June 22 and before

Sorry, I just cannot think of a clever name each week for this blog.

Ryker and Erick playing at the lake

We had Nathan's kids for Friday night and Saturday night.  We finally got smart and had Sara bring some of their blankets to stay here so we have the blankets we need.  Now we just need to get some pillows.  Nathan tells them that they have to sleep with him if they want to use his other pillow.  Sometimes they like to do that.

Ryker Eating breakfast or lunch on the campout

This morning we were late for church and it was mostly my fault so I have learned I need to get ready faster.  I took my purse in the bathroom last night in the middle of the night when I was looking for a benadryl and I forgot that so I spent 10 minutes looking for my purse. I took my brown purse even though I was wearing black because I just could not find it. When we got home I instantly remembered where it was and went right too it.  I just do not understand why I was prompted to know where it was after church. But I do appreciate finding it.

Jeff and Misty and the kids at Mariners game.

I had a hard time learning anything in Sacrament meeting.  Maggie had to go out and use the bathroom three times.  But I know from my experience as a mother that you need to go when they tell you at this age because if you don't they will probably have an accident.  I did understand that the theme was missionary work though.  Larry and I are talking next week with David, Nathan's oldest son.  We are talking on missionary work also but they wanted us to focus on the work that senior couple can do.

Owen, Matthew, and Leah at the lodge

Sara took the kids home after church so we had a very relaxing Sabbath.  We ate and then I took a nap.  Larry came to join me for a while but he was not there as long as I was.  Nathan does not like to nap during the day.  I know that it is okay but I keep thinking that there are many things I could be doing to help others to come unto Christ so I feel bad when I sleep so long.  Then we ate again and now I am doing the blog.  Larry is studying something and Nathan is watching Netflix.

I mentioned before but I just have to say how cool our back yard looks.  It is like a mini forest in back and by the patio.  Isaac was having fun watching a doe and her fawn as they ate outside our window on Saturday morning and earlier in the week Nathan saw several type birds and the squirrels eating the bird seed that Larry puts out.  They will leave if they see you move inside the apartment but it is amazing that they will live within the apartment buildings in this little wooded area.

Holly and BJ with Andrea and Nate

Nathan wanted to take the kids shopping on Saturday with his friend Reed Johnson but he was planning to leave about 9:00 a.m. and Reed did not come until about 10:30 a.m.  David and Isaac were all excited about some contest that was on Roblox and it started at 11:00 a.m.  Nathan realized that was important to them so he took Sammy who was anxious to go somewhere.  It was really boring for a while waiting for him.  We are used to getting up to clean the church and going all day but we were just here at the house.  The kids have wanted to have some goggles for swimming so we had promised them we would get them but it ended up that Nathan and Sammy picked them out for everyone and brought them home.

At church in Hawaii

David was able to use my computer to go to the online thing he was excited about and he spent the entire time on the computer working with it and looking at the contest from about 10:00 a.m. until it ended about 5:00 p.m. and then he stayed on for the rest of the night playing the game.  He is very interested in computer games and such.  It said on the website when he downloaded it that Roblox was an educational game but I worry about the amount of time he wanted to spend on the computer.

The first casual picture of BJ and Holly in something besides swim wear

Nathan got home about 1:00 p.m. and the kids were excited about their goggles and he had also bought them cooling blankets which Maggie was more interested in.  After we had lunch they all wanted to go swimming except David.  We went down to the pool with them and it was very hot.  Not much shade and I didn't want to put on my swimsuit as I had a hair appointment st 2:00 p.m.  Larry got his suit on and went down with the kids and Nathan came later after he and Reed had built the weight he was wanting to make.

Picture on the Big Island

I liked the lady that did my hair but she sure made me blonder than I have ever been with my highlights.  She didn't pull the dye through my ends because she said it was not good for your ends.  She has been doing hair for 27 years she said but she is the first person that has not pulled the dye through the length of my hair at least every other time.  Larry was a little hesitant to say he liked it so I guess that means he doesn't want a blond.  I had her wax my eyebrows and everything went fine until she put on whatever it is that they cool the red with.  Instead of cooling my under eyebrows it burned terribly.  It still was burning when I got home and I put my lotion on it to try to neutralize the burning but that burned also.  This morning I have 1st degree burns on the under part of the eyebrows.  I tried to make it look like eye shadow but I don't know if I succeeded.  I think it is part of the skin problems that I am having and not her fault.  My skin does not like San Antonio.

Just to mention a few things that happened this week:

Maren and Max enjoying his presents

Monday Larry and I went to weight watchers in the morning and were disappointed that we had gained weight again this week.  It has really been hard to have food for the Grandkids and go to Bingo night and have food at the office that is high points.  I only have about 7 lbs to lose before I am at goal but it seems like it is just going up and down above the goal.  We need to exercise a little more but it is hard to do when you are so tired at night and the morning is already filled with activities.

Gauge likes money for a present

Larry got four new cars this week that he has to get switched with the other cars that are to be sold.  He has been very busy getting the cars and working with the missionaries that he has to get them too and get the cars from.  He also got in a truck for the moving Elders and he was really disappoint that the day after they got it someones garbage blew off onto the car on the freeway and did some damage.  He has also had two or three accidents this week.  So far none of them have been the missionaries fault but it is frustrating none the less.  He worked most of the morning on Saturday at the office to try to get caught up with what he needs to do.

Blowing out the candle on the cake

I spent most of the week at the office typing in referrals and baptism and confirmation records to send to the church headquarters.  I sent in 19 on Friday that were the ones that I typed in just on Thursday and Friday.  We also get the mail and sort it.  The address on the pictures that we had printed on is the address to the mission home so we will always get mail that is sent there but that is not where you would come to visit us.

Thursday we had a fun afternoon with Judy and John Trolinger and their son Mike and granddaughter Allison.  We went to lunch with them at Logan Roadhouse which is a restaurant chain here is Texas They have good Steak. When we got there Allison was very upset because she had lost a ring just a few minutes before that her boyfriend had given her the day before he left for something.  She spent the entire time looking for it but they never found it.  We had a good time visiting with them despite Allisons misery and stayed for about 2 hours with them.  Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of anyone.

Sammy and the others on the playground at WWFSC

Nathan came back to the office with us after that and we worked for a while before going to bingo night at the Wounded Warrior Family Support Center.  I was surprised that the grandkids showed up just as we got there.  They were really good and all played bingo but they didn't want to eat much of the food.  I ate some of it but had to quit because I got too full.  I took some pictures on the playground with the kids but only one of them ended up saved on the camera so I guess I am getting sometimers about how to use the camera.

Gauge opening a present

It has been busy at the office because they have been working hard on determining what the new transfers will be. This coming week will be transfer week and so it will be busy.  Also Larry has the regional manager for the cars coming to visit on the 25th of June.  On Tuesday and Wednesday we were able to have lunch with the assistants and President Slaughter.  Wednesday Sister Slaughter and the children came up for lunch.  I had a good time visiting with Sister Slaughter and she told me that the mission doctor recommends that the missionaries take benedryl every 4 hours for the rashes that they get at first to break the cycle.  My itching has got better but it is still there and so I had just bought the benedryl that the PA at the dermatologist recommended.  I felt like as she was talking that the Lord had sent her to help me know what to do.  It has been much better but it is still there.  It feels kind of like when you get hair down your neck after a haircut but it is on all the parts of my body that are exposed to the sun.

Annette was obviously happier about fishing than I was.

Heather and Erick went camping for Father's Day weekend and they posted some pictures on Facebook this week so I thought I would share those. Also Erick has been sharing several old pictures as he digitizes the slides that I had at home.  I am posting one that is of me and Annette when we went camping up at Flaming Gorge just after John and I got married when Mom and Dad came out and we had a family weekend at the lake.  It was probably in June of1973

Gauge and a friend with the cake

Maren had a birthday party for both Max and Gauge this last Friday I think.  She posted a lot of pictures on Facebook.  She rents a giant water slide from the post and then they have the whole neighborhood come and have fun on the slide.  Usually she has Landon to help her put it up but this year he was not available.  She also gets a canopy so that they have some shade to eat in because they have no trees big enough to provide shade.

Brinlie and Ellie with a friend

Jeff and Misty did some activities with their children this week.  They went to a Mariners game and then went to a special lodge of somekind.  I did not understand exactly where they were.

BJ and Holly had her Sister Andrea and her husband Nathanial come over to Hawaii and they went to the big island.  It looks like they are having fun with them in the pictures they posted.  The one of BJ and Holly on the beach did not look like them on my phone so I asked her who it was.  She thought that was pretty funny.  When it is enlarged it looks like them but it sure didn't that day.

Well it is bedtime.  I hope that you are reading your scriptures and praying together.  It is the way that Christ can teach us how to be happy.  Love to all.