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Family History: July-August 2000

Visiting the hospital where Jan and Garrett were born


Visiting our old neighbors in Maryland


 July 23, 2000 [Paula]

We went on vacation from June 18-July 12th! Here are the highlights:

Scott: liked everything except the driving.

Paula: liked seeing old friends and church history sites. Didn't like staying in small motels.

David:  liked Aunt Sally's house in Rapid City and the Wilson's in Madison. Didn't like driving and salty ocean water

Jan:  liked visiting Chris Nagle and the beach. Didn't like driving home.

Garrett:  liked visiting Joe, Chris and the beach, as well as Aunt Sally's house and Nerf guns.

Lincoln:  liked everything! (He did get sick for a few days.)

The boys have already forgotten a lot of what we did. We visited Independence, Liberty Jail, Adam-ondi-Ahman and Far West in Missouri. We visited Carthage and Nauvoo in Illinois, then Kirtland in Ohio. We were in Maryland for 2 weeks while Scott worked at NIST, visiting the beach in Delaware and lots of parks including the Mall and friends. We drove home via Madison, Wisconsin, and Rapid City, South Dakota and saw Mt. Rushmore.

People we saw:  Rob & Paula Wamsley, Kristie & Neil Hanse, Annette & Frank Cleveland, Ruth & Ed Wilcox, John & Elizabeth Fee, Steve & Teresa Whitehead, Jim & Shanna Rhodes, Steve & Liz Nagle, JoEllen & Mark Morris, and Sally Palmer, plus many others at our former wards in Maryland and Wisconsin. Many people invited us to dinner and opened their homes to us. I got tired of finding things for the kids to do while Scott worked.

On the way home we ran into traffic in Chicago and Hagerstown, MD. We had flooding in Minnesota and then the oil pump in our van went out in Rapid City and Scott had to replace it. We tried to stop at Martin's Cove, Wyoming, but it was too late and the visitors' center was closed. It was nice to get home. It's been very hot. We have gone swimming a few times. The boys have also been reading a lot and doing jobs. Next week we do swimming lessons. 

Last night Jan wasn't very excited about his dinner as we learned from his blessing:  "Please help me to like this dinner." It really cracked me up.









August 16, 2000 [Paula]

Summer vacation is nearly over and none too soon. The school-age children are tired of their mother hounding them and school has to be easier than the jobs she gives them.

Scott had his 35th birthday yesterday. He got a new belt, pants, temple pants, frames for pictures and a shirt from my mother. He enjoyed 3.5 pieces of pizza for dinner, running 35 minutes, doing 35 push-ups, 35 sit-ups, kissing his wife 35x, etc. Bruce, JoEllen and Mark (currently in town) came over to visit in the evening.

Everett spilled all the very smelly frog food which is at our house because we're babysitting the neighbors' frogs. Jan got glasses 2 weeks ago and lost them a few days later. David found them when he ran over them with the lawn mower. They got rather mangled but the lenses survived and the warranty covered the frame replacement miraculously.

Our garden is producing lots of squash, corn, and other things. David's soccer season has started up. Scott built new stairs for our back door. We saw Chicken Run a short while ago.

August 28, 2000 [Paula]

School started today. David's teacher is Mrs. Redford, Jan's is Mrs. Clifton, and Garrett's is Miss Alldredge. Garrett is going into first grade and is skipping kindergarten. He has learned how to read quite well so we had him tested and they said he could go into first grade since he was reading at a 2nd grade level. Scott walked them to school. Lincoln and Everett and I will be alone until after 2pm every school day. We'll do a little preschool for Lincoln at home to keep him busy.

On Friday David and Jan went camping with Craig and Liesl at Liesl's ward camp-out. They got a little wet but had fun. The rest of us had dinner at KFC and went shoe shopping. Then Scott and I watched Northanger Abbey, a Jane Austen film that was a little weird.

Scott went to stake conference meetings Sat. afternoon and then we watched BYU get creamed by Florida State 29-3. We wanted to go putt-putt golfing but it was pouring rain for the 1st time in months. Yesterday was stake conference. David sang in a stake Primary chorus. We got good seats coming more than an hour early. Elder John Groberg was our visitor.

Monday I went to the University Conference with Scott. We saw some friends and had a very nice lunch with a Hawaiian luau theme.




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