This weekend was busy-ness of family things. It has been joyful because we suddenly have spring without a rain cloud in sight. It is amazing how the weather is an instant spirit lifter! Friday and Saturday I was able to get a couple flats of purple (blue) salvia planted (the annual- my favorite garden flower that the deer don't eat) and I didn't even get wet. (think cloud burst while I was planting the stinky geraniums. I love how when I buy new flowers, Addi has to go over and smell them to see if they are "stinky" enough. Deer stinky.)
Friday night nephew Dee and wife Christine and 2 kiddos came for the weekend from Idaho. I LOVE these kids and it was so awesome for not only us but my MIL to have them here. Dee grew up living next door to Grandma most of his life...and just recently purchased their old home! We are so excited for them to re-create memories there. Friday night some of the kids came by to see them and we had dinner and pool time.
This little Sadie just brings us sunshine!
Here is Dee and little Cord. Who in the heck thinks of Cord for a baby name? Well, you do if you are a cowboy. Thankfully Dee isn't bull riding anymore! And Cord is adorable! We also loved having Lanie and Josie here to meet more of their cousins.
Saturday we all went to Provo for a Williams Extended Family Reunion. There were about 200 people there and it was fun to see David's cousins that we haven't seen for years. I loved hearing about old family stories. David's grandfather, Joseph Elmer Williams was a State Senator in Idaho (Idaho Falls) for about 15 years. He actually had a heart attack on the Senate floor in Boise (and died)...where his portrait hangs. He was also a Stake President during most of that time and almost all leaders of the church were his friends and stayed in their home. He had a plane and flew it back and forth from Idaho Falls to Boise. He was quite the man. One story that I had never heard was that at the county fair, Grandpa and his son, Marsden (also an Idaho politician) would do a crazy act. Marsden would lie on a bed of nails, then Grandpa would put a cinder block on Marsden's stomach and then hit it, breaking it in two, with a sludge hammer! What???? Crazy! (do not try this at home.....)
Below is the Harward Family Band. The bass was made from a galvanized washtub.
Sunday was awesome as we all traveled to Lehi for Peyton's baby blessing. Two other babies were blessed that day...and they looked like....well, babies. Then it is Peyton's turn. He almost could have walked up to the front. We're talking a BIG boy here! Such a sweetie. The family headed over to a park by Tanner and Brooke's home for a picnic lunch. Awesome day! We love you, Peyton!
Back to the family reunion- Family Cards were made with pictures of the original family members(to Elmer and Vera's family) which is such a cute way for all the great-greats to learn about their ancestors. I'll tell more about them later. Also, a great book was printed (not hard-bound) with family stories. I stayed up late last night reading them. It is a real treasure.
The Williams family lived in Idaho- either in Blackfoot or Idaho Falls. One family story was about moving into their first home. Oldest son, Marsden, keep the family waiting in the buggy, because he had to carefully dig up a giant gallon jar filled with his marbles. Marsden said, "You told me dad, never to lose my taw." The taw was the shooting marble. You could always lose your regular marbles but the taw was the only one you were suppose to shoot with. If you lost that, you could never win back the others. One night, in the middle of the night (my FIL was a little boy) their house caught on fire and burned to the ground. It was devastating. It was during the Great Depression and they had lost everything. Well, not according to Grandpa Elmer. When asked, he said, "Well, I didn't lose my taw."
Family. It's the taw that makes life go on.
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