mothers day

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Gorgeous gift


Double click on the picture so you can see the detail

Last night was my Nielson family party and it was so fun to sit and visit with my Kelly and Terry and Jeff and my dad and Jill Pill - along with Shawn and Kris and Kelly and Jamie. I had to show off my newest decoration - made by Jeff!! Usually Teresa does a major part of the craft work but since she is in Idaho with Skye and Katie Jo at her parents home, Jeff put this one together for me, which surprisingly enough makes it even more special!! Teresa is so meticulous and makes sure that the lettering etc is done perfectly and she will be proud when she sees what a great job Jeff did with mine.

As you can see it is one of the new type of signs - a steel sign, with the Vinyl lettering. When I realized they had Ed and Susan (us) for Christmas I really really hoped that they would make me one of these gorgeous signs, but I had no idea what I wanted it to say! Jeff says that so far this is the only temple he has but will shortly have a lot more of the different temples. Lets see, I would need an Ogden Temple, a Bountiful Temple and a Mt Timpanogas Temple for the three of my four that were married in a temple. Kelly and Jamie were smart enough to get married in the SL temple in the first place. ;-)

When I opened this gift last night and saw that he had done the Salt Lake Temple for me I could have cried. Ed and I were married there in September of 1967 - 40 years ago...thus the
Willden
Established 1967
I am emailing a copy of this picture to Jeff so he can post it on his web site. You are welcome to go see all the fun stuff they have to offer. They attend ALOT of super saturdays in Northern Utah every fall helping ladies make their own favorite signs. You can be that I will be taking it to the next enrichment planning meeting we have to see if anyone wants to get together for a spring fling instead of a super saturday;...these would make marvelous mother's daygifts! Hey, Kristanne - here is an idea for you to use as Enrichment leader.


I just figured out how to link that web address to the actual site all by myself!! Amazing. Now if I could only figure out how to add my picture to my 'comments' on someone elses blog sites...

Anyway - this is a favorite gift. Along with all the other special things I received this year for Christmas (like the cute sign Jamie and Kelly gave me, and the pillows from Kecia & Glenn, and the 1 night stay at the Anniversary Inn(!!!) from Shawn and Kris, and the emergency water storage kit and gift card to Barnes and Noble from Dirk and Da. And I am sure I will do a whole blog on Mauri's gift - it is an afternoon for the two of us to go shopping together or to a movie and then out for lunch....FUN!! I AM SOOOO SPOILED!!

6 comments:

Kecia said...

That is beautiful!

As for having your picture in the comments section, you do that by adding a picture to your profile. (Log in, go to dashboard, and click "edit profile" on right column of page)

Anonymous said...

Hey, it works!!

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Unknown said...

Very pretty!

So, when do you want to go out? I have a long weekend, so how about monday?

My blog is under construction at the moment, but I am making one at last- mainly cuz I couldn't post comments on your blog any more, it wouldn't allow me to without a blogger identity.

Anonymous said...

Welcome to the world of blogging - its kind of fun, especially when you are excited about something or when your emotions are involved and its nice to share those thoughts. Monday sounds great...I'm not doing anything though I think I will take Jill to the movies on Wednesday (we are going to go see Enchanted - which even Kelly (!) says was a cute movie!!

Jamie said...

Yes, we are very smart! I agree! ;) I wanted to get married in the SLC since I was a little girl. So I am glad Kelly was in agreement with the choice I made.