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.