Lucy Jane's Graduation

29 May 2018, we headed down the road (actually it's up) to Santa Fe for Lucy Jane's graduation from Santa Fe Prep. The very day was 31 May, our 46th anniversary! Bill and Jlynn came from Hawaii and it was a nice time for the families to be together for a great occasion.The Hastings' home was being tested for radon and they couldn't open the windows, so we were glad we took our fan.

 Supper at the Shake Foundation on the first night

 Walking the arroyo with Anna, Anders, and Bella

 Unbelievable, brilliant red cactus blossoms in the arroyo

 Lunch on the 30th at Clafouti's

 Lucy's Baccalaureate was held in the beautiful

Saint Francis Auditorium

 Courtyard and portal

 The family gathered following the Baccalaureate

The pasty dough failed three times so I made meat pie

A beautiful spot on....

 A lovely evening for an alfresco meal

Pop Pop and the boys

 Gifts for the graduate

The beautiful graduate with her graduation bouquet

 Lucy was honored with the Robert W. Kurth Humanities Award

 Graduate and family

 Post-grad lunch back at the Shake Foundation

 A Santa Fe walking tour: it was Jlynn's first time in town

 Seventeenth-century San Miguel Mission

 Loretto Chapel, 1873

 Miraculous Stairway built for the Sisters of Loretto by

St. Joseph the carpenter

 MoCNA from the Cathedral 

 Shiprock Santa Fe is upstairs in the building on the corner

 Shiprock Santa Fe is a wonderful gallery with traditional and 

contemporary artifacts and art

 Everything reminds me of Uncle Tony

 Ganado reds

 Such wonderful colors in these contemporary weavings

 Enjoying Santa Fe

Late afternoon in Cathedral Park

Graduation dinner at the Ranch House

Rob's Grandmother died just before the trip and so the Hastings all flew off to Salt Lake City so they could attend the funeral in Star Valley, WY. We stayed behind with the kids and had a few more days in Santa Fe. So there is more, but this is all for now.

OXO 

D.

Spring 2018

It has been a beautiful spring filled with good times. Phillip has been with us and he and I have baked and cooked up a storm, including some of Tony's recipes which I have been transcribing. We watched Oliver's school program, streaming it remotely: technology is incredible. We drove to Las Vegas with Rod and Vic for Aunt LaVee's funeral. Maxwell received his Eagle Scout award, just in the nick of time: almost too old, and the church is breaking up with BSA. Mark and his friend Anne came to visit for a couple of days, and Maxwell graduated from Timpview High School. Memorial Day was a bit more intimate with just some of the SKT and DAT families. And of course there were group dinners, morning walks, Tuesdays and Thursdays with Evelyn Alta, and cousins' breakfasts. Good times.

 Oliver dancing in Hawaii, on our screen in Provo

 Cousins' breakfast in May

 We love having this girl for a couple of hours twice a week

 Dinner at The Cheesecake Factory in Henderson

 Viva Las Vegas

 Waiting for the fountains to burst at the Bellagio 

 Pretty good!

 Up pops the moon on a glorious spring evening

 Raye, Donna, and Carol at LaVee's funeral

 Maxwell is an Eagle Scout

 Reunion planning

 Morning walk into Rock Canyon on a beautiful morning

 Tony's chiles rellenos are delicious

 Dickie and Pippy's pasteis are excellent

 Honoring Kris on Mothers' Day

 La Casita with Mark and Anne

Phillip taught me how to make sourdough bread

Graduation dinner for Maxwell

 

Congratulations!

 Walking at UVU

 

 Graduate with family

Dinner at the Ostergars


A new tree to hide the telephone pole

 

Millie's flowers are always wonderful


Even with only parts of the two families, it is still a good crowd


Great to be together


It was a pleasant spring morning and afternoon

We are headed to New Mexico for Lucy Jane's graduation, then on to Arizona for a Boynton reunion, but this is all for now.

OXO

D.