Fun Weekend

Our weekend started out on Friday with a trip to Salt Lake to the wedding of the son of our good friends, the Sharps. Josh was married in the Salt Lake Temple and we were very happy to be there with the family. The Sharps have been our friends since we moved back to Orangeville. I have had all their eight children with the exception of the twins in my school class. (Tessa and Tara were in the few groups I skipped between sixth and third grade.) I taught most of them a few years of piano as well. Alan was our bishop and is now our stake president. Garth and Alan were in the scouts together, and Garth was the financial clerk while Alan was the bishop. Garth was also their home teacher for many years. They are a special family and we love their kids dearly, as they do ours. We have shared all the special weddings and baby showers. There were only a few friends from Emery County there, President Stilson, President Johnson and his wife, and us. We were honored to be there with them. As usual, we were the first of the entire group to arrive at the temple, but that gave us plenty of time to find parking (a pain!), get to the meeting room, and have plenty of time to rest. The wedding was beautiful with some great advice from the sealer which I will discuss on another post. After the sealing we hurried to Standard Optical to see if we could pick up my contacts, but they weren't able to work us in for our appointment any earlier than our scheduled appointment at 2:30. So we drove back to the wedding dinner at the Radisson downtown. It was wonderful! We were able to sit with Jacob and his family, enjoying the little kids breaking the glasses and knowing they weren't our kids! Even the Sharps have kids that like to move things around and have accidents! The food was wonderful and the company great. We had to sneak out a bit early to be sure we got back to the eye doctor, but it was a great time.
I was finally able to get my contacts and they fit nicely. The doctor is doing a bit of tweaking with the right eye, but my far distant sight is better than it has been in years. But the middle and close up is horrible! I can't see the music for the organ, and reading anything is impossible without reading glasses. I can't focus on anything closer than 3 feet away. Even the computer screen is out of focus. I have moved the text size up to the largest possible. Try it and see what Facebook looks like on the biggest print and you can see how terrible it is for me! I don't know if they can fix it at all. At one point the doctor (she) said that they can do one eye for close up and one for distance, but I think that would drive me crazy! Maybe I will need to buy a close up contact just to see what it would do. At this rate I will be using glasses for everything. They did have to redo the glasses that I bought for evenings when I take my contacts out. She said my cornea had been warped and was now back to the original shape, which is very football pointed. So maybe I will be able to use those glasses more. I guess I am just getting too old. Going with the contacts for 3 weeks made me really miss my contacts, but I want to be able to see far and near. I don't mind using reading glasses some of the time, just not all of the time!
We drove back home to get here in time for the Emery/Richfield homecoming game on Friday night. Emery is now finally able to win games again, now that they play back in the old region I grew up with.
Saturday morning we drove back up to Lehi for Tyler's birthday party. We stopped at Home Base and got come cement blocks to do some landscaping between the driveway and the new shed. We need to terrace the slope so that the water doesn't melt and run into the shed. I guess Dad and I will be working to get that done as soon as possible because a storm is supposed to be coming this week.
The party for Tyler was so fun! We got there early and enjoyed playing with Tyler and visiting with Nancy and Dallas. I was hungry and ate too many chips before dinner, shame on me! We ate good hamburgers, salads, chips, cake, and had good company. Tyler loved all his new gifts and the kids had fun playing. I could just sit and watch my grandchildren playing all day. Makes for a wonderful day.
Sunday was a very needed resting day. I am always thankful for a nice quiet day to rest and get caught up with things. We even ate leftover soup so we didn't have to cook anything. It was a great day.
Today....back to school. We only have three days because of UEA this week. We are going up for the classes. It has been several years since I have attended, and I need a shot in the arm on new things to add to my classroom. Dad said he will plan something with the kids, after he gets a few hours of sleeping in. We need to be home on Friday night for Josh Sharp's wedding reception, and a birthday celebration for someone here at work. We are looking forward to General Conference on Saturday and Sunday. We are hoping to be able to get the landscaping done, or at least started on Saturay before and after sessions of conference. This will be the first conference in 3 years that I have not been off to math classes. I am looking forward to sitting, crocheting, and watching conference.