What's that word

when you feel that you have done something just the same before.....actually I know the word but I can't spell it...........

Anyway, Tuesday found us back at the Family History Library (after dropping Jena off at the Museum).  This time Valerie and Lance joined us, went to lunch with us at the Lion House and then met up with Jena for a tour of the Museum.  (I think that might be a pattern for the summer as family and friends want to visit Jena at the Museum.)

So if you are in Salt Lake on a Tuesday, don't forget to stop by the new Church History Museum and say hi to the cutest Young Church Service Missionary in the building.  She serves from 10-2 with a lunch break.  She will usually be in the gift shop.  And let us know and we might be able to meet you for lunch!!!

When we got back to our car, a passing UTE fan added this to the dust on the back of our car.....

due to our BYU licence plate, I am sure.

(I am sad to report that it is still on my window because a trip to the car wash didn't fit in to the plans of the week.  Ben added Go BYU to the other side of the window and I imagine at Church today we may get a Go Aggies or Go Weber State to add to our collection.)

The rest of Tuesday also went as typical--school for me and dinner/bowling for Gary and work for Jena.  Ben had a quiet evening at home.

Another typical but awesome Tuesday

Flags flying once again....

Memorial Day 2016

For the last 15 years or so, the Scouts or the YM or the YW in our ward have posted flags for the holidays as part of fundraising for camps and Scout equipment.  If you have read this blog over the years, you know that we have stored, repaired and cleaned 100 flags over at least the past 10 years. However with the switch to our new ward, that plan was no longer available as they chose to do other things.  All of the flags we had followed with the Walnut Grove ward.  People were very sad about that in our end of the ward, so Gary and I proposed a new plan:  the Walnut Grove North Neighborhood Flag postings.  For $25.00 this year, we (Gary) prepared new flags and poles for everyone who ordered one.  For an extra $10, we would post them on the holidays throughout the year and store them as well.  That $10 will be donated to charity in the name of the neighborhood.  In the following years, people can either just take their flag or pay another $25 for us to post and that will be donated to charity.  We had a total of 20 people sign up-4 who are posting their own flags.

These are the same style as our previous flags
so Gary spray painted the tops glitter red.
The litter wasn't so great, but the red makes
it easy to recognize our flags.

Happy Memorial Day!!  Despite the problems in our country, I so appreciate the people who have given their lives to defend and protect us over the last 250 years or so.  I am grateful that young men and women continue to choose to join the military and to work to protect and give aid throughout the world.

Take Me Out to the Ballgame!

As Valerie and Lance were planning their trip to Utah, we decided that Saturday we would do some family history together, play games, and go to a baseball game.  I have fond memories of watching my dad play and then umpire  softball games and also going with him to a few SF Giant baseball games as a kid.  So I thought it would be fun to go to a Salt Lake Bees game---not the Giants but we still had a fun night.....

our baseball selfie

We saw hits, doubles, and a triple, a sacrifice fly, several home runs including a grand slam, a steal, a balk (when the bases were loaded), a hit batter, some errors on both sides, a squeeze play, walked in a run, and almost an inside the park home run (the batter didn't see the coach signal to keep running as the fielder had dropped the ball) ,  Lots of fireworks---unfortunately they were mostly done by the other team and the Bees lost 5-12 to Nashville.

The weather was perfect for the game.

 Jena's first semi-pro baseball game.

And they had real fireworks after the game in honor of the military and Memorial Day on Monday.

It was a good time, someone people even had hot dogs to mark the occasion but I went with a burritto and Jena of course chose nachos.

A SATURDAY....

with nothing planned!!!!

I think I worked on the blog, did homework, and cleaned my family history/craft room. Gary also had a busy day with yard work, helping his mom, and family history research.

Just a "Get-the-things Done Day."

IT WAS PERFECT!