David and Kris's Blog

Monday, March 28, 2016

March Catch Up

March is always blessed with lots of birthdays, and everyday is blessed with a good walk. Apart from that, Anna was in town for her friend Jenette Smith Fennimore's surprise birthday celebration. Within just a few days, she was back with the kiddos for spring break (about which more in an upcoming post).

Beautiful morning walk

Another morning walk

Max and Grammy

Did I mention morning walks?

This walk was with Anna

Always more fun with company

Auntie Anna visiting Evy

An extra-special walk with 75% of my girlies

Celebrating Lizzie's birthday at Sunday dinner

Evelyn comes for the morning once a week

South county on an early morning

Zootopia with the Hastings kids

Good people

These cute girlies took charge of Grammy's phone and made a
change to her wallpaper

The whole family gathered on a Tuesday evening...

While the Hastings were here

The whole world turned out to caucus for Bernie

A very good month, so far, but that's all for now.

OXO

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Mesa in February

With Deb's flight being a day earlier than she thought, we got everything put together and left for Mesa on February 17. Because storms were forecast, we took the Las Vegas route and arrived without incident, having finished all the Undisclosed podcast en route. Chip and Sandy had dinner waiting and Grandmother seemed relatively well. We spent the rest of February caring for her and making sure she was well enough to continue on her own. We saw Maren and Gavin a couple of times, spent some good time with Matt and Kim as well as Chip and Sandy. There was a mini-Boynton reunion to celebrate Mark and Matt's shared birthday the Saturday before we returned to Provo. But most of the time Kris ministered to Grandmother while I walked, shopped, and cooked. The circumstances were hard, but the trip and visit were nice.

Off on an adventure

Arizona is heavenly in February

It's great to be out and walking along the canal as the sun comes up

Kim, Brigham, and Matt are here for a few weeks

Take away from the Dragon Wok was not as delicious as when we

ate there on Grandmothers birthday

Lots of citrus ripe for the plucking (and I did)

Picking up a few things at the Mesa Kirkland Temple

Kris applying her mad skills

A sliver extraction with Grandad's jewelry goggles on Sunday evening

Beck and Harry sharing a Danish-Modern classic chair

Grandmother and the Youngs

Grammy and the Youngs

Brigham doing his best to keep his papa from napping

With Chip for lunch at La Parilla Suiza

Sunrise at Greenfield Park

Chip and Sandy joined us for spaghetti and meat balls

Explaining APPS and everything iPhone (including selfies)

to Grandmother

The orange blossoms on Grandmother's tree smell heavenly

Matt explaining something to Tyler and Nicki

Finn spin

Grandmother, Grammy, and Harry David

Finn shared the magic with Brigham

Brittany and Chris at the mini reunion

We were concerned about leaving Grandmother, but she had made excellent progress. Treatments had virtually eliminated her pain and she was sleeping very well. She was feeling confident with her walker and all seemed to be well, so we returned to Provo on February 29. That's all for now.

OXO

Friday, February 19, 2016

January and Half of February 2016

I have been a slacker and the time has come to get caught up. There have been no travels so life has been rather pedestrian with few unusual day-to-day activities. This post highlights that and a couple of exciting bits including some outings with Rod and Vic, some bachelor time while Kris helped her mom in Arizona, and a visit from Debra Sue who came to town for her great nephew's wedding. (Thanks to Debby for a couple of these photos.)