WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MARGARITAVILLE?

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MARGARITAVILLE?

NOW MARGARITAS ARE ONE OF MY FAVORITES!!!!  I KNOW THE KIDS ARE SURE I AM ON MY WAY TO HELL......BUT MAXINE AND I ....DO WHAT WE HAVE TO DO!!!  THEY SAY IT IS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE PORT OF INDECISIONS AND SOUTHWEST OF DISORDER.......BUT NO PARALELLS OF LONGITUDE MARK THE SPOT ON THE MAP....YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A NAVIGATOR TO GET THERE....ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS FOLLOW YOUR HEART.  AS YOU ALL KNOW.....I AM A TRAVELER....SO I'M OFF TO FIND MARGARITAVILLE........I LOVE NEW PLACES....

UP EARLY AND WENT GARAGE SAILING WITH THE NEIGHBORS!!!!! BOUGHT A CUTE BULL WINKLE CANDLE HOLDER......THEN OFF TO THE MOVIE "LITTLE FOOT" WITH TWO GRANDCHILDREN AND A WIFE OF ONE......LOVED THE MUSIC.....HOME..... A NAP AND HERE WE ARE CHURCH DAY ALREADY......NEW WARD.....NEW BISHOP!!!!!

..FINALLY,,,,,,,,,

I GUESS I AM PUTTING THESE TWO PICTURES IN........SO WHEN I LOSE IT.......I CAN KINDA REMEMBER THIS FUN WEDDING.....IT REALLY WAS A FUN AND DIFFERENT WEDDING......THE FIRST PICTURE IS OF PARK CITY.....THIS IS WHERE THE WEDDING WAS CELEBRATED ......AND IN WINTER WHERE THEY CATCH THE LIFT TO TOP OF THE SKI LIFT......THE BAND IN FRONT WITH THE HEAD TABLE IN FRONT.....BAR ON THE RIGHT AND TABLES SPACED AROUND THE DANCE FLOOR!!!!!
THE SECOND PICTURE IS OF LIZ....HER MOM.....AND BROTHER WALKING HER DOWN TO MEET WILL ON THE BRIDGE TO BE MARRIED.....HER FATHER HAD COMMITTED SUICIDE A YEAR BEFORE......A POSTMAN HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH ANOTHER POSTWOMEN.....YOU KNOW THAT STORY????  SHE LOOKED GREAT.....
i GUESS THERE IS ALWAYS GOOD.....AND BAD.....IN E VERY SITUATION  IN THE WORLD?
IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL WARM NIGHT.....AND THE COUPLE WERE VERY HAPPY....CONGRATULATIONS FROM GRAMMIE!!!

A MILLION LITTLE THINGS......

WHEN MY MIND STARTS WANDERING AND I THINK OF "A MILLION LITTLE THINGS" THAT HAS PASSED THROUGH MY LIFE....SPOTTY DOT.....POPPED UP! THAT TIME IN MY LIFE THAT WAS SO SPECIAL......MOTHER'S POEM AND SONG FOR THE GRANDKIDS.....DADDY MOUNTED THIS BEAUTY AND WE ADOPTED IT INTO OUR LIFE AND FAMILY....SOMEDAY......SOMEDAY THE WORLD WILL BE SINGING HIS SONG.....MAYBE CHASE?????

WHATEVER HAPPENED YESTERDAY HAS BROUGHT YOU TO TODAY......AND TODAY YOU CAN DO SOMETHING BIG OR SMALL, TO SHAPE ALL YOUR TOMORROWS....

TODAY YOU CAN DREAM AND DO....TODAY YOU CAN LOOK BACK AND AHEAD......TODAY YOU CAN PLAN AND PRESS FORWARD TOWARD YOUR FUTURE...

IT IS SO SAD WHEN PEOPLE QUIT LEARNING AND USEING ALL THEIR GOD GIVEN TALENTS TO HELP OTHERS.......OR THEMSELVES.

EVERY SINGLE DAY WE PLAY A SUPPORTING OR EVEN STARRING ROLE IN SOMEONE'S LIFE......EVERY SINGLE DAY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE YOU MIGHT CALL SMALL,, BUT REALLY ISN'T.  EVERY SINGLE DAY, YOU DO SOME ACTUAL REAL GOOD .....PET THE DOG, SMILE AT SOMEONE, OPEN A DOOR FOR SOMEONE OR GIVE THEM A COMPLIMENT, CALL A FRIEND OR SHARE SOME FOOD....LIFE HAS A MILLION LITTLE THINGS WAITING FOR US TO ENJOY.

MY WAY......

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MY WAY

AND NOW THE END IS NEAR; AND SO I FACE THE FINAL CURTAIN.

MY FRIEND, I"LL SAY IT CLEAR, I'LL STATE MY CASE, OF WHICH I'M CERTAIN.

I HAVE LIVED A LIFE THAT'S FULL, I'VE TRAVELED EACH AND EVERY HIGHWAY,

(Yes, 120 countries, 6 of the 7 continents and all 50 states....around the world....MY WAY).

BUT MORE, MUCH MORE THAN THIS...I DID IT MY WAY.

REGRETS, I'VE HAD A FEW;  BUT THEN AGAIN, TOO FEW TO MENTION....

I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO AND SAW IT THROUGH WITHOUT EXEMPTION....

I PLANNED EACH CHARTER COURSE; EACH CAREFUL STEP ALONG THE BYWAY,

(Yes, I graduated from High School, on to College, a stewardess, marriage, a mom and Grammie and did all this MY WAY)

BUT MORE, MUCH MORE THAN THIS, I DID IT MY WAY.

YES, THERE WERE TIMES, I'M SURE YOU KNEW.....WHEN I BIT OFF MORE THAN I COULD CHEW.....BUT THROUGH IT ALL, WHEN THERE WAS DOUBT....I ATE IT UP AND SPIT IT OUT.....

(A cheating husband.....three little girls...i hung on till the last were 18 and he walked out....a divorce after 30 years.....but no booze or drugs...just tears and prayers...I stood tall and did it MY WAY)

I FACED IT ALL AND I STOOD TALL; AND DID IT MY WAY.

I'VE LOVED, I'VE LAUGHED AND CRIED, I'VE HAD MY FILL; MY SHARE OF LOSING.

(The hardest thing you will ever have to do.....is grieve for someone who is still alive).

AND NOW, AS TEARS SUBSIDE, I FIND IT ALL SO AMUSING....

TO THINK I DID ALL THAT; AND MAY I SAY - NOT IN A SHY WAY,

NO, OH NO NOT ME......I DID IT MY WAY.

FOR WHAT IS MAN, WHAT HAS HE GOT? IF NOT HIMSELF, THEN HE HAS NAUGHT.

TO SAY THE THINGS HE TRULY FEELS; AND NOT THE WORDS OF ONE WHO KNEELS.

THE RECORD SHOWS I TOOK THE BLOWS......AND DID IT MY WAY!

I WANT MY NEPHEW MIKE TO SING THIS AT MY GRAVE SIDE.....AND" SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW."

I LOVE MY LIFE AT 86.....AND I AM.....I AM LIVING IT ...."MY WAY."

A BIG TALL SON......

HOW LUCKY THE MOTHER WHO HAS A SON........A BIG TALL, FUN SON.

PAM ALWAYS WORRIED WILLIAM WOULD BE SHORT LIKE HIS FATHER'S SIDE AND PRAYED WILL WOULD BE TALL LIKE THE PETERSONS.....AND HE IS!  WILLAM IS MY THIRD GRANDCHILD AND MY FIRST GRANDSON AND FINALLY AT 28 GOT MARRIED.......MAYBE IN MY NEXT LIFE....I WILL HAVE A BIG TALL HANDSOME SON....I ADORE.....AND HAVE TO SHARE WITH A CUTE GIRL AND KIDS.........

A PART OF ME.....

Do memories sometimes take over?  Especially on a quiet weekend?

For a girl who grew up sharing a bath towel with four siblings.....your very own clean towel can be so special.....not that it hurt me....and it did it's job.  I don't know if we just didn't have five or six towels or that my poor mother struggled with the washer on the back porch where she heated the water and carried it out to the machine OR eventually they had an automatic laundry up town,,,,but that cost money/....WHICH  she probably did not have......none of us complained....we just went with the flow.

So many things I would do different.....if I had it all to do over again.....OR NOT!

I guess I lived inside a beautiful painting where every day when I got up.....so did the sun, blue sky and wonderful parents.......and friends.  Today I can afford a dozen new towels...but for some reason have a favorite I use over and over until laundry day.....WHY?

DOES YOUR HEART GOOD.....

I LOVE SEEING PICTURES LIKE THIS....NICCI AND BILL CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS OF MARRIAGE....AND STILL LIKING EACH OTHER.......NO, NO KIDS.....AND PROBABLY WILL NEVER HAVE ANY.....JUST  OLLIE THE DOG.....BOTH VERY BUSINESS AND SOCIALLY INVOLVED AND INTO THEIR CAREERS.  I decided to write them a note and thank them for the fun time we had together at Will's wedding....BILL  was always right there with an arm or hand to get me on the bus....down the hill to my seat ....etc....and my Nicci, Nicci is so me....life is an adventure for her and has been since she was little......we love clothes  and BIG jewlery!!!  I decided to write all the kids a note.....yes, WRITE them a note so they know we have a postal service and everything is not TEXT.....that I don't read anyway!  I know it will shock them.....but that is OK. Then I wrote Richi B a note and told him how I enjoyed the pictures of him climbing MT Nebo etc and keep it up....."You only go around once in life....but if you do it right....Once is enough." And to never forget how much his Grammie loves him !  My grandkids....My Life!  I will write all the others along the way.....

SO WHAT IS NEW???

I can vouch for that!!!!

I have been there done that....and with sad heart watched my kids and grandkids experience it.....But moving on.....as we all do.  Ken off to Vernal for the weekend so pretty quiet...Coffee at Patty's yesterday and today I made myself get up and go garage shopping with my two favorite neighbors.....as usual found a couple of treasures!!!  Knitted on Ashlyn's Christmas sox and snuck in a little nap.

They are putting a top sealing on our streets and our section will be Mon and Tues so need to park my car out on the street where I can get to it Monday......a mess...but a must!

I am not ready for cold weather.....today was so beautiful......I did break down and put out some Halloween decorations.....why not????  They stores have had theirs out for a month?  Decided to fence my back yard...will be nicer this winter for GIGI......don't know what it will cost yet.  The garden my neighbor planted on my property has gone wild with tomatoes and squash....we are giving it away to all the neighbors......and I am cucumbered out!!!!

ETHICS OF LIFE......

I am so happy I was not an orphan.....that I had a mother and father that loved me....grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles.....and I always loved the stories they told about each other......I am very proud of my heritage.....I always loved my name Yeomans and that I am 99,9% British.....DNA.

I was reading the 6 ethics of life.

Before you pray......BELIEVE!  (Why would you pray if you didn't believe?)

Before you speak.......LISTEN!  (To often we never listen?)

Before you spend......EARN!  (We are all guilty in this one?)

Before you write......THINK!  (Yep, my sister and I have been discussing this one?)

Before you quit.....TRY!  (Easier said than done?)

Before you die.....LIVE!  (Such a wonderful thought?  Do it before it is too late?)

Don't you hate it when someone asks you what you are doing tomorrow presuming you know what day of the week it is????

UP DATE ON KEN.....

Ken's life is slowey changing as he is growing into a grown up......He seems to be enjoying his college days.....Mon,Wed, Fri classes with an hour commute on the Front Runner tracks....both ways.  We need to find him a job for Tuesdays and Thursdays or maybe weekends.  I noticed before church he hadn't shaved.....ME...."Are you growing a beard?"........KEN......"Maybe".....I guess that is what you do when you go away to college......Most of Ken's answers to your questions are.....maybe, I am working on it.....whatever.....I"m not sure.......You never get a real yes or no.....keeps me guessing!!! I love having Ken live with me and he does so many little things around the house that mean a lot.  I plan to keep a little record of Ken in my blogging for him to look back on some day........

ANOTHER WEEKEND GONE......

The lament of all us old folks......but thank goodness my place is only three years old and our trees are still itty bitty things with few leaves.....but do feel Fall is upon us.  Utah has two big fires raging and the air is terrible.  And the sad news is in the Carolina's with the terrible hurricane and flooding......don't know what is happening to our world......

Went to bridge last week for the first time in two months.....only to find one of our group has stage 4 colon cancer.....Florence Bertnole....so sad.  We have lost so many wonderful friends to cancer.  Saturday was busy doing catch up chores.....Ken off to a movie with his Grandma Kay....Sunday church and had Brayden and Libby over for dinner....also seemed to be 'Visit Betty Day"...After church Patty came for coffee.....before dinner Gay came over for half hour and after dinner another neighbor came for an hour......her husband is in a home for dimension and she is having a really had time adjusting.  Love my neighbors.

BIG WEEKEND.....

After a great weekend......I contemplate my life.....No, I didn't lose someone I loved and will miss....No, I wasn't just diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer.....No, I must learn to see things different in my life and be very happy for what I have......Sometimes we get locked in....."I never thought of it that way".....never enters our minds.  Bad things are not fun.....but you can tell yourself....Don't be sad it is over.....just be glad it happened.....and think of all the good things it brought you.

What if you were willing to see your whole life differently?  "What if you could see everything you have been through, everything you have stood up to.  Every time you have fallen and rebounded, every curve ball you were thrown and caught?  Every time you were disappointed and did not stoop to despair.....Every victory and every chance.....and appreciate the fact your still here.....still standing.....and still have the will to keep trying for a better life?"

Just be willing to see things for what they are....and what they can be.

Now and then I have to give myself a good talking to about life.......

MORE WEDDING STUFF.......

Had to get the whole family documented and they just keep sending me pictures.....

This is the Horton family and my cute great-grandson was ring bearer......Of course, uncle Will had a truck in his pocket to bribe him a little.......but he did it!

Love Tiff and Scott and I always have fun when they are around.

MORE WEDDING AND STUFF....

Here is the wedding party standing by the bridge they were married on.....Jimmy ...first guy had a suit a little short.....loved his stripped soxs...He and his wife flew in from Finland where they work and live for the wedding...such great kids.  Her dress was very Liz........

They ran down the stairs in a shower of sparklers ......seems like a good ending to me.....I was tire and my feet hurt........Will get some cute pictures of Tiff and her family as Aaron was ring bearer and so cute.

Wedding and stuff...

The wedding was held on the bridge.....leading to the ski lifts in the winter....different.....Pam and Nicci and Tiffany.

This is little sister Nicole and one of my favorite people Bill.....her husband!  He was always there to hold my glasses, give me an arm or hand to help me long.....and always kept my glass filled.....love you Bill.

Pam and Rob......and happy to have their "baby" married at last....Will and Liz have only been going together 10 years......about time!  Off to Cabo-San-Lucas for a honey moon.

10 DAYS AND COUNTING......

Do I look like I just survived a 3 day wedding celebration in Park City????  The last 10 days have flown by.....Labor Day was very quiet as Ken went to Lake Powell with his family....I slept a lot and got packed......nothing exciting.....Kinda sad Labor Day says......summer is over!

Pam picked the dog and I up Thursday afternoon.....leaving Gigi at her house with Lisa the dog sitter.......packed in Bill and Nicci and headed for Park City.  They were so kind as to buy my Marriott Hotel room......feed and drink me and always had an arm or hand to help me along....such great kids.....of course weddings are always fun.

I am not use to this kind of wedding......Rehearsal dinner given by Pam and Rob at the West End Distillery......we piled into a "big black bus"....drove half an hour up to Wanship to this distillery to have dinner and a tour???? With the open bar you can imagine the happy people on the bus on the way home.....and the hang overs on the golf course the next morning!!!!

Friday I slept in.....Pam and I went out to breakfast and then joined the group by the pool for lunch.....after which I was ready for a nap....darn, missed Dr Phil.....Went out to dinner that night with the Pannier group......Slept in Saturday.....coffee and a roll at a nearby coffee shop...slept....... then got ready for the big event at 4 PM.......It was either keep up or keep out???  I have 6 of my 9 grandkids  married.....I am not sure I can hold up for another one or two?

MAYBE SOMEDAY......

I am trying so hard to put my faith in  God that I am on the right track in my life.....As all mothers do.......well, most.....your whole life is your family.  As I go from day to day trying to understand mine......I am beginning to see having your children 11 years apart is not good.....I have one family that almost totally ignores the two younger families.....The older three are not religious and seem to think the twins are kinda "below" them.  The girls are very religious and no partying with different values.  The last 6 grandkids are all close to the same age, been on missions etc......Have a lot in common .

I have a wedding coming up next weekend with the oldest grandson.....who has known this girl 10 years and lived with her five and are having a big fancy wedding in Park City.....cousins not included......which I am sure did not bother any of them.....This will be my 8th wedding for my nine grandkids......two divorced already.....but one just had a second marriage......and I still have three single grandsons! ....(make a good math problem).......It is like I am in two different families.....I know because of me they have tried to keep some family traditions.....but this year I said.....everyone is on their own and I will take turns on Christmas and Thanksgivings.  One family doesn't speak to any of us so that cuts it down to two families......Have the two great-grandkids.....but only seen the one once so can spoil the other one.

If you don't like each other here on earth.....why would you want to be sealed to some of them forever????  At this point in my life.....I am just trusting God will lead me through it.

I WONDER???

Well Maxine and I have the same question.....The first of September.....Labor Day is Monday and that tells us the hills will start turning orange, yellow and red soon.  I am not ready....but nobody asked me.  Well....all my thoughts have one thing in common.....They are all my thoughts!  Whether I deserve it or not....I give myself another chance every day......And the way I look at it....I might not always be right?.....But I am never wrong!

Busy....but not.  I slept in as Ken went to Lake Powell.....sewed my neighbors pants for him.....ordered a new blog book and made out all my bills......ran to the post office and dropped them off.......then have done two batches of laundry......ready to get into my PJ'S but still light. Very quiet day ......have not heard from anyone!!!!