Friday, December 19, 2008

Carolyn's Christmas Eve

Carolyn, Alice Ann, Sara and Norma
Do you recognize where they are?
Dec 24, 1991
Christmas Eve-It is beautiful outside hoar frost on everything it looks like a fairy land
Gwen and Tom-Archies sister and nephew came yesterday and stayed the Eve-They go back today-It was so nice to have them Its nice to have good beds and lovely rooms for people to stay.
We sure had a nice time in SLC last week-we stayed at the temple Square Inn it is very elegant and not expensive-We overlooked the temple square-We went to the LDS museum and to see the lights on temple square-Walked all around crossroads mall had a nice dinner all in all it was wonderful.
We have about everything ready for Christmas annette and John cant come till the 27th so alice ann will come too it will be fun we have to talk on the 29th at the prison in Gunnison-I don't know what to talk about-I must get busy on that we will have 9 people for dinner tomorrow such a small group I wish it could be more.
archie is still fine his eyes get better and better we sure feel blessed
aunt Zatell died last week I will miss her-even tho I did not see her often. She was an inspirition to me. mom is the last of the Sessions family left
We work at the temple again on the 27th I sure did not get much done on the house this christmas-I still have lots to paint


Mom's love for entertaining sure is evident in this entry. But it would be nice if she used a little more punctuation.
Alice Ann is mom's sister and Annette is her daughter.
Zatell was married to Elveras Sessions. Elveras was Omi's brother.
Is that all clear?
Beckie, do you remember any stories about Zatell?

1 comment:

Grandma Bailey said...

Aunt Zatell was the Aunt that Mom stayed with when she met all the movie stars. They are the ones that lived in Las Angeles. Her daughter's name was Dorothy and was one of Mom's best friends as well as being her cousin. Dorothy died fairly young. Aunt Zatell had enough money to have a chauffeur and a maid until her death. She was on Good Morning America in the late 1980's when they did a special on longevity. Actually Aunt Zatell was on several times after that because she was so sharp and they enoyed their interview with her so much. Unlike Omi, she was lucid right up until her passing. She was almost 100 when she finally died. It was quite a blow to Omi. She was quite bad anyway but things really went downhill after that. It was almost like there was no reason to stick around with no family left.