A PICTURE OVERLOAD OF TRADITION

Tradition.....

July 24, 1847

The pioneers entered the Salt lake Valley

and the Prophet Brigham Young announced

"This is the right place"

July 24, 2010

Traditions have evolved. While this is no longer a desert wasteland;

there are still a few small towns

that continue to celebrate

in their "small town" way

that

 "this is still the right place".

Two things are wrong with this picture.
1st, it is not traditional to wear shorts and flip flops
in January, in Mona, Utah and 2nd, it is not 01/01/2007, as these pictures suggest.... 
which leaves me to render this conclusion.
If tra·di·tion [truh-dish-uhn] is   
"a long-established or inherited way of thinking or acting"

 I have traditionally thought and acted accordingly in the area of not being electronically minded 

in any way, shape or form, and if I can avoid electronic gadgets, 

I do so...

and because I am such an electronic loser,

 I messed up each picture taken on July 24, 2010

and each of them are somehow, forever incorrectly

 time/date/stamped  01/01/2007.

oops........ 

And don't even get me started on how I know N.A.D.A.

about those i-thingies, or those other things everyone has ....

what are they called? You know, those things that play

music, kind of like a walkman was in the 80s' but a......?????

See,

not electronically minded. 

Grandma Great, Mama Lacie, Grandma Jamie,  Auntie Nicole, and Baby McKadee

enjoying the Mona "talent" show. Smiling was a little bit difficult

because..... oh my....the talent.....

wasn't.

Maybe it was the heat.... perhaps it warped the

vocal cords of the "I didn't make the worst of the American Idol performers cut".

I have to admit that as bad as some of them were,

they were all

BETTER

than I could have done, with or without

that electronic thingy that everyone now  has,

you know, like a walkman was in the 80s', but a........

 ????

Everyone discussed how

Mona has been overtaken by "new people" moving in.

Which isn't a bad thing, just that we didn't know ANYONE.

I personally think the locals were scared off by the talent show contestants.

My sister Melanie

discusses the possibility of

selling ear plugs next year....

Because my friends, it is a Mona tradition

that the winners from this year

come back and perform AGAIN next year!

Ear plugs anyone?

 Or how about those thingies that everyone has, you know,

like the walkman's were in the 80s'?

Grandma Great

and

Grandma Jamie

discuss having a family dinner tomorrow.

Jamie's husband Mark

has been made the Bishop of the Mona 2nd Ward

and that is a great reason to

get the family together for a traditional meal.

It is becoming a tradition

to have "Bishops" in our family.

Not that the male members of our family are seeking after that position,

They DEFINITELY are not. The Stake President happened to bring that to

every one's attention. 

Anyway, I'll bet even

  he knows the name

of that 80s' walkman like thingy

I'm not sure what Melanie was seeing in this picture, I think she was still

seeing the $$$$ she could make with the ear-plugs prospect.

I took this picture to give you all a look at the

single, hunk of a guy that

is marriage material. He already knows how to

take care of babies (no, that one isn't his)

and is looking for his true love.

You will be happy to know that I have not

discouraged him in this "pipe dream."

OK, enough about that......

All the single ladies.........

Get ready to put a ring on it.

( If I buy ear plugs at 29 cents each and sell them for 99 cents each..... I could totally get that "plastic surgery", I mean buy some new "headlights." For my car, yeah, that's it, headlights for my car. )  

And the tradition that 

there's no place like home

is alive and well at the old stomping grounds.

I remember a lot of great times on that porch, listening to my

walkman....... (Que the memories music)

There is no one like Grandma Great and her

potted plants...At last count there were about 30 or 40

and she waters each one...by hand...

 herself!

Traditional family gatherings,

Cousins playing together,

Listening to those thingies

that you know,

are kind of like a walkman was in the 80s.......

Eating together and remembering the past

and the present 

Even the cows agree.

Home is where the heart is.

And who ever started that traditional saying,

"you can't go home again"

 has obviously never

been a part of this family.

"We are a circle  of strength and love.

 With every birth and every union, the circle grows.

Every joy shared adds more love.

Every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger."

Every FAMILY has their own

TRADITIONS

And yes,

every family tree

has that one branch that still

lives and swings to the

 WALKMAN  from the 80s'.

ahem.....

Excuse me, I hear ABBA and the

BEE GEE'S calling....

you know.....

traditional 80s'.