Each June brings Father's Day and Paul's birthday. For Father's Day, we had Todd and his family up for Sunday dinner. They brought him a couple of gift certificates to Subway. I gave Paul of lovely card with words of love written on it - or at least that's what I put in the envelope. When Paul opened the card, it wasn't the card I had given him. Kailee has slipped another card in the envelope with a pretty suggestive message on it. We all got a big laugh out of it. It was a great day for Paul as he heard from all the children which is the best part of Father's Day.
Paul's birthday was also a great day. We had planned to go to the temple then go to Golden Corral for a Lunch/dinner. Todd called and wondered if we could babysit for them so they could go to the Utah Valley home show. We agreed to do that for them so we changed out temple appointment for earlier in the morning. Afterwards, we went to Rumbi Island for a quick lunch so we could be to Todd and Kailee's by early afternoon. Carly joined us to help with Ledger. I baked cookies with Aria, Avery, and Lincoln and then played cards with them. It was a good afternoon and we were happy we could help out. It was great to be with their children, too. Todd and Kailee treated us to a pizza dinner at Pizza Lemone when they got home. The next week we went to Golden Corral, which Paul loves.
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| Ledger loving the one on one attention he got from Carly |
A couple of nights before Paul's birthday, he had another attack of chest pains. He took Ibuprofen and used the heating pad to try and ease the pain but nothing was helping. About 1 a.m., we decided to go the emergency room to make sure this wasn't involving his heart. We were there about 3 hours waiting for the results of blood work to come back. All the tests proved negative for heart issues so it was decided that this was from over working the chest muscles during the day. This is the second time we've ended up in the emergency room, thinking Paul was having a heart attack. Thankfully both times it wasn't.
We had a few visitors during the month of June. At the first of the month, Ryan brought Nathan up for two BYU basketball camps. The first one was a disaster. Nathan was put onto a team with a bully who said some rather rude things to Nathan and kept telling him he should be a permanent sub that never gets off the bench. That destroyed Nathan's confidence so he wouldn't got back to the camp again. (Note: Nathan has played a lot of basketball in the past but hadn't played for several weeks because of a hurt ankle that wouldn't heal. It took lots of physical therapy for it to finally heal, just in time for this camp.) Ryan had planned to work the 4 days of this camp but with Nathan not going to the camp, we all had to change our plans a bit. Ryan arranged his work so he could take Nathan to the recreation center each day to shoot some baskets. We took him to a movie one afternoon then came back to Heber where Ryan met us at the Junction for dinner. There was a two day camp, starting on Friday, which turned out much better for Nathan. It was only a three hour camp each day. We were glad he had a better experience.
On the 17th of the month, Katie, Julia, and Grace came to spend the night. They drove up so they could spend the day with Aubrey on her birthday. They bicycled up Provo canyon, went to lunch then played pickled ball before having dinner and coming up to Heber. A busy, but fun day for them. They left early the next morning but it was great to visit with them for a little while.
A couple of Sundays later, we celebrated Aubrey's birthday here in Heber. She brought Harrison and Todd and Kailee were here with their family. When asked what she wanted me to fix for dinner, she said she loved my chicken enchiladas. I couldn't see doing a Mexican meal for Sunday dinner so I made her some chicken enchiladas to take home and cook for herself. I did baked chicken which I knew she loved, too. It was homemade Hostess cupcakes for her birthday cake. She appreciated it all.
This month we had a few more high school graduates. Carly finished her high school in Florida and then came to Utah so she could take a class at the University of Utah before enrolling full time in the Fall.
Lydia graduated in Oregon. She will be going to BYU Idaho this fall for her college experience. We think she wants to be a history teacher so the will be her focus as the attends BYU Idaho.
Jaiden graduated from Bingham high school here in Utah. He plans to do some on line courses at UVU in Orem and then hopes to get a track scholarship the following year. He wants to do something in sports medicine.
Speaking of Jaiden, we went to one of his track meets this month. He was unable to run track during his senior year due to a leg injury so he is in a track club and doing meets this summer. He did pretty well at the meet we observed but he still isn't up to his speed from the track season his junior year. He said he had a couple of offers for scholarships until he got a concussion in football and injured his leg in track. Hopefully, he can work hard to regain what he has lost due to injury.
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| Carly met us at the meet and was able to get Jaiden to come visit with us after he first run. |
June always means planting a garden and annuals. This we did at the first of the month. We also put an umbrella up to take the place of the two tress we had cut down in May. We needed shade for the patio area. We went to put the umbrella up but found it was lacking one of the poles. We had purchased it at Costco earlier so we headed down to Costco to see about exchanging the umbrella for one with both poles. When we got there, they only had navy blue ones and that wouldn't work with our beige chairs. We asked the man at the return desk if he could open one of the navy umbrellas and give us the pole from it. He agreed and soon brought us the missing part to our umbrella. It looks so nice in the pot where we installed it.
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| Since this picture was taken the flowers in the pot have bloomed red, purple and yellow and looks wonderful. |
We had our windows professionally cleaned this month. This prompted us to clean all the insides of the windows as well as the blinds and shutter, upstairs and down. Once that was all done, we decided to tackle to garage windows and blinds. These hadn't been done in the 18 years we've lived in this home. It was quite a job to remove the blinds, spray them off, clean the windows an and the seals then put the blinds back up. It feels good to finally have that done.
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| President is doing all this quite quickly. Thank goodness common sense is back in the white house. |
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| Loved this |
