Eden Vining's Preschool Graduation - May 2011

Lauren & Emalyn are missing because poor little Emalyn went into the hospital that

morning with bronchial, ashma, pneumonia type symptoms. So we supported Eden &

Shaun at Eden's cute little preschool graduation & party then followed Shaun into St. Joseph's

hospital to see how little Emalyn was doing. Shaun took lots of pictures of graduation to show Lauren.
Sorry, my pictures didn't turn out to good, or rather my sorry pictures didn't turn out to good!

The kids filed in to music & took their places on the little stand, did the pledge of alligence & sang

three cute songs, & did a little play about "The Rainbow Fish". All the other (other fish were

one solid color)

fish admired the Rainbow fish's shiney rainbow color scales & one by one they each came by & asked if they could please have one of his shiney scales so they could be pretty like him.

As each fish approached him, one by one, he said "no"to each & then finally relents &

shares one of his scales to one of the fish. Then later the other fish each come by again & ask if they can have one too, this time he says "yes" & gives one of his pretty scales to each fish. In the end it makes him happy & all the other fish happy as well, because now they shine a little

like the Rainbow fish.

KING CHARLEMAGNE

Because of our recent discovery that our ancestory leads back to the French Kings &
Charlemagne the Holy Roman Emperor, I was reading a little bit of history & came
across a couple of interesting stories about him. Charlemagne tried hard to learn how to
write but he left it very late. So it is extraordinary that the form of writing we still use today
owes its existence to him. Until about AD800, writing was all in capital letters with no punctuation and with the words all running together, which created a great deal of confusion. Under quidance from his teacher, Alcuin, Charlemagne set up writing schools in the monasteries. There, the monks developed Caroligian minuscule----capital and lower case letters, punctuation and separated words--the form of script you are reading at this moment. The monks had to practise their new skills on something, and it's thanks to the writing schools that 90 per cent of the Latin works we have now survived at all.
(Our ancestry leads back to him through the Whetten-Hatch line & the Hatch line is listed as the 49th largest LDS family)

Also: CHARLEMAGNE & The fasting Bishop
A truly great king, Charlemagne chastized by example rather than punishing outright.
A bishop staying at the palace once criticized him for eating early each day in Lent, which was not strictly allowed by the Church. Keeping calm, Charlemagne patiently told the bishop that he agreed with him and he was right, but then Charlemagne informed the bishop that he would henceforth be the last person to be served during his stay at the palace. At every meal the
bishop had to wait until the nobles, the commanders, the courtiers and the officials had all been served before he was finally given his food. After many hungry days, Charlemagne asked the bishop, "Do you now understand that I eat early not from greed, but in consideration for those who have to wait?

Celebrating Mother's Day Brunch at "Morning Glory Cafe"

Thanks Brittney for the cute flower rings!! We had a wonderful brunch at the Morning
Glory Cafe` at South Mountain. When we were standing around waiting for each to
arrive I was handing out the rings you sent me & some ladies from the Purple Hat Club stopped by
to inquire about the rings, I guess we looked like we were having fun!! And one lady
came by later to get more info on your rings. Luckily Lori & Michelle knew you had
a website, it was new news to me. You busy creative girl!! We missed you, but were
thinking about you & thank you, thank you for your thoughtfulness! We can't wait to
see you soon!! We'll have some fun while you're here!!

I don't know what happened to my picture of you other three.
I was sure I took one, but it wasn't there. Bummer. Thank-you for all your
well wishes & thoughtful gifts. It was fun just getting together & my food was good too!

Funny Mother's Day Card! Enjoy!

Kelly gave me this card!! We remember!

Sorry I didn't get a very clear picture of these, but

here's what the fine writing says: * Billy's giant shoes are touching my side!! * My rubber

nose fell off! * Mom! He sneezed on my cotton candy!! * I've gotta pee!! * Quit miming me!

Sounds awfully close doesn't it!! Ha! Ha!

At the Farm at South Mountain

Love the Hollyhocks, they remind me of my little grandma
Amanda Cluff when I was growing up!

Little Evelyn Noelle & Ashley