Month: September 2017

California Summer 2017

After last Thanksgiving’s horrible drive home, we decided to do our California visit in the summertime this year.  We went the first week of August. We even decided to do something brave.  We left very early in the morning – before the sun came up!  We tried this years ago and all that happened was […]

Parent Get-away

Sometimes the parents need to get away and rejuvenate.  Kevin and I were at that point.  This year we chose San Diego as our destination. In our effort to not be away from the children for too long, yet still have three days to play, we left very early on a Thursday morning. Our first […]

Summing up July

Let’s wrap up July … On the rare occasion, you can get a spot so comfy that all 3 cats need to join you.  Can you spot all 3? Billy, Ricky, and Bobby had their turns doing Ogden Nature Center camps.  While we waited to pick up Billy from his camp, we explored a bit. […]

Grandmama turned 75

In the spring, I knew that I needed to throw my mom a birthday party this summer. She turned 75 in July and needed to be celebrated. The boys help deliver invitations and Ricky helped me make some desserts. We invited many of Mom’s friends and family to come celebrate and we had a big […]

Teenaged Ricky

Ricky turned 13 in July.  We have entered the world of having teenagers.  People have tried to scare us about it, but so far it hasn’t been bad. Ricky really is a good kid.  He just wants to be kind and good and he experiences his most frustration when others are not being kind.  Well, […]