summer is off to a good start

Monday, Glen, Rusty, and Hannah put in our new swamp cooler. Just in time for the high temps we "enjoyed" this week. So grateful we don't have to suffer. I don't know how pre-air-conditioned society survived.

Monday was also Memorial Day, and it found Glen, Alex, and me at the cemetery. Mainly we visited Adam, but we did also visit some other graves that belong to the Perazzo clan.

Love the pineapple addition along with the lighthouse

My back is getting much better, but it limited my activities this week, so I started my scrap booking and photos projects. And now that I've started, I'm going to keep going. I was a bit behind, so this past week I put in all the pictures from 2013. I still have to journal in it though. I'm hoping to put in all of 2014's pictures this next week.

one of my photos projects

Besides hooking up the swamp cooler, Glen's good deeds for the week included working on the yard and in the garden.

Friday night we were given free tickets to go see the Reno Aces play the Las Vegas 51s. Glen and I made a day of it and went up early. We visited the Discovery Museum for the first time. Hannah recommended it. My favorite room was the DaVinci room, which had a bunch of puzzles to try and solve.

Our evening with the Aces was sponsored by the Northern Nevada Dairymen Association, so Cowabunga (aka Daniel) got to throw out one of the first pitches. Luckily for him, he got to watch the game as Daniel and not Cowabunga as it was very hot.

We had a blast. Alan took the scouts, so Alex actually went with Alan and the other boys. Glen and I went up early and took in the Discovery Museum, which wasn't too far from the ballpark. Hannah and Rusty came when she was done at work. The Aces won 9-0. There were several home runs and just a lot of action.

Grandma and Grandpa visiting with Cowabunga before the game started

Especially considering he couldn't really see, he did a great job with his pitch

It was Star Wars night, which meant a storm trooper, under Vader's supervision, also pitched

fun at the score board...each player had his photo merged with a Star Wars character

We got to hold Miles for a bit!

David, Grandpa, and Grandma

For the 7th inning stretch, this giant baseball looks over the field

Andrew and Heather sent us some photos!

love those smiles

I think Andrew needs a longer stick for his marshmallow if he's going to get it cooked

I guess Henry decided to nap during his mom's game

Heather is playing intramural soccer this summer

80 day countdown

Monday was an encore performance of "The Monologue Show" which was not performed on the high school stage, but the stage at the old movie theatre. Before the class's show, Hannah performed a monologue that she used in her acting class this past semester at TMCC. She's been on a 2 week break and starts up again on Tuesday.

Glen's co-teacher for his inclusion world history classes starts counting down the days till school starts again...even before school lets out. I think that's pretty funny. I think it freaks Glen out. It does make us feel like summer is already slipping away.... Anyway, Alex has 80 days before he starts school again in August (they pushed back the start day from the 15th to the 17th). Glen has 75 days before he has to report back on the 12th. Sounds like a lot and like not enough at the same time.

Friday night was graduation. For Alex that meant staying up all night and playing games with his cousins. That tradition started a few years ago and seems to be a highlight in Alex's life. He got to bed at 9:40 am on Saturday. When he got up just after 6 pm I had to tease him a bit (not my normal pattern) and tell him that he had a few hours before we left for church. He was a bit confused and we had to tell him several times what the date and time was before he wasn't confused anymore.

Besides taking a well-deserved long nap, Glen spent a lot of Saturday getting our garden plot ready to plant our vegetable plants. He also had to go and buy a new swamp cooler since he declared ours not worth trying to save. We're trying a window version instead of a roof-top one this time. Hopefully he gets the new one up and running tomorrow morning as it's supposed to be a week of high temps.

I spent a lot of Saturday (and Friday) alternating heat and cold packs on my back. I'm not off to the productive start of summer that I would have liked, but hopefully I'll be better in a few days.

I've started prepping for next year's seminary class already. I have a great book that lines up the 4 gospels and also gives the Joseph Smith translation of the New Testament. I bought it used ($1.49 + $4.00 s&h is all) and it has really great handwritten notes in it from the student who used it at BYU. Score! I really like it. I'm wondering if you already own it Denise.

Poor Eric killed his computer and had to have a new hard drive put in--so he lost everything he had saved on his old hard drive. :(

Ryan has been playing around with a little generator and lighting up light bulbs with it. :) He also needs a new computer.  :(

Henry is walking and has several teeth now. :)

And that about wraps it up for this week. :)