Three going on Eighteen

GET TOGETHER

Sunday, August 16, 2009 Today our friend/Judy’s very good friend, Julie Bird and her sister Susie (sp) sang “If Thou Had Been Here” in our sacrament meeting and as always did an excellent job and got a number of compliments. After church, they came to our house for beef stroganoff and to visit. Niki was here and attended Sacrament meeting with us. She brought Gavin. Greg and Alexa took a nap. Chris came before Julie and Susie left. Later all our children and their families were here. Three year old Alexa is in love with Troy Bolton from High School Musical. It is so intense that one time when Troy kissed the girl in the movie, Alexa started to cry and said, “I want to kiss him!” today she as well as Sierra and Bailey were trying on some of Niki’s old prom dresses. Alexa put a fancy shopping bag over her shoulder and said she was going shopping to get a toy for Troy. When someone inquired further, she said she was going to get him a blue bicycle. Gavin has finally got walking down pat and is all over the place.

BOB MILLET

Saturday, August 15, 2009 Today while Judy and I were running around we saw Robert L. Millet in the Smith’s in Orem. I told him he was my favorite author now Hugh Nibley is gone. He is arguably the best religious mind at the BYU. He is also an excellent lecturer and I love to listen to him on the roundtable discussions on religion on BYUTV. The last time I spoke to him was on an airplane some years back. I’ve been fighting a migraine all day. Judy thinks it is due to the change in weather. It is much cooler than usual. It rained hard earlier today and there was a hard wind for hours. It is balmy and sunshiny this evening.

AVERAGE DAY

Friday, August 14, 2009 Not a lot to write about the last couple of days. I think I am slowly getting out of my funk. Judy has been back from Drum Corps since Monday morning. Yesterday I ate lunch at Chipotle with Corey and Jim. Today I have been with Jayden and Bailey since shortly after nine a.m. We watched cartoons in the a.m. then played basketball at the park in back of their house. This afternoon we spent at my place. We swam for half an hour until we got rained out. After that we played Monopoly—Jayden kicked butt. Later we played Ladder Ball in the back yard. That’s about it.

CHECK-UP

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 This morning at 9:00 I had a doctor’s appointment with Shelly Ebert NP for a check up. I took with me a list of some typical blood sugar and blood pressure readings. She was ecstatic over how well I am doing and told me not to change anything.

FAMILY REUNION

Saturday, August 08, 2009 Today was the Jepson family reunion at a park on Bountiful Boulevard in Bountiful, Utah. Niki, Alexa and Gavin picked up Sierra and Jim rode with me. We had a good visit with family we don’t often see and the kids played on the playground. It was Niki’s idea to visit for an hour or two then go out for lunch. Generally of course everyone brings a lunch. It is a major part of the visiting and we all share. As usual Cousin Rick (Jepson) made homemade root beer the job my dad had for so many years…sugar, water, root beer extract and dry ice. This year Rick also made one with Lemonade…carbonated…it really turned out well. He said he (or someone) had tried it previously successfully so he was confident it would be a hit. Sierra brought her fifty raffle tickets hoping to sell them. I will refer you to Jenn’s blog entry on the subject and my comment to her blog. http://jjnern.blogspot.com/ Some of the buyers who bought five tickets ($5.00 worth each) were Christina, Rick and I think Brent. I bought seven, all the cash I had except a $20.00 bill. There are a lot of less than wealthy people in our family and I chose not to approach them. After the reunion, the six of us went to lunch at the Olive Garden on West Temple in Downtown Salt Lake. Mari, the general manager is a friend of Jim’s from when he used to be a waiter at Olive Garden and she gave him his lunch for free and gave us all a celebration cake which was nice of her. Later this evening Jim and I went first to Sears in the Provo Towne Centre Mall and then drove along University Avenue and State Street looking for a water distiller. Jim is into drinking nothing but distilled water. Yuck but oh well. I wouldn’t mind being able to not have to buy distilled water for my CPAP machine. I woke up crying from a sad dream last night but choose not to include it in my blog entry.