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  This beautiful thought came from a packet of pictures Julie gave me to paint for my birthday. Thank you Julie, they have made my life much more fun and beautiful! Mother's Day flowers from Cindy way up North in "Never Never Land", where anything beautiful can be found.  Thank you, Cindy, you are so thoughtful.  And to me, they represent your talented way of making everything  you do become beautiful, useful, welcoming and sharing your love for others with things they can see or feel. Thank you  more than I can put in words!!  Love you tons!! Mom. Cindy's flowers also decorated in front of the pictures of Wendell and me when we were on our mission to Spain.  The picture to it's left is one that I painted of the Incredibly high mountains in the southern  part of Chile.  The picture on the right was painted by my Brother, Ron. When you look at it for several minutes in looks like the water is moving in waves. Brock Pierce.  He has been ca...

  Family Group picture taken in about 1943.                   Family Group picture taken about 1958 Gordon, Rosalie & Ron, my Brothers.                    My Brother, Ron, My Sister, Arlene, Me, Rosalie. My Father, Arthur Alfred, my Sister, Arlene,                       My Mother,Vida and My Brother, Gordon & My Mother, Vida Leone Fugal Swenson.                                                                                                      Vida Swenson, holding me (mary Rosalie) and my father, Arthur Alfred Swenson.            ...

  Wendell was so proud of our first baby daughter, Wendy, that he took her lovingly in his arms and showed her around the outside of our apartment. Of course a lot of our neighbors came over to see her and tell us how beautiful she was. This was the beginning of the most precious experience of parenting with the kind of love you cannot have in any other way. Watching her grow and develop into motherhood herself and become a lover of serving God by serving people with problems and struggles they don't know how to deal with.  She is amazing & we are so thankful and proud of her. Here is our whole family (all Girls) who Heavenly Father blessed us with.  Wendy is on the far left with a smile that says, "I love you little sister Peggy."  I, Mother Rosalie, answer back, "She says she loves you too!!!  Next is Peggy, She and her husband Bruce are living with me at this time and take care of all the things in the house and yard.  What a great blessing to me....