Sunday, April 11, 2010

Tombstone

Spent the day, Saturday, with friends in Old Tombstone. No pictures on this but had a wonderful day together with old friends we first met in 1983. We have been BFF since that time. I can spend 12 hours with them and still feel refreshed. They are the awesome parents of eight children.
One word of caution: The shoot- out at the OK Corral is not for the little ones. The play and dialog drag on too long and the players struggled to deliver their lines. Fun parade with everyone dressed up. Recommend this place in cool weather...don't try to brave it in the Summer. One visit can last for years LOL!

Looking forward to my piano recital on Friday night and an evening at the Barney Ranch. Wonderful group of women that I love and enjoyed studying the Supreme Court with this year. Can't wait to get next year's booklet in May! Anxious to find out what we are studying. Can't wait to get the two new beds up to the cabin for the summer. Can't wait for the Europe trip!!! The GOLDEN YEARS truly are awesome!

Found two more contacts on my Genealogy. Went to dinner with more new friends who are specialists and can read OLD ENGLISH out of the Parrish records in England. I was so happy to share this with our friends on Saturday, who can also trace their lines to royalty. How cool is that? Everybody is so excited about it and so am I. Loved Elder Nelson's Conference talk about it. Could relate to everything he said. This week I finally had a break-through and found some WWI Draft Registrations and the 1880 Census...which I have tried many times....THIS TIME...I tried a different name, just for fun...and GOT WHAT I WANTED! WHOOOOOT! Now I know all six brothers in my Great Grandfather's family. HOORAY FOR ME!!! Their picture is posted on an earlier blog...

Now...to get Mark over this horrible cold and cough and figure out how to get rid of my hip pain....

Everyone....Will has a special girl in his life......so POOOOOOP on all the family members who gossiped for several years that he is GAY. He is NOT GAY.....You people know who you are...I won't embarrass you here. I have had some real TRASHY people dump dirt on me in the past...but that one special phone call from a certain sister-in-law confronting me with her"Do you know Will is GAY? ...... gossip.... left me feeling like I had been GUT-PUNCHED. It was the most hateful, mean-spirited thing anyone has EVER done to me. She is just the nasty kind of person who acts like she never did it.... So grateful for my brothers and their support and love for Will. I have loved getting to know Simona via email and pictures. She is so sweet and so in love with Will. After his many failed dating escapades with what he calls "gold diggers"...I think this is going to be the one. HOORAAY for Will!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Who cares what anyone else thinks. We all knew the truth. I am happy for Will and Simona :)

Mark and Gretchen said...

I don't care what anyone else thinks, Sonia....it's when they want to hit me over the head with it, that I have a problem....what they think of me or my children is NONE OF MY BUSINESS. She did it to "take me down a notch"...we don't have the PERFECT family and have never pretended that we did. We just carry on with what we are given...I don't call that pretending. A recent email from someone else accused me of PRETENDING.