A day with Sara

She cracks me up! I can carry on a real conversation with her. She sometimes speaks in sentences! She comes with a "list" of what she wants to do. Today it was the dolls,both of them, she likes to feed them, and Dr. them. Her favorite is giving the medicine, for the first time she tried out the stethoscope. Her other favorite thing is to be read to, and today was no exception. Eight books later, and many of them being read more than once.....we were done with the reading. She thinks all the sounds she makes are words, more and more each day, more of them really are words. Too Cute!

Another Day with Nora

Nora came to play today on our weekly Grandma and Nora Day. We were playing with the moon sand. A toy by the way, I do not recomend. She said "Take my picture grandma with the big mountain I made. You can put it on your blog!"

The picture below is the first picture I took, then she wanted to do faces. How do you say No to that.

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.