The month of May was a busy one with many wonderful moments beginning with Mother's Day. Paul and I were alone on the actual day but Andrea and Todd sent flowers and all our family called or texted to wish me a happy Mother's Day. It was a nice day with Paul barbecuing steaks for us.
The next weekend, we traveled to St. George for Julia's farewell talk in her ward. She did an amazing job and will be such a wonderful missionary. She started home MTC while we were there.
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| Dinner after Julia's farewell |
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| Julia was set apart on Tuesday of that week |
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| Officially a missionary |
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| Home MTC |
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| Before we left for home, we dropped by to say our final goodbyes to Julia |
We stayed in St. George the whole week after the farewell because Todd had invited us to be with them at the Arcadia Resort for the Memorial Day weekend, starting that Friday. During the week, we relaxed a lot, visited friends and family, did a puzzle, and read. It was kind of nice not to be on any deadline for a few days.
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| The puzzle of the BYU stadium. I think Paul may have put in one piece. |
On Monday, we visited our neighbors who have a second home in St. George and were staying there for a couple of weeks. We both commented that it was the longest we had visited since they moved next door 10 years ago. It was nice.
Tuesday, we went to the Red Cliff temple and enjoyed the session. After lunch, we went back to the condo to await Deon and Gary. They were on their way to California for a grandson's homecoming. We invited them to stop and spend the night with us so they didn't have to drive the whole way in one day. They arrived around 4 and we went to dinner with them at a Mexican restaurant, of course. That night, we watched a movie and they left after breakfast in the morning.
The next day, we visited dear friends, Dick and Sunny Reinhold, who moved from Heber to St. George. We wanted to see where they were living as it was a 55 and older community. They invited us to have lunch with them at their facility which was very nice. They are living in a place where you lease an apartment and then pay a monthly fee for your meals that are served in the dining room. There are all sorts of activities for them to do which is key for Sunny. The facility is very nice but we realized we couldn't live that kind of life. We had a great visit with them. (Side note: we had talked about wanting to see the Reinholds while we were in St. George. We stopped in Fillmore for lunch and decided to go the Iceberg hamburger place there. We ordered our food and went to sit down at a booth when we noticed Dick and Sunny there in a booth across from us. That was quite a little miracle. It was there we arrange to come visit them on Wednesday.)
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| Dick and Sunny in their apartment which they love and wouldn't want to be anywhere else at this stage in their lives. |
Thursday was a day of relaxing waiting to hear from my brother, Dave, as to when a good time would be to come visit. Finally, it was decided we'd come in the evening so went to dinner at In'n Out before going to their home to visit. We were glad we took time to visit Dave and Susette as we had a great time catching up on each other's families as well as what's happening in their lives. Darrell, my other brother, joined us as he lives with Dave and Susette. We stayed longer then we had anticipated as it was such a fun visit.
Friday, we moved out of our Worldmark condo and moved into the Arcadia Resort. Kailee's sister and her family joined us and then Todd and his family came in about 10:00 that night. We spent a lot of time at the pool area which included a lazy river, a water slide, a pool and 2 hot tubs, as well as a kiddie pool area. The children loved every minute of their stay. On Sunday, I fixed a dinner for everyone including Ryan's family who came to join us. Everyone left on Monday.
We left Monday morning before 10 hoping to avoid Memorial Day traffic. We didn't as the traffic was heavy for most of the trip home. We made a detour into Pleasant Grove to put flowers on Paul's parent's graves. We were glad we took time to do that but were happy when we finally made it home to Heber.
While we were away, our new neighbors moved in. We met them just as we were leaving for St. George and they seem nice. They have a 10 years old boy and 2 yappy little dogs. They have fenced in their back yard for the dogs but if they are outside when we come out, they run to the fence and bark. We'll just have to get used to new neighbors after 10 years with the Smiths. We did visit our new neighbors and took the some cookies on Saturday. We had a good visit with them. They have totally changed the inside of the house with new floors throughout and several chandeliers.
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| The new fence |
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| They have yet to water their lawn. Hopefully that will change when they get settled. |
Also on Saturday, we visited our old neighbors, the Smiths, in their new home. They are still in the process of putting up shelving and unpacking. It was nice to sit down and visit with them for a while before they took us on a tour of their new home. We will miss them terribly as neighbors.
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| Our Lydia |
At the end of this month, we finally found a Sunday to celebrate Avery's birthday. Her birthday was the day after mine, April 29, but we couldn't find a Sunday to celebrate with her till the last of May. She is really into puppies so I made her a puppy cake and bought her a talking puppy and a sticker book of dogs and puppies. She seemed to love it all.
Lastly I need to discuss my health. Since mid April I've been struggling with unexplained aches and pains in my body. Something seems to be attacking my joints causing swelling especially in the ankles and knees. I finally went back to the doctor as the medication he had prescribed earlier for me wasn't taking the pain away. He took blood to test for auto immune disease and rheumatoid arthritis. He also put me on a low dose of Prednisone, a steroid. He wants me to take it for three weeks and then come back in so he can decide what else, if anything, we can do to relieve the pain. The Prednisone worked well for the first couple of days but doesn't seem to be helping too much now, even though I doubled the dose. I'm so tired of hurting and hope we can get to the bottom of my problem. (The results of the blood work came back and it's negative for rheumatoid and auto immune disease but it did show my body was full of inflammation. It'll be interesting to see what can be done about that.)
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