Our Trip to Korea in 5 Minutes!

What's At Stake in San Clemente?

Mom and Dad visited the San Clemente
Stake Center.
It was recently completed by
Cornwall Associates.


Local height regulations disallowed the traditional
building mounted steeple





and required a Spainish Mission style.





It is a spectacular lot with a view to the west of the Pacific Ocean.

Round the World with Paisley

Mom & Dad and the girls had a 'memoriable' day Monday when we stopped in Palmdale and visited with Jason, Stefanie and Miss Paisley Ann - world travelers having just returned from Asia. We were just as bad as the Koreans all fawning over cute, cute Paisley. So glad they are all home safe. (P.S. Don't offer them any rice or raw fish to eat for a long, long time.)

Jamaica + Shane Wed

Dad's niece/Lissy's daughter/grandpa Cornwall's oldest grandchild/Jamaica had her wedding Sunday afternoon in Del Mar on a grassy bluff overlooking the beach followed by a fine luncheon at a nearby restaurant. A pleasant bonus was having all Dad's siblings (but Dave) together.

A Curtain Closes

Another curtain closed tonite.
The stage lights dimmed, as did the loud applause.
The songs and dancing
The beauty and bustling
All ended as the curtain slowly shut.

The music and the magic
Echo still in darkened balcony and hall,
As costumes, sets and maps are finally packed away,
While the spot light glimmers bright
In Memory's eyes.

A Spring ago,
An unexpected overture
To join the traveling troupe
And add a voice and spirit to the throng
That touched both ear and heart and soul

A thousand songs have sounded
And a hundred friends have hugged
And laughed and danced upon the stage
In scores of towns
Throughout the listening land.

When the velvet curtain raised
There was displayed a dream –
A hope to be upon that stage –
A dream long budding in a youthful heart
Now blossumed in fully wakened eyes.

Drenched in color, warmth and hue
And bought by sweat and grit and gift
The dream was danced
These nights of spring
As bouquets of life cascaced in the memorable air.

And now the curtain closes
On this fantasy show of shows
Once called a dream
For oh so many nights,
And now grasped fast to hold on for forever.

I am in the NEWS!!!!

I went to field day with Marybeth last week for her school and channel 2 at noon was there and I am in the background wearing a grey t-shirt and khaki cargo shorts. It is at the beginning and kind of fast but I thought I would show it to you. Follow this link and then go to page 15 of the videos and click on the one entitled "Alta Sports Day" . I hope you can find it okay. http://kutv.com/video/?cid=5

Seasons of Love

Sarah and her very cute Centre Stage friends sang Seasons of Love at the Clifton talent show. The show for parents and kind of a dress rehearsal was Wednesday night. That was bad because I had the scripture chase and I had to have dad come with me because he is my statistician. It sounded like it went great Wednesday and all the girls went out to the Monrovian after the show. Fortunately for me they did it again for the student body on Friday morning and I got to see it then. They sounded great and they looked SO CUTE!!!

A S"PEZ"tacular find!!!!

I am not sure if we have these or not, but I bought them anyway. I went to maceys and the duck one was found by Marybeth and so we began to search the store for more. We were only able to walk away with these three out of a set of 5. Let me know if we have these. But they sure look fun.

Katie's Nauvoo Notions

Now you see 'em . . .

Now you don't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, it was quite a momentous day at the 336 Cornwalls-Rachel got her braces off! Yippee! There were a lot of people that noticed them at school. (My appointment was at 8:00 this morning, and I got back to school a little after 10:00) But there were a lot of people that had to have seen, maybe they just didn't say anything.
Pretty nice huh! Doctor Jeff commented after seeing them that they moved my rating from a 10 to an 11 (I think that he's still trying to hook me up with his son (Jarron-is that how you spell it?) Anyways, yes I do keep running my tongue over my teeth just to make sure. The lady that actually took them off, Valerie, was really cool, despite her said headache due to being in her first trimester of pregnancy.
I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy, I just can't help but smile!!! -NOTE: thanks mom and dad for making it possible!

Monrovia Rules

My seminary kids are pumped up about the Stake Scripture Chase Tonight. Will Monrovia be able to keep the winning streak alive . . . . . .? To be continued.

Monrovia Ward Can STAND It!

Monrovia Ward filled a section of the stands - in this photo as far (almost) as the eye can see. (For you techies, this is my first "stiched" photo, where I take two photos taken side by side and connect them for a panorama. Ha - next time I'll try a 360 of the whole stadium.)

Take Me Out to the Ball Game!!!

We had a very fun Family Home Evening. It was the Monrovia Ward at Dodger Stadium. It started out with Dodger Dogs and the fixin's at the ward. Our Activities Committee bought 160 tickets and we sat as a block in the Pavillion and even got our name on Dodger Vision. Dad and I were empty nesters because Rachel and Sarah had rehearsal. Rick Bird supplied us with peanuts and water. (Note to self for next year - kids throw peanuts at each other that they don't buy themselves)

Rachel and Sarah did join us for dinner. Check them out at the end of the line.

There is that beautiful stadium.

Dad and I did a Robb and Marybeth - even though it was a little bit embarrassing!! Go Dodgers - they even won!!!!!!!

Monrovia Days Parade

Greetings from Hotel International in Changwon South Korea

Well there is free internet in the lobby so Paisley and I will have to spend our days down here while Jason is at the navy base. I'm sorry if there are a lot of typos but this keyboard is really small and there are korean letters on it. Paisley is handling the time difference pretty well and all the attention. Everyone loves Paisley and they always point and stare and try to get her attention. Yesterday we were out exploring and one man came up to her and pushed her forehead back with his finger so he could see her face. Then he put 1000 won under her bib and said a lot of stuff we didn't understand so we just smiled and nodded. I'm not sure what the fascination with Paisley is (we know she is very cute, but seriously it is out of control, the front desk people in the hotel have taken pictures of her) Anyway we will post again later. Unfortunately we can't put our pictures on because we didn't bring the cables so there will be a picture post later. Bye for now!

Candid Camera

Happy Birthday Marybeth!!

We hope that you had a great day today!!! We love you!!

Friend to Seminary Breakfast

Yesterday was the annual "Friend to Seminary Breakfast". It was a grand event (except for the fact that I didn't remember to take pictures until half way through the video - so these are pretty weak). I had a great kitchen team - led by the Three Hoopes - Perry, Marcie and Haylie. I had gotten just about the right amount of food - didn't run out of anything - didn't waste too much. The name of our video this year was "The Chronicles of Zarahemla". Iris Arfman was my editor and really did a great job. There were laughs at all the right places. The turnout was wonderful. It is the thing I worry about the most and those kids totally came through. I have a love-hate relationship with this event - and today it is LOVE!!!

Flying to the "Land of the Morning Calm"

For Jason, Stefanie and Paisley really exciting news update see http://whelchels.blogspot.com/

To "Little Red's" Fans FAR FROM THE WOODS

Rachel Makes it "INTO THE PAPES"

We are looking forward to seeing Rachel (a.k.a. Little Red Riding Hood) and the rest of the cast who are getting so much news coverage for MHS's musical this Wed, Thur., Fri., Sat.

A First in Katie's Career!!!

Katie has moved on from OK to Independence.

Guess You Had To Be There

Happy Mothers Day!

We Love You Mom

Race for the Cure!!!

Here we are in preparation for the big race. For those of you that were not aware, Marybeth and I signed up to run/walk a 5k. It was in SLC and started at the Gateway mall. We both got $20 t-shirts and the opportunity to run as well as support something so great.









There were a "few" people there for the big day, and we even spotted Ronald McDonald, whom we saw participating in the Run. There were so many people there, and there were many survivors as well as those that were going through cancer as they "Race for the Cure!!"
It might be hard to tell but this is me. As we made our way to the beginning of the race we noticed a lot of booths with various "freebies" that they were giving out. One of which happened to be the lovely cloth draped across my forehead, as well as a yogurt smoothie.
Doesn't she look like a very cute runner? I personally think that Marybeth sports the pink cloth better than I could. Marybeth scored some apples and caramel from McDonald, and that was really tasty.
We really cleaned up, we were almost running from booth to booth filling our arms with goodies. I must admit it may not be the best thing right before a race. But I am holding some Sun chips in a pink bag as well as some Smart Start cereal. We were glad we went.
Then the race started. There were so many people we didn't know what to do. We kind of took or time, running and walking, and most of all enjoying the experience. We passed all three mile markers and came to the home stretch. It was so much fun.

Here is an action shot of us trying to weave in and out of people. It was a little hard but we tried our very best. We had such a fun time, and hopefully it helped with the future in providing a cure .

Katie Conquers Texas & Now Everything is OK!

Haeng Un JASON!

We talked to Jason and Stefanie last night and found out that Jason is going to Korea next Thursday for 9 days on a business trip!!! WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW!! Details Jason Details.

MUSIC & THE SPOKEN WORD - A Cornwall Tradition

For The Birthday Girl!

We Love Our Sarah

Enjoy these great pictures of Sarah over the years. We are so thankful she is in our family. We love her so much!!!