Weekend of the 16th of August

The weekend of the 16th of August began with a trip to Erda where Aunt Win spent the night with her son Jeff. Pam and I proceeded into Salt Lake and took a nostalgic drive down 7th west out to Sandy where we had a hotel room booked for the night. In the evening we attended a wedding reception for a friend of Erin's and it was unique in that Pam made Emily's wedding dress and it was very, very beautiful. This is Westons beautiful photo in the Joseph Smith Building, I hope you don't mind Weston - it's the dress!


The next day we attended the 90th birthday for my Aunt Elva, Dad's sister. She has always been a wonderful Aunt, full of vitality and enthusiasm. If we ever attended a Cottle function, Aunt Elva was there.

Erin and Kate are being introduced to Aunt Elva and Kate was very interested in this lady!

Uncle Walt, Dad's youngest brother, and Pam visiting.

Pam visiting with Marba and Paul Thompson, who used to live in Richfield. Marba is my cousin and is Uncle Merlin Cottle's 2nd daughter.

This is my sister Dixie and it was so good to see her again. She lives in Orem, but do you think we stop very often? We've got to do better. She was my protector when I was a little kid.

Pam and Aunt Win visiting with Aunt Elva.

Pam and Aunt Elva. Her husband Lelsie died last year at age 89 and she is going strong and her daughter Rosanne, said she was doing very well and seemed to be as sharp as a tack. The family is very musical and Darrell, Elva's son, and his children played beautiful music throughout the afternoon.

In the evening Pam, Aunt Win, and I along with Erin, Weston and Kate drove to Highland and attended the wedding reception for Michael and Camille DeVries, held in the Hadley's chapel. It was a wonderful affair and it was especially nice to see all of Ann and Sherwood's daughters and families and visit with them.

Also of note on Saturday Aunt Win took a tour through the South Town Ranch senior home, where Uncle Dave lived for a year, and made a decision to put some money down on a very lovely 1 bedroom apartment. It was a wonderful place and perfect for someone like Aunt Win. She met a lot of lovely people who were very interested in when she was going to move in. We hope this will be a good move for her, getting her back into the Salt Lake area where she will be close by her children and grandchildren.

So that's our weekend and we had to hurry home for sunday's activities.