My two sleepy, but faithful, grandchildren visit Grandma at the Redwood Avenue store signing.    A few glimpses of Fort McHenry and the scene of the battle that inspired Francis Scott Key to pen the poem that became "The Star Spangled Banner" Jutting into the Patapsco River, Fort McHenry commanded the entrance to Baltimore. At the eleven o’clock position sits the ravelin, protecting the sally port or fort entrance. Clockwise around the interior are the two enlisted men’s barracks, the junior officers’ barracks, the powder magazine and the Commanding officer’s quarters. Tom and I stopped at Yorktown with some friends on our visit to Hampton to do research. I met this beautiful lady at the Logan, Utah Seagull store. She is a former "Utah Mother of the Year" and one of the kindest and dearest people I have ever met!

Fun salespeople like these ladies at the West Jordan Seagull Books Store make signings feel like being at home!

These sisters of the the Willow Grove Relief Society Book Club have become like family.

Some of the sweetest Georgia "peaches"--the ladies of the Jonesboro Stake RS Presidency

at their 2008 Women's Conference

In November 2008, Traaci Hunter Abramson and I held a joint signing at the

"This Is The Place" bookstore in Kensington, Maryland

(Shameless self-promotion) I met this group at This is the Place and took this "totally candid" photo!

AND NOW. . . . . . . . . . MY FAMILY

A classic Lewis pyramid, but we've got two new babies to work into the picture this fall!

There's an orange tractor under there, my husband Tom's version of a 4-wheeler

Can you tell we all have short attention spans?

Thanks for visiting!

Warmly,

Laurie