Jenn's Shower

This weekend in Provo, Jenn had two wedding showers. The first on Friday night (November 30th)was an Oldham Shower. Richard's dad is the middle of 7 boys, plus a sister. All the Oldham brothers started, have grown and run a printing business called Liberty Press. Each boy has stayed in the area and had lots of kids. Richard is one of 62 cousins that are within 10 years of his age on either side. Each time someone gets engaged, the family sponsers a shower with uncles, aunts, and cousins getting together to celebrate and give the engaged couple wedding gifts. The family first had a potluck dinner with beautifully decorated tables which Richard's mother put together. She is an extremely talented artist. (I'm sorry I didn't get a picture of the tables, I thought about it later). Since Richard and Jenn are getting married during Christmas time, all gifts were placed under a tree. The whole family gathered round, had Jenn and Richard tell their engagement story and then they opened gifts.

Saturday, Melanie and Katie sponsered a shower for all of Jenn's school friends, plus some of my favorite guests were Denae and Saren. They drove down to Provo in a snow storm to support Jenn which I thought was pretty neat

Jenn holding one of Grandma Gabrielsen's famous pieced quilts. It sure is a pretty one.

Halloween Memories

Fager Conference Weekend

This weekend, Ben and I went to Provo to see "the girls" (Jenn, Mel, and Katie), husband and boyfriend. We had a great time! First we went to see Melanie at her office. She's worked for Craig Ainge, a CPA, for the past year and couple months. Ben endured shopping for a baby quilt. Melanie is so cute with her "tummy." Being 6-foot can no longer hide her protruding stomach. Dave affectionately refers to her as fatso.

Next we went to Katie's botany class and literally chased her 70-year old professor around BYU campus as he identified 15 new plants, and quizzed his students on another couple of dozen plants and trees they had previously learned. Her final will consist of knowing the common name, genus, species, and family of 240 plants. She is examining the Dawn Redwood, meta sequioa glypto stoboides genus and species of the taxonaceae family.

We spent Saturday and Sunday watching conference and playing lots in between. Jenn likes to watch conference like I do. It is much easier to clean the house, cook, or do my semi-annual ironing session to stay better focused. Katie likes to take notes on her computer. Saturday afternoon we crowded onto Melanie's couch to watch the 2nd session.

Between the morning and afternoon session on Saturday, Jenn and I went to Spanish Fork Canyon to visit with Richard's parents. It was absolutely gorgeous with beautiful fall colors. They live on a 5-acre lot in a small gated community. These pictures were taken just up the road from Richard's house.

Some of MY favorite things! (that I actually have pictures of)

Playing pranks on people!!!! Ha ha ha! So funny!!!! HA HA HA HA! The FALL.................. LOVE ME SOME FALL!!!!
Hanging out with Richard:-)