APRIL 1981

April 11

We left here March 25th to go to Salt Lake to Rick's wedding.  Rick is our grandson.  The son of Larry & Patricia Christensen.
They had a wedding rehearsal and after we were invited to a restaurant and had a wonderful meal.  At the reception all the family were together except Ronda, Rom & family.  They will be here for Blair's wedding so they could not come such a long way again.  The reception center was a very nice place.  The Bishop talked to Rick and Karen the day of the dinner.  Karen is a beautiful girl and made a beautiful bride.  Rick looked so handsome too.  Mrs. Clive Taylor was there.  They gave her flowers.  It was so special to have her there and honor her.  Larry & Patricia were pleased because everything turned out so nice.
Wallace & I went home, back to Larry & Patricia's, early because Wallace was not feeling well.  We stayed with Larry & Tricia until the 1st of March.  We then went to Blair's.  Blair had a Principal's Convention in Los Angeles and I stayed with the kids for a week.  Wallace went on home to work on his income taxes.  While I was at Blair's, Uncle Arnold and Aunt Mary Wilding came to visit.  Their little grandson was hurt.  He is six, son of Ronald Wilding.  He was playing with a sledge hammer and held it above his head.  He lost control of it and it struck him behind the ear.  They had to fly him to Salt Lake.  He could not walk, he was vomiting.  We have not heard how he is doing.
Philline came to visit while I was at Blair's.  She is such a sweet lady.  I pray that their marriage will be very happy.
When I got home I made out checks to pay the bills.  The money just did not cover them.  We decided we would pay our tithing and the rest as far as they would go.  Wallace said he would get some work to pay the rest.When I picked up the mail I got another check from Social Security.  They said they owed me money from 1975.  It was over two hundred dollars.  We surely did need it right at this time.  The Lord does take care of us!
Kevin & Kim won their orations in the school here and went to Midway, by Rigby, to compete.  Kevin came in fourth, tied with one other, Kim came in fifth tied with ten others.  We are proud of all our grandchildren.  Each one are so very special.

April 14

Today was a very special day.  We got up at four o'clock and went to the temple to do initiatory work.  That was very special.  Doris Smart, Wallace's cousin was helping with the work.  Then we had breakfast in town and went to visit Bill & Phyllis Eldridge.  They had a tape from their son who is in Australia on a mission.  It sounded like he was very busy and a good missionary.  We then looked up George & Ida Emery.  They were having breakfast in Rexburg.  We all went to see Alden & Julia, but they were not home.  We were disappointed that we missed them.  It has been a while since we visited with them.
We went to West Yellowstone and it was a beautiful day and the drive was beautiful.  When we came back Layne & Linda, Ida & George's daughter had supper prepared for us.
Sunday the United States sent up a Space Shuttle.  We watched on T.V.  It was so exciting to see it go up.  It was on a huge ramp which held it up and helped boost it through the atmosphere.  Today we watched it on T.V. come back to earth and it looked like a big jet and landed on a runway.  It was beautiful.  It landed yesterday but we saw it this morning on T.V.