What I wore in March

March Happenings

We celebrated St. Patties day singing at a rest home!  We all wore green (except Bob Farley) and Wayne had a giant leprechaun hat to wear and pass around to the residents who sang with us.  It as a fun idea.

My Sister Liz's friend gave me a Lucky sweatshirt because of my Instagram whatluckywears account.  They are so cute.  This came in clutch for St. Pat's day as well.

My girlfriend group is going strong... our gathering for March was at Jo Murdock's home-- she made delicious quiche and salad for us and we discussed the Give them P.I.E.-- praise, inspiration and encouragement book by Pinegar...and then I did a thrifting demo and what I thrift and how to do it and how to wear it.  It was fun.
 

Our new branch was invited to the Linden Temple Open house for a 6am tour...that's right 6 am... it was early travleing from Ogden, but so worth it.  Many of our members can't be around anyone under 18-- so they did this special for them, plus a breakfast after at a nearby church.  It was great to have so many of our guys there.  

Tina Patrick, Me, Brigit Adams, Annie 

This is our new Branch members board that we try and keep up to date for all of us to get to know each other better. 

I go on a duck walk most mornings.  I love to walk to the Kays Creek walkway along the Layton Park.  It's a paved trail that follows the creek and features two duck ponds.  I'm becoming very adept at speaking duck.  There are a lot of Mallards with their gorgeous  green heads, and Canadian Honkers that fill the ponds, but we also have a brown looking Mallard called a Khaki Campbell, a black duck with a little white on the chest and a yellow beak called a Duclair, an all black duck with a white beak called a Coot, a bluish beak duck with a mostly gray body called a Blue Swedish, the white storybook looking duck called a Pekin, and my favorite  - the ornamental duck that toally looks fake, or like an artist painted it- a Wood duck.  I walk, pray, recite my Psalm scriptues, see the squirrels and talk to the ducks and catch a gorgeous sunrise.

Grandkid game night

 Grandkid game night was all Easter-related– Easter coloring pages, we colored eggs, and talked about the Easter story and different Easter symbols – and watched a bit of "The Chosen" where Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey and explained Palm Sunday.  We gave each of the kids a palm leaf to wave.  It was good. 

                                                         

We love living close to Maverick and Arctic Circle for game night fun.... we walk and sing as we go.

We also walked to Arctic Circle for ice cream. 3 of the nuggets didn't wear shoes and none brought any type of jacket, so we went right after dinner when it was still ight out, and had to pull two in the wagon, and Tayla borrowed shoes from me.....

They also spent a lot of time jumping on the trampoline, exploding some Peeps in the microwave, playing dominoes, and starting to learn how to play mahjong.  It was a good night

Sophia

 We love our oldest granddaughter, Sophia.  She is a goer.  She is her brother's biggest cheerleader. She has a ton of supportive friends, she dares to do things out of her comfort zone, ( Sophia and friend sang the National Anthem in front of her whole school). She loves her little cousins and aunts and uncles and makes time for grandkid game night.  She is funny and confident and navigates her two worlds (her mom's home and her dad's home) pretty well.  I know at times it's overwhelming for her, but she continues to work on those relationships. 

She had a choir concert and her Centerpoint Academy show in March and she was impressive in both.

Her Viewmont Concert choir is really impressive. they sang Hallelujah from the Mount of Olives.  that is some difficult music.  I wanted to give a standing ovation when they finished. 

Sophia in front row - second one in from  the side...curly hair.  

We are her biggest fans!

Sophia peeking out on the stairs behind the girl in the black dress. She was in Footloose-- she played Lulu-- one of the adults, Ren's - the main guys' aunt.  She had a few lines and did great.  Her hair was on point!

We adore our Sophia.

43rd anniversary

    We've had a great March and went down to St. George to the Belnap resort two times.  The first weekend we went to shows at Tuacahn- Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Eagles cover bands with the Lakes, Cashes, and Belnaps-- we caught dinner with the Binghams as well at Capelletis.

Laura, Me, Diane Lake and Heidi Bingham

 We found a garage sale.... and got a great Persian rug and a big giclee painting of a sunrise.  These are our Anniversary gifts to each other this year... all for really great price.

We love spending time at the Belnap resort... we play a lot of games, and this time we taught them Mahjong. They loved it.

We got Mexican food-- my favorite-- and going to see the "Project Hail Mary" movie.

We biked a ton...  I went on two different gorgeous mornings, and Wayne went three, totaling 73 miles.

This is what we look like on our 43rd Anniversary.....  I'm so grateful to have married my Wayne. He loves his family and the Lord fiercely.   He is steady and kind and funny and adventurous and adores me.  

Branch Baptism

 We had a big celebration in our Ogden Transition Branch ( formerly our Water Tower Branch).  We had a re-baptism.  Dave Admas got baptized.  It was a long time coming, and he and his wife, Brigit  are so excited.  So many happy tears were shed.  Now they can take the next steps to the temple, which they both want so badly.  Dave and Brigit are amazing people.  They  bouy up members of the branch so much. They talk to and support everyone.  They even own a house that they rent out rooms to men just out of jail.  They get it.  

Dave asked Wayne and I to sing a version of "Master the Tempest is Raging."  We did it.  We sounded better in rehearsal, but we did it.  It's a really tricky song, that took a lot of practice. It was fun for me to sing with my Wayne though.  

We are so grateful to be a part of this great work.

Dress For Joy

 This is what I wore in February...as I continue my online ministry of dressing for joy and pro-aging.