July 16, 2004

• Wow! Absent a whole month.  I tried to update while I was in Utah last week but Doug lost interment access that particular day and so, alas, it did not happen. 

  
  

  Serra~V~, Mo, and I left poor Brian working and schooling here in So. Cal on July 1st while we headed northward.  In hot Baker, we stopped for a potty break and what a hassle having to take a dog with you, not to mention the kid.  I had my hands full with those two.  I don’t think I could do the same trip with more than one child.  I don’t have enough hands.  We stayed in Vegas overnight.  Mo learned the doggy door within minutes and learned quickly that old dogs don’t like frisky little new dogs.  Ernie bit him on the rump and made him cry.  It was very sad. 

  
  

  On to Provo the next morning where we stayed with Grandpa and Grandma Gee for the night.  Mo liked the no fence thing and we had to chase him down a few times.  Serra~V~ was just glad to not be in the car anymore, although she travels like an angel.  On the way up we stopped in Ceder City for a break and ran around a park for a while.  The only time she cried was when it was time to go and she had to get back in her seat. 

  
  

  Saturday the 3rd was the Brower family reunion and David and Barbara’s place in Highland.  It was a perfect day even clouding over at one point to cool things down.  SV learned to jump on the trampoline and swing on the big kid swing.  I can’t believe how big and capable of big kid things she has become.  Auntie Serra was a lifesaver with her.  I don’t have enough energy to jump and swing all day and she stepped up and kept her and hundreds of other kids entertained the majority of the day.  It gave me more opportunity to gab.  I was extremely jealous of Julie’s new digital Canon and before the week was out I had started my own fund.  It was disappointing to play with her camera and then look at the back of mine and not have the instant results that hers has.  My puny digital doesn’t even hold a candle.  It may take me a year  or two but I will upgrade eventually. 

  
  

  Serra~~V drove back to Logan with me that night and we saw many fireworks on the way back.  She has moved over to the lean to and Doug is in the process of renovation the big house before he marries and moves.  He was staying with Darci in Layton so we took over his place.  It showed the signs of renovation and the cleanest place we could find was the living room, so we blew up a mattress and crashed there. 

  
  

  Monday I think we went swimming at the sports academy.  SV doesn’t pay attention to where she is walking most of the time and crashed into walls and people often.  She walks and looks everywhere accept where she is going.  She wandered over to the big pool and was looking at some tattooed sunbathers and WHOOPS plopped right into the shallow end.  She didn’t have her floaties on anymore and floundered around for a few seconds until I got her.  She had actually made her way to the steps by the time I grabbed her.  Still, she was not happy.  A little later as she copied other kids and ran down the wheelchair ramp into the pool, the water got too deep and she lost her balance and went under again.  Overall, not her best day.   Olivia got taken under several times by Julie who sometimes doesn’t time it right and came up sputtering at least once.  Poor little kids.  The things we put them through.  Mom and Serra~A~ got sunburned.

  
  

  Tuesday we headed to Bearlake.  We went later in the afternoon because Grandma Arnell was not recovered from her houseguests of the past week.  21 in all had been there and absolutely worn her out.  I don’t think I could survive half that many and she’s in her 80′s.  Anyway we came later so she could have an extra long nap.  It was amazing to  wake up on Wednesday and look out the window of Maxines red room and see blue skies, cows grazing in the fields, the lake, and to hear nothing but a moo now and then.  It was enchanting and I can see why some people stay there their whole lives.  I always loved it as a kid but for different reasons.  I hope it never changes.  Strangely enough, Gary popped in Wednesday and  ate “dinner”(G-ma insisted it was not ‘lunch”) at around noon and that soon ended our stay as well.  It was longer than we usually stay and it was nice. 

  
  

  Thursday I left Logan with my two charges and intended to visit with Tracie Peirce for a few hours.  As I pulled up, her sister Kelly was getting into her car and informed me that she was very sick and throwing up and such and so was Savannah.  I agreed that I didn’t want whatever they had and so didn’t get to see them.  I headed up to Park City and began the Anderson part of the trip.  I will write about that most likely next week when I get a minute. Unfortunately most of my pictures are on the NON-DIGITAL camera of mine and the roll is incomplete so until that gets processed no pictures.

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