Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Sister/Mom weekend 2013 St.George

 Sisters-Heidi and Rachel
 Sisters-Marie and Rachel
 Randi came along this trip.
 Sisters- Yu-Mei and Sarah
 We loved Randi time.
 Marie with baby Randi
 Me and my sister Sarah
 This was our condo in St. George- Mom- Sarah- Heidi- Yu-Mei- Rachel and Marie
 Mom- Sarah- Pateresa- Yu-Mei- Rachel and Marie
 On our way home Heidi and I stopped at cove fort.  So fun! We had drove past it for years and had no idea what it was.
 Myself and Elder Low- He was great he told us the history of Cove fort and walked us through the tour.
 Mom-Sarah- Pateresa- Yu-mei- Rachel and Marie
 This is a pic. of Pres. Hinkleys Grandmothr and Grandfather, also his Aunt.
 Elder Low and Heidi
 Heidi and Pateresa- This is the home of the Hinkleys. (who originally built the fort for Brigham Young)

The cabin

Originally located in Coalville, Utah, this cabin was the home of Ira Hinckley and his family. Here they lived a life of simple devotion that included family prayer and scripture reading. While living in this cabin in April of 1867, Ira received a letter from Brigham Young asking him to leave Coalville in order to supervise the construction of a fort at Cove Creek. He was advised to leave his family in this home while the fort was being built. He then moved his family to the newly completed fort where he managed the forts operations for the next decade. It is not known whether Ira built the cabin himself.
 On 12 April 1867 President Brigham Young wrote a letter to Ira Hinckley asking him to take charge of building a fort on Cove Creek, located in central Utah a day’s journey from the town of Fillmore on the north or the town of Beaver on the south. This Fort, built instead of a town because of the scarcity of water, was to be a way station for pioneers traveling along the “Mormon Corridor”—settlements stretching from Idaho to Nevada connected by a network of roads, telegraph lines and postal routes. Being a man of action, Ira left his home in Coalville, Utah, on April 17th for his new assignment, his family to come latter.
Between April and November 1867, quarrymen, stonemasons and carpenters from central Utah settlements labored together to construct the Fort. Built of black volcanic rock and dark limestone quarried nearby, the walls are one hundred feet long and eighteen feet high. Lumber, mostly cedar and pine, was used for the roof, twelve interior rooms and the massive doors at the east and west ends of the fort.
For years the Fort bustled with activity. News of the great, growing West throbbed over the lines into the telegraph office at the Fort and postal riders delivered the news of the new western empire to the post office. Daily, two stage coaches with a variety of weary travelers rumbled up to the Fort. Travelers unhitched their teams from their heavily loaded wagons and led the horses to the barn. Cowboys tended the tithing herds and a blacksmith fashioned metal into horseshoes with his hammer. Evening conversation was lively around the long table where each night a new variety of visitors joined the Hinckley family for dinner.
For more than twenty years the Fort served an important function, but as times changed so did the need for the Fort. By 1890 the Church leased out the Fort and after the turn of the century, sold it to the Otto Kesler family. Nearly one hundred years later in 1988, the Hinckley family purchased the Fort from the Keslers and made a gift of it to the Church as a historic site. Shortly afterward, efforts to restore the Fort to its original condition were begun, and on 21 May 1994 President Gordon B. Hinckley, then First Counselor in the First Presidency, dedicated the Historic Cove Fort Complex.
“It is our hope that Cove Fort will serve as a modern way station—not as a shelter from physical fatigue or protection from the elements,” said Elder Stephen D. Nadauld of the Second Quorum of the Seventy who also spoke at the dedication. “Rather we hope it will serve as a spiritual way station where we can be reminded of the faith of our forefathers, where we can refresh our sense of sacrifice and obedience and our dedication to duty, where we can be reminded of the values of work, provident living, self-sufficiency and family unity.”
 The Fort contains 12 rooms, 6 on the north and 6 on the south. Each room has a fireplace.

 Sarah you are so cute!
 Pateresa and Marie
 Yu-Mei and Pateresa
 Pateresa and mom
 Sarah- Heidi- Marie- Pateresa- Yumei- and mom. Rachel was taking the pic.  We all were heading to West side story the musical. It was so fun! Mom loved it so much.  She has always loved this story.
 Rachel and Sarah my cute sisters
 Pateresa and Rachel
 Marie and Pateresa
 Marie and mom
 Yu-Mei who put this whole thing together this year.  I love her so much.  She truly is a blessing to have as a sister.
 Marie is a lucky duck she wins everytime!
 Well no explanation really for this one lol!
 Yu-Mei brought old pics.  We laughed and had so much fun with them.
 YES WE ARE SO COOL!
Yu-Mei just gor back from New york and got us all fun jammies we had to show off.
 Rachel was a winner- We play a fun money game every year.
 Yu-Mei made this fun pic. of all of us as Seniors.
 Touchan before going to the play. Marie- Heidi and I
 Mom- Marie and Rachel
 I love this pic. Rachel and baby Randi
 Baby Randi
 Pateresa and Rachel

 Heidi and I
 Then and now
 Sarah and baby Randi
 Getting ready to go- Rachel
 Heidi and I
 Mom- Sarah- Pateresa- Yu-mei- Rachel and Marie
 Silliness

The crazy Johnson's

The crazy Johnson's

I know that my redeember lives!

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