We do love you!

We were SO busy at the temple on Friday and Saturday that it was wonderful. We always like to be filled to capacity and we were. Gramps/Dad and I were over the 2:30 p.m. session and we had 79 women on that session (and 40 plus men). My goodness, I had a hard time seating all the women. Every available seat was used and (its a good thing we use benches) they were crowded in somewhat. We had three own endowments on our session. The night before, I was over the women's special dressing room and I had several own endowment sisters. Two of those young women were on the 7:20 p.m. session and, because of the large number of people on that session, it was slow getting done. It was after 10 p.m. before we left and, normally, we should be finished by 9 p.m. We are thinking, now that universities are done, it will be a busy time with many weddings and missionaries leaving. It would have been nice to have one session that had so many people there but they were all big. Two sessions before ours, they had 79 women.

It has been so fun, also, to see so many young women who are going on missions. Three weeks ago, two of the young women were going to the same mission and were set to go into the MTC the same day and time. We all thought that it was neat that they got to meet at the temple. We wondered if they would be roomies at the MTC. Their last names both started with "P" which means that they may be more likely to be together. Might I mention that I have no idea how they go about assigning roommates so this is all conjecture. 

Gramps/Dad has a bunch of doctor's appointments this next week. When the doctors get done with him, he will be a new man. He will have good vision and hearing, that is for sure. We will let you know when that will all take place as we get times and dates.

May will be a busy month for our family. We have several birthdays, Mother's Day, two high school graduations, Matthew's sixth grade graduation and several programs. I think we will be hopping from one thing to another. How exciting it all is. We still have little Jens and Natalie, the babies of the family, and then we have all the grown-up grandkids and, of course, all the ones in between. I have so enjoyed being, and still do, your grandmother. I enjoy my family and I know that Gramps feels the same way. Every person is a joy to us.

Lots of love