The Wasatch Front Shop Hop 2008

Yea! It's Shop Hop time again! Emily and I kept our tradition alive and shop hopped on Wednesday.

First stop -- Great Harvest Bread for raspberry scones. This wasn't really on the shop hop map but a girl does need to start the day with something yummy.

First shop: Elaine's Quilt Block. Usually this is one of our favorites but we were disappointed this year. We didn't think they really did the theme well at all. Sad. Their quilt was a small wallhanging that did not make us go ooh and ahh.

But Mormon Handicraft did. Their theme was Jack in the Beanstalk. They gave out magic beans and had a cute quilt and the workers had cute t-shirts.

Quilts, Etc. was our favorite! Of course -- it was Cinderella. I won a cute pattern in a trivia contest in the ballroom. Their quilt was ballgowns and it was cute.

Pine Needles was cute, too, with the Princess and the Pea theme.

We defected from the "real" shop hop to the "wannabe" shop hop, Scenic Byway, to visit the Material Girls, although Emily felt like a traitor. But I won a fat quarter there and saw this on their wall so it was worth it. Great motto, I think, when you consider my stack of unfinished quilts and projects. In case you can't read it, it says "Finished is way better than perfect!"

Then to Quilter's Haven in Bountiful. Forgot their theme but bought some cute fabric there.

Time for lunch at Rumbi's.

Whose idea was it to put all that spaghetti on my south seas salad? That's never happened before and I hope it won't happen again.

All right, refreshed and rested and ready to set off again. Next stop, Threads of Time in Centerville. Notice the bird in his nest up in the left corner.

Their theme was Rapunzel and their quilt was cute.

Gardiner's in Ogden did Little Mermaid. It was ok. They gave out swedish fish.

Village Dry Goods in Brigham City was just ok. We could have skipped it and saved some gas but usually it's great so you just gotta go or you'll always wonder. We did talk ourselves out of going clear up to Logan to the Red Rooster, though. Great -- now I'll always wonder . . .

But look at this cute stuff. It is to make skirts for Amy and Mya. I better quit blogging and start sewing!

Faith in every footstep!

Here are the awesome families of Company D. Everyone pulled and pushed and cooked and cleaned up and sang and worked and played together. We think it was the only true company in the group -- just kidding. Everybody in the whole ward was great.

We camped the first two nights at the Sixth Crossing campground. This is where the rescue party met the Willie Handcart Company. Unfortunately the handcart company couldn't stop there but had to keep going over Rocky Ridge to meet the rescue wagons at Rock Creek Hollow.

Tally ho! Grant and the Drapers pulling one of the company's three handcarts.

Can't you just feel the love! We had the cute cute Matthews twins in our company and they were so fun to watch.

Look close -- the handcarts stretch clear across the horizon. If our ward trek had been a real pioneer handcart company, it would have been the third largest.

We were blessed with beautiful weather including a gorgeous sunset on Thursday night.

On Friday we moved on to Rock Creek Hollow. Thirteen persons were frozen to death in one night and buried here in one common grave. Two more died the next day and were buried nearby.

This monument is dedicated to the Riverton Stake for their second rescue, the temple work they accomplished for the handcart pioneers. The stone has the dates that Pres. Hinckley, Pres. Faust, and Pres. Monson visited Rock Creek Hollow.

This trek was an incredible experience. We are so blessed to have the heritage of so many people who sacrificed everything so that we could live in this country with the restored gospel. Blessed, honored pioneers!

To see all of the pictures from the trek, please visit http://picasaweb.google.com/anniethayne/TREK

For some must push and some must pull . . .

Tomorrow we leave for our ward family trek!

We have our family flag hoisted and we're ready to go. We're going to be treking in honor of Grant's great-great-great-grandmother Ann Jewell Rowley, a widow who suffered with the Willey Company along with her seven children under the age of 12 and step-children from her late husband's first marriage. Here's hoping that the Wyoming weather will be kind to us -- right!

I Hope They Call Me on a Mission

They did!
Grant and I are serving as Seminaries and Institutes missionaries. We attend the institute class sponsored by our stake and serve the munch & mingle goodies after class, and we attend the Heritage Park YSA Ward. Grant was also called to be the Financial Clerk. It's so fun to be involved with the young single adults. I get to be among them at my job at the Orem Institute and now every Thursday night and Sunday, too.

ladybug, ladybug fly away

The ladybug quilters are losing one of our members! Trish is moving to Arizona so we got together at Shoots for one last lunch -- at least until she comes back to visit. Jackie and Trish are getting a kick out of the going away card.

Trish loved the Jim Shore quilting angel we gave her to remember us by.

Janice and Donna were there, too. We missed Erma who wasn't able to come.

Happy Father's Day!

To my

Here's fishing you a happy father's day!

You mean more to me than

Thanks for all the joy you've brought to my life.

Love with lots of

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Things I Love, Vol. II

The beautiful purple flowers in our yard grown by my own resident gardener!

Yummy yummy for this bumble bee!
Even our pet bee Roscoe loves being surrounded by purple flowers! We can't wait 'til the hollyhocks bloom!