THE BOY'S WEDDINGS

CLAY RETURNED FROM HIS MISSION AND KAREN HAD COME HOME FROM BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY TO MEET HIM. JACK WAS ON THE CITY COUNCIL AND HAD ARRANGED A SIGHN THAT READ "WELCOME HOME CLAY". IT WAS EXCITING TO HAVE HIM HOME AGAIN. THEY LOADED UP THE CAR JACK AND MARGE GAVE THEM AND DROVE TO BOISE. SOON AFTER HIS RETURN THEY WENT OVER THE NEVADA BORDER AND MARRIED. KAREN CONTINUED HER NURSES TRAINING AND THEY BOTH WORKED HARD TO SUPPORT THEM SELVES DURING THAT TIME. KAREN GOING TO SCHOOL AND CLAY WORKING DURING THE DAY AND THEN THEY DID SOME OFFICE CLEANING AFTER HOURS.[I THINK THAT WAS THE JOB DESCRIPTION]. C.J CAME ALONG BEFORE KAREN GRADUATED. THEN SHE HAD SOME ONE FROM THEIR WARD TAKING CARE OF HIM WHILE SHE WORKED. IN NOV. THEY CAME HOME FOR THANKSGIVING AND JACK TALKED CLAY INTO COMING HERE AND TAKING CLASSES HE NEEDED AND WORKING AT THE FUNERAL HOME. HE KAREN AND VERELAN LOADED UP TAKING A BORROWERED TRAILER. DROVE TO BOISE LOADED THEIR THINGS AND BY THEN WE HAD A BAD SPELL OF WEATHER THE ROADS FOR MUCH OF THE TRIP HOME WAS SLIDING ON ICE ALL ALONG THE ROAD. WHAT A RELIEF IT WAS TO HAVE THEM SAFELY HOME. THEY STAYED WITH US TILL THEY FOUND AN APT. WHICH WASN'T LONG. MARGE BABY SAT C.J. ALONG WITH AMY AND GEORGE. THAT WAS SUCH A SWEET THING FOR HER TO DO TO HELP THE KIDS OUT. I WAS WORKING AND WOULD TAKE C.J. ONCE IN A WHILE TO ENJOY HIM AND TO GIVE MARGE A LITTLE BREAK. CLAY FINISHED HIS INTERNSHIP AND COLLEGE CLASSES AND THEY ONCE AGAIN LOADED UP AND MOVED TO THE BAY AREA IN CALIF. THEY LIVED IN AN APT. IN A FUNERAL HOME AND WORKED THERE AS WELL AS GOING TO MORTICIANS SCHOOL. KAREN FOUND ANOTHER BABY SITTER AND WORKED AT ONE OF THE HOSPITALS WHILE CLAY WAS IN SCHOOL. THEY HAD GONE TO THE TEMPLE BEFORE GOING TO CALIFORNIA AND HAD THEIR FAMILY SEALED TOGETHER.
BEFORE C.J. WAS BORN I WAS SO ANXIOUS TO BE A GRANDMOTHER AND HAVE LOVED THAT TITLE EVER SINCE. I LOVE OUR FAMILY EACH OF YOU MORE THAN I HAVE WORDS TO EXPRESS. AFTER HE ARRIVED PENNY WAS HERE AND WE DROVE TO BOISE FOR ME TO HELP A LITTLE. I'M NOT SURE IF I WAS ANY HELP BUT I LOVED BEING THERE TO KNOW C.J. AS A BABY.
LANIE WAS BORN HERE IN I.F AT THE OLD LDS HOSPITAL. SHE WAS SUCH A CUTE BABY. THEN THEY MOVED TO POCATELLO MWHERE SCOTT JOINED THE FAMILY. FROM THERE THEY WENT TO BURLEY AND RYAN COMPLETED THEIR CHILDREN. I WENT OVER AND STAYED WITH THE CHILDREN A COUPLE OF TIMES WHILE CLAY AND KAREN WENT ON TRIPS. THE LAST TIME WAS WHEN DAVE MARRIED AND THEY WENT TO CANADA AS HIS BRIDE WAS FROM THERE. THAT HELPED ME KNOW MY GRAND CHILDREN AND THEM TO SEE WHAT A MEAN OLD GRANDMA THEY HAD.

WHILE CHUCK WAS IN CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS IN THE NAVY HE MET SOME GOOD FOLKS WHO INVITED HIM TO DINNER WITH THEIR FAMILY. ONE TIME WHEN HE WAS DRIVING HOME ON LEAVE HARV TALKED HIM INTO GOING HOME VIA ST. JOHNS, ARIZONIA. HE HAD A MOTIVE IN THIS MADNESS. CHUCK COULD MEET HIS TWIN SISTERS WHILE COMING HOME. THE MADNESS PART WAS HOW FAR HE HAD TO DRIVE OUT OF HIS WAY TO TAKE TO ST. JONS WHAT EVER HARV COOKED UP TO SEND HIS PARENTS. WELL TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT HE MET SHIRLEY AND CONNIE AND LIKED SHIRLEY RIGHT AWAY. THEY CORESPONED I SUPPOSE AND THEN WHEN CHUCK WAS DISCHARGED HE WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO VISIT AGAIN. THEN HARV AND MOLLY MOVED TO UTAH AND CHUCK RETURNED TO BYU FOR SCHOOL. ONE TIME SHIRLEY WENT ON VACATION TO SLC AND THEY GOT TO KNOW EACH OTHER BETTER AND SOME WHERE ALONG THE WAY THEY DECIEDED TO MARRY. THEY MARRIED IN THE MANTI TEMPLE. SINCE THAT WAS THE TEMPLE CHUCK SORTA CHOSE. BOTH FAMILY'S HAD TO TRAVEL AND IT WAS A VERY SPECIAL DAY. WE WENT ON TO ST. JOHNS FOR THE RECEPTION AND THEY CAME HOME TO IDAHO FALLS AND LIVED IN A LITTLE APT. ON ELVA ST. WE HAD AN OPEN HOUSE IN THE CHURCH AND THEY SET UP HOUSE KEEPING. JANA AND ANDRA WERE BOTH BORN IN IDAHO FALLS AT THE OLD LDS HOSPITAL. THEN THEY MOVED BACK TO ST. JOHNS. FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. CLAY TALKED THEM INTO MOVING TO BURLEY AND CHUCK HAD A JOB OVER THERE. TRISTAN WAS BORN IN BURLEY. WASN'T AS EASY TO SEE HIM OFTEN UNTIL THEY MOVED BACK TO IDAHO FALLS. JANA AND ANDRA STARTED SCHOOL IN IDAHO. THEN ONE DAY THEY LEFT US AGAIN FOR ST. JOHNS NEVER TO LIVE IN IDAHO AGAIN. I MISSED THERE FAMILY A WHOLE LOT. VERELAN AND I MADE SEVERAL TRIPS TO ST. JOHNS TO VISIT AND FOR SOME OF THE KIDS SPECIAL THINGS UNTIL IT BECAME HARD FOR US TO TRAVEL THAT FAR.

WE SAW THE INDIAN RESERVATION WENT TO FOUR CORNERS ONCE AND STOPPED SOME PLACE ON THE RESERVATION AND HAD INDIAN TACOS ON THEIR INDIAN BREAD. IT WAS A REAL TREAT.
ENOUGH FOR THIS TIME.