The year was 1974

These were pictures found in the boxes I was sorting for mom. They weren't in an album, so they were easy to scan and put on the blog. It is hard to believe that these were taken 34 years ago. I was so young and skinny! We spent our anniversary doing regular stuff, but last night we went to the temple. The little Redlands temple does not compare to the magnificance of the Salt Lake Temple where we were married. But the calm, peaceful and loving feelings are there in abundance. I remember receiving my endowments just 2 days before the wedding. That was how they did it back then. I remember being very overwhelmed by all that transpired in those few days. Andy and I were guessing at how many times we had been back to the temple in the last 34 years, and figured we had averaged 9 times a year. Between the two of us over 600 times. Not much changes in the temple, yet each time there is more to learn. It truly is Gods University, and a place of refuge. The 2 lovely ladies are my sisters, Janice and Lorraine, the guy with hair at the piano, is my brother Ron, and Aunt Osh at the book. The bride and groom, really are Andy and me.! I am so grateful for the blessings of the temple, grateful for the covenants made there, and for the blessings that come from making and keeping covenants. One of these anniversaries we will go on that Alaskan Cruise that we had planned on for our 25th.

Easter Egg Party

The Annual Anderson Easter Egg Hunt took place one week early. Everyone (Brad, Katie & Wes) were going to be out of town Easter Weekend. So the first thing, was color the Eggs! I found a sponge on color kit, that was a lot less messy than the "in the bowl of vinegar water stuff" We color them every year......and then what? They are still in the refrigerator. Everyone contributed the Eggs, some good...some not so good. Will any one ever use the Plum Wine? Nora wasn't sure she liked the trading part, when Sara's egg had the Doll House Car, and her egg, had clothes for Sara. So that trade was made quickly. Holly and Sam had Nora pick out the things for her eggs at the $ store. She was surprised when other people ended up with the things that she had purchased. The Grocery Game that the Anderson's and the Rosene rs play on a regular basis, was the source of a lot of the "gifts" Socks for the Men, new dish towels for the women, and toys for the Grand kids were in my 40 eggs, I have to much fun!

Grandma really GOOFED! I had Nora help me fill my eggs (put the papers in them), and then when it came time to hide them, (spread them on the grass) she helped me do that. It was the family Easter Party. I wasn't thinking Easter Bunny. So....the other day she asked her mom what was the Easter Bunny going to bring her...She has friends talking about this....and her mom said, the Easter Bunny? It came at grandmas! Nora's reply, probably with THE look in her eye.."No he didn't, I helped Grandma hide the Eggs!" So I hope the "Easter Bunny" made an appearance at the Rosener home, because he didn't come to Grandmas house! Not much gets by her.

It still amazes me that the kids like this famiy tradition. I thought they would outgrow it as adults. Now for me it is all about the Grand kids.

Anders and Karen Hansen

This is the only picture of Anders (Andrew) and Karen together. They lived out their lives in Ephriam, Utah. Toward the end of her life Karen lived with her son Andrew and his family. The other living son James, (our ancestor) left home at age 16 with a group of 9 other teenage boys to homestead in Redmond Utah. They were called the "Sons of Ephriam" More about him with another post. The back of the picture has information that it was published in a book. I will have to do some more searching about that little piece of information.

Faboulous Forever Family

Since I can't seem to get this done on a Friday, it will be come the Fabulous Forever Family, which will show up periodically.
This is about Andrew (Anders) Hansen. I already wrote about his second wife Karen, and his picture is posted with hers.
It seems that Anders was born 10 July 1809 in Edense, Odense, Denmark. Erastus Snow came to Denmark in 1850 as a missionary, Anders heard of it and joined the church in 1854. He and his wife Maren Kristine Nielsen were the parents of 7 children. 4 of the children had died very young before they came to the USA. On the trip to America, Maren, his wife, and Niels and Jens, 2 of the sons died and were buried at sea. So only Anders and 8 yr old son Hans made it to Utah. They settled in Ephriam, Sanpete, Utah, where many of the Danish emigrants settled. Karen arrived in Ephriam in September1857, she was 33 years old. She married Anders in Oct 1857, he was 48. All our written family history states that they had 2 sons James and Andrew. But in a census it states that she had 4 pregnancy and 2 living children. New Family Search shows that there were 2 other sons born, each lived less than a year.

Brad and Katies project

For Christmas Brad received the patterns for, or gift cards which he used to purchase the patterns for some childrens furniture. A table that has a leaf in it, it will also have 4 chairs, an old fashioned coal stove, and a dry sink. The dry sink is the first picture, and the pump really goes up and down. He and Katie have spent almost every Saturday since Christmas working on these. The stove is next. They are so beautiful. They did a great job. Brad said he might sell the set for $1,000. Katie says No Way!. It was a lot of work. ( I need to figure out how to take pictures that are not blury. We had dinner at their house tonight. It was delicious, and a treat not to have to cook.

Andy has a New Job

We are so excited about Andy's job. He is smiling more! Yeah! One of the things that they encourage is their Wellness Progam, and part of it is the 10,000 step club. During the first week he was there the HR person invited him to the meeting. He asked if they were serving donuts. (They are getting used to his sense of humor) He now wears a pedometer, and is supposed to walk 10,000 steps per DAY. He thought is was per week. He was getting, maybe 1,500 steps a day in (that was when we would walk around Costco), until he worked at the Bishops Storehouse on Sat. He logged 15, 000 that day. Everyone he talked to, he had to announce he had gone 15,000 steps, he can't wait to report on Monday.

Gardening with Grandpa

Nora and Andy planted some cataloupe and pea seeds a couple of weeks ago. They finally came up. Nora's job is to water them when she comes over to our house. She was so excited to see that they had popped up that she had to go back outside every hour....."Come see Grandma, they have grown some more" She says she doesn't like peas, but maybe since she planted them, she will eat them. She liked the tomatoes she planted last year. It is so much fun to have her come, she has a very specfic list of things she wants to do when she has her day with Grandma or Grandpa.

A Day with Sara

Sara came over to play dolls at Grandmas house. She fed them, and rocked them and sang to them. She would put them to bed and then start the process all over again. Suddenly she decided to be the doll, climbed into the doll bed and pulled the blanket in after her. I held my breath, after all that doll bed is over 55 years old. But it held together nicely. I can see I really need to learn how to use the camera, or get new glasses, I didn't realize the picture was so blurry.

Friday's Fabulous Forever Family

Mary Ann Pope Hobbs was born 11 April 1815 in Rottingdean, Sussex, England She married William Down Hobbs 9 November 1835.
Her Death Notice in the Desseret News States:
Mrs. Hobbs, one of Parawans old and most respected citizens died January 30, 1899. The deceased was over 83 years of age and had been married 63 years. This being the longest time any couple here have lived together. She was the mother of ten children, seven of whom survive her and her husband. She also leaves 70 grandchildren and 31 great grandchildren. She was a faithful wife and a devoted mother and true to the principles of the gospel.

William Down Hobbs was born 6 of January 1814 at Framfield Sussex, England. The family joined the church prior to 1860 in England. There were nine surviving children. The first daughter Annie quickly left for America, coming on the ship The Underwriter, and traveling to Utah with the 9th Handcart company. The family didn't hear from her, and so brother William left to find her and came in 1861, only to find out that his sister had died of Typhus fever 6 weeks after arriving in the Valley. The next 3 children came in 1863. Mary Ann, Emma Lucy and Typhena. They were young, pretty and single. Mary Ann fell in love with one of the teamsters. Emma Lucy was courted with love letters left on bleached Ox heads, and Typhena married after she went to Parowan. The remaining family William, wife Mary Ann and the 4 youngest children came across the plains with the William Hyde Company in 1864. Our ancestor George Brigham Hobbs was 4 yrs old at the time. The family settled in Parowan. He worked as a carpenter, and farmer, building his own adobe house.

He was devoted to his children, and wrote letters, and "rolled up his bedding" and went to vist them often. He did extensive temple work for his extended family in the St. George Temple. He encouraged his children to be frugal in a letter dated April 8, 1887 he states "I rent my land for 35 bushel of wheat and 3 ton of hay all delivered home. I hope you will be carful of your mones so if sickness should com you may feel like me not afraid of poverty also as they are poor compaion. Live within your means and put some by for a rane day. I am very thankful for bandy and wiskey also the linament. They have don me lots of good." I left the original spelling. He must have been quite a character. The pictures are of William Hobbs Jr. born 11-23-1839 and George Brigham Hobbs (our ancestor) born 2-22 1856 The two boys in the family. Possibly taken befor they left England. The other picture is William Down Hobbs, father of the two boys and 8 daughters. They lived and died in Parowan Utah. William died on 8 Dec 1899, not quite a year after his wife, Mary Ann, died.