Dear Everyone:
Alene, Laurette, Carla, Jan, and Michele are taking a quilting class and persuaded me to go too. It was all very interesting, but I know my limitations, and I would never be able to do what they are teaching. But it was fun to be with them for awhile. Because it was the Priesthood session Saturday evening, I went out to dinner with Carla, Jan, and Michele, while the guys went to conference.
Last week dad and I went to Jeri's Stake Play at the Conference Center in Bountiful. It was really good. Haley and Rachel were in the children's chorus, and Haley had a one-line solo and did very well.
A week ago, we have a Non-Easter Egg Hunt - no little kids to hunt them. All the daughters except Claire came, and Jeri's kids and Jeni and Brooke. Then that evening Claire and family went out to dinner for Tom's
birthday, and then came to my house for ice cream and cake. Danny brought Sierra, then he had to come back on Monday and have knee surgery for the 3rd time. Bear, your miss. pres is in Sierra's ward in Ohio.
Our Governor signed a bill that every new born baby in Utah will be tested for 37 different metabolic problems. Laurette and Kurt were on that panel. All they will do is take a drop or two of blood, put it on a machine, and it will tell if the child will have PKU, or Cystic Fibroses, etc. They believe a lot of SIDs deaths are actually from diseases that hadn't been detected. Laurette said other members of the panel were doctors and scientists with lots of letter behind their names and there she was with only "Mom" behind her name. But she was very knowledgeable because of Jeron's PKU, so contributed more than the many lettered guys.
Jeni stopped by on her way from USU to an interview in SLC with Mrs Field's Cookies. She has had several other interviews, and will work a quarter in someplace in Food Science capacity as part of her schooling.
Jeff is still on crutches from falling on his knee. He comes home each day from school really hurting. He is black and blue clear down including his toes.
There are some brave thieves around here. They broke into the Civic Committee's House (that old house that used to the elder Brough's by the city building) and stole a bunch of stuff, but not our Carla.
We're still good for next New Year's Eve. That house is about 20 feet across the driveway from the police station!!!
A couple of Saturdays ago I went to the Stake Rel Soc Humitarian doodad.
My job was packing baby blankets, a gown, 4 diapers, 4 pins, 2 bars of soap, and 2 pair of sox into a plastic bag. They have told us that some people are so poor that their babies are wrapped in newspaper, so I kept thinking as I worked "No newspaper for this baby." I don't know how many I packed, but I bet is was close to 50, and there were 8 or 10 others doing the same thing on my table.

Love Mom