Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 2:43 PM
Subject: RE: James Sorensen passing away
Thanks Leon. We will miss Mr. Sorenson very much. It will take us several weeks here to know what's happening in the short-term. I appreciate your good words and I've passed them on to the family.
Sincerely,
Don Wallace
From: Leon Crowley [mailto:transmissionexch@qwest.net] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 10:40 AMTo: Don WallaceSubject: James Sorensen passing away
Don,
I am so sorry to hear about Mr. Sorensen's passing away. I had no idea that he was not in good health. He looked older the last time I saw him than he did a few years earlier when he took us for a tour of the Nauvoo temple stone work and oxen, but that was to be expected. I hope his suffering was minimal. He did a lot of good along his life's journey. If you have an opportunity to express our sympathy to his family, Linda and I would appreciate it.
Thank you for your help,
Leon Crowley
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
44 and sprinting forward
On the 17th I took the day off and mother and I spent the day together. We slept in and then went out to breakfast at Village Inn. After that we wen to the Fashion Place Mall and looked for a new pair of black dress Sunday shoes. I couldn't believe how hard it is to find a nice pair of dress shoes. It is amazing with all of our technology that we can't make a nice looking dress shoe as comfortable as the new tennis shoes. Most of the shoes that they represented as dress shoes looked like old pilgrim shoes and were so ugly I wouldn't try them on. I finally found a pair that I would wear at Nordstrums. I was glad the pair I liked and fit the best were half the price of the rest of the shoes there. Mother wanted to get us new pillows and we were walking by the select comfort store in the mall. We went in and checked out there pillows and they had us lay down on their beds to try out the pillows. They were the contour style pillows of different heights. We tried several and then had them save the ones we liked the best and left and went to the My Comfort store across the street to check out their pillows and beds. They're the store that sells the Intelligell mattress. They had the contour pillow made of the Intelligell material and it has an air bladder that you can adjust to what ever height you want. They had us lay down on their bed and try out their pillow. I almost fell asleep instantly. I had to work at not falling a sleep as we tried several variations of their mattress. Needless to say we bought a new mattress and box springs. We can't pick up the new mattress until Monday or Tuesday. I am so excited to get a really good nights sleep. We then went to the temple and had dinner and went through a session. What a wonderful day!!!!!
The 19th we had a funeral and viewing at 9 AM of a friend that I had done business with for years. His company did all of my towing for years until he retired. He (Loey) had married LoMona who had been married to my priest quorum advisor (Lowell) before my mission. Lowell had also been our Home teacher when we first got married and were living in California. Also he was one of the few that came to the temple when we were married. He died very young. He went to Denny's for breakfast one morning and sat at the counter and ordered his food and then put his head down on the counter. When they brought his food he was dead. I also taught their oldest daughter Cindy in early morning seminary when we were first married. It was wonderful to see their family and renew that association. We saw several others that had lived in our Ontario ward. It was wonder to see these old friends and see that they were still solid in the gospel.
The evening of the 19th we gathered all of our local kids and their spouses and ate dinner in our basement. We had a wonderful ham dinner with mashed garlic potatoes and special green beans and green salad. Everything was wonderful except the rolls we bought from the Lion House bakery. They had to be a week old and were terrible. Mother is going to get a hold of the manager of the bakery and get our money back. We also had pie for desert. One was a chocolate cream and the other a very berry. After dinner we showed the DVD that April made for me a couple of years ago for Christmas of the old 8 mm film movies we had taken. We laughed a lot. After that we shared memories of growing up in this family. We laughed even more.. I laughed so much the back of my head and jaw muscles ached. It was so good to be together as adults and not have the distraction of the grandkids. You know that I love them, but occasionally it is nice to have just the adults.
The 19th we had a funeral and viewing at 9 AM of a friend that I had done business with for years. His company did all of my towing for years until he retired. He (Loey) had married LoMona who had been married to my priest quorum advisor (Lowell) before my mission. Lowell had also been our Home teacher when we first got married and were living in California. Also he was one of the few that came to the temple when we were married. He died very young. He went to Denny's for breakfast one morning and sat at the counter and ordered his food and then put his head down on the counter. When they brought his food he was dead. I also taught their oldest daughter Cindy in early morning seminary when we were first married. It was wonderful to see their family and renew that association. We saw several others that had lived in our Ontario ward. It was wonder to see these old friends and see that they were still solid in the gospel.
The evening of the 19th we gathered all of our local kids and their spouses and ate dinner in our basement. We had a wonderful ham dinner with mashed garlic potatoes and special green beans and green salad. Everything was wonderful except the rolls we bought from the Lion House bakery. They had to be a week old and were terrible. Mother is going to get a hold of the manager of the bakery and get our money back. We also had pie for desert. One was a chocolate cream and the other a very berry. After dinner we showed the DVD that April made for me a couple of years ago for Christmas of the old 8 mm film movies we had taken. We laughed a lot. After that we shared memories of growing up in this family. We laughed even more.. I laughed so much the back of my head and jaw muscles ached. It was so good to be together as adults and not have the distraction of the grandkids. You know that I love them, but occasionally it is nice to have just the adults.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Yes it is a new year
Sorry that it has been a while since I have made an entry. We are on the new early schedule at church 9 til noon. After priesthood and relief society we (mother and I) hurried into our classroom and stacked up all of the chairs accept for the few for our class members. We taught our lesson in grand style and ended our class with prayer and then finished stacking all of the chairs and rushed into sacrament meeting. We enjoyed a nice fast and testimony meeting and after it was over our relief society president came up to me and asked if I remembered that we had changed meeting schedules and that we were on the early schedule. I replied well of coarse I remembered I was here on time. She said that the first ward relief society president had contacted her and said that they had no chairs set up for their relief society meeting. Then it dawned on me what we had done and was I embarrassed. I'm sure that none of you had any adjustments to your new schedules.
Item 2: It is our 44th wedding anniversary on the 17th of this month. We thought it would be great if our kids and in law kids could go out to dinner together with us on Saturday the 19th. Not wanting to exclude any but not wanting to burden any. We would love to gather all local for sure. As a side note on our anniversary, Uncle Eldon called me this morning and asked what year we were married. I told him 1964 and he said good I only have 6 more years to live and then I can pass the sun dial on to me. He then reminded me that Uncle Ariel gave my dad this sun dial on his 50th anniversary and had that engraved on the sun dial and then dad had it engraved for Eldon's 50th anniversary and he said that I was the next in line to be married 50 years and that he wanted our family to have it and that it had a better chance of staying in the family and continue to be passed along. It really touched me. He said that he now has something to really live for and look forward to.
Item 3: Family vacation this year? I love Pineview and yet it is so convenient that some have not given it the commitment we would like so we can all be together. This last year we seemed to get people in shifts. If we can't commit to a week then lets settle on the length of time that we will all be together. We have three families that are going to be moving this summer. Les and James and Tiff and Ryan and James and DeDe will all be moving this summer. Is this summer going to be impossible to plan a family vacation together? Now is the time to reserve space if we are going to do it and get the best spots.
Item 4: Family gift exchange? Some have suggested that we change the rules for our gift exchange. I have enjoyed it the way it has been but if we need to look at it and make some changes, I would like some feed back. I am also interested in the the grand kids input.
Item 5: We have not heard back from DW for JS but just think it has been the holidays. We will keep you posted as new developments occur.
Item 6: If there is no response to any of this 08 is cancelled.
Item 2: It is our 44th wedding anniversary on the 17th of this month. We thought it would be great if our kids and in law kids could go out to dinner together with us on Saturday the 19th. Not wanting to exclude any but not wanting to burden any. We would love to gather all local for sure. As a side note on our anniversary, Uncle Eldon called me this morning and asked what year we were married. I told him 1964 and he said good I only have 6 more years to live and then I can pass the sun dial on to me. He then reminded me that Uncle Ariel gave my dad this sun dial on his 50th anniversary and had that engraved on the sun dial and then dad had it engraved for Eldon's 50th anniversary and he said that I was the next in line to be married 50 years and that he wanted our family to have it and that it had a better chance of staying in the family and continue to be passed along. It really touched me. He said that he now has something to really live for and look forward to.
Item 3: Family vacation this year? I love Pineview and yet it is so convenient that some have not given it the commitment we would like so we can all be together. This last year we seemed to get people in shifts. If we can't commit to a week then lets settle on the length of time that we will all be together. We have three families that are going to be moving this summer. Les and James and Tiff and Ryan and James and DeDe will all be moving this summer. Is this summer going to be impossible to plan a family vacation together? Now is the time to reserve space if we are going to do it and get the best spots.
Item 4: Family gift exchange? Some have suggested that we change the rules for our gift exchange. I have enjoyed it the way it has been but if we need to look at it and make some changes, I would like some feed back. I am also interested in the the grand kids input.
Item 5: We have not heard back from DW for JS but just think it has been the holidays. We will keep you posted as new developments occur.
Item 6: If there is no response to any of this 08 is cancelled.
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