We have had a dry spell haven't we? I know more people check it than write as I am one of the culprits. I decided that I'd turn over a new leaf and add some of my news which is not much.

We had a great weekend down in California. Dad really enjoyed his high school reunion and seeing all of his old friends...who are many! He made up a slide show of pictures from the yearbook which was a great hit. We were hoping to do a session at the Sacramento temple but when I finally got someone to answer the phone there the sessions were all filled. It is really a beautiful temple! We went and walked around it on the outside. It is one of the small ones but does not appear small from the outside due to some archways in front.

We then went down to the Edlingers on Sunday starting out with Stake Conference. That was fun since it was at the interstake center where I went to stake conferences when I was living in Berkeley. Russell Nelson was there since they were putting in a new stake presidency. We had third row seats since we had gotten there early because Pepi and Carol were in the choir. Çan you believe Pepi....he is more active as a non-member than many other active members!!! We then had a great dinner with their family. As we have told many of you, three of their kid's families live in houses next to them so Katie's family, Mike's family and Liesl's family were there...with twelve kids altogether. We thought it was chaotic with nine!!!

We then bummed around with them on Monday morning and flew back here in the evening. Life since then has been pretty uneventful. Kim gave us a scare on Tuesday with a little false labor but I am hoping she will hold off until after this weekend. John and Melody Sims are coming on Friday for the night. We already had tickets with Dave and Adina to Cirque di Soleil so we're going to all go out to dinner before it and then John and Melody will take one of the cars home and we'll go to the show. They will be staying at the house for the night Then Adina, Buffy and I will be going to Time Out for Women in Tacoma on Saturday.

I had lunch with Maylene Perkins today...to jog memories, they lived in our ward in San Diego and moved up here a year ago. We had them for dinner in February...the infamous night of the battle of the blinds...I think both Mike and David's families were here.

Speaking of Grandma, she broke her pelvis at some time in the last two weeks so her movement is really limited. She is on some pretty strong pain meds so she doesn't seem in too much pain. She had a bad night last night...very distraught and didn't sleep much so she was really weird today..shaky and very uncommunicative. Hopefully she will sleep better tonight so she can get back to her usual self...confused but fairly happy.

Love you all...Mike, I'll leave it up to you to give your news to all when it is appropriate!

Mom