My 4th Photo

This is at Sara's wedding shower. Carlye is sitting on her lap. We are at Susanna Winston's house. Carlye gave Sara the best gift at her shower. It was red animal scissors for the kitchen (I can't remember what the animal was, but they were from Target and they were really cool.) (I actually think this is a pretty good picture of me-not like usual.)

Family Ties

I loved having Heidi and her family come visit us a few weeks ago. There is something about family that just makes you happy. It is great to reconnect with family you haven't seen in a long time, but the love is the same as if we saw each daily. I loved Heidi's kids immediately and I was so impressed with how well behaved they were. Talking with Heidi made me miss Carianne because their laughs and expressions are so similar. I was surprised at how much Heidi reminded me of Carianne. Heidi's kids did not remind me of Carianne's kids. They are all different and all wonderful. Thank you for coming to see us Heidi.

Last week my cousin Nancy called and invited me to lunch. Nancy is Alice Ann's second daughter. Juliana, her oldest child, is my age and the one I always played with. Nancy lives here in Provo. She also invited my mother's cousin Christine and her daughter Lori to lunch. We had such a fun visit. We talked a lot about family members that are no longer with us. Christine's daugher, Debbie, was my age and we were good friends. Debbie lives in Payson. We all decided we need to have a bigger family reunion soon. Christine and her family lived in Ephraim and we spent a lot of time playing in their house. The house is on main street on the south side of town and is now a Credit Union. My family lived in Ephraim for one year in the late 1960's.

Lori told me that when we moved to Germany we left a lot of toys with her family. She loved all the Barbie dolls and the Creepy Crawler Thingmaker, but her favorite toy was my Troll Doll House. I LOVED that Troll Doll House. I was so happy to find out that it had been loved so much by another little girl. I looked on EBAY and, sure enough, you can still get a Troll Doll House. When you opened it there was a fireplace and furniture inside.

Anyway, I am always so thankful for my wonderful extended family.

Let There Be Peace on Earth

Today in Relief Society the lesson was about how Joseph Smith said we should make peace with those around us. (Yes, even those who would mock our sacred ordinances.) It was a good lesson and for the closing song we sang "Let There Be Peace on Earth." The teacher passed out papers with the words on it. Of course, I didn't need the words. I was sitting next to a young sister in her late 20s. As we were singing she leaned over to me and said "I have never heard this song before." I was shocked! When I was a teenager that was an extremely popular song. I don't often feel so old at church. I have often thought that once you are an adult in the church, age doesn't seem to mean much anymore. Not with this song!
I wondered how many of my daughters and nieces know the song. I would guess that perhaps Carianne does, but probably no one else.
I think it is a great song, but maybe the Miss America pageant has made "world peace" sound trite. Anyway, those are my thoughts-what do you think?
Another great song I heard recently goes, "I want to be happy, but I won't be happy, till I know you're happy, too."

I'm Back!

It is past time for me to post on my blog. I have especially felt bad that I haven't posted any of Carolyn't journal entries. When I posted in the past it seemed like the journal entries were close to the same date as in her journal. As I read through her journal to decide what to post next, I was all the way to March 18 before I found an entry that anyone would be interested in, so you get May 18, 1992 today. (She only wrote when she got her hair done-usually once a week, sometimes less.)

Mar 18, 1992

Mother has cataracts. We went to provo yesterday and She can't see at all out of her right eye and only minimal out the left-She will be operated on next thurs 24th-I sure hope all goes well. I think if she could see she would feel better. She can't even enjoy reading as it is.

Mark Walton was married last Sat here in the temple-Sharee and Dean-David and Kathy came Fri night we had a real nice Dinner and Visit. Then they stayed with us. I got up on Sat Set out fruit-muffins and cereal so they could eat breakfast. We had to be at the temple at 6AM. It was a busy day so we could not go to the wedding breakfast. When we got home at about 2pm They were all a our house-Sharee Dean-Wendy and Dean-David and Kathy-Raphael and Julia-I put out left overs we all visited and had fun they left about 4:30 we rested then went to orem to the reception. got home about 11pm Sat night We went to Richfield to church on Sunday Troy Brown (a missionary from the Texas San Antonio Mission-Arch and Carolyn knew him when they were serving in the Mission Presidency) was home from his mission-10 of us from the mission were there. It was nice-They had a big dinner after at the senior citizens-after we went to Raphael and Julia's and visited-

Monday we had Bob and Susannah for supper Bob's birthday-Susannah has a job at Snow college-

Spring is about here flowers are up crocuses are blooming-pansy's and daffodils but we had snow yesterday.

annie has a blog and decided that people can go look at it now. it is anniedittmar.blogspot.com. sorry i haven't written for a while, i will resume promtly. i love you all,

Omi's Birthday

Ludeal, Sarah and Carolyn Nielson


I have skipped a couple of journal entries because there is not much of interest in them, but I will summarize. Carolyn and Archie enjoyed working in the Temple together. They were making preparations to come visit Texas-I was expecting Christina and they wanted to be there for the birth. They left on Jan 25, 1992. Carolyn was a little worried about coming because she had a new calling to teach Primary, and she wanted to get to know her kids better. I don't think of my mother as a Primary teacher, so I found that interesting. She was also worried about leaving her mother, Sarah. Sarah did not want to make the trip-she was getting old and it was hard on her-so Carolyn arranged for people to take care of her. They also went to SLC to get glasses for Popi, after his cataract surgery.

Jan 30, 1992

Archie is 20-20 with Glasses.

Sarah Ann Sessions Nielson Tuttle is 89 years old today. I called her and she is fine-She has lots of cards-flowers etc. She loves it. I'm so happy for her. I hated to leave her and come to Texas without her especially be gone on her birthday but it is very hard for her to travel now it upsets her whole system and its months before she is back to normal-So I took a chance and let her stay home and she is doing fine so far.

Marianne is real uncomforable and the baby is over due now-She wants to have it today on Moms birthday but I don't think she will.

We had a real nice time in SLC last week-Tosca (the opera) was good and the hotel fun to stay in We shopped and rested then went to lunch...Then Archie went and had his eyes looked at The Doctor could not believe he could see so well then when he looked at his macula and it was fine only a tiny bit of degeneration it blew him away he threw his hands in the air-He is not LDS and just could not understand it. It is a real miricle because all the Doctors we have been to can not have been wrong.

We had a nice trip down-Its humid and was raining but its pretty today Im still glad we live in Utah-It is fun to see all the people we know

Im at Susans getting my hair done she did it for 15 years when I lived here.


Christina was born the day after this entry on Jan 31, 1992. One day after Omi's birthday.
One reason Popi and Grandma moved to Manti was because Popi had been diagnosed with Macular Degeneration and was going blind. They needed to live in a place where Popi could continue to function after he was blind. There is no cure for this so it truly was a miracle that his sight was 20/20 after the cataract surgery. Any comment on this Popi?

oldsheepherderscamp.blogspot.com

Popi has joined the blogosphere! He spent hours yesterday reading all of your blogs and he would love to hear from you on his new blog. So, check it out at oldsheepherderscamp.blogspot.com.