Bits and Pieces in July -- A Little Here and a Little There.

A Weekend Getaway
On July 10 we went with Albrechts, Hansens and Deb Wooley down to Fremont to Karl and Jeri's retirement home.
While there we bottled 84 pints of strawberry shelf jam.


Besides canning jam, Karl took us to the Petroglyphs at Capital Reef and to Fish Lake for dinner.


Clement Gathering
On July 14 we were able to gather with all of Ross's brothers and their wives. There were also quite a few cousins that were able to attend. We enjoyed being together with everyone and wish that this could happen more often.

Lots and lots of kids

Lots of kids

Lots of kids that had on name tags -- now I can't read the tags. HELP!

Aunts and Sister's-in-law.

Clement Family Get-to-gether July 14, 2009


SHAWLS FOR THE OQUIRRH MOUNTAIN TEMPLE
Stake Relief Society Presidency just before delivering the shawls to the temple matron. Left to right. Carolyn Cammack, Karen Livingston, Susan Clement and Deb Woolley.

Twenty three temple shawls made by members in the Glenmoor Stake to be donated to the new Oquirrh Mountain Temple.


A Day at the Zoo with the Clement Family
Marissa was very brave and touched the snake.
Marissa's legs are just about as long as the giraffes.

I'm looking for Hailey on her tiger!

Marissa on the Carousel

Mason on the train

Zach on the train.


Ross And Susan --- A Trip of Firsts
Found Orin Porter Rockwell's cabin preserved in Eureka, Utah

Went to Cedar City to a Shakespeare Play and had dinner with the Paul Wirkus family who we found wadering the streets of Cedar City.

Pine Valley Utah
July 22, 2009 Pine Valley Utah Chapel. This is the oldest chapel in the church still in use. This is where Dorinda Goheen attended church. They have a memorial to her with her picture and description of her quilts and awards as well as the wooden quilt chest that she brought with her from Texas.

This wall is devoted to Dorinda with her wooden quilt chest featured as a prize artifact.

This is the wooden chest that Dorinda brought from Texas to Utah. It is in a prominent spot in the Pine Valley Church.

Ross found his great grandmother's grave in the weed choked Pine Valley Cemetary.


Mountain Meadow Massacre
The Church has erected this monument on the site of the Mountain Meadow Massecre where the remains of 29 were found.

Mountain Meadow Massacre Monument that overlooks the sight of the horrible atrocity.


Our last stop for the day is St. George - In & Out Burger for supper!!

A Day at the Farm

This morning Becca and the boys went with us to Thanksgiving Point Children's Farm. We had lots of fun petting and feeding the animals and riding the horses. After we left I thought that I had lost my camera so we went back to the parking lot. My camera wasn't there but we did find Ross's sunglasses just sitting there in the dirt. After we got home I found the camera in a box of crackers in my bag!!

Caleb wasn't too sold on learning to milk a cow.


The boys LOVED the animals.



Mitchell and Caleb petting the horses.



Caleb riding a pony.


Mitchell feeding the goats


Caleb feeding the goats.

June 2009

Following is a summary of the month. I haven't taken many pictures but this will give you a glimpse of some of what we have done.

I loaded the photos with the latest events first. This is a picture of the Glenwood City Cemetary. We took a day trip with John and Judy to visit Glenwood, Utah, home to some of the Heileson ancestors. This cemetary has no vegetation. All the plots are surrounded with some kind of cement or brick border and filled with rocks. One plot was actually all covered in cement.

This is the orginal city cemetary where dad's great grandmother is buried. There are very few markers left and absolutely no grass -- all dirt.

I loaded this picture twice and can't get it to go away!!!

This was a store owned and operated by the Heileson family.

We celebrated Dave's birthday and almost burned the house down! Now Dave and I are the same age.

I made 36 sling bags for the girls and leaders going to our ward camp. They all had "Princess" embroidered on them except for the two camp directors which said "Queen" and "Lady in Waiting".

Philip Wirkus left for his mission on the 17th. This was at their home the Sunday before leaving. He will serve in the Mexico Culiacan Mission.

This picture should come after the next one.
On our way to the car Ross tossed their newspaper back to the house. It landed on the roof. Becca had to climb on his back to reach it with the rake.

One morning as Ross and I were on our way to the Draper Temple Becca called with a plumbing problem. After the session we stopped and Ross fixed it. I wonder how much a "white collar" plumber should charge.

Our stake was given the assignment to furnish 20 shawls for the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. This is a sampling of what has been donated.


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This and That

I have not taken many pictures lately but thought

I would share a couple of things. We went to Idaho for Memorial Day.

This is Grandpa Wirkus at the Ammon Cemetary

where his parents are buried.

Mom's grave at the Lincoln Cemetary
This photo was taken of a picture in a book
of a quilt made by Dorinda Moody (Ross's Great, Great Grandmother).
The following pictures are also from this book.
She made all these quilts totally by hand
plus she wove and dyed the cloth to make them.
We took this picture at the Pioneer Museum.
This is a quilt also made by Dorinda.

We enjoyed having Velma and Johnny visit with us

while they were in town.
We went to the museum with them and Velma
owns the copy of the quilt book.

THAT'S ALL FOR NOW!!!

MORE IN TEXAS

Ross and I took a day trip to Houston where Robert and Julie Sorenson took us out to lunch and then Ross spent some time at Rice University checking out some family history. Apparently one of his great grandfathers had dealings with Sam Houston before Texas was even a state.

I Loved getting to spend time giggling with Julie

Nate's real birthday isn't until tomorrow but we had a cake a candles for him before we left.

Arches

During our trip to Texas we decided to take our time and visit some places we had never been. Arches was the first on our itinerary. The next day we spent some time in Santa Fe and enjoyed it so much we stopped there again on the way home. We also stopped at Carlsbad Cavern. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of the Caverns or Santa Fe.

If you look very closely you can see the delicate arch in the background of this picture. We did get up closer but the wind was blowing so hard it made picture taking a challenge.