WOMEN'S CONFERENCE

I'm off to Provo, Utah for Women's Conference with my girls. After the weekend I will be going to Logan for a week to spend time with my dad, so if you need me you'll have to phone. I should be back the day after Mother's Day.

Food for Thought

Warren and I just came back from Meagan's graduation at BYU. We had the privilege of hearing Elder Dallin Oaks speak. The gist of his talk was 'joy in our creativity'. He said that the joy we get from creating something, anything, goes with us to the next life and that the greatest joy we have is in creating. It can be creating a cabinet, a quilt, a piece of art, children, or just about anything. Now, hearing that was a great joy to me in itself. I love creating, and I am glad to know that joy will go with me. SO, GET BUSY AND CREATE!

The graduation was great, but Theresa was very sick and missed almost the whole thing. Meagan's convocation was at 8 am and when we got back to the house I sent Theresa to bed, where she stayed for the rest of the day. After serving up some doughnuts and apple cinnamon bread to the family and Tom and Jody Robinson, Warren and I went to Eric's for a rest, but ended up learning how to play 'Frisbee Golf' instead. It was lots of fun. When we got back to Theresa's house, she wasn't feeling up to getting out of bed, so Tom cooked hot dogs, we ate them, potato salad and baked beans and then Meagan served up some yummy graduation cake. We were then invited to the BYU Cougars baseball game. That was a lot of fun. Natalie and Cole got to take part in a hula hoop challenge and Cole won a T-shirt and beach ball. We left the game about 9:45 pm because we had to leave for the airport at 7 am, but we later found out the game got rained out and was to continue Saturday morning.
Although only Eric, Alisyn, Natalie and her family were able to join us, we had lots of fun. We missed Kevin and Ashley, who got off work too late to join us for dinner and didn't feel up to going to the game. Melanie was involved with her brother-in-law's family who were all gathered at her house for a wedding.
Now, it's off to Women's Conference on Wednesday with Angie. All my girls and I will be going to the concert on Thursday night. We can hardly wait! Natalie has to work during the day, but the three other girls and I will be hanging out and having a sleep-over at Theresa's. I sure hope she feels much better by then. It turns out she has Strep :0(

Pictures from Utah in March

Tyler and Natalie Tiffany and Kelsie Conover at the community thermal swimming pool in Saratoga Springs, Utah where Natalie lives, the end of March. Melanie's kids and the Tiffany family had so much fun swimming. Melanie and I were 'chicken'. It was about 30 degrees outside with a wind chill of probably about 10 degrees. You can see the beautiful snowcovered Timpanogas mountains, Utah Lake and the pool.




Little Jeff Conover helping his dad build a shop


GARDEN UPDATE
This will probably be my last garden update, unless I decide to post a photo of RIPE tomatoes. I think my garden did quite well. We have some green beans to pick, but they are harder to get a decent photo of.

Tea Cup Roses - I DID buy these in a tea cup a few years ago


African Daisys


Yellow Squash


Tomatoes


Cucumbers

'Our' Missionary

We have had a very busy couple of weeks. Warren and I went to Utah to see our eldest grandson, Trey Robinson, off to the Missionary Training Center in Provo. After 12 weeks of language training and learning three long sets of characters, he will be going to the Japan Fukuoka mission for two years. We are so proud of him and his accomplishments! Seven of our nine children were able to be at Trey's farewell. Ron and Scott were unable to come. All seven of them got on the trampoline at Robinsons' for a typical Sorensen romp. It was so fun. We also had a blast playing 'Signs' on Sunday afternoon. I think there were about 20 of us playing, so it was a real challenge to remember everyone's signs. Thanks Anita for teaching us a fun new game!

Playing 'SIGNS'



Seven of our children on one trampoline - Angie, Natalie, Theresa, Melanie, Jeff, Kevin and Eric



My four gorgeous daughters - Angie, Theresa, Natalie, Melanie




Trey and his very proud, beautiful mom, our Theresa!



The Robinsons at the MTC



Trix, Trey and Warren at the MTC



We also got to drive by the Draper, Utah temple on the last day of dedication.



The following Wednesday, March 25th, after seeing Trey off at the MTC, we drove to Logan in a total white out and this is how Logan looked when we arrived! BURRRRR



We came home to an overgrown garden and are now picking ripe cucumbers and watching our tomatoes slowly start turning red. The cilantro and parsley were seriously overgrown and needed cutting back. The radishes are done and I have started a new crop. The lettuce is great, but nearing the end. More photos later, I think.