Saturday, June 3, 2006
Dear Journal,
I love working on the computer! I love writing in my journal, writing letters to family, creating beautiful quotes to share with family and friends, working on family history–in short, anything that’s on the computer. I’ve had a fun couple of days cleaning out my Word and Word Perfect files. I’ve copied lots of letters, journals, quotes, documents, etc. to disk and deleted many of them. It makes me feel sort of clean to have things saved to dish and off the computer. It’s organized, too, which I love. I need a little CD file to put all these new disks in to be able to access them when I need to. I’ve been working on Young Women notebooks also getting them ready to hand out to the girls tomorrow in church. I want them to have a notebook where they keep all the helps and quotes and goals and records concerning their Personal Progress. So, Janet got me some notebooks at Costco, and I’ve prepared a pretty cover sheet for them and the sheets for inside. I’m excited to give them to the young women tomorrow.
I’ve also caught up somewhat on my journal for the past month, and now I’m going to finish up. I’ll put this record on my blog for the rest of the family or friends who want to know what’s going on in our lives and my feelings and things I care about.
Friendships are so important to us, and one friend we really value and treasure, along with many others, is Carolyn Cunningham, so it was a good day on Wednesday when we got to spend the day with her. We went to Wal-Mart to shop, then to see The DaVinci Code at the Village 8 theaters in Lakeside. We were excited to see this new movie since we had read Dan Brown’s book. Blaine hadn’t read the book, but enjoyed the movie as much as we did. It was an exciting, fast-paced movie and full of interesting religious ideas. We all agreed that we can enjoy the movie without accepting the ideas put forth in the book. Tom Hands and the new actress playing the lead did a great job. It was a very pleasant time together. Afterwards we enjoyed discussing the thoughts we had from the movie over dinner at Licano’s in Show Low. The food is pretty good there.
The Memorial Day Weekend was a fun time mostly because of the surprise visit from Ryan, who brought Megan and Madison with him. Megan is his girl friend who was baptized on Mother’s Day weekend. They got here on Sunday night just as we were having home teachers, Ted Turley and Herb Decker. We made our own sub sandwiches and played some card games and a domino game called "Chicken Foot." Madison did very well, and liked that game. We also played some "Catch Phrase," which Maddie did well at, and had fun with. Carolyn came down and played with us for a little while. Ryan got so sleepy that he laid down for a little rest, and slept all night! So, we took Madison and Megan for a night time ride to see the temple at night and the pretty lamp lights down main street. It was fun to share that with our sweet granddaughter Madison and Megan, who is a sweet girl, too. Madison, Megan, and I started watching National Treasure with Nicholas Cage, one of my favorite movies, but those two got sleepy, too, and we went to bed.
Monday morning we just lazed around, some went for a walk and ride. At noon, Ryan wanted Megan to have a Trapper’s hamburger and pie, so we had lunch at Ryan’s treat. It was as good as ever, and Megan was properly impressed. One little side note: Blaine showed that he really cares for me over his own feelings. Ryan didn’t want me to drink a soda with lunch, but Blaine knows how I like one with certain foods, so he ordered one when the waitress came back. It’s a small thing, but it really touched me.
After lunch, we were a little sleepy, so we settled in the "theater room" to watch "The Other Side of Heaven," which we all love, and wanted to share that with Megan. Madison wanted to golf , so since Megan is taking golf lessons, she wanted to go, too. Ryan took them. While they went golfing, I cooked. I made "Funeral Potatoes" or "Monja’s Potatoes," as I call them. I made them the easy way with Ore-Ida frozen hash browns, and they were delicious if I do say so myself. I also made a small zucchini casserole, and a marble cake with chocolate frosting. Madison wanted pizza, and Ryan wanted Megan to taste Bits and Pizzas pizza, so I ordered an extra large. With all that food, we got pretty full, and enjoyed eating on the porch because the wind had died down.
Ryan is only looking out for me when he tells me what to eat or not eat, and I respect that, but sometimes I want my own choices. But Ryan really has a generous heart and takes care of us in lots of ways. He brought us up the golf cart to use for the summer till it gets cool enough in the valley for him to use it at his home. We really love taking it swimming every day. The kids around here think we’ll "cool" older folks as we ride around in our golf cart. We appreciate Ryan letting us use it for so long. We really use the red truck that Ryan gave to Blaine to use also.
We talked Ryan into playing one more game before they headed back to the valley. We taught them the game of Golf, and Madison excelled at this game, too. She loves games and playing with Grandma and Grandpa, and we sure love being with her, and also Ryan and Megan. It was a very fun weekend.