Tonight Kevin went home teaching and after he had gone, Ricky came to me and said ” ‘Ew seen Kevin?” Once I hid my smile, I informed him that he should not call his poppy by name.
This weekend Kevin and Ricky had some quality time at home together, swimming in a little pool, mowing the lawn, and cleaning the garage. I took Billy and went with some of my family to a family reunion near Zions National Park. It was a reunion for my dad’s mom’s family, so there were very few there whom I had met before, but it was a lot of fun.
Ricky might be close to needing a haircut. This is his Sanjaya look . . .
Ricky and Maggie are good friends. After the way he tortures that cat, I don’t know why she keeps coming back, but she does like to watch him play.
The drive for the reunion was long, but very pretty. Billy was a good traveler but had an uncanny way of waking up hungry 10 minutes before our stop and when he is hungry, there is no consoling him. We only drove part way Friday night and we stayed in a motel in Panguitch owned by some Pakistanis. The room itself was completely adequate (4 beds so we all stayed in the same room), but I’m glad we arrived at night otherwise we may have been tempted to drive on. There was junk piled everywhere . . . well, everywhere that was hidden from the road. Dan tried to sleep in later so he was tortured with Billy and Duchess (Mom’s dog who joined us on the trip).
The reunion was very interesting and not very big. The common ancestor was my great-great grandfather so I wasn’t very closely related to most of the people there. These two gentlemen were very close to my dad–they are his cousins Bob and Jay. Bob is supposed to send me some stories of his and Dad’s rabble rouser days.
Billy was the only baby there and everyone commented on his cheeks. Apparently they are chubby, I hadn’t noticed . . .
After the reunion, we drove through Zions and did a little sightseeing before heading home. There were 7 of us in my van (Tony, Diane, and Skyler, Dan, Mom, Billy, and I).
Dan just has to have his Diet Coke and will go to most any extreme to get one.
I thought this arch was really amazing.
Dan is stricken with fear at the beauty of Zions (ugh, that is even more awful than I can handle, but I can’t think of a better caption for this photo).
Billy likes to be rocked to sleep each night. Sometimes it is just easier to leave him on my lap than get up and take him to bed (like tonight). Kevin was a little disturbed when he saw me working on my laptop with a totally limp baby sleeping on me. But he was snoring so sweetly!
