July--change in employment coming soon?

July was a wonderful month. Full of games, heat (Glen had to put in a new swamp cooler pump during the big heat wave...so glad he's so handy), regular activities, irregular activities (like our 4th of July party we had on July 5th), and 2 birthdays. Happy Birthday Kaellen and Heather!

Another "handy-man" thing that Glen did was put in a 30" extension mirror in the bathroom--perfect for me to see the back of my head while I'm fixing my hair. I've been wanting one for a long time. So glad I finally ordered one.

He's also had to spend time dealing with blocked lines to our dishwasher and has been working on scrapbooking his years teaching theatre.

Glen got a call asking if he would consider teaching theatre 1/2 days at the high school as a "critical needs" teacher. He said yes, then a week or so later he was told that they actually found someone to fill the position, so he was no longer needed. Less than 24 hours later, Glen received a phone call stating that they needed a 1/2 day Social Studies teacher and was he interested. He said yes.

Pending school board approval and assuming they don't find someone else to fill the spot (ha ha), he'll teach 1 block of World History and 2 of US History. It's really perfect. He would teach 1/2 days on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, then teach all day on Thursdays and have Fridays off. He would be able to sub during his prep (1st block), in the afternoons, and on Fridays as well. I am also planning on subbing.

Just learned Glen in in the IMDb, if you know what that is, because he helped someone looking for an actor for a project they were working on, so he was an assistant casting director:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9123784/

June: trip to Mesa, June bdays, dermatologist visit

Glen, Eric, and I traveled to Mesa at the beginning of June to visit Andrew's family. We stopped in Vegas both ways and stayed at my sister's. It was such a wonderful trip--easy traveling and it was SO good to see everyone.

In Mesa, we took Henry and Joy to a children's museum called the i.d.e.a. museum. That was really fun. Glen and I also took the kids to a park, plus we also got to share a family dinner with Heather's family.

It was Dad P's 89th birthday while we were in Mesa, so we celebrated with him (and many other family members) via Zoom. Happy Birthday, Dad! June is also when my brother Kyle and my brother-in-law Pat have birthdays. So, Happy Birthday, Kyle! Happy Birthday to you, too, Pat!

We also played a ton of games while we were in Mesa, one of which is a new one Andrew has created--Chief Judge of Zarahemla. It's really a great game--the object of the game is to get more votes for your candidate for Chief Judge than your opponents. 

We also loved playing Century Golem Edition and Sagrada so much that when we got home, we bought ourselves the games. We would have also bought another game that I really enjoyed playing -- Ex Libris-- but it is out of print and therefore very expensive, but it's a really fun game.

On the way back to Denise's, Eric treated Glen and me (and himself) to a visit to the Meow Woof Omega Mart. He had been to the one in New Mexico before. It's a very unusual place. I didn't really like it at first, but then we found some things that I thought were fun and I warmed up to it. It was mostly visual but there were also some hands-on activities (which is the part where I started to like it a bit).

I had an appointment to see a dermatologist because I had a growth on the side of my nose that was quickly growing and it was in an annoying spot. It wasn't cancerous, but he also found some precancerous patches on the end of my nose. He froze them all off, so I'm good to go. I just feel blessed that I had the fast non-cancerous growth so that the precancerous ones could be caught early in the "pre" stage.

Grandpa reading to Henry and Joy

Heather and I got to play a duet--I'm not a good sight reader, but it was fun!

Joy helping grandpa to shave

Beth, Eric, Glen, Joy, Andrew, and Heather playing Gugong

Chief Judge of Zarahemla game board

Eric, Glen, Andrew, and Heather playing Chief Judge

Joy playing at the graffiti exhibit at the i.d.e.a museum

grandpa and Henry making masks

Heather, Henry, Joy, and grandpa having fun with the green screen

what the green screen portrayed

Henry at the park

Joy

Henry, age 6, and Joy, age 3 1/2

Dad P's zoom birthday party

one of the light shows at the Meow Woof

outside the Meow Woof