grandchildren. This year we started out with Henry Lameroux Welch (Hank) was born on January 21st to Bill and Lorie. Next, on June 24th, Tessa Loraine Welch was born in Apple Valley Utah. On September 2nd, Emmy Joy was born to Chuck and Marianne. For each of the families, this years addition made four children each. More granddaughters than grandsons, but we will catch up. I was only working for the Gunn family now. At times I took a registry assignment for a few home visits. The patients were usually very nice and appreciated a nurse in their home. I did make a little bit of money on the side of my regular shifts. If I was busy, I always refused and I would not go on Sunday. The Gunn family got a dog for Mr. Gunn. It was a male Bichon Frise puppy. The nurses were supposed to train and take care of the pup. He was a little, very active dog. He caused some friction with the other family in the house. He did entertain Mr. Gunn. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2107030776 2022-03-22 08:29:23 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2107030776 Joy graduated from BYU Hawaii in the spring. She got another scholarship for a masters for BYU Provo. She decided to go just for 1 year there and try for a PHD at another school for the next year. Joy was home during the summer. She wanted to go by car to Provo. She took come kitchen stuff and all her clothes. We drove to Russ's place in Leeds and Joy and Jack went on up to Provo. Joy had worked at Dillard's that summer. She got the family a few things with her discount. She did not want to work retail again. Justin just keeps on working and takes care of the sheep and dogs while Jack is gone. He is still moving forward in the job hunting for the Fire department. Justin dates some and hangs out with friends if he can find one that isn't married yet. He had a dilemma with his G's (garments). He was single for so long that the G's were wearing out and he did not know about buying new ones. He was still wearing the pre mission stuff. He needed direction to the clothing store and then what type to get. He needs a woman in his life besides his Mommy. At my birthday in November, I was 57. I let my boss know that I was quitting and retiring at the end of the year. It was a good feeling but also now that I was not out in the world I would get lonely at home. I got some sewing projects done and started watching movies in the family room. I also listened to BOM tapes. I got to do what I wanted as far as sewing and I could listen to good material. I took some sewing classes at Sally's fabrics. I got some good ideas for Christmas gifts for the family. I made Christmas stockings with names on them for all the family. I made stockings for the husbands and wives until the last grandchild was born. After that, I made a few stockings as gifts for the ladies I visited. The Granddaughters wondered if I would be making stockings for the Great Grandchildren and the new spouses that they married. I said no because the thing would get out of hand and I needed a cut off sometime. If the next generation can come up with a creative person, that will solve that. Joy was going to have some surgery at the hospital in Provo. She was just wanting someone to take her to and from the procedure. I drove up through Page and onto Interstate 15 one day and got to Provo in the late afternoon. Her procedure went OK and she was home again and rested up for just a few hours. He wanted to do some painting and up keep on the house she was in so the landlord would give her deposit back when she moved. I decided to go out for a drive around the area sightseeing. I drove up to SLC and around the area of the temple. When Jack and I pass through, we never stop to see the other places around the area. I left a day early because I was ready to go to Russ's house in Leeds. It is a 4 hour drive from Provo. I remember driving pretty fast along the interstate and getting there late at night. They were not expecting me until the next day. I was doing some hand work at Joy's place and worked on that at Russ's. I started lots of projects in those days and then lost interest. Russ lived in a log cabin/summer home place that was built by some California family. It was interesting and had lots of potential for fixing up. Russ would work at some of the fixer upper projects as he had time. We visited them several times while they lived there. The place was really warm in winter with just a wood stove for heat. One night Becky and Russ wanted to go to a rodeo without the kids. Jack and I watched them for a few hours that evening. Tessa was less than a year old and she cried all evening for her Mom. I was worn out and Jenna did her best to help, but she could not console here either. Jenna was 11 then. We always went through Jacob's Lake to the St. George area. There was usually snow most of the winter but we did not have to detour to Page for all the trips we made. I was very busy and happy to spend my time sewing and going place but The Lord did not forget me and gave me a new calling. Bishop Woolsey called me to the Mesa Family History Center for a 6 month mission. I was happy because I needed to learn more about genealogy to get some records and temple work done on the Welch line. Jack had several records for his family available in the library and some of his cousins had their ancestors traced back into England. When I was able to really look at the records, I found that his line ran back to early historic times of the Lords of Norfolk. I also found that some temple work was done on some of the ancestors recently. I was able to get names together for more baptisms and the rest of the work. Joy had found 3 names of her Grandmother Mildred, and two others that she had done as a young women's activity. I would not have started doing the rest of the work if not for Joy starting out with just the 3. Yea! Joy. We had a training class with 35 students. It was mostly instructional and fun, but it was also kind of boring. I still have friends from that class. We learned kind of slowly. There were some of the group who were already good genealogists. Some were able to travel to the countries of the ancestors origin. Also, records for the US and Canada were available for us to learn to use. I found several marriage records for my mother's people in Canada. My mother had done some very extensive searching in German records and had run into a wall with one of her Kuehner grandfathers. Her mother's line had some research done by here aunts and uncles. The Kuehner line was not to bad when the parish records for Baden Germany recorded the birth, marriage and death of the families that were in the same place for several generations. I was interesting to find the makeup of families. My mother had the same person 'Martin Tass' as one of her grandfathers three different times. That makes the line above him really easy. I learned many things about my ancestors and how to find information in those years. I did serve that 6 month mission for the next 11 years. Bishop Woolsey exclaimed after the blessing he gave me that it was a very powerful blessing and he felt a very strong spirit as he was inspired to say the words he was inspired to say. It was a great mission. Many individuals had earthly work done for their benefit in the spirit world. The most powerful one of the ordinances that I participated in was the occasion of the sealing of Ross and Mildred in the St. George temple. Jack Was sealed to them in one of the rooms for live sealings. We then went up to a smaller room with Becky and Russ to do many, many sealings for the Welch and Shelton families. Becky had done many of the baptisms already. I still work on the Genealogy for my family by adding names to the PAF file that I keep up with. I am still classified as a consultant. I have not kept up with the new ways of computer tech that change very often. I so glad I learned these things and was able to be in position to make a difference in our family. I so want to meet those people I learned about on my journey through the records. I feel a little closer to many of them by keeping these records. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2107038265 2022-03-22 08:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2107038265 Joy finished her Masters degree a t BYU at the end of summer. She got another scholarship for a PHD program at Wayne State University in Detroit Michigan. Seems a coincidence that she was accepted there and she was having a computer relationship with a guy from Windsor Canada. She is a mature girl and capable of her future decisions. Jack and I went up for her graduation and to get her safely to the plane to Detroit. we stayed at a motel down town. It was a pretty bad place. I was asleep because I couldn't hear the outside noises. Jack was kept awake by the strange people in the parking lot. Next day we attended the graduation and packed Joy up. She sent most of her stuff back to Arizona. We left her bike at her house until we had her off and gone to Detroit. We left Provo on time with more than an hour before the plane was scheduled. We got within a mile of the airport and traffic stood still. We made one mile in one hour. We had to exit the freeway and enter again after the wreck site. We pulled into the airport just barley in time for Joy to run for it and get aboard the plane. That September, I was getting started as a missionary, I was home on a Friday. Joy called me mid morning and said I better turn on the news because United States was being attacked by some country and she did not know who. Within hours, New York had been attacked and the Pentagon was in flames. All air traffic had been suspended and President, George Bush was being taken to an undisclosed safe place until the crisis was analyzed and further information was available. When I did go back to the MFHC we kept up to date by one of the missionaries listening to a radio. I went to give blood but the line was so long that I did not stay. Turns out that the attack was so horrific that almost all persons involved were fatalities and very few injuries. Just a few weeks later, when we went to Joy's wedding in Canada, security was super tight. We had some more lovely grandchildren born in 2001. Samuel Ross Welch was born to Bill and Lorie on August 19. Ben was born to Chuck and Marianne on October 2nd. That was 5 for Bill and Chuck. About this time, a strange illness was developing in one of the Welch adults. Chuck was losing weight at an alarming rate. He also had some different behavior. We did not understand any of these things. Chuck had a great job and a great family. Things were not going well for him. We had the family over for dinners and the times they were there were stressful. They went swimming in the summer and then we had dinner. Chuck lost his wedding ring and had no clue what had happened. I was the main pool man and one day I saw a ring in the deep end. I was able to dive in and get Chuck's ring out. I called him at work and he could talk then and he was relieved that it had been found. I think Marianne had replaced it before I found the original. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2109078446 2022-03-23 06:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2109078446 joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110408166 Jack, Marie, Bill, and Chuck flew in to Detroit and watched on as Joy married some dude that seemed pretty OK but who was in fact a giant turd sandwich. The wedding was pretty nice and the Welch family got to see some cool parts of Michigan, including the henry Ford museum. Bill and Jack enjoyed looking at the cars and tractors in that museum especially. ]]> 2022-03-23 19:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110408166 joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110410549 Joy was done with the turd sandwich, so Jack and Marie drive to Windsor Ontario to help joy and her very good dog move back to the desert. The drive was long and hard, made harder by a large dog in the cab of the truck. But the move proved immeasurably helpful. ]]> 2022-03-23 19:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110410549 2 kids at home. Again. joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110413733 Jack and Marie shared their home and their vehicles with two grown-up recently-divorced children, and it was not easy. But their generosity was incredibly helpful as those two kids relaunched their lives - Chuck through freelance engineering work across the globe and Joy as a teacher in the public school classroom. ]]> 2022-03-23 19:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110413733 joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110414712 Joy marries again, this time to a good person. Mike Robbins joins the family, and the family accepts him as one of their own. ]]> 2022-03-23 19:16:50 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110414712 joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110416735 Madeline Welch comes along in December 2012, completing Aly and Justin's family. ]]> 2022-03-23 19:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110416735 Grandma Flake Died joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110417539 2022-03-23 19:18:41 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110417539 joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110419824 Joy had a baby! There was some serious concern that she would not be able to have children due to the seizure disorder, but the pregnancy was easy and delivery was a breeze. He was going to be named David, but that kid didn't look like a David. He looked like a Jack - Jack Thomas Robbins, born April 12, 2013. Another Jack? Why not. ]]> 2022-03-23 19:20:18 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110419824 joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110420750 After a lot of disappointments, Joy has baby number 2 on Thanksgiving Day. Luke Michael Robbins, November 23, 2017. ]]> 2022-03-23 19:20:59 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110420750 Pandemic. joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110424211 March 2020 was a weird time. Coronavirus made things kind of tricky. Schools are cancelled in favor of e-learning at home. Masks and talking in open-air. Church from home. 
Marie takes on watching Joy's boys twice a week while Joy teaches kids online. The boys loved this undivided attention and Marie got to know her youngest grandbabies much better. ]]> 2022-03-23 19:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110424211 joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110429806 Sophie Welch is born after many many many tries for a second child from Justin and Aly. ]]> 2022-03-23 19:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110429806 Bethany Welch joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110430958 Bill and Lorie have their caboose, and she has been a delight from the start. ]]> 2022-03-23 19:27:57 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110430958 Hannah got married! joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110431282 2022-03-23 19:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110431282 joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110433033 Tall Jack Welch of the US Navy takes a bride. ]]> 2022-03-23 19:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110433033 Justin and Aly have a baby! joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110435267 Dillon Jack Welch, and oh my is he a cutie. This is a wonderful year as Alyson and Justin both work. So Dillon comes over and the grandparents deck their house all the way out for a new crop of baby watching. ]]> 2022-03-23 19:31:15 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110435267 Hawaii Trip joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110437913 Jack, Marie, Justin, Aly, Mike, and Joy go on a cruise to Hawaii to see four islands. Justin wins his third(?) sexy legs competition.]]> 2022-03-23 19:33:13 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110437913 Justin Gets a Real Girl joyrobbins78 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110439269 Justin starts seriously dating Alyson Hurt, a trained EMT. ]]> 2022-03-23 19:34:14 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2110439269 Justin and Aly get married mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2113101410 The wedding is lovely, and Marie made dresses for all of the  granddaughters to wear in a lovely family photo. 
Also, a bird pooped in Marie's hair during photos outside of the temple, which in many cultures is considered good luck. ]]> 2022-03-25 03:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2113101410 Justin went through the Firefighters training for Chandler Gilbert again. This time, the Chief for Gilbert was very interested in Justin as a prospect. After the training, Justin was hired for Gilbert. he was a happy guy. For the first year, he was just a rookie and had to prove he was a team player and could get the work done. He did OK and the department sent him and several others to Phoenix Collage to train for paramedic. WE didn't see too much of Justin because he stayed in his room and studied like mad. He did come out for food. Jack and I went over to the collage for his graduation. Justin was first in his class. The study was worth it. Joy was busy in Canada with her school and her extra teaching positions. She could teach at a technical school and to students that had a desire to go on to college but were not advanced enough to tackle English 101 and 102. We talked on the phone every Sunday night and so we were able to keep up with the family activities for both Arizonans and Canadians. I wish now that we had recorded them and we would have a great record of those years. We do remember but not all the rich details of those years. We got a new truck that year. A 2002 Chevy. It had manual windows and seats. It was a beautiful truck. We decided to drive up to see Joy through Iowa and then go sight seeing through Niagara Falls and down through New York and Washington DC. Joy and Jeff were in an apartment on the 3rd floor of a building that faced the Detroit river. We worried a little about how Joy and Jeff interacted with each other. We got away from Windsor and while we were at Niagara, some other tourist used his key and put some deep scratches in the passenger side of a new truck. I guess they resented people from Arizona. We toured through Palmyra, New York to the church history sites. Then we went to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to see the Civil War history there. We went to Washington DC to see what was there that we could look at in 2 days. The motels there were super expensive. We parked out at Rock Springs and took the Metro at 9:00 AM for jut $5 we could ride it all day. We went to the capital mall and found out that a bus tour came down from Gettysburg certain days and the good sites were covered on that tour. We visited the LDS Temple. They had a display of African Americans and the Church. Green Flake and family were a big part of the display. Green Flake was a negro slave that came across the plains with James Madison Flake after the Flake family had joined the church in Mississippi in the 1830's. We took the Metro under the river over to Arlington National Cemetery. That was the most interesting part of Washington . The tour highlighted the graves of African Americans because most of the employees around Washington are African Americans. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was so interesting with the guards and the changing of the guards. I could watch that for several hours. We left Washington and started the long drive home. On the second day, we left real early in the AM and crossed the Arkansas River before daylight. We were listening to the radio and heard a broadcast that the bridge we had crossed just a short time before had been knocked down by a barge in the river. Several travelers and even trucks had gone off the bridge with several fatalities before traffic could get stopped. A horse trailer with horses had gone down with all the horses downed. Every time I think of that story, I am grateful for the blessings of us making it over before the tragedy happened. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2113147673 2022-03-25 04:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2113147673 Justin was going to be 30 on January 4th of 2004. He was warned that he could not stay with us after turning 30. I'm not sure if we would have booted him or were just hoping for some women to attract him enough to start his own household. Just the same, Allison Hurt managed to convince herself that he was worth the effort. They planned their wedding for September. We had a dinner at our house the night before and got to visit each family before the wedding the next day. All the family came, Joy was able to go to the wedding in the Temple. Jeff Slack, Joy's husband was not able to come. She was ahead of her brother by 2 years getting married. Becky was pregnant with a little girl. I made my dress for the reception and made 7 other dresses for Justin's nieces. Their colors were navy blue and white. The reception was at a country club up in North Mesa. Lots and lots of pictures and expensive too. We didn't get very many pics because of the high price. We got enough. The family picture was very nice, and it still hangs in our family room. In November, Leah Marie Welch was born on Nov. 25th. I took a little leave from the FH mission and took a plane to Las Vegas to stay with the Welch family in Leeds. Russ and Connor drove over to Las Vegas to pick me up. The Flu season was very bad that year and they did not want the baby out when she was little. I did errands in St. George and picked up Jenna and Colton from the movie 'Lord of the Rings' I got sick myself with an ear problem. I had to find an ear doctor in St. George to treat my ear. I also quilted a kitten quilt for Leah down in the basement. Colton was 13 and gave me a terrible time. Just mouthy and disrespectful. Well about 2 days before I left Utah, I had had it with Mr. Colton. Down in the basement he gave me one last 'I hate you remark' and I unloaded on him big time. Jenna had her mouth open about 4 inches and could hardly believe what Grandma was saying. I felt better after giving him a hefty piece of my mind and told him I loved him a whole lot. He still would not let me touch him and acted the same. Next time and from the time on he never gave me any more sass. I took the shuttle from West St. George to Las Vegas. It was good to be home and not have quite so many dishes to wash and a little more peace. Justin and Aly have a small house in East Mesa. It is a good place for a young couple. Aly is a paramedic and rides with an ambulance group. That is how they met, Justin as a fireman and Aly with her training is employed as ambulance personnel. We are so happy that we have another daughter in law. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2113242357 2022-03-25 05:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2113242357 Well 2007 has arrived. We get to have a new little Grandson this year in March. Aly was in labor for quite a while. Aly's mother, Kay Hurt and I were outside the delivery room waiting for word, Justin came out several times to give us update. After several hours, it was determined that the baby was going to be born cesarean. The hospital stay was longer because Aly had longer to heal. Dillon Jack Welch was born on March 11th. This is Colton's birthday also. We are into a new house. Just 3 bedrooms and large, separate garage and a rather large tack room for storage. The neighborhood seams nice. We got directions and times for Church real quick. There are LDS neighbors very close and lots of pasture and corrals for our sheep. Chuck will be in one of the bedrooms as he is still pretty sick form his eating disorder. This year, four families used the same tailor to move form one place to the other. In May, Jack and I moved out of the house on Redfield to the present home on Catclaw St. The Redfield house was empty until Bill and family moved in around August for their children to start school in Gilbert. Justin moved to Queen Creek from his small house in East Mesa. Dillon had been been born in March and did not walk yet. Joy had given up on her Canadian husband and wanted to get back to Arizona. We did our visiting with Iowa relatives before we drove the rest of the way to Windsor. Joy had furniture and lots of books to bring back. We took two days to pack it all in the truck and trailer. She also had her very large husky dog. We took it fairly slow so the dog would not be so fussy and made it in 3 days. We left Canada through the Detroit Windsor Tunnel. I remember from the time I was 5 that my parents and brother Dee had gone there on the way to see my Grandparents back in 1947. Joy stored part of her stuff in our out buildings and got her necessary teaching stuff into the corner bedroom. Chuck was a real mess in the kitchen because of his treatment of food. Joy had a rough time tolerating him in those days. Joy got a teaching position in the Apache Junction district. She used our car until she got a new Toyota the next year. Most of her friends around here were married so she had to hang out with others and new people. She had lots to do for her school. She wanted to get hired in the Gilbert area but she took what she could get. Joy's dog, Annie is a husky mix. She has a double coat and needs to be out of the afternoon heat. She dose not chase sheep so she can be left outside for the mornings. She is a very good dog but she is getting older. Joy sleeps with her. She was showing signs of getting too old and not having a very good life. She is buried on the West side of our property. She did shed hair but other than that, she was nice to have around. I walked with her for several years. We volunteered to take care of Dillon for 1 day a week. Wednesday was the best day for Aly. If Justin was off the rest of the week, he took him. It was just convenient for us to have him that day. We usually made supper so the parents could be relaxed at home. Dillon was learning to walk here. He liked to ride the little quad around the neighborhood to check the animals all around. Once when he was working at potty training, He came out of the family room and said "I poop on the crapet". Jack laughed so hard about that. Weeks later, Dillon was still telling grandpa about the poop. He was so much fun we didn't think it was work. Later when Dillon got interested in toys, we learned about army guys and weapons. we had some boys toys and barbie dolls around for young children. Life was full of little kids again. Makes us glad that there was space between Chuck and Justin. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2113267530

]]> 2022-03-25 06:04:54 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2113267530 There were '0' babies born to the family in this year. Bill, Russ and Chuck each had 5 children. We had 2 younger married children but careers and other things kept Joy and Jeff and Justin and Aly busy. The babies were waiting till 2006 to join us. Chuck was not getting any better with his problems. In one of these years, he did go to Wisconsin to a treatment place. Joy and Jeff went over from Windsor to see him once. He was getting a little better but decided to come home because he said he was 'cured'. He was able to function for a little while but he soon was back into the destructive behavior. I have the years mixed up but not the events. A few years later, Chuck found a place in California that treated men with eating problems. Jack and I drove a pickup over and stayed at a motel before we left him a Oxnard California. That area was farm land and the town was fairly small. He did OK there but met some pretty weird people. The director had recovered from his own eating disorder several years earlier. Chucks insurance was covering the cost of the treatment. after a month, Chuck decided to come back. The director there tried very hard to convince him to stay. They called us and Marianne to try to convince him. Not too long after, he lost all the weight he had put on. He was living with a man named Lloyd Handcock at the time. There were many Hispanic families around where he lived and his Spanish improved a lot as he talked to the neighbors. Chuck never missed any of his obligations to his family. During this time, we went to St. George with Chuck. Russ and Becky lived in a little town up I 15 called Leeds. We went through Las Vegas and Chuck had his motor cycle strapped in the back of the truck. There is several bike trails and some off road bike paths around the area where Becky and Russ live. The idea was great but for one little detail. Chuck forgot the key to his bike. We came home the same as we went but a little disappointed that Chuck did not get more enjoyment out of the trip. Chuck has always loved his bikes both motorcycles and ten speeds. He felt really good if he could get out riding and feel the wind on his face. He got lots of exercise on the bike and that also kept his weight down. I think I got to know Chuck as an adult through this time. We always tried to express our love for him but we did not like his behavior. Chuck was hospitalized twice through this time. He had some heart symptoms and his doctor wanted him in Desert Banner Hospital to see what was causing his heart to act up. He had the kitchen bring him two trays of food piled high with vegies and salads. The next time he was hospitalized was for an incident in Phoenix. He had gone to the licensing place downtown and was standing in line waiting for service. He ran out of blood sugar and fell down. he also broke a tooth. The paramedics got there in time to give him some IV fluid to get him to Good Samaritan on 10th St. He was stable enough to call Jack to have him pick up the little propane Toyota that he left in the parking lot, unlocked. We immediately went to see him in the intensive care. He was in very bad shape and was shivering pretty hard. He said that he had some impressions while laying there that he could make a decision to continue living or dying right then. He got better and was stable during his 2 week stay. The Bishop from 3rd ward, Brad McBride was over to see him and gave him a blessing. Chuck got a job in North Scottsdale with an engineering place. He had a rough time with a boss that made the job very hard. Chuck decided to move up closer to his work and found a room in a house up there. It did not work for him to be in that situation. He didn't stay even a month before he was ready to come back to Gilbert. Jack and I went with him and loaded 2 pickups with his furniture. After just a few months, he got fired from his job. His next adventure was his move to the United Emirates. After several weeks, he was able to call us to tell us he was hospitalized in the country with signs of TB. His hospitalization was one terrible experience. He told us later that the staff told him he might not make it through the night when he was at his sickest point. He was finally allowed to leave the country and we just had to guess when his flight from London would land in Phoenix. The County Health people had been notified about his coming back with possible problems. Joy was nervous about his symptoms and went to stay somewhere else. A nurse from county came out and took all his medications and then put him on most of the same stuff. Joy was OK with him after a few days. He did not have TB. He had Mycobacterial mycosis. The treatment for that is the same as TB. He was at our place and recovering. He found a job and was kind of mellow for awhile. He had been working in United Emirates as consultant on the air base there. Later on he was at our house after Joy moved out with her dog to a friends condo. Chuck was not feeling well and I told him he needed to get to his doctor. Before his appointment, he said he just needed medical attention very soon. We took him to the ER at Mercy Gilbert Hospital. They were able to take him right in and had intubated him within minutes. He went straight to intensive care and they had a suspicion of Swine Flu at that time. They sedated him and put feeding tube in lower than the stomach. We all had to gown up and wear masks while the swine flu situation was determined. Turns out he just had pneumonia and he would probably recover. We were told that when he was released from ICU, he would have to spend time in a rehab place to wean him off the ventilator. We checked out Spring Dale in Mesa. That was the right place for him to go. The respiratory team was very good and he progressed. In the mean time we found the right lawyer to handle the guardianship issue. We got things in motion and hired an attorney for Chuck. He had to have representation also. When he was going to be released, we had everything ready to send him to Wickenburg for treatment. The next morning we loaded him in the car and delivered him to Rosewood. He was not allowed to have his phone or computer. When he was released, he went to stay with Jared for awhile. This period during his recovery was of his own choosing. He didn't get better real soon, but he did get himself on the way to recovery. He his so much better and happier now. He never lost his faith and I believe that is what carried him through. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2115150601 2022-03-26 23:21:04 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2115150601 In 2006 we were wanting to sell our Chandler property. Jack had done his parts business there for the years that we had taken the land back. We had a neighbor there complain about the parts business. We had to clean up the property of all the vehicles and the soil that might have oil in it. An inspector from the county had to come out and proclaim the soil and the parts had been properly removed. We had 30 separate containers brought out and then returned with one vehicle and all the loose parts in it to make it full. Jack said that over $100K worth of parts went into the bins in those months that they were selling and dumping stuff off the property. This time, we got the money all at once instead of over several years like the sell in 1985. We had a whopper of a tax bill on it but we could make our plans knowing that the money was in our hands and not depending on the buyers status. This is the year that Bill and Lorie completed their family. Bethany Ann Welch was born on March 6th. This makes 3 boys and 3 girls for this family. I made a smoked dress for her. She has dark hair and looks much like Hannah at the same age. Jack had been having trouble with his muscular system. He had a lot of swelling in his hands and general pain when he moved. His doctors did not know what was causing a lot of his symptoms. At one point, he was going to have an injection to relieve the pain. One of the other specialists said that the treatment would cause paralysis in the hand. Later, he had carpel tunnel surgery that helped some. His hands and the other muscles got better after a time. The parts business was hard because he was hurting most of the time. The boys helped him some and he had some guys from Chandler help him do some of the heavy work. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2115157857 2022-03-26 23:45:27 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2115157857 I was still a missionary. I was learning how to put ancestors into a computer program. I typed all of the ancestors that my mom had found. As I looked at my mom's dates for temple work, I was checking the Family Search records for any up dates that she had not written down. I did find a few and got the temple ready cards made for them. My mother wanted the cards to be sent to Dona Flake, Randy's wife, for her to keep them straight and return them so I could record them in the PAF file. Jack, Bonna and I did most of the baptisms in the Mesa temple. My mother had been blind since 2002. She had a neovascular accident in one eye and then it also happened in the other eye. She could see light and dark for a few years, but that soon was degenerated to total darkness. She had a clock that told her the time. She got books on tape and the scriptures on tape to listen to. She liked to listen to the ball games and BYU had some programs she liked. She had the meals on wheels bring her lunch 5 days a week. the families around her took 1 night a week to either invite her over or bring her something for her supper. Lara Wiltbank would come to get her on Sunday nights to eat with their family. She liked visiting with the Wiltbank boys and Melany. Karen Packard would come over while she was gone and vacuum and change her bed sheets. Mom did not appreciate Karen much. She always said that Karen moved things around so she couldn't find them. She didn't have any idea how any house work got done because she said that 'I don't see any dirt'. We finally sold our Chandler property. This time we sold for cash, not with payments over several years. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2115166269 2022-03-27 00:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2115166269 I remember waking up that morning. Finding nobody in the house, I must have thought I belonged at the babysitters house. So i put on some close and walked there. I knew how to cross busy streets because they had shown me how on "Sesame Street". Just push the button and wait for the green light that said "WALK". https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2117536430 2022-03-28 16:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2117536430 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. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2118032219 2022-03-28 21:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2118032219 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 mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2118099571 2022-03-28 22:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2118099571 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. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2118110287 2022-03-28 22:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2118110287 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. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2118225728 Welch. ]]> 2022-03-29 00:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2118225728 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. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2118364737 2022-03-29 02:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2118364737 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. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2119921052 2022-03-29 18:00:43 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2119921052 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. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2120053737

]]> 2022-03-29 19:15:40 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2120053737 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. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2124179979 2022-03-31 18:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2124179979 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. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2124279255 2022-03-31 19:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2124279255 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. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2124297256 2022-03-31 20:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2124297256 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. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2124404210 2022-03-31 22:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2124404210 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. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2126060420 2022-04-01 21:56:54 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2126060420 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. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2126094699 2022-04-01 22:58:47 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2126094699 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. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2126121967 2022-04-01 23:54:56 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2126121967 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. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2126137254 2022-04-02 00:28:28 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2126137254 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 mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2131246455 2022-04-05 18:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2131246455 At Snowflake, taking pictures of the couples. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2132853974 2022-04-06 15:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2132853974 The baby Joy, all dressed up and ready for church. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2132858559 2022-04-06 15:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2132858559 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. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2137722190 2022-04-10 01:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2137722190 Three boys showing off for the camera. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138292649 2022-04-10 21:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138292649 The three sisters at the house on Willetta Street, Phoenix mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138327716 2022-04-10 23:07:24 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138327716 Bonna always helping with the boys when she visited. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138327879 2022-04-10 23:07:43 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138327879 Russell with a broken leg and helpers mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138328399 2022-04-10 23:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138328399 Bonna Marci and the leisure suits. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138329382 2022-04-10 23:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138329382 Got them all together and smiling. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138329805 2022-04-10 23:11:19 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138329805 Forgot to have us more centered. Iowa at a family picnic in Williamson. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138330142 2022-04-10 23:11:48 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138330142 Bill, the great hunter, with his fox from the woodpile. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138330810 2022-04-10 23:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138330810 Russell and Justin mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138331122 2022-04-10 23:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138331122 One of Jack's trucks. The four Welch guys dressed up. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138331449 2022-04-10 23:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138331449 All the sweaters, Grandma Flake's masterpiece for Christmas. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138331982 2022-04-10 23:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138331982 Russell after ear surgery. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138333232 2022-04-10 23:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138333232 In the back yard , Sam with Lorie. We were dressed up for church. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138389705 2022-04-11 00:32:22 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138389705 We saw deer every day. The grand children could get near them. Some were actually tame. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138610174 2022-04-11 04:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138610174 At the Cabin mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138612402 2022-04-11 04:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138612402 Joy and the big boy Jack Jack. He needed big name for a big boy and a cousin and Grandpa named Jack. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138613426 2022-04-11 04:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138613426 Russell playing FB at Willis Jr. High. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138615348 2022-04-11 04:09:40 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138615348 Fun times at campout at Brown Creek. Cousins with the big boys. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138616521 s]]> 2022-04-11 04:11:03 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138616521 Jack and Bill ready for church at the E. Willetta house, Phoenix mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138634147 2022-04-11 04:34:29 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138634147 My sisters and Stacie in Hawaii pineapple plantation. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138647266 2022-04-11 04:50:30 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138647266 Cousins at Grandpa's and Grandma's mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138662422 2022-04-11 05:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138662422 Justin very thirsty in Chandler house mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138665575 2022-04-11 05:10:50 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138665575 Big brothers Russ and Bill with Joy mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138667512 2022-04-11 05:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138667512 Christmas with brothers on missions mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138671190 2022-04-11 05:16:52 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138671190 Justin and Chance made the Eagle mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138672958 2022-04-11 05:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138672958 Two young people, AKA Jack and Marie with a little kid named William Ross Welch. 42' home mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138680531 2022-04-11 05:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138680531 Jack in Snowflake mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138683223 2022-04-11 05:29:49 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138683223 Bill with $59 worth of groceries mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138685447 2022-04-11 05:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138685447 Started sewing for all the guys mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138686413 2022-04-11 05:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138686413 Bill, caught his little brother Chuck mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138687768 2022-04-11 05:35:18 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138687768 Mom with Bill in the new E. Willetta house mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138689943 2022-04-11 05:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138689943 On vacation with our friends in California. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138692546 2022-04-11 05:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138692546 All 3 boys in scouts. Bill in 12 year old scouts, and two cubs. Fire place in Chandler. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138695083 2022-04-11 05:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138695083 Joy mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138696938 2022-04-11 05:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138696938 The message shirts mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138698706 2022-04-11 05:47:50 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138698706 Bill and Lorie, newly weds at Christmas in Gilbert mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138701416 2022-04-11 05:50:39 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138701416 Mission picture Russell chill'n out mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138704711 2022-04-11 05:53:54 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138704711 Fun times at the Flake campout at brown creek. Russ and Chuck with cousins. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138707329 2022-04-11 05:56:34 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138707329 Washing dishes. Justin, Joy and Russ in Chandler mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138709086 2022-04-11 05:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138709086 Mom and Dad's vacation to Hawaii. At the Arizona Memorial with college girl Joy mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138711497 2022-04-11 06:00:48 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138711497 Visit to Utah. Jenna, Colton and Connor Becky and Jack at Loa Utah. Up in the mountains at Loa. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138714663 2022-04-11 06:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138714663 Date Night at a Christmas party for Jack and Marie mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138717501 2022-04-11 06:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138717501 Guess who gets all the attention, Jenna mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138722344 2022-04-11 06:12:40 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138722344 Is she always this happy? Jenna mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138723515 2022-04-11 06:13:58 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138723515 Two sisters, Tessa and Leah mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138725795 2022-04-11 06:16:25 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138725795 A good start at the Grand children total. At Justin's fire house bay. Jenna #1 holding Leah #15 mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138729337 2022-04-11 06:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138729337 Joy with her masters degree in Provo Utah. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138732040 2022-04-11 06:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138732040 Marie at the Family History Center. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138733532 2022-04-11 06:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138733532 Jack's family in 2006, Bill, Bud and Mike. Donna and Lib. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138735308 2022-04-11 06:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138735308 All 5 gathered at the Catclaw house. Joy and Chuck are the small ones. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138737914 2022-04-11 06:28:34 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138737914 Colton's baptism, Washington, Utah. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138740620 2022-04-11 06:31:24 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138740620 Jack and Joy in the sand mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138742867 2022-04-11 06:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138742867 wildlife at the cabin. Loved to catch pictures of the young male deer. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138745334 2022-04-11 06:36:07 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138745334 The little Grand children were looking somewhere else. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138751670 2022-04-11 06:41:53 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138751670 Sisters, Sarah and Anna visiting Hannah. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138754884 2022-04-11 06:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138754884 Hannah, Maggie was under the exposure line, sorry Maggie mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138756768 2022-04-11 06:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138756768 Marjory and the siblings after grandpa Fost's funeral. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138760546 2022-04-11 06:50:20 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138760546 Joy and a new dress. wearing makeup. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138763879 2022-04-11 06:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2138763879 Four RunsThrough mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139536297 2022-04-11 17:17:23 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139536297 Fern RunsThrough mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139542445 2022-04-11 17:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139542445 Fern RunsThrough mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139546009 2022-04-11 17:22:58 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139546009 Russ and Becky's Growing Family mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139559002 2022-04-11 17:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139559002 Lego Land w Justin's Kids mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139563265 2022-04-11 17:34:03 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139563265 Sophie @ Lego Land mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139568423 2022-04-11 17:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139568423 mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139574961 2022-04-11 17:41:09 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139574961 Lilly Carroll, April 2021 mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139899122 2022-04-11 22:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139899122 Penelope Star Carroll, Born, January 2018 mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139907714 2022-04-11 22:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139907714 mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139917115 Justin working with his cousins, Scott and Wade at the Brown Creek camp ground.]]> 2022-04-11 22:51:54 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139917115 Justin in the creek at Brown Creek Camp mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139922110 2022-04-11 22:59:05 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139922110 Bill home from Mission mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139946789 2022-04-11 23:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139946789 Joy's dance costume mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139949259 2022-04-11 23:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2139949259 Emma's wedding mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2140362259 2022-04-12 06:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2140362259 Flake Family 1956 mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2140363612 2022-04-12 06:02:53 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2140363612 Bill's Mustang mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2140368089 2022-04-12 06:07:46 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2140368089 Joy and the Pups mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2140370103 2022-04-12 06:09:38 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2140370103 Joy and Mike mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2140372116 2022-04-12 06:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2140372116 Joy and the Pups 2 mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2140373581 2022-04-12 06:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2140373581 Joy's Barbie mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2140376578 2022-04-12 06:15:16 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2140376578 Bill Russ and the Pups mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2140378845 2022-04-12 06:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2140378845 Jack and the three boys ready for church with Jack's wrecked truck. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2143928536 2022-04-14 14:13:59 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2143928536 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. mfw112743 https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2146089742 2022-04-17 16:31:26 UTC https://padlet.com/joyrobbins78/8oxt9om1hcye81oc/wish/2146089742