November 9, 2014

Hi everyone,

I had a great birthday weekend!  Thanks for your calls, gifts and well wishes.  I loved it! We so enjoyed having Mandy, Shane and baby Meg with us Friday night and Saturday.  Because of his foot surgery last Wed., Clair has been somewhat homebound, but he has enjoyed working on his latest family history project.  We finally got him out of the house yesterday and went for a ride up Emmigration Canyon.  The leaves are gone up there, but we are enjoying the beautiful fall colors here in the city.  We also went to lunch at the Lion house.  Thanks for that Shane!  We accomplished a lot in the two days the Dallings were here.  We were finally able to find them a recliner that they could both agree on!  It took a lot of talking to Ashley Furniture, but we got the job done!  Shane was able to go to a Jazz game with his brother Ryan Friday night, and Mandy and I had a nice walk up around the Capitol Sat. morning.  We took the Trax to the Clark Planetarium for an Imax movie on Pandas, but got on the wrong train afterwards and ended up walking several long Salt Lake blocks home. I'm lost around here in the big city without my husband.  I hope you made it to Smith and Edwards Shane.  Thanks so much for coming down; we loved it!

Clair is doing well and will go back to work tomorrow.  I think most of our sick and afflicted missionaries are making progress too.  I guess health problems just go with the territory (getting older).

Here are a few pictures for you to enjoy!  The first one was family that came to celebrate Michael's Birthday.  It was after our sealing session in the Salt Lake Temple.  The second is of the Dallings on Sat., Nov. 8th and the 3rd of our missionary, Sabrina Bush in NYC.  If you can't remember how to use this blog, call us or Torrey!  It's a way to journal, which I hope you are all doing.

Love ya,
Mom/Grandma