Summertime Week 2

Tate, Jonah, Ty at Perry Pool

We had another great summertime week.  Ty and  Wyatt  would  wake at 7:15AM, and since Perry High is hosting summer school, the federal free breakfast and lunch program is held there, so we  would leave for weight training a little early and grab breakfast.  Usually a donut, cereal, chocolate milk and  apples.  Ty's friend Jonah is doing weight training with him so after they would come to our house and  recover on our king size bed (yep still in the living room).  From there they would  go to Tate's, head back to Perry for lunch then to swim for 3 hours, then... Monday it was the movies, Men in Black, Tuesday it was Scouts, Thursday it was Tate's swim meet not home until 9:00PM or later, he is one tan fit boy playing the day away, I love it.

Wednesday we took it easy and didn't swim until 3:00 at Dyan's house.  They have a great pool, thanks for the invite.   We were really doing a two-for since it was the Goodman Girl Cousin Night Out.  Jodi put it together, Aunt Diane opened up her house, Karrie made the drive down from Prescott Valley Dyan, Rita, Kelli, Mom, Aunt Cindy, Afton, Barrett, Sierra and I got together.  Most brought a "favorite" gift to exchange, we all ate and we all laughed.  I laughed so hard I had  tears and had to catch my breath, those good  kind  of laughs, I love these people, I wish Laura and Katrina's girls (Kristi, Kim and Kathryn) could have made it.  All the while the boys swam, not home until 9:30 another perfect summer day.

Friday we took it easy, we swam with Durham, Raulin and  'Gregor, watched TV, went to Rubios and just recovered from the week.  Loren left for his California fishing trip on Thursday, hope he is catching lots.  The girls were off at girls camp, they just got home today.  It was Taylor's last time at girls camp, I am a little sad, she has loved it and  I have only heard  great things about her being a leader and including everyone.  Kyley was a 4th year (the best year) they are all off  by themselves  and she got to go horseback riding, repelling, canoeing, cliff jumping, shoot a gun, shower everyday, no 12 year old drama,  she came back loving  it.  Like I said another perfect summertime week.

Summertime

 Our first full week of summer was busy indeed. 

 I had a mini math training at ASU  from 

Wednesday to  Friday.  I hadn't been on the 

campus in 20 years.  I have been to the football 

stadium, but not walking around eating at the 

MU going into the math and engineering 

buildings, it felt strange but good.  Many

 memories came back and I am amazed how

 much has change and how much building is

going on. It was a good class, I am now

motivated to do some better teaching.

While I was expanding my mind the older kids were expanding their wallets. Taylor Kyley and Ty worked the concession stand for someone in our ward whose mother owns a dance studio and this weekend was  their recital at Queen Creek High School.   Taylor and Kyley had worked for them for a couple of years now but it was Ty's first year as he was finally old enough.  Ty was excited heck when you are 11 working concessions if fun.  Taylor was just going through the motions, she has had a little more life experience.  They worked from 2-10pm Thursday-Saturday and came home exhausted but all the richer for it.

Wyatt is now 8 so he had  cub scout day camp.  They met at 1:30 and were gone until 10:30pm.  It was his first time and he enjoyed swimming , shooting BB guns and bow and arrows,  but his favorite was the ongoing water balloon fight between the boys.  He told me Thursday night and that you can get 50 balloons for a $1 and his little mind was working out how much he could get for $10 or $20 etc... I said to stick to a dollars worth.  Well Friday I get a call from the leader, she said Wyatt just slapped down a $20 bill and said "give me 1000 balloons"  she stopped him in time and limited it to only a dollar.  It made me laugh, thank goodness for good attentive leaders.

What this meant for me was that when  I got home from my class at 4:30 the house was empty.  Loren was working and all the kids were gone, it was strange but I enjoyed my down time.  Watched a few TV shows, did a little cleaning and enjoyed the quiet.  Friday Loren and I went out to dinner and Saturday we ran some errands.  He needed to drop stuff off at his mom's house and since we were "in town" we stopped by my parents house too.  It was a quiet visit and we were talking about the photos that were gathered from Grandpa and Grandma Goodman's house, my parents showed us their wedding photo and how faded it had gotten and how it needed some "digitally remastering".  Loren said he'd take it and  scan it and play with it.
Well here it is don't they look great.  The before picture they looked to be wearing yellow dresses and you can't even tell that the flowers were pink. Their 44th year anniversary is coming us June 20th, they are still so happily married, I hope with dad's retirement they stay that way (JK)  They have always been an example to me on making a marriage work and I am thankful for them for that.