Does it Get Any Better Than This?

I don't think this needs any explanation.

Merry Christmas!

About 20 years ago, before we left for Germany, when both of our Mothers were still alive but widowed, we would invite them to spend the night at our house on Christmas eve, for alternating years. I always wondered if we were doing them a favor or they were doing us a favor. Well, if they enjoyed watching the children on Christmas morning as much as I do, then we were definately doing them the favor. For the last few years we have tried to go to one of our children's houses early Christmas morning and watch the children open their presents. We enjoyed it, and I hope they didn't mind too much. The last two years we have had the joy of having one of our out of town children stay with us for Christmas Eve. (And I use the word "joy" very intentionally.) This year not only did we have Kathryn and her family with us, but, thanks to Melissa, we also had Christmas brunch at our house. Everybody showed, with the exception of Dustin and Tamra as they are in Oregon. For Jeanne it was a lot of work, but I think she enjoyed it, and I know I did. I LOVED IT. I don't show my joy very well when they are here, but I truly do love it. I just kind of sit there and take it all in. Here are some photos that I took today of some of the grandchildren that I love so much!!!

All I Want for Christmas!!!

To me Christmas is about the birth and life of Jesus Christ, and the best way to celebrate that is with family! Lately I've been feeling sorry for myself because two of my children and their families live far far away. Last year Dustin and family came and spent Christmas with us from Oregon, and even though we were in the middle of a remodel they never complained. It was so good to have them, but this year it would have to be phone calls to Oregon and Kentucky. Or at least that's what I thought. Yesterday evening, as we were sitting talking to some friends that dropped by, the doorbell rang (for the fourth time) and I said something to the effect, "Oh my gosh, who is it this time?" Jeanne volunteered to get the door and pretty soon I hear animated talk and her inviting them in. A few seconds later I catch movement out of the corner of my eye and as I turn and look I am shocked and joyfully surprised to see my son-in-law Trevor standing there, having just arrived from Kentucky after a 30 hour straight through drive. What a wonderful Christmas surprise!!!!

Apparently Melissa was happy to because she beat me to the punch on blogging about it, but fortunately, since she didn't know why she was really coming over, she didn't bring her camera. (Let that be a lesson to you Melissa - Be Prepared) But I was ready and so I get to be the first to publish photos of my two newest Grandchildren together for the first time in their lives. Born only 6 days apart and now still less than one month old. So here you go, one of the very first photos of them together.

Avery Leger (The petite little girl)-Left and Davis Grubbs(The big strapping boy)-Right

My Desktop

I've almost always had Rhinos as my Desktop background picture, but I was recently going through organizing the thousands of photos on my computer when I ran across the one below and decided that I should have the photo of the three favorite women in my life (Good thing Annabelle can't read) as my desktop. They are all so beautiful, it just makes me happy to look at this photo.

We Won't Soon Forget The Forgotten Carols

A few years ago Jeanne bought the book and the cassette tapes of The Forgotten Carols by Michael McLean. The tapes were read and sung by the distinctive voice of Glenn Yarborough. I really enjoyed listening then and reading along. This year when I saw that the live performance was coming to town with the lead played by the author I decided to get tickets and attend. Since I was getting tickets anyway I decided to go ahead and buy four so we could take somebody with us. Last night was the big night and Eric and Jannica joined us for the evening. We went out to eat and then to the performance. I think all four of us had a wonderful time. Jeanne and I have talked about it all last evening and many times today. As a matter of fact we had such a great experience we have decided to try to make it a tradition and go each year with different ones of our children and their spouses. At first when it started I frankly wondered if I would enjoy it as much as I hoped but as it went on there was something that really touched me that I can't even explain. I really loved it. We had such a nice time with Eric and Jannica last night that I find myself looking forward to next year already.

A Day That Will Live In Memory

It was on this date in 1941 that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and threw the U.S. into World War II in the Pacific. Franklin D. Roosevelt uttered those famous words "A Day That Will Live In Infamy." And he was certainly correct. However, for us, Dec. 7, 2008 was indeed a day that will live in memory. It is a Sunday, and I had to work. Unfortunately that is not too uncommon any more, but after work, thanks to our good friends Chad and Jayne we got second row seats in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City to the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Christmas Devotional. It was wonderful to be there for that. But, that wasn't all. Afterward we went on down a few blocks away to KSL (Channel 5) Broadcast House, where we watched Jeff do a phenominal job as the "Fan Off The Street" on the 9:30 edition of Sports Beat NFL. Oh, and myself, Melissa, their new baby Avery, and Jeff's parents and little sister got a cameo appearance also. Jeff really did a first class job!!! Check Melissa and Jeff's blog, I'm sure there'll be some photos very soon.

Number 17~Thank You Kathryn and Trevor

We got the phone call this morning!! We are so excited. A healthy little boy weighing in at 8 lbs. 1 oz. and 20 inches long was born to Kathryn and Trevor at 2:38 this mornings. From Kathryn's telephone report it sounds like everything went as well as you could expect. Fortunately, it was a natural birth. I've instructed them to get photos to us soon. We can't wait to get those and knowing Kathryn many gorgeous photos will be on their way. We are so blessed to get two beautiful, healthy, new grandchildren in the past week. We thank our Heavenly Father for such wonderful additions to our eternal family.

Number 16~Thank You Melissa and Jeff

I promised you (or at least hoped) for another post before the day was out and here it is. Avery was born to Melissa and Jeff at a little after 1:00 p.m. today. November 26, 2008. She weighed in at a healthy 6 lbs 11 oz, and was 19 1/2" long. Of course she is beautiful, what would you expect with such heritage. I learned a long time ago that hair always comes out darker in photos than it really is. Her hair is much blonder than it looks here, but as you can see she has a fair amount already. These photos were take when she was about 2 1/2 hours old. We're hoping to see her eyes tomorrow, and we understand she has healthy lungs.

The Day Before Thanksgiving

As I write this I have no new grandbabies. Melissa is laying in the hospital. They induced labor this morning, and the last text msg I received said she was in pain, but that was a couple or three hours ago. I talked to Kathryn, and there is no progress with her at all, she's just sitting at home getting ready for Thanksgiving. My guess is that there will be another post before the day is out, with a photo of little Avery. Today is quite warm for this late in November. It is expected to get to near 50 f. I went for a bike ride, and even though I have been riding the exercise bike some, it has not been enough, I did just a little over 7 1/3 miles and I was pretty warn out. I have vowed to get on one of the bikes a lot more often. As I was traveling today I took a few photos and left is one of them. Jeanne's knee has been injured, but she is recovering pretty well thanks to being careful and a visit to the doctor on Monday, but she did get on the excercise bike for a few minutes today.

Happy Birthday to Our Baby Girl

Do you remember November 20th 1980. I do. Jeanne's doctor told us that if our baby hadn't been born by then he would induce labor. I was pretty excited and so I made sure I didn't have any appointments that day. You see, I had my own photo studio in downtown Ogden, and I was the chief photographer. All photos were done by appointment, so I made sure I was clear for the day. In to the hospital we went. Jeanne was preped and the drugs to induce labor began dripping into her veins. Then, we waited, and waited and waaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiited. The doctor forgot to tell me that sometimes it took many many hours before the baby was born. Turns out I should have kept my calendar clean for two days, not just one. The problem was, we made most of our money in November and Early December as people had family and personal portraits done for Christmas. So, on November 21st I'm back in the studio taking photos and still no baby. Jeanne's up at the hospital, just relaxing and enjoying life laying in the bed with the IV still dripping and her older sister Joanie is there to be with her. As I rembember it, I got a call somewhere around 1:30 or 2:00 in the afternoon that I'd better get to the hospital. I got there as fast as I could, but I was a little late, and so waiting for me was not just Jeanne, but Jeanne and our newest, and last, baby, Melissa. Melissa wasn't born with the best of health, turns out she had jaundice and so had to spend a few extra days in the hospital, and then we had to return every day or two for a few weeks to get her under the lamps. Then for the first year she was often sick and in pain from colic or something. After a few months of Melissa we decided she should be our last. But something magical happened at just about the one year mark and since then she has made up for that first year ten thousand times over. She has brought great joy to our lives and still does. We love you Melissa and wish you the very happiest of a

Happy Birthday

November 12, 2008: A Day of Eternal Significance

Dustin was proxy for Aaron and, of course, Eric was there for himself as we had Aaron and Eric sealed to us in the Ogden Temple, where we were married over 35 years ago. It was a day I had been waiting for for over 38 years.

Afterwards we went to celebrate and share a meal at El Matador in Ogden. My sister Renee joined us for the sealing and the meal. Jannica is holding her two month old niece.

Our Friend Chad Barton also joined us. Unfortunately his wife Jayne had back to school night and since she is the teacher she had to be there. You would never know from this photo that Melissa is due to have a baby in the next couple weeks.

Not Shown in the photos is Eric's little brother Clay and his wife Tiffany who also joined us at the sealing (The baby Jannica is holding is theirs) and Eric's little sister Ginger who joined us for the meal.

My Review of Proform 450 UR Upright Bike

Originally submitted at The Exercise Bike Superstore

Proform 450 UR Upright Bike

Overall Good Value

By Bull Rhino from Northern Utah on 11/4/2008

 

4out of 5

Pros: Easy To Adjust, Smooth Operation, Stable, Easy To Use, Quiet Operation, Comfortable

Cons: Console Computer

Best Uses: General Fitness, Heart Rate Training, Weight Loss, Physical Therapy, Low Impact Exercise

Describe Yourself: Frequent Exerciser

So you know where I'm coming from I'll tell you up front I am a male in the baby boomer generation. In the summer time I enjoy riding my bike around the neighborhood at least a couple times a week. My bike is in the genre called a comfort bike, and I'm comfortable with about 10 miles per ride, though my goal is to get back up to the 16 or more that I used to do before I took a couple year hiatus. I also bought my wife a bike for neighborhood rides this year, but she has not ridden for quite a while and so has a long way to go to get up to even get to be able to do a 10 miler.

We bought the Pro-Form 450 UR so we could stay on it through the cold snowy winter months and be ready for next spring. We bought it from someone who had owned it for a while but never even broke the seal on the box. Our bike was built in December 2006, and assembled and used for the first time in November 2008.

As of this writing, we've only had it for a few days, and only put a few miles on it. I'm sure you know that one of the features of this bike is that it has games on it. For me the games are a good diversion even though they are very rudimentary. I played the “Tetris” style game and the “Destroyer” game years ago, but even then I was playing them in color, where as this display is an extremely low resolution monochrome. I don't know how the younger generation would be attracted to these games when they are used to what they have now. Maybe they'd stick to the blackjack and Texas hold-em card games. The obvious point of the games, and as I said above, it worked for me, is to keep your mind off the exercise routine. Before you get too excited about the games though, be sure you read the last paragraph of this review. Of course you could always watch TV or a movie. The machine is very quiet and I found I do not have to increase the TV volume at all to hear well.

The other features seem to be fairly comprehensive, though I have not owned another exercise bike, so I have nothing to compare it to. It uses the SMR (Silent Magnetic Resistance), which I like much better than cranking some dial to cause friction, and it seems to work very well with 16 resistance levels. By the time you get to level 16 you are climbing one heck of a hill, at least for a baby boomer. It has 10 built in programs which I have not tried, only looked at. There appears to be a good variety keeping in mind that I have no comparison. The readouts are large and easily readable for speed distance, time and heart rate. I'm having to assume they are fairly accurate, I have no way of checking.

The bike is very solid. Heavy, strong metal is used, and it gives you a feeling of stability. The seat post and glide are very substantial. The seat is large and soft, though I have thought of wearing my padded biker shorts anyway with my bony butt. It's even quite a good looking machine in case you have it where others might see it. Speaking of the seat, it can be adjusted a great distance in height and some in horizontal. My wife is about 5'8” and she has to set it almost to the bottom setting, so I wonder about a short person. Maybe by bringing the seat forward they would be okay. On the other hand, I think a person of 6' 6” or even taller could use it comfortably with the maximum height.

All in all I would say it is a good investment. However, there is one major flaw with the computer console that you should know about before you make a purchase. If you want to use an exercise program on the machine you cannot also play a game while you go through it. The instant you start a program or switch to a game or vice versa you start fresh. Even if you go from one game to another, or you've been in manual mode and you decide to play a game, you start all over. All the time info, miles, calories burned, starts from scratch. So, if you do want to keep track of any of that information you better not make any changes once you've started. Or, if you want to switch around, then just forget the calorie, or distance count and look at a clock or set a manual timer.

(legalese)

Personal Best

We got out again today. She's actually beginning to enjoy it. We did a new personal best for her. She kept saying she was sure her muscles were going to be sore, but it's been about 12 hours and so far so good. Okay, I cheated on the photo. This is one of them I took a couple days ago, but we did ride past the same house today, she was just wearing different clothes.

The Continued Chronicals

Didn't get Jeanne out on the bike today, we did some errands this morning so her knees were sore. I'll get her out tomorrow morning I hope. Anyway, I did a hair over 10 miles today. Temperature was around 60 I think and you couldn't see a cloud in any direction. I took several photos today along the ride. Here's one of what looks like a really old bird house for you.

Two Wheelers - Yep!

I haven't posted for a while on the Bycycle Chronicles. The truth is we haven't been out as much as we should have, but we still do get out. We went Saturday afternoon for a short casual ride around the neighborhood, and we got out today for a little longer and more vigorous ride. While snapping some photos I came very close to having an accident, but was able to get through it with no damage, especially to Jeanne. That's what I was worried about. Anyway, she did a good job of smiling for the camera. The photo below is as much to show you the fall colors as it is Jeanne.

We have been trying to find a used Schwinn AirDyne bike for the ugly winter days coming up so we can keep the muscles working. No luck so far. If you know anyone that has one they are not using and willing to sell for a reasonable price, let us know.

Eric and I Had a Nice Day Together Today

And it didn't even involve Golf. Last time Eric stepped foot inside the working part of a Temple was about 1992. I was thrilled to be with him today. I only wish I had had a real camera instead of just my cell phone, but on Novemeber 12th I'll have a better camera.

It Won't Be Long Now

When I married Jeanne I had a pretty good mustache. When I met her I actually had quite a handlebar mustache. As I look back at it now, I don't know how I got her to go out with me a second time, but she did. A few months after we had met I took a photo to give to her and even though I had been looking in the mirror with that mustache for some time, when I saw it in the photo it looked ridiculous to me so I cut off the handlebars and just kept it as a normal mustache. I didn't shave that off until Kathryn was about 18 months old, and when I went to get her out of her crib she wouldn't come to me at first. That was early 1980. I never grew facial hair again until around 2004, when I experimented with a goatee for about 4 weeks and then shaved it off. While Jeanne was away for a few days at BYU Education Week, I decided to try it again, and this one I've had for just over two months, though it seems longer. If you looked closely on any posts that included a photo with me in it over the past couple months you could see it but I thought I should get one good close up. I'm pulling a trick on a friend so it will be gone in a couple days, but I thought I should record it for posterity. As if posterity really cared.

What a Difference a Week Makes

The last post included photos from a snow storm a week ago. I brought your attention to some purple flowers that were poking out under the snow. This post is some close ups of some of the flowers in that snow covered garden one week later, along with a rose just a few feet away. Yes, if you look close you can see some signs of winter taking over and a little damage to the plants, but overall they look pretty good. Apparently the bee seems to think the pollen is still good for his honey too.
Note: As always, if you want to see the photo enlarged just double click on it.

Early Snow

This is what we woke up to this morning. It has been a while since we had this much snow this early in the year. There have been many years when we didn't get snow before Thanksgiving, and certainly many more when we didn't have it by Halloween. The funny thing is that it has stayed much warmer than normal for most of September and even the first few days of October. Just in case you think I pulled out an old photo of last years snow. Look at how green the leaves are on this tree and how purple the flowers are in the bottom of the photo. It will be interesting to see what it looks like in a week or two.

Special Days

This really needs to be recorded for posterity, and our files. Two very important events have happened recently in Eric and his families lives, and I've been there to witness them. On Sunday, Sept 21, 2008, the day before her 1st Birthday, Presley was given and name and a blessing. This awesome event was held at their home and Eric exercised his Priesthood as an Elder and gave the blessing. Those of you who know Eric know what an exciting event this was for all of us.

And then almost a week later on Saturday, September 27th, Eric Baptized and Confirmed his son Taydon. Again, What an exciting event for all of us.

More on the Bicycle Chronicles

I got out there again today and did a hair over 8 miles. Not really very good since a couple years ago a typical ride would be 13 to 16 miles. Sadly I was a little tired after 8. Also, sadly, I didn't get Jeanne out because she was at a meeting while I was on my bike ride, but we'll try again tomorrow after work. I forgot to take my camera so I thought I'd better get some kind of image, so I posed for a photo, designed to look like I was riding and Jeanne snapped it for me. Do I look like I'm riding hard?

Short Ride today

Jeanne and I did get out for a short ride today. No photo though. Jeanne enjoys the rides even though it wears her out. Sometimes I go for a little longer ride afterwards but today the truck and car both needed washing pretty desperately so that's what I did instead. We'll keep plugging away.

Good News - Other Good News

Which do you want first the good news or the other good news? Well the good news is that I rode my bike today. Not very far, I have to work today, so I didn't have a lot of time, and I tried out a new trail that I didn't know existed until yesterday. I only rode barely over 5 miles but it was a little more hilly than some of the rides I've been on lately so I feel like I got a good ride. Jeanne had a meeting and so she didn't go with me. I'm going to try to take my camera when I go and get at least one photo each time so here is today's.

Oh. . . . the other good news is that I won't be doing this every day. For example, tomorrow I'll get my excercise on the golf course, and mowing the lawn.

The Bicycle Chronicles

When I was young I had very little confidence in my physical strength. I was the proverbial 98 pound weakling. The only muscles I had any confidence in were my leg muscles. Consequently, I always enjoyed bike riding. I've always felt that even though I was never athletic, if I could have excelled at anything physical it would have been on a bike. Obviously, I never proved that to myself or anyone else, but that's still what I thought.

In the Army I had to run. Run, run, run. That's what we did for physical training. Some push ups, some sit ups and then run. I hated to run, although, I always got my highest scores in the PT test in running. I ran several 10K ~6.2 miles~ runs and once I even ran a half marathon ~ about 13.1 miles. After retirement I didn't do much physical stuff for quite a few years, but then I decided I really needed to, and so I started walking and then running a little. I was quickly reminded that I don't like to run. As a matter of fact, I hate it, and soon I remembered that I do like to ride bicycles. I decided to go buy me a bike and so off I went to the best bicycle store I could think of, well okay, the cheapest, where I could at least buy a new one. Costco, here I came. I tried a few around the store and finally decided on this Blue "Motive". I rode it faithfully for an impressive two or three miles a day for almost a week.

You probably think that I gave up, well you're mostly wrong. I gave up on that bike. I decided that I was enjoying it enough that I wanted a better bike, so this time I went to the bicycle store. A store where they have wheels for over $1000 dollars each. No, not the whole bike, not even the tube or the tire, but just a wheel. This was a place where serious bicycle enthusiasts and racers hang out. Fortunately for me, some amateurs hang out there and they had bikes for a lot less than the cost of some of their wheels. (To this day, I have no idea what makes a wheel worth $1000). I found a very nice bike by a company called Specialized. The red and silver one you see me with in the photo above.

Now my goal was to get Jeanne to ride with me on that bike I had bought from Costco. As I was working every day except Wednesday and Sunday and it was summer time I hired the grandkids, Makenzie and Makenna, to take their grandma on a ride at least five days a week. I paid them a dollar to ride over to our house and get their grandma and take her for at least a one mile ride. After not too many days of doing this Makenna came over on my day off and Jeanne and Makenna and I went for our ride. About half way through the ride Makenna and I were racing a little and came to a corner. As I went around the corner I cut across in front of Jeanne. Even though I was several feet in front of Jeanne and no danger to her she got nervous, hit her brakes and went down biting clear through her lip and scraping up her face a little bit. We took her to an emergency care office not too far away where they put a butterfly bandage on her lip and sent her home. If you look closely you can still see the scar. The bike is now known as the Lipper Ripper and the corner where she fell is known in the family as blood corner. I knew that I would not get Jeanne back on the bike for a while so I just let it go, but about six months or so later I tried again with no luck. She said she didn't feel like she had the coordination and quick thinking that she needed to ride the bike. I kept trying, very subtly for a while, all the while still riding regularly myself. Then a whole bunch of changes came into our life as I changed jobs, started working with Eric in the Mortgage business, etc. and the bikes went up on racks in the garage.

I often looked up at the bikes hanging from the garage roof and thought I needed to get them down and get back on them. About a year and a half ago I even bought at bicycle hanger that allows you to raise and lower the bike from the ceiling so you can keep it out of the way, but it only takes a few seconds to drop it down to go for a ride. I finally put that up less than a month ago. When I did that I also took the bike down and started riding it again. Now that I was back on it I wanted Jeanne to be back on hers too. But I ran into the some reasons as before: “It's awkward” – “It's too hard to get on and off” –“ I wish I had a 'girls' bike”.

Last week I brought my bike down to ride and the front tire was flatter than a pancake. As I started pumping it up the tube came out the side of the tire, so I let the air back out, pulled out the tube altogether and started pumping it up. I must not have been paying attention because all of the sudden I heard a loud BANG and pieces of rubber went flying. It was no longer a fixable tube. A couple days later when I was at the bike shop getting a new tube I decided to look for a “girl's” bike. I found out they had some good ones so I came home and got her and took her back up. We picked out this 7 speed Electra Townie.

So far she likes it a lot better because it's a lot more comforable to ride and she can get on and off easily.

The goal of this series is to motivate me to get out on the bike regularly and get some photos as we go. Hopefully I can get Jeanne out there some also, but she doesn't want to be pressured, so I may just casually mention some times when she goes with me, or I may not, we shall see.
As of this writing, the odometer on my bike reads around 560 miles, but I probably put 50 to 100 on it before I got an instrument to tell me my speed and distance.

Watch this space for more fun from The Bicycle Chronicles.

A Red Letter Day

Today we gathered at Eric and Jannica's house to give Presley "a name and a blessing". What made this one so extra special, besides the fact that Presley is one day away from her 1st birthday, is that Eric was able to do it. For the first time in about 15 years Eric was able to pronounce a blessing using the Melchizadek Priesthood. I was so very happy for him and his family. I'm sure this will be only the beginning of priesthood blessings to come.

By the way, Jeanne made the dress, and we had a wonderful meal afterward that Jannica and Eric prepared for us all.

The Whole family looked great. I'm so proud of them!

My Blogs

Starting with the next email you get from me you will be reminded to "Check my blogs". I did this for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, I'm certain, is that as you all know I live by the prinicple that "Everyone is entitled to my opinion". Also tied to that is the I'm hoping that it will help me to be more diligent in posting on my blogs. What I post to this blog is mostly intended for close family and friends and, at least most of the time, will be more informational. The things I post on The World's Best Blog are meant for the world at large and are more of my feelings and opinions. I have recently posted some of my political thoughts, relating to the upcoming election. I also plan to post more on Movie Reviews and a new category I'm going to call, "This I Believe".

You will note that this blog has links to The World's Best Blog , but not vice versa. Again that is because of the intended audience of each.

Peaches

Well it won't be long now and we'll be eating and canning peaches. As you can see, they have really grown. So below are the photos of the peaches as of a couple days ago including the clumps that have grown. These have been deliceous peaches in the past. I hope they are this year too.

Split Head Update

We were over to Eric's last night and got a first hand look at the split head. First off, it was kind of hard to find because his hair covers it well. The gash does look much smaller, thought there are five staples there to hold the scalp together. It appears to be healing very well. As you might expect, he's just like any five year old and he's more proud of his staples than bothered by them or the abuse his head took.

Split Head

At 11:00 last night, just about to head for bed, for some reason I checked my email. What do I see? A strange looking email that does not look like spam so I go ahead and open it and see the photo below with the caption below it that says "Taydon hit Riley in the head with a golf club, he's OK though." Of course I had to worry who was okay, Taydon or Riley, because Riley sure didn't look okay, and depending on how it happened that Taydon hit Riley I didn't know if he was okay. I could see from the photo that it was taken in a doctors office or hospital, and since I had talked to Eric just a few hours earlier and he hadn't said anything then that it had to have happened after about 8:00 p.m. Also, the email was marked at arriving at 9:55 p.m. I called Eric this morning to find out what happened and how Riley was doing. First Riley is fine, considering. They did have to staple his wound closed, I didn't ask how many staples. Eric says Riley kept asking "Can I touch my nails?" Apparently Eric, Taydon and Riley were at Swan Lakes driving range practicing their drives. Riley was on the next practice tee behind Taydon. Taydon checked to see that he was clear but suddenly Riley decided he needed a tee and headed over towards his bag as Taydon went into his back swing. You can see the results. We pray for his quick healing and full recovery.

Visit from Roy and Janette

My brother Roy, his wife Janette and their grandson Brian were down for a few days recently to attend a family reunion on Janette's side. Fortunately they stayed with us so we got to see them some. It was very nice to see and visit with them. I feel bad that I don't get to see my brothers more often. I wish all our family could have seen them but because of their schedule we didn't get to see any of our children except Melissa and Jeff and that is only because we had some sandwiches at their brand new deli. They took us to see Glenn Beck at a theater in SLC, which was very interesting. I didn't know very much about him before that. Unfortunately his broadcast schedule is such that I never get to listen to him on the radio. They left right after church on July 20th, but before we went to church we took this photo to remember it by. Brian is not in the photo because he took it for us.

Quiet Time

Shhhh. . . .Put your ear close to your computer speakers. Do you hear anything? That's the quiet in our house this week. After about three weeks of a house full of visitors and excitement we are finding it mighty quiet again. Sure it's nice to have a little peace and quiet once in a while, but we sure enjoyed the visitors. This is an open invitation to any of you to come a visit. We've got Air Hockey, Wii, plenty of games and if we know your coming it's likely we'll have tasty treats. So don't be shy. You know our number.