Well, I just noticed it has been a month since I put anything on the blog. I keep trying to make myself write just a little everyday but so far I haven't been successful. I am starting to feel much better. I went to another orthopedic surgeon and he set up surgery on my knee for the 23rd of July but then I saw a job listing to teach at the Educational Technology center in the district. I would like to do that if I can and I have applied for the job so if I get it I will have to wait on the surgery because the job starts on July 23rd. I think I have a good chance to get it with my Technology Endorsement about finished. I spent most of my free time this week working on the application that was due on Friday.

Maren and Landon and Brinlie; and Kirsten and Jon came over for the Fourth of July. Landon's parents also came and Erick was here. We had a barbecue and then watched the fireworks together. Landon and Erick had fun setting off a few of their own. With the new houses and the road going through to Highway 89 this year we had a lot more traffic for the fireworks. Michelle and Daniel brought the kids over in the afternoon and we took them to a kids fair that was at Davis High where they had blowup toys the kids liked but they had another barbecue in the evening. We got up late in the morning, and thought we had missed the parade but we went to the end and saw it with Maren and Landon and Brinlie.

Larry has been working hard on school as usual. He has been working on an actual proposal for Overstock.com to go to India as their assignment in class. He will have his Business degree in December and his Marketing degree finished in June of next year.

We all had a stomach flu a week and a half ago with the diahrea and vomiting. I don't think it was food poisoning because the three of us got it each one day apart and we hadn't eaten the same thing. Grandpa Jenkins apparently was really sick with the same type thing on the Fourth of July. I hope we didn't give it to him. I have been going down more to visit. He said that I cursed him because I invited them up for the fourth to our barbecue and he said(just joking) he was too sick to come.

I have been tending Brinlie some for Maren when she works because Evan and Shirley have been out of town a lot. She is a smart thing. She is 17 months old but already in the "Terrible Twos" If she doesn't like what you are doing she doesn't hesitate to hit you in the face and pull your hair and scream at you. We are working with her to let her know that is not appropriate but right now she is a handful. I am glad I am the grandma.

Larry and I went to dinner with Jeff and Michelle and Daniel and their kids last night. Jeff is by himself now that he has moved Misty and the kids to Seattle. We are trying to spend some more time with him while they are gone. He thinks he has a fifty fify chance of being transferred to Seattle. He has been going to a lot of movies and working out at the gym twice a day. He said that they are meeting in California next weekend. Misty and the kids went to an airshow he said for the Fourth of July.

Michelle and Daniel had his brothers two kids this week while his brother and his wife went to Russia for a visit to his old mission in the Ukraine. So Michelle found out what it is like to have six kids all under 8. She was breathing a sigh of relief last night.

Nathan called and said that they were leaving Thursday night about 8:30p.m. (Texas time)for Alabama. They were going to travel for about two hours and then stop on the 11 hour drive somewhere and get a motel. The military moved them so that helped but they had a small trailer full of things they wanted to have immediately. Nathan is going to be going to helicopter school there. They will be living on base and David will be attending the school on base. Sara's mom stayed in Houston with another single lady she met through the church to continue her cancer treatments.

Nikki's brother has been up from Texas visiting for a couple of weeks. Lexie is out of school for a short time right now but will go back at the end of the month because she is on year round school. She is coming up this week and we are going to make her quilt together now that she is 7. Jake was battling a cold or allergies the last time I talked to him.

Erick's friend who is a girl that is in Arizona is coming back possibly this week so he is looking forward to that. He has been helping a lot around the house and in the yard. He likes to play with Brinlie when she is here also. He spends most days working, doing activities with his ward and watching TV. He loves Mythbusters and History Channel.

BJ is doing well at his boot camp in Great Lakes Illinois. He scored a perfect score on at least one test and has worked hard to pay attention to what he needs to learn. It looks like his prayers were answered because he is supposed to graduate from boot camp on the 27th of July and then ship out later that day to his A school which they are saying right now is in Virginia. So hopefully that is what will happen. They made him the Religious petty officer over his unit so he has enjoyed some good experiences talking about faith with some of the members of his Unit as he conducts prayer each evening.

Holly is busy studying for her Nursing boards and working. She has probably decided not to spend the money to go to BJ's graduation because of the expense and she will only get to see him for about 2 hours. That way they will have the money later. She is coming down on the 16th so we can look for skirts for some of the bridesmaids. It has been good to get to know her better as BJ has been gone.

Larry and I have decided to send BJ a care package for graduation also. They want about $400.00 per person to fly to Illinois and that is a lot of money for us for a two hours visit. BJ said to save the money for other things.

Kirsten and I have been sharing BJ's car this summer. That means that if I want the car I have to get up early and take Kirsten to work because Jon goes to work super early. But it has been good, it makes me get up and get going. Also Jon fixed the air conditioning in it so it is not so sweltering in this summer that is hotter than usual in the West.

Kyle and Kennedy and Brooke are all with their other parents right now so it is pretty quiet at Kirsten and Jon's. Kyle's dad lives in Neola where that big fire has been burning. We were worried for a while but they called and said that everything was okay. The fire was only two miles from their house and the FEMA firefighters had their headquarters just across the street.

Grandma Jenkins said that Uncle Reed and Aunt Kathleen are going on a mission this fall. I think she said Bolivia but I am not sure.

Nathan said that the area where Weston is on his mission is where Nathan used to teach school in Houston. We had a couple talk in our ward today about their mission to the inner city in Salt Lake City. They told of the churches efforts to help the people there to help themselves. She quoted from President Hinckley's talk in 2005 conference where he talks about the importance of preparing for things to come. She pointed out that the most important thing we need to do to prepare is to be obediant to the Lord and prepare ourselves spiritually and then all the temporal will come with the spiritual. I hope that you will all do what you need to prepare spiritually to meet the Lord and do his will. If you haven't read the Book of Mormon we gave you then read the Book of Mormon. It will help you to draw nearer to Christ and understand how he can help you. He is certainly helping us to see what we need to do to help others and progress.