Visit to Wendy

We visited Wendy and family for a week to bless the new baby.

Notice how the family matches up with the new dresses and ties that grandma brought from Florida.

Here's a quick tour of the new house. Carrie and Jammie will like that it is solar powered so no electrical bills unless the temperature outside is over 100--it was 110 and up when we were there!!

Four months ago theirs was the first in the neighborhood. It stood in a meadow. Look at the neighborhood now.

This instant neighborhood has lots of hiking and biking trails, parks and swimming holes, which we enjoyed in the 90 degree "cool" of the morning. They say that you don't notice the Western "dry" heat but a 110 breeze feels like a blast furnace--not cooling at all. That's why we walked to the parks and pools in the relative cool of the morning.

To cool off we went camping with the ward at Rucker Lake some 6000 feet up in the Sierras about 2 hours away. It was only in the 80's there. After I spend a day changing my flatlander to mountain goat lungs, I swam across the lake.

The special guest at Kate's blessing was Caroly's favorite uncle, 95 year old Uncle Les. He was honored to stand in the circle with me and Daniel's father. At the family get together afterwards, we had Uncle Les and several of his kids who all live locally (we forgot to get the camera out until after some had left) and Daniel's parents.

If you ask the grandkids, probably the highlight of the visit was celebrating two birthdays with Chuck E. Cheese. Notice the quick change into the new birthday dresses--such clotheshorses!