Traces of Time . . . November 19-25. 2018

Traces of Time . . .

(To see last week's blog post--scroll down to the end of this week, then the Week of Nov. 12-Nov. 18, 2018 will be there. If it's not, hit "Older posts.")

THIS WEEK- NOVEMBER 19-25, 2018

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2018 

Day 43 since Walt fell and broke left hip. 

Day 20 since Walt home from rehab center.
Family is Everything…

Happy Birthday, Isaac, "13" today...

Looking for photo of Isaac...

We're out and about again...

We're blessed to park close with our infirmities

in getting around...

Physical therapy is helping Walt a lot.

Beautiful flowers came from the Fishers, Mechams, Fishers, Andersons, and Weimers! Thank you. It will be perfect for our

Thanksgiving dinner table centerpiece.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2018 

Day 44 since Walt fell and broke left hip. 

Day 21 since Walt home from rehab center.
Family is Everything…

Marissa, CNA from Home Health

comes Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday

Eggs for breakfast...

Jackson helped carry in our

groceries for Thanksgiving dinner.

 So did Maddie.
Love these darling grandkids
with whom we now live.

  Maddie made a batch of chocolate
chip cookies. Julie made sugar cookies.
Rigdon helped roll out the last batch.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2018 

Day 45 since Walt fell and broke left hip. 

Day 22 since Walt home from rehab center.
Family is Everything…
Happy Birthday, Ashley, "18" today...

 ...they're ready to head to Idaho
for Thanksgiving time with
John's family--Brent and Vicki Peterson,
most of his six sisters and two brothers,
and their families.

 Rigdon is in his seat...

 A little crazy before the 3 1/2 hour drive.

 "Inaugral drive" in their new van...

which they called the "Bat Van"
their other one was about to give out.

 ...see you Sunday.

 Max is always sad when
they leave.

 Physical therapy...

 Working on walking...

 Max still waiting at door...

 Now he's in our cozy cottage,
looking out the window.

 Walt started peeling apples at
12:45 noon...

 Finished at 5:00...which also
had us going back to the store 
for more apples.

 Put two apple pies in oven at 5:15,
with the third one with the
extra apples in after these two pies
finished baking.

 It takes s a long time to get
things done now...
at ages 84 and 79.

 We loved it when Gary got here.
He is staying with us from Wed-Sat.
What a blessing!

 

TJIURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2018 

Day 46 since Walt fell and broke left hip. 

Day 23 since Walt home from rehab center.
Family is Everything…

 H A P P Y   T H A N K S G I V I N G . . .

Here are my Dad and Mom with my sister and me.

I was home on a break from Henager's Business College 

in Salt Lake City.  I was 19, Janice was 9.

When I was growing up, we always went to my Grampa 'n Grama Huffaker's home for Thanksgiving.

Dave and Ella Huffaker - Photo from the 1960s 

when they were in their 70s. - My mother's Dad and Mom

  Turkey's ready to begin roasting...7:30 a.m.

 Turkey's in the roaster in the garage.

 Gary ready for some early-Thanksgiving-morning
flag football.

 The overnight rain is
letting up.

 Max watching Gary leave,
but also looking to see if
his John & Julie family
are returning yet.

 Max waiting...

  I have the ingredients ready to 
mix the rolls.

 ...just need to add a little more 
flour to be ready to knead them...

 

 Gary came home all invigorated from
a fun flag football game with 11 friends...
His team won!
"Perfect football everything this morning!" he exclaimed.

Gary replaced his old cleats this year.

"Gary, I love you! said Walt.
"I love you, too, Dad," Gary replied.
What tender Father-Son times.

 We finished the last of the
"left-over" apples for that third pie.

 We have these two other pies
to serve for dinner.

 It says:
Thanks-giving 2018.

  Marissa, came to do her

home health job to help Walt.
We invited her to dinner, but she still
had a long list of people to go help and
couldn't come

 We are getting close to being ready.

 Gary did the bulk of cooking 
our Thanksgiving dinner.  Thank you, son!
You can see the rolls on their last
time of raising, ready to go
into the oven.

We are so happy and excited that my 
sister, Janice, and Jeff could join us!

 Our Mom was only able to have two children...
ten years apart.

 Gary is putting the hot rolls on...

 What a precious time 

with my sister and Jeff!
They have some exciting times coming up!

 

Later that evening we went to a movie.

We had the traditional Thanksgiving evening snack when
we got home: Homemade rolls filled with turkey, lathered in
Miracle Whip. 

 ...followed by choice of pie:
Gary had warm blueberry with ice cream.
Walt had our homemade apple pie with ice cream, and then a
little piece of Marie Calendar's chocolate silk pie.
I had the same as Walt.
It has been a wonderful
T H A N K S G I V I N G   D A Y !
We are very thankful for each other,
for Gary helping put it all together,
for Janice and Jeff adding to our family bonds
of love and sharing family memories,
and for each and every one of our
children and grandchildren who
fill our lives with love and happiness.
We also remember and are so thankful
for our parents, grandparents, and beyond
who began these family traditions that
we enjoy and love to carry on 
for our posterity.

 We knew Thanksgiving was over when Gary
went out to put the pumpkins, bales of hay,
cornstalks in the garbage cans to be
taken away tomorrow. And the
rest of the Autumn decorations
packed away until next Autumn.

 We say goodnight and

sweet dreams of a

happy Autumn Season.

Here's some highlights about the movie.

We Gary, Walt, and I went to the movie
Creed II - in which Stallone is age 72...

...which is the 7th sequel to... 
Rocky from 1976
when Sylvester Stallone was age 30.

 We liked it a lot.
Walt's words at the end were: "Very Intense!"

The film Rocky has spawned seven sequels: Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rocky IV (1985), Rocky V (1990),Rocky Balboa (2006),  Creed (2015), and Creed II (2018).

‎ Walt turning off his cell phone at the movie...

We sat where Walt's wheelchair had a spot.

 We were at the Megaplex at Thanksgiving Point...
which is only about a 15-minute drive from our home.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2018 
Family is Everything…
   ...the beginning of Christmas Season... 
It's  beginning to look a lot like
      Christmas... 

and it also includes many family Christmas traditions... 

  We enjoyed the turkey dinner left overs...

    Then we drove to Sandy to the Hale Centre Theatre to see...

It was our first time there...

By the time it started it was packed full. 

There are 900 seats...

There are 47 motors that move the sets up, down, and around.

We loved the play. It was almost as charming to see the sets being spectacularly moved as actually seeing the performance.

When we got back from the theater, 

we had a fun surprise visit from our

neighbors and dear friends from Burley--

Dave and Marilyn Gibbons.

They had Thanksgiving in Herriman with

their daughter Jeni and family,

plus their youngest daughter, Lanae and

her family came down from northern Montana.

 How wonderful it was to talk to them!

  Precious time to catch up with them and
their family, and about how our other
friends in Burley are doing.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2018 

Family is Everything…

Willis Clarence Petersen

APRIL 13, 1927 ~ NOVEMBER 24, 2018 (AGE 91)

OBITUARY

Willis Clarence Petersen passed away Saturday, November 24, 2018, at Legacy House in Bountiful, Utah where he spent the last year with his wife Elna Despain Petersen.  Willis was born on April 13, 1927 to William Petersen and Mary Lavon Wagstaff Petersen in Elwood, Utah.  He was the first of five children: Willis, Earl, Harold, Carol, and Reed.  Willis married Virginia Lee on Sept 18, 1953, in the Logan Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  They had five children: Christine, Larry, Kendall, Steven, and Lisa.   After Virginia passed away in 2000, Willis married Elna on March 15, 2002, in the Logan Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Willis is preceded by his parents, his brothers Earl and Harold, his wife Virginia, and his daughter Christine.   He is survived by his wife Elna, and his children Larry and (Becky) Petersen, Ken Petersen, Lisa Shinney, and Steve and (Sotheary) Petersen, seven grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.  Willis will also be missed by Elna’s children and grandchildren.

After graduating from Bear River High School, Willis joined the Navy in 1945 at age 18 and was stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.  He later attended Utah State University.  Willis was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and served for three years in the Danish Mission.  He also served missions later in life with both Virginia and Elna.

Willis was a surveyor for the Soil Conservation Service in Tremonton for many years.  He also farmed a few acres in Elwood.  After retiring from the Soil Conservation Service, he worked for the LDS Church and drove a school bus.  He really enjoyed the kids while he drove the bus.  Willis loved his family and doing research on family history and genealogy.  He planned and guided family history trips to Denmark and England.  He was also very involved with scouting and received the Silver Beaver award.

A viewing will be held on Thursday, December 6, 2018, 5:00 – 7:00 pm at the Rogers & Taylor Funeral Home (111 North 100 East, Tremonton, Utah).  There will be another viewing on Friday, December 7, 2018, 9:00 – 10:30 am at the Elwood Third Ward building (4865 W 9600 N, Elwood, Utah).  Following this viewing, the funeral will be held at 11:03 am.  Interment will be at the Tremonton Riverview Cemetery following the funeral.

The family would like to thank Jennifer Girswold – APRN, Debbie Johnson – RN, and the staff at Legacy House of Bountiful for the care they provided Willis and Elna during his final months.

Marissa, the CNA for Home Health came to help this morning.

 We loved having Ruth Melling and Kirt
come to visit us!

 Kirt took a selfie so
Gary could be in the picture.

 Then we went to IKEA...

 ...to find a small desk for Walt.

 We just got the desk, not the
side file for now.

We chose this one.

   We drove back home at sunset.

   Gary brought the tree over from

our storage unit.

  Anxious to see how
it stored with the decorations
still on it.

  Gary set it up by the window.
The pre-show for the BYU-Utah football game was on.

  Goodbye Thankgiving decorations...

  ,,, 

  Love the Pilgrim, Indian, and turkey decor.

  Game time...

Such high hopes...and we were winning for three quarters!

Utah defeats BYU for eighth straight Holy War victory...35-27.

 The new desk is great...

 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2018 

Family is Everything…

 We got to Church with 7 minutes to spare...
They announced our 2019 Church time will be 
12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m.

    Sunday dinner was... 

 ...the last of the left overs. 

  One homemade roll, a half sugar cookie,
some orange fluff, and some apple pie
are all that's left now.

 We are thankful for Gary setting up our 
Christmas tree.

  John's family's tradition for the day after

Thanksgiving is to get permits and go

up in the mountains by Pomerelle

and cut their Christmas trees.

Because of shopping on Friday,

they now do this on Saturday.

(It used to be $1, then for a long time

it's been $5, and John said now it is

$10 per tree, but a tree like he got
would cost $90 at a tree lot.
He said the wind was so fierce and biting
where they went yesterday, that he
was about ready to just pay the $90.
They found the perfect tree!
Will decorate it tomorrow.

  As the sun sets, we hope you have had

a restful and peaceful Sabbath Day.  

As Thanksgiving week of family time together

for 2018 comes to an end

we testify of these truths...

As I began my normal testimony, 

I've been prompted tonight

to focus on families.

We know that families can be together forever
 because of the sealing power 
restored to the earth. 

I found this teaching about the 

Keys of Sealing by Joseph Fielding Smith.

His grandfather, Hyrum Smith, was

the brother of the Prophet Joseph Smith.

When you click this link below, another link comes
up that takes you to Chapter 17 about 
the Keys of the Sealing Power:

https://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-of-presidents-of-the-church-joseph-fielding-smith/chapter-17-sealing-power-and-temple-blessings?lang=eng

“Elijah came to restore to the earth … the fulness of the power of priesthood. This priesthood holds the keys of binding and sealing on earth and in heaven of all the ordinances and principles pertaining to the salvation of man.”

Family is Everything…
Families are Forever!
 Of this truth we testify,
in the Name of Jesus Christ,
amen.
Walt and Eileen Petersen
Saratoga Springs, Utah

Sunday, November 25, 2018

The earthly beginning--
as we know it--
of our family
was June 14, 1961...

...to now 57 years later...
with eternity to go.