****Walt & Eileen Petersen**: Traces of Time . . . January 9-15, 2023

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THIS WEEK
January 9-15, 2023

MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2023
Family is Everything…

Another winter day...

Been raining, now just

starting to snow...

...at 2:22 this afternoon.

The back yard looks a

little forlorn.

THE 6 BEST SMELLING INDOOR

PLANTS TO ADD TO YOUR HOME

1. JASMINE

Jasmine is a well-loved plant with a sweet scent that finds popularity in many perfumes and houses. Usually grown as an outdoor plant, this half-vine half-shrub can be grown as an indoor plant and lend your home a beautiful fragrance. The most popular varieties to choose from include the star, primrose, and Spanish jasmine.

2. BEGONIAS

Begonias are a perennial plant with over 2,000 species. These indoor plants are well-known for their gentle fragrance and vivid-colored blooms.

3. LAVENDER

Lavender is yet another mainstay of perfumes, with a tantalizing fragrance. It’s also very versatile, finding itself an ingredient in many dishes and cocktails. It’s a surprisingly hardy shrub with thickly growing flowers in colors of purple, blue, pink, or white with silvery-grey or grey-green leaves.

4. SCENTED GERANIUMS

Scented geraniums are a cultivar of the geranium family that is generally grown for their fragrance and not their flowers. This indoor plant’s leaves are also air fresheners, not just flowers. They come in a variety of smells ranging from citrus to rose.

5. SWEET BASIL

The infamous basil plant! Whether you’re a culinary master or gardening enthusiast, this nifty indoor plant is known for its fragrance both in cooking and indoors. What’s more, depending on the strain you pick, the leaves can be either deep purple or bright green. It’s easy to grow, and with a little effort, it can become a perennial and must-have herb addition to your home.

6. GARDENIA

The ever-popular gardenia is an indoor plant with beautiful and fragrant white blossoms that find themselves in a tons of perfumes. The plant has been grown for almost 1000 years but has been proven a tricky plant. If you put in the effort, gardenias rewards you with a beautiful aroma and view.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2023

Family is Everything…

Institute

Family

Pono & Heidi,

and Umi

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2023

Family is Everything…

Lunch Bunch was at The Original Pancake House 1674 W Traverse Way, Lehi 84043

Sharon gave a ride to

Linda H, Carol, and me.

We enjoy talking to each

so much, we can hardly

take time to order.

So many good choices,

it's hard to decide

what to order.

Nadine got this pretty

delectable dish, but...

...I don't remember

what it was.

We had 11 today:

Clockwise from bottom left:

Jennie, Linda H, Carol,

Katy, Vickie, Nadine,

Sharon, Tammy, Kathie,

Eileen, Sandi.

The enlarged photo

is better to see everyone,

but it doesn't fit in the

frame of the blog mode.

Eileen, Sandi

Jennie, Linda H.

Vickie was giving us a

Hollywood goodbye...

...while Carol and Linda are

trying to figure out the

billing system.

Then Katie joins Vickie for

an even more

dramatic farewell.

Sharon, Nadine,

Tammy, and Kathie

join them.

The Pancake House not

only has delicious food...

...it's beautifully decorated.

Linda, Eileen, Carol,

Kathie, Sharon, Sandi,

and Vickie are in one

last parting photo.

We always miss those who

can't come.

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It was a beautiful winter day.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2023

Family is Everything…

Here's Brian with Dr. Kimball at...

...and the caring nurses.

Supper was at...

a place I can't remember

the name of.

Not just siblings.

but friends, too.
Lots of choices...

Jenn's beautiful long hair...
Steve & Natalie...
Brian & Jenn
and the Mom...

and a group shot...
So fun to have

Brian &n Jenn with us

for a few days.
Then we watched the
basketball game...
...BYU scared Gonzaga
by coming just 1 point short...
74-75.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2023

Family is Everything…

Here's Brian and Jenn

with me at Denny's

for breakfast.

and

After Brian & Jenn hiked for an hour

up a mountain in Dry Creek with

Steve & Natalie...

(actually, the gals hiked for

an hour to the top and

sledded down to where the

guys met them half-way}

and sledded the rest of

the way down with them.

They described it as a blast!~!

(Need a photo from Nat)

Supper together was at

R&R Bar-B-Q at

Traverse Mtn in

Thanksgiving Point.

Our # was 7.

Good Omen!

There were 11 of us...

Julie, David, Will, Natalie, Steve...

...Gary, Brian, Jenn (aka Jan)...

John, Julie...

...

and me...

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2023

Family is Everything…

Today is the 103rd

Birthday Remembrance

of my Mother -

Verna Beth Huffaker Albertson

14 Jan 1920 to 26 Jul 2013

Here are Verna's Father and Mother....

a photo that Connie, my cousin Lucy's daughter sent me:

1944 when they were both age 44.

They were both born in 1891.

Ella is standing two steps above Dave.

She was just barely 5' and he was 6'2" or taller.

Here they are in the 1960s

at age 70-something:

Verna, age 7 waiting for the school

bus with her brothers,

David 9, Morris 11.

Verna - age 16 in 1936

Photo she gave her boyfriend,

Arnold Albertson, whom she

later married.

Verna - age 17 in 1937

with Arnold Albertson at

the Jerome County Fair

in early September.

They eloped two weeks later--

September 29, 1937 and

married in Hailey, Idaho.

Verna - age 23 in 1943

in Long Beach, California

with Arnold and Eileen, age 4.

Verna's brother, David Huffaker, would get to

come stay with them a few times when

on leave when he was stationed close

to them in Long Beach, California

during his training as a pilot

during World War II.

Verna with her Dad, Mother, and siblings

in Sept 1945 at end of World War II,

gathered at Dave and Ella's farm home

in Wendell, Idaho.

Front L-R: Eleanor 15, Lorraine 20,

Ella 54, Verna 25.

Back: Morris 29, David 27,

Dave 54, Don, 17.

Verna - age 26 in 1946

just after World War II

Verna - age 37 in 1957

taking Eileen to business college

in Salt Lake City

Verna - age 37 in 1957 in front of

her home in Wendell, Idaho

with Arnold, Eileen, Janice

Verna - age 40s in 1960s

Verna - age 41 in 1961

Verna and Arnold sealed in

the Salt Lake Temple

June 14, 1961

Janice and I were

sealed to our

Mom and Dad.

Verna - age 41 in June 1961

at our wedding reception in

Gooding, Idaho

Verna - age 42 in June 1962

with Arnold, Eileen, Janice

Verna - age 42 in September 1962

25th Wedding Anniversary

Verna - age 46 in July 1966 at

the funeral of Arnold's mother,

Blanche Ilene Hartwell Albertson,

in Hagerman, Idaho.

Blanche is buried in Hagerman,

Idaho where she raised her family.

Verna - age 46 in 1966

Verna - age 47 in Jan 1967
Blessing day for Steven, our third child,
first one born in Burley, Idaho.
Grampa Ray and Grama Jane
on left, Gary, almost 2;
Mary Jane "Janie" 3 1/2.
Walt must have taken the photo,
and Grampa A parking the car.

Verna - age 50-something in 1970s

at Eileen's home in Burley, Idaho

Verna - age 53 in May 1973 at
60th Wedding Celebration in
Wendell, Idaho, for her
Dad and Mother,
Dave and Ella Huffaker and
their six children, 26 grandchildren,
and many great-grandchildren.
Verna is second from right in front.

Verna - age 60 in 1980

with Eileen at Shoshone Falls, Idaho

Verna - age 66 in 1986 at our
25th Wedding Anniversary
Celebration - with Grama A,
her two daughters, and their families:
On left: Janice and Don, Scott, Vickie,
Sarah, and Michael.
On right: Eileen and Walt, Janie, Gary,
Steve, David, Julie, Brian, and Jen.
This is the only photo I know of with
Verna and all her posterity together.

Larger view of above photo, to
show Verna better.

At Grama A's home Gooding, Idaho, 1987
on a cold Memorial Day planting petunias.
(Steve was on his mission in Boston.)

Verna - age 70 in 1990

(Janice, do you have any photo

of Mom in the 1990s?)

Verna - age 80 in 2000

Verna - Age 90 in 2010

with her sisters Lorraine and Eleanor

Verna - age 90 with siblings

Lorraine, Don, and Eleanor

(Her brothers Morris and David had

passed away.)

Here is a photo of her brother,

Morris Huffaker, and his wife Hazel

in 1987.

Verna - age 91 in June 2011

Our whole family

for our 50th Wedding Anniversary.

Grama A is on my right.

Verna - age 92 - in 2012

with her two daughters, Eileen and Janice

Verna - 93rd birthday - January 14, 2013

She passed away on July 26 2013

My sister, Janice, took great care of

Mom when we were out of the country

for our first three missions -

for 6 1/2 years.

During our fourth mission,

Julie volunteered to

have Grama A live with

her and John and their

family. They took such

great care of her

from June 2011 to

July 2013 while we were

in San Salvador El Salvador

serving in the temple there.

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Here are

Julie and John,

Jacee, Jackson, and Maddie

by her casket at the

Wendell Idaho Cemetery,

July 31, 2013.

Thank you for taking such

good care of Grama A.

Verna is buried beside her

eternal sweetheart--husband,

Arnold G. Albertson at the

Wendell Idaho Cemetery.

Verna Beth Huffaker Albertson...

Spiritual Daughter of God,

Mortal daughter of

Dave and Ella Huffaker,

Wife of Arnold Albertson,

Mother of

Eileen Marie Albertson Petersen

and

Janice Lynn Albertson Robertson

Grandmother of 11

Great-Grandmother of 54

Great-great Grandmother of 9

We look forward to being with

you again on Resurrection Day.

We honor your life and memory on

your 103rd Birthday Remembrance

January 14, 2023

You are truly an

Elect Lady.

We love you!

Love from your posterity.

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Back to today...

SATURDAY, JAN. 14, 2023

We were going to have

lunch at Maddox...

...a 1 1/2 hour drive

from here to Perry

(edge of Brigham City)...

...but to fit more into the

day instead of on the

road for 3 hours we

decided to eat at our new

Olive Garden here in

Saratoga Springs at 1:00.

Mom, Gary

Gary, Natalie, Steve,

Jenn, Brian, Mom.

We had an interesting waitress...

So nice to have an Olive

Garden in Saratoga Springs.

We had an hour or so till the

movie started at 3:10 so we

decided to go on over to

Fat Cats and do some arcade

motorcycle racing and

some axe throwing.

Not competitive at all...

Ha...

Ha!

But all were good...

...winners and losers!

Axe throwing...

...gives me chills.

Then the matinee

"A Man Called Otto"

with Tom Hanks

From Wikipedia: "A Man Called Otto is a 2022 comedy-drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Magee. It is the second film adaptation of the 2012 novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, and an American remake of the 2015 Swedish film of the same name written and directed by Hannes Holm. The film stars Tom Hanks in the title role, with Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo.

A Man Called Otto began a limited theatrical release on December 30, 2022, before a wide release in the United States on January 13, 2023. The film received mixed reviews from critics..." Tom Hanks' real son is in the movie of the flash backs of when Otto was young.

Tom Hanks is age 66 (July 9,1956).

He married Rita Wilson in 1988.

She is now age 66 (Oct 26,1956). They have two sons, Colin and Truman. Tom has two children from his first marriage: Chet, and a daughter. Photo of Mrs. Tom Hanks.

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Here we are after the movie.

Most of us cried during

the end of the movie...

even the guys!

...followed by Festivas at

Steve & Natalie's at 7:00

A rare photo to have

the four brothers together.

Smiling...

We had a great time together.

Julie Beth was so sad she

got too sick to come.

And the desserts were ready to bring.

In game "Most Likely"

Gary got card for having most stuff

in his pockets...

Took him a while to get it

all back in his pockets...

Here's one with Julie Black...

Different photo...

It's been wonderful to have

Brian & Jennifer for 3 full days.

We thank them for coming

for this visit...

Brian & Jennifer,

we love you!

Come again soon.

They flew back to Nashville

Sunday morning.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 2023

Family is Everything… Saratoga Springs 3rd Ward Sacrament Meeting had speakers from the Saratoga Springs Utah Stake:

High Councilor Quinn DeHoyo and Emily Curfew, 2C in Stake Primary *** *** *** Gospel Doctrine - 400 years between the Old Testament and The New Testament.

Clyde and Julia Witham

are both great teachers.

Thank you, Mary Lu, for

taking my Sunday photo.
We had another delicious

Roast Beef Sunday dinner

cooked by John...

...the desserts from last night.
It's been a rainy day.
Forecast to snow tonight.
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Saratoga Springs Temple

Jeff Beck photo
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I am so thankful for The Plan of Salvation and the Atonement of Jesus Christ that makes this Great Plan operational.

At the end of this January 15th,
I pray you have had a
restful , peaceful, and spiritual
Sabbath Day...
I share these truths as my testimony to you...

Heavenly Father lives and knows us each by name. He loves us and wants us to return to Him and Heavenly Mother when we leave this mortal existence.

He loves us just

as we are at this very moment.

He knows what our potential is.

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Jesus Christ came to earth as The Only Begotten of the Father and fulfilled the Atonement. He is the Redeemer of all.
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I am thankful for the guidance of the Holy Ghost as the third member of the Godhead.
Walt said to me once: "I look forward to thanking the Holy Ghost in person when I get to Heaven. I don't think we give Him enough credit for all He does."

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Joseph Smith was foreordained to be the Prophet of the Restoration. He is the Restorer of all things.
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President Russell M. Nelson is the Living Prophet today for all the world.
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The Bible is "the Word of God as far as it is translated correctly" and is a Testament of the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
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The Book of Mormon is the Word of God and is Another Testament of Jesus Christ. It is the most correct book of any book on earth.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the True Church on the earth today. Because of the restored Temple Ordinances families can be sealed for eternity.

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Of these truths I testify in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Eileen Petersen
January 15, 2023