July has been busy and I have not posted much. I had surgery to obtain a new knee last Monday and I am starting to understand what I need to do to control the pain until I am more completely healed. I have been doing very well and can walk on my leg with a walker or crutches for support. Of course I have been doing very well because I have my husband, my children that are here, my parents and the Relief Society for support. Everyone has been great help in getting me back on my feet.

Larry took off two days last week so he would have time to help me when I came home. He is a wonderful nurse. He anticipates my every want and helps to fulfill it. I just hope he does not get overwhelmed by it all. It is wonderful for him to be there and help me with other things besides cooking. He keeps the ice in the ice pack I need. He keeps soda crackers by my bed. He is doing the laundry and dishes and working on the house. He has helped me dress and undress and get ready for whatevery situation I have to face.

Erick has also been good help. He stayed with me last Friday and Saturday and part of the time on Sunday. He went out and weeded the flower beds and he and Larry worked on fixing the sprinklers that were broken on Saturday so that we would not have the lawn continue to die in the hot weather we are having. His friend Lynnette is back from Phoenix so he is grateful to be able to see her often.

Maren is here today helping me with things as I am not supposed to be alone with the pain pills in my body. Brinlie is here also. She is so cute. Larry says she should go as the energizer bunny for Halloween because she just keeps going and going and going. Maren gave me a manicure and did my hair yesterday so by evening I did not look so naturalle.

BJ called on Friday and Sunday. He graduated from his boot camp on Friday and they left for his A school on Friday afternoon. He was supposed to get to Virginia that evening but there was some problem that made them have to spend the night at the airport and they did not get to Virginia until the next day at 4:00 p.m. BJ was sick on Sunday when I talked to him. He had a sore throat and swollen sinuses so he was not able to go to church. He says the church is off base and a distance from there anyway so he will have to find a ride to church. We put the address into Google Earth and he is right on the Virginia beach.

Holly has been busy getting the plans ready for the wedding. She has her dress and they have set up where they want to have the reception and the wedding luncheon. They have decided to move the wedding to October 20th which is a Saturday. I hope that everyone can get that day off. The boys are going to wear khaki pants and white shirts. Let me know if you do not have that and need some help getting it. As the grooms parents we are in charge of that. I am trying to get the skirts for all the girls and we will probably do dresses for the little girls. I hope you can all come and then we could have a family picture taken at the wedding with Holly and Samuel in it.

I am really loopy from the pain pills so if something doesn't make sense that will be the reason why.

Kirsten is bringing dinner tonight. The kids got back from the other parents and so she has a full house again. They came over the other day to see me but I was pretty out of it. Jon was able to fix Erick's and BJ's air-conditioning for their cars to that makes them more comfortable.

The day that I was supposed to go in for my Pre-Operation appointment Kirsten and I got in a minor accident with BJ's car driving up the road to her house. A small truck turned in front of us and we could not stop. It dented the fender on the passentger's side and raised the bumper and the hood. It comes to about $3200.00 in damages. No one was hurt but the car. We drove it home thinking it could be driven but when Jon got there and looked at it he said that it was scraping on the tire so they had to take me down for my pre-op appointment in Bountiful. Luckily Kirsten and Jon's work would let them off for the afternoon to deal with it.

Jeff was able to get a job in Seattle with Comcast so he will be moving up there around the 10th. He starts his new job on the 13th. Larry was able to go to dinner with him on Friday the 27th and get all the news and spend some time with him. Michelle's family and Larry and I got together with him the weekend before that and went to dinner to celebrate his birthday on the 18th of July. We had the family dinners for June and July together this year.

Michelle and I took an electronic portfolio class together on the 18th of July at UEN. It was fun to have someone who wanted to go to a class with me and we both learned alot. It was fun to have the time to talk together without all the grandkids interrupting. We decided to do it again some time.

Michelle and Daniel took the kids to the museum that is close to UEN that week. Then they came over to visit for a few minutes. This week they went to a Gibby Reunion in Heber city on Saturday and then they came to visit. Kallise liked the Saltine Crackers that Grandma had by her bed so she had some. The kids thought that I had a funny looking contraption on my leg when they saw the machine that works my knee.

Nathan is out on a survival training for two more weeks. He cannnot contact Sara so she is on her own for a while. She says that they really like Alabama. It is really nice there. We looked that up on Google Earth the other night also. It is alot more inland than Virginia Beach.

Jacob and Nikki are looking at a job in Idaho. If they got it they would sell their home and move to close to Idaho Falls. I haven't heard how seriously they are persuing the idea.

We made Lexie's quilt on the 12th, 13th and 14th of July. It turned out nice but it was hard to do. I never would have finished it without Erick's help tending Brinlie and playing with Lexie.