Mom & Dad attended an outstanding concert tonite - the 23rd Annual Patriot Concert sponsored by the Arcadia Stake. It was beyond wonderful and we wish that all the singing Cornwalls (and Andersons) could have been there.
I had a special experience on Wednesday - picking up some luggage that Jeffrey had sent with a member of his Lynn Haven ward who was visiting her sister in So. Cal. Marguerite Perkins had been carrying Jeff's piece of luggage for a couple of weeks and since she was shortly going to head to Utah for a couple more weeks of vacation she called. I drove to San Dimas and had such a lovely visit. She had been called on a mission 20 years or so earlier from Mexico to the Los Angeles mission. She learned English at the Provo MTC and then settled in Southern California after her mission where she met her husband Rob Perkins. He is a doctor in the military and they are now stationed in Lynn Haven. She had very nice things to say about Jeff including shedding a tear when she told me about his speaking in church on Mother's Day - about his mom - it made me cry too. In peaking into the suitcase it makes me realize how you boys have really learned to pack from your dad and it has gotten me excited to see that Jeffrey and the rest of his luggage very soon.
We went to Golf Land.
We've known that this would be the show, but keely called with casting today. I will be Penelope Pennywise (the public amenity keeper) and Sarah will be the lead ensemble member. I'm double cast with Megan Mountford and will be in the chorus the rest of the nights. We are VERY excited.
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I couldn't find any pictures of Stefanie by herself. I was thinking that was a tribute to her - she likes her family and we are so happy about that. We think that Jason marrying Stefanie was the best thing he has done in his life and we love her so much. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! 25 Yahoo!!!!! Stefanie - check out one of your presents here!!!!!!
Sarah Ann Stradling Haws - My Great Grandmother
Hepzibah Gardiner Hodgkinson - My Great Grandmother
Mary Armina Haws Hodgkinson - My Grandmother
Beverly Rene Smith Hodgkinson - My Mother
Yesterday afternoon I was asked to speak by Barbara Terrill at a Stake meeting welcoming Young Women to Relief Society. Barbara had asked me to talk about my love for aprons and how, when I put one on, I feel like it gives me super powers - like a super hero. I have always loved aprons, and when I was preparing my remarks I figured out why - it is a tradition in our family. I enlarged these pictures for my presentation and then Sister Terrill took a picture with the girls from my seminary class in the aprons that she had made for them (bytheway - she also gave me the one I am wearing). I am going to frame these pictures of the women I love in aprons and I am not going to take my apron off when picture time comes around. I really enjoyed what Barbara Terrill wrote about the event in the Stake Relief Society newspaper - LDS Women - Write One. "Sue Cornwall was our featured speaker - and the theme was Aprons! Each girl received an apron of her own and Sue regaled us with tales of her many adventures with aprons. She also shared some old photos of her great-grandmothers, grandmother and her own mother in aprons. (And commented that the next time pictures are taken, she's not going to take off her apron!) She also had on display many of her own aprons that she has collected over the years. More importantly though, she drew parallels between aprons and our roles as women in Relief Society. She commented that an apron is her "super-hero cape." When she dons one, she feels like she can do anything! As Women, our aprons represent hard work, service and protection - just the sort of thing we do in Relief Society."Make your comment for SUNDAY'S numbers.
