best beach day ever.
whole fam bam.
While Holly and Jordin and peeps went dip netting, I spent my time with these two little ladies.
Katy and I took Natalie girl to swim lessons. So cute.
And then we went to the store to buy a $12 bag of cherries. :)
They had to ride in this cart.
Then we made rainbow potato vegetable medley soup!
And had a picnic on the floor. Yummy veggies.
And the day would not be complete without making cookies!
Natalie made big humongous giant cookies and all of Katy’s were tiny and little.
I do love a good mini cookie. You can it like ten and it’s a-okay!
On day two of our adventures, we got Cody and played on starfish beach.
Had some ukulele and harmonica fun.
And we had the best picnic ever, with the best picnic basket.
Katy girl snapped this shot. Nice work.
A happy time had by all.
two weeks ago. a morning to the office :). for a dip netting adventure.
I love my Homer Harbor. And my family peoples. And Alaska.
Me and my sista Holly girl had a fabulous time dipnetting.
OMG so many fish.
One dip in with the net and out come 6 red salmon!
It’s a miracle!
Came home with our limit of 54 fishies.
Another sucessful excursion on the Arctic Assault.
PS As I was trying to catch one last fish, the cold swift water took me off my feet and swept me downstream! Watch the video on facebook. It’s so good and funny!
I did get some pretty wicked bruises though. :)
it. is. august. wow. za.
Much has happened lately.
I have lots of blog updating to do.
And journal updating.
And I need to ponder on life and my future plans.
Where to go? What to do?
But tis nice to be freeeeeee.
Especially now that Penelope (my sweet subie ride) is back in action.
Firstly, do you believe I have finally entered the iPhone world.
And I am loving it muito.
My first iPhone picutre:
And one shortly after.
FISH KABOBS with the fam bam.
I love playing with these peoples.
Jakey and the parents and Carol and the nieces were around too. :)
I just love being all together. Yahoo wamu!
And these iPhone parties are grand.
Família is the b.e.s.t.
We are having so much good family fun.
And the sun has graced us with its presence!
Yesterday we had a glorious beach day on Glacier Spit.
Today we had a lovely sunday lunch.
I am a happy girl.
More adventures ahead.
My whole family is in Homer, Alaska!
I love my siblings muito!
We went on a grand dip netting excursion this morning!
Lots of healthy salmon and lots of happy times!
I am Chelsea. And this is one of my sistas, Holly.
She and her husband Jordin have two beautiful little girlies.
I frequently take them on Adventure Walks.
We occasionally plant flowers.
We always play in the woods,
and sometimes build forts.
We go exploring and have picnics.
And we of course play at the new park.
Sometimes we see Alaskan wildlife!
Pheasants… porcupines…
and chickens…
Natalie and Katy love their chickens.
And we all love sleepovers.
With a sleepover sometimes comes a morning walk,
which sometimes includes a morning fence climbing in Hammer pants.
I do love being an aunty to my two little nieces here in Alaska land.
They make me one happy girl and teach me much about life and love.
I haven’t made today a very fantastic day.
It’s just kind of meh.
I slept in too late and haven’t had enough vegetables or water.
I forgot to say my prayers this morning and haven’t read my scriptures yet.
I’m about to go to work and clean boats now.
You can always find fantastic things if you look for them though.
Miss Natalie’s “Pictures for Sale”
“Pictures Sold.”
Stacy and Scott and Jakey get here in a few days. Y.E.S.
PS Church was so good yesterday. I love sundays.
This was some wandering from the other week.
It was Excellent with a capital E.
Well… my dear brother turned 27 on the tenth of julho.
To celerate, we (Dad, Hilary, Chris, Tyler, and I) kayaked across the bay to…
Moosehead Point!
This Excursion was made possible by my dearest father.
We found this cool egg shell in the woods.
As always there were lovely trees.
Where’s Waldo/Tyler? He’s pushing dead trees down the cliff and into the agua.
We had some snacks over there too.
And we kayaked lots and lots. Found pretty sea stars.
And we found some other beachy peachy treasures too.
We even tried to take a little nap.
Twas a very lovely day had with lovely funny peoples.
And then we kayaked some more and more and more.
One stroke at a time, kids.
Thanks Pops. And universe. :)
My mama flew home on tuesday! Yay now I’m not alone anymore!
I have been spending much time in the lovely harbor cleaning boats. I do love it. And I love when Annie and I take each other homemade treats. Today included whole wheat cookies with flax and chia seeds and lots of chocolate chips.
Fantastic moment. Sunday. I gave away um Livro de Mórmon!
There is a most wonderful brazilian lady who lives here in town and I shared with her about the Book of Mormon and I did it in portuguese of course and it reminded me of the glorious days as Sister Owens.
I went adventure walking with my beautiful nieces, which always brightens my day, even when it’s cloudy and rainy. But I like rain too. :) We need it at times.
Best news ever!!! Penelope Q. Subaru is back in action! Obrigadão Dad! Thank you! Omg I was so happy and still am. I love this car so much. She pretty much completes me.
Did some lovely sunset watching and beach walking.
And I’ve been playing very much with these two little angels in beautiful Alaska.
I love summer. And I can’t wait for my brother and sista and brother in law to get here in a week. Oh happy day!!
No exciting pictures to show today, as I haven’t done tooooo much wandering this week.
But I have done some pondering.
Which is also very good and very important.
This quote by President Hinckley’s wife is very lovely.
“There is no such thing as a small act of kindness.”
–Marjorie Paye Hinckley
Tomorrow I’m teaching how all things denote there is a God to my 14-15 year olds for sunday school. I loooooove them. Sometimes it appears they don’t pay much attention, but I’m sure they get something out of being there, that’s what I pray for at least. And prayers are always answered in some way and at some time.
tuesday. 3 de julho.
A breakfast with my peeps from the BYU Jerusalem Center!! We arrived in the Holy Land 3.5 years ago, and it’s never been the same since. :)
There were lots of fires in Utah land. Eeeee.
And I saw Sara! She’s from my lovely homertown.
And I sat in front of the temple and pondered a bit. Tis good to take time for that.
wedenesday. 4 de julho.
a patriotic visit with grammie :)
My dear mother and aunty and I went to uncle Marky’s and cleaned up his room and organized his stuffs and fed him dinner. Twas grand.
And since it was the 4th of July, I ate smores and played with sparklers and watched fireworks with beautiful Jenny, who is with child. :)
thankful thursday. 5 de julho.
July 5th, the day that both of my grandmas were born. Naturally, I went out to celebrate with some Provo Bakery goods. And I got to do it with this lovely lady, Carolyn, who was my mission companion in Pittsburgh, PA when I was there for a few days waiting for my visa to Brasil. Twas so grand catching up and seeing her happy life.
And of course we all had a party for grandma and got together and ate. :)
And I visited my MTC companion and met her fiance! I’ve had many marvelous memories with this Lori girl. We spoke portuguese, and I must say, we’ve improved muchly since our mtc days.
Then I went back to the Farnworth home to say goodbye, and came upon these sayings of the my lovely aunt Pam, who is greatly missed. One is the Touch of the Master’s Hand. Read it. Or watch it.
friday. 6 de julho.
Twas the awaited casamento eterno of Sister Morales! My first companion when I got to Brasil on my mission.
This was such a happy moment with my fellow missionários de Missão Brasil Vitória.
I also went to the Oquirr Mountain temple!
With this lovely brasileira/americana that I met at the mtc long ago. This was grand. And one of her cousins is in my mission. I love mutual friends. :)
Then back to the Joyce + Spencer reception!! Meet the Schwenke family.
Saw a couple other returned missionary friends too! Funny seeing everyone without the name tag.
Then Mom and I stopped by the Orem City Cemetery to remember good times with Pam and Grandpa.
saturday. 7 de julho.
Mom, Grandma, and Connie took me to the SLC airport, and then they went to go play in slc with their cousins and more family. :) I flew home and met cool peoples in the airport.
There’s no place like home. And there’s no people like family.
I have much blog catching up to do.
But good news, I got done cleaning boats at 6:30 tonight!
Which I think is a first in all my seven summers of boat cleaning.
Tis lovely being home again and I’ll soon post on the rest of my Utahn adventures.
This was the highlight of the trip though, being at the sealing of my dear mission companion and her eternal companion, along with a few other returned sisters and Presidente and Sister Pickett!
But it is grand being back in my Alaskan homeland.
This beautiful niece and I tried to scale a little bluff to go on a beach walk.
And yesterday we had a grand kayak adventure in Kachemak Bay!
I love summer.
PS I came home from Utah to oodles of letters from my lovely missionary friends. I love missionaries too.
Joyce and I went to the Pickett’s sweet house for lunch today!
It was perfectly delightful,
and was made complete with Sister Pickett’s cookies.
President and Sister Pickett are simply wonderful (and I love their home!).
Joyce Buddy is wonderfully wonderful too.
I’m so happy I’ll be here in Utah for her and Spencer’s wedding!
I love happy reunions with those I love.
PS. Over a year ago we were all in Vitória, Brazil making Mexican food!
And yes, still sporting the parrot earrings.
Music and the Spoken Word in the conference center!
I loved it muchly. I can’t wait to go back for general conference in october!
At Temple Square I saw two sisters I know from byuh. :)
We went up to the statue of Christ.
Christ is a title. It means “annointed one.”
I relearned that today as I visited with my uncle Mark and browsed through his scriptures.
I do love visits.
Visited my grandma’s neighbor today too, who is the mother of Lloyd Newell! :)
And he is the Music and the Spoken word man. I met him and his family.
So many lovely peoples.
I’ve been so busy playing that I haven’t had time to blog!
I am enjoying being here in Utah very much.
sunday
Lauren is my roommate from BYU Jerusalem. We sat at the Provo temple and caught up and chatted of good ol’ Jeru times and peoples.
Visited more Jeru girls too! I went to Jerusalem with Elyse and she and Cambrai served in the same mission as Hermana Cottam!
monday
Hung out with my mom and her siblings. Played some piano. Ate some food. And bought lots of treasures to send to my dear missionários e amigos in Brazil. Had a sleepover with my dear amigas from BYU Jerusalem and learned some spanish.
tuesday
Went to the Provo temple and did lots of good things and learned much.
Then I saw my mission trainer and met her fiance!! Yahoo!
wednesday
Went to the Mount Timapogos temple with Grandma. Beautiful.
Then we got sandwiches and visited with her neighbor, who had recently received a visit from President Uchtdorf! I love old ladies and someday I will be crazy one.
Went to Moralesinha’s bridal shower! Yahoo!
And we journeyed to the movies with her funny fabulous family. It’s funny hanging out with mission peeps outside of the mission. :) And lovely.
thursday
Lunched with Jotinha aka Jeff, one of the mission’s coolest district leaders.
And I volunteered at the MTC (where I previoustly spent two wonderful months learning how to be a sister missionary). I volunteered in the trc, role playing as a less active member and oh my goodness I LOVE missionaries! And then I hung out with Connie while she was working there too. Twas so lovely. I love the MTC.
And I love the Provo temple.
Did baptisms there with cousin Lindsay and her roomie.
Then had more cousin fun with the Farnworths and we ate Cafe Rio.
PS Check out the sweet purple van behind us.
And we went to Brave! It was so cutesy with so many lovely thoughts.. And oh my goodness did you notice my new thrift store find?? They’re hanging on my ears… camel earrings!!!
And had a fun sleepover with Lindsay and Heidi girl! I love cousins.
friday
We played at 7 Peaks in the sunshine! Water parks are semi weird to me. Where’s the ocean? Why are there so many peeps around? And why is it so expensive? Pois é, I love the beach.
Buuut… Lindsay and I totally went down this big orange slide. Super fun.
And my sunburn has been peeling like a basilisk! Eeeee.
Saw this sweet Llama Fest sign! I love llamas. And I love my new camel earrings. I went and saw uncle Mark too. I love family.
I love the Skinner’s party palace and watching Heavy Weights outside under the stars!! We played fun games and ate yummy foods and celebrated Suzie’s birthday!
Jerusalem girlies! Now all as returned missionaries. :)
saturday
I blogged.
I went and visited my dear uncle Mark again.
I went and visited my dear uncle Mark again.
He shared with me a quote, which comes from the prophet Lorenzo Snow:
“As man now is, God once was; as God is now man may be.”
And then I got to see my dear friend Jenny from home(r) and meet her husband and see her pregnant belly! Twas lovely catching up on two years of happenings.
It’s super hot here. Thank goodness for the air conditioning. Obrigada.
And hopefully Mom will have no more pneumonia next week so we can all play!
PS When did today become the last day of June?
Many lovely things to do here and many lovely peoples to do it with.
Going to Music and the Spoken Word tomorrow morn!
PS When did today become the last day of June?
Many lovely things to do here and many lovely peoples to do it with.
Going to Music and the Spoken Word tomorrow morn!
[the house we stayed at]
There was a panda,
and some beautiful trees,
and lots of Farnworths.
[grandma with her grandkids there and plus four who weren’t. yay cousins!]
We played by the pool. I foolishly didn’t use sunscreen and got friiiiiiied.
But the next day I wore sunscreen.
Twas great playing with my cousins and all their kiddos.
We also went on a great fourwheeling/atv adventure.
It was b.e.a.utiful in those mountains.
And as always, it was beautiful in the trees.
And there were some coolio windows.
And we played dippity, dippity, dip. :D
A Farnworth Family Reunion classic.
And we played the $5 game too… another classic.
And uncle Marky won $150!!!! Perfeito.
There were many lovely families there and so many beautiful children.
We had lots of lovely times together laughing and eating and chatting.
On the drive home we went through Zion National Park and I saw checkerboard mesas. :)
Then dear uncle John and I stopped at the St. George temple.
I love road trips.
And I love family fun times.
[Carla and I, age 12 perhaps] and [Jane and I, age 17 or so]
These fotos are so classic.
Good times with goodie friends.
And I am having more good times with more goodie friends too!
Tis nice to be here in Utah land with all these templos and good peeps.
[with dear elders in mtc days, november2010] and [now, june2012]
