Summary & Memorial Day Relaxation

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Work & Play
A quick summary of this weekend...since my internet was down:

Friday: We got our final inspection done, which meant we could start moving in. Marcos and I moved all the big stuff that we wanted moved from the old office into the new office. We also went over to Teresa & Munsey's to get their old desk and two book shelves they didn't want anymore. The bookshelves were easy...the desk was a huge pain in the butt. They let us borrow their Odyssey to transport the stuff, and we had mom's car, so we got it all in one trip. The hardest part was getting the desk down the stairs in Slack's house. It took Marcos Munsey and I with a little help from Teresa to get it down. But just Marcos and I were able to get it into the house.

Saturday: Got up early and continued moving things into the addition. Got Bart's old recliner back from mom's , where it had been for the last year or two because we ran out of room for it here. We put it in the office, and it winds up sitting just below one of the flood lights, so it is a good spot for reading. We checked out blinds last night, but couldn't come to a decision, so not sure when that will get done. We can't decide if we want to go for the big wide faux wood ones, or just get the kind we have on the rest of the house (1" vinyl). That should be more of a decision for Shena, but for some dumb reason I'm sticking my nose in it. Wound up spending the afternoon with Marcos over at the Plummer's playing pool and wiffle ball. Marcos and I put a dent in their bat and broke one of their balls. Probably the last time we'll be invited over there.

Sunday: Church. Cade gave his first talk in Primary. Since Monday was Memorial Day, we wrote a quick one about that. He took these "Military Bears" that my mom has. They are teddy bears with sweaters that show the branch of the military with a place for a picture in them. She has three. One for my Uncle Marvin, Uncle Wayne and of course, one for Adam. Cade took the one of Uncle Wayne and Tio Adam and showed everybody their pictures and said they were soldiers who promised to protect our freedoms. Actually, Cade said about three lines. "This is my Uncle Wayne. This is my Tio Adam...Amen." Shena filled in the rest in the middle. He did ok, though. After Church we ate at mom's, took naps, then went over to Hiatt's for a graduation get together for Kate. She is the last of the "Idaho Kids" who graduated from High School. Kind of weird to think about that. Seems not so long ago that I was the first one to graduate and everybody was excited. You could tell the parents were a little more subdued about this one, which is understandable. But they are milestones in life that get passed. Good news is life goes on and there are more milestones ahead.

Monday:
Played golf with an 8:06 tee time at Dawn Acres with Ed and Dede. Ed and I had been talking for a while about going, we (well, not necessarily me, I think it was more Shena and Ed teaming up) talked Dede into going. She had only been one other time in her life and she said she didn't like it because she didn't think she was any good. She did great, though. She played much better than I ever did my first and second time. Hard part is getting her to recognize that she did well considering. Apparently she promised Ed she would try it 10 times, then she was free to quit after that and never play again if she wanted to. I think by the tenth time she will like it more. We had a good time, though.

After golf, we came home to get the boys and got ready to go over to Plummer's for hamburgers. I called one of the construction crew to come over and "settle up" on the rest of the money we owed them since the inspections are done. I will explain in a later post about the whole fiasco we have been through. I have purposely kept it mostly quiet because we didn't know how it would turn out...but it turned out ok in the end, so I'm ready to tell the story...just not right now.

Mom came with us over to Plummers. Marcos left for Idaho last night, so she is on her own for who knows how long. She watched the boys this morning while we golfed. Jimmy Adams from the ward was also over at Plummer's. It was good talking to him. We have some similar backgrounds (he served his mission in Portland, OR, like me, and works for Jefferson Pilot), but he is about 10 times smarter than I am. Nice guy though. He, Ed and I played pool most of the afternoon.

Llano Update (Cheeto's Brood)
Kelson and Cade were good boys. They spent part of the afternoon in the Plummer's blow up swimming pool. Wore themselves out, though. Mid-afternoon, Kelson was a walking zombie he was so tired, but there was so much going on that he wouldn't lay down and sleep. He finally couldn't fight it anymore and layed down next to the pool table with a pen in his hand. He got mad and woke up when I tried to take it from him. I think he was still fighting going to sleep.

Arellano Update
Already reported above.

Christensen Update
None to report that I know of.

Daily Report
LAST NIGHT:
Sleep: 12:00 - 6:30 - Had to be up early...tee time was at 8:06 in Stokesdale (1/2 hour drive)

TODAY:
Breakfast: had a nasty country ham on a roll sandwich thing they had in the pro-shop...not good at all, but I was starving, so I ate it.

Lunch: had a late lunch after golf and settling up with the construction crew - cheeseburger with lettuce, ketchup, mustard, miracle whip on a sesame seed bun, potato salad, plain Lay's chips, coke...had a piece of Jimmy's wife's home made brownies a while later with water

Dinner: ate 2 Bagel Bites that we fixed for the boys for dinner at 9:00 tonight...then had a few Chips Ahoy cookies and milk before bed.