Friday, July 25, 2008

Neil and Maddie Vacation Trip


Neil and Maddie just left for their trip. They are going to stop at the dance festival on their way and leave right from there to head for Idaho and Utah. They will stop at Rohn and Marylyn's place and then on the way back at Aaron and Emmylou's.
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Dance Festival

It is Sunday, Aug 27th and yesterday I rode with Garth and Julie to the dance festival. It was wonderful. 2600 LDS kids filled the Tacoma Dome with dancing and music. The costumes were fantastic and the organization of the whole program was terrific. Although many kids at first did not want to perform, they did it and they were so thankful they did. It was a grand production. Cindy is exhausted but thankful to have been able to do all that she did; making costumes, organizing, transporting kids, etc. etc. Of course, Arlin was right there assisting through the whole thing.
We couldn't take pictures with a flash so I didn't get any. However they are making a DVD and hopefully, somehow we can a link to it on this blog. If there are any computer geniuses out there that know how to do that please let me know at ellsann@hotmail.com
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This is such a wonderful thing! There are several thousand LDS youth dancing in this festival. It will fill the Tacoma Dome. I can't wait to see it tomorrow. Neither Ellsworth or Grandma feel like they can set for two hours on the bleachers so aren't going.
I know it will be fabulous.
A big congratulations to Cindy for all the hard work she has put in to this. She has made many, many costumes and spent untold hours working on this festival. I'm sure she is feeling a great sense of accomplishment. She loves the youth and they love her from the little ones on up to the teenagers.
Congratulations to Jesse, Kesley and Dallin also as they are dancing in this program.
When the girls were young, Sherry and Denise danced in a festival; Cindy was too young; and then when the younger boys were teenagers, Garth, Aaron and Josh danced in one and Daniel was too young. It is such a mammoth production, they don't put them on very often.
I hope to get some pictures tomorrow and I will post them as soon as I can.
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Birthdays

I decided to highlight each of my children's lives a little bit on or near their birthday this year. I am starting with Daniel because he just had his BD. Sherry, Denise and Rohn have already had their BD this year so will play catch up soon. Unfortunately, I just thought of this idea.
I am going to create a pdf file for each child and make a link on the left to it. Hopefully, I will have a few pictures in it also. Those are my plans. However, I have a lot going on so it may take a while to actually get this done.
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Uncle Ralph

June 25th - As most of you know, Ralph had a complete hip replacement over a week ago and is mending pretty well we think. The first surgery was not healing right - it was crooked so they decided to finally do this surgery. He should be much better off once it is completely healed.
It was quite an ordeal for him
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As most of you know, my brother Ralph was in a horrible car accident yesterday morning (Sat Apr 19th) Actually it was about 1 o'clock in the morning. He was on his paper route and driving along about 60 miles an hour he said when a car came over the hill and was in his lane. He had no time to do anything; the car just hit him head on.
We are all feeling fortunate that Ralph is still with us. He was hurt quite badly with several broken bones. However, he didn't lose consciousness, which means a lot and he is trying to keep his spirits up which means a lot.
Neil kindly drove mom and I to the hospital in Tacoma yesterday and we stayed there and visited with his family until he was out of surgery and then out of the recovery room. We did get to visit with him for a while in his room. He is in a lot of pain but they have changed his pain medication now and it is helping him.

Here is his address if you would like to send him a card which I know he would enjoy receiving.
Ralph R. Dahlberg Room 516 J Wing
Tacoma General Hospital
315 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
PO BX 5299
Tacoma, WA . 98415

Time Goes by

This past Friday night I rode with Neil and Maddy to the Elma Football Field to watch two of our grandsons play soccer.
Jesse Burbidge (Cindy & Arlin's) played for the Elma soccer team and did a great job. Dalton Newell (Eldon & Candy's) played for Tumwater. He did a great job also but was limited on the time he could play as he was plagued with a nosebleed.
It brought back a lot of memories of past football games. Eldon, Gordon, Garth, Aaron, Josh and Dan all played football for Elma. They loved it with a passion. I loved going to the games and rooting for the boys.
How quickly time passes. It seemed so strange to be there at the football field watching my children's children play. I don't get to go very often but enjoy it when I do.
Jesse is Captain of his team and will graduate from high school this year so he doesn't have too many games left to play.
It was good to sit with the family and enjoy their company.

Favorite Memory from Childhood