Mother's Day 2008

Last Sunday we were in Omaha, Nebraska at Bryce’s graduation. It was soo nice to be there. I am glad we were able to go. We saw Sandy’s mom and dad again. We hadn’t seen them for two years since Chris graduated. It’s nice to be able to visit and catch up with them. Bryce’s graduation was very nice. There were about 304 graduates as close as I could figure. There were two student speakers as well as the school principal and the chairman of the school board. Sara played in the band. She plays the trombone. So it was just adults there plus Jason.

We left the Tuesday before. We left the house at 6:45 am. Our home teacher, Todd Hong, was kind enough to take us to the shuttle on his way to work. He works in Fort Hall. We had a couple of hours from the time we got to the airport till the plane left. We had a stopover in Denver with a two hour wait there. we got to Omaha about 7 pm and to Bryan & Sandy’s house by 8:00. It was a long day! I didn’t feel to bad tho’ until the next morning then I really felt like “the morning after the night before”. By the afternoon I was feeling better. Bryan wasn’t there. He had had to leave the Sunday before for Vandenberg AFB for his work. He got back about 7 pm Friday night. Jason was a joy to be around. He seemed to know us and wasn’t a bit shy around us. We hadn’t seen him since last August. Helen and Al, Sandy’s parents got there Wednesday evening. Thursday evening everyone went to bed except for Sandy, Helen and me. We stayed up until 1:00 am just visiting and catching up. No interruptions or anything. The time quickly got away from us but we all thoroughly enjoyed it. We talked a little bit about everything and nothing. Wednesday evening, Helen, Al Karl and I stayed home while Sandy went to the high school for the awards program for Bryce and Sara. Jason kept us all four going. He sneaked outside twice before we could stop him…of course out of the front door. They have put locks high up on their doors because Jason can navigate even the dead bolt locks. After the second time we were smart enough to lock the high lock. My husband and I took him for a walk around the block. He trotted all the way around…and it’s a big block! I kept hold of his hand all the way around. He was very cooperative about that for which I was very thankful. I knew if he got away from me, I wouldn’t be able to catch him. He just moves too fast.

On Sunday Bryan, Jason, Karl and I went to the Cottonwood ward to sacrament meeting. While Bryan was upstairs getting ready to go, Jason locked himself in the bathroom (Sandy had told me that he locks the door when he goes in to do things he knows he shouldn’t and that there was a small screwdriver above the doorframe of each bathroom. Bryan found Jason sitting in the sink in two inches of cold water with my tooth brush in his mouth and my toothpaste in his hand. For some reason he really likes toothbrushes. Their ward didn’t meet until 1:00 pm and we all had to leave around 11:30 to get to Omaha. Bryce requested Schnitzel, potatoes and gravy, rolls, corn and green beans, and strawberry lemonade. Sandy also surprised him with a cheese cake, which he hadn’t requested but wasn’t a bit disappointed when he found out about it. After dinner we were able to talk to Chris who is in Chile and Jessica who is in Tucson. It was wonderful to be able to talk to them. They both are doing very well and having great success on their respective missions. They sound pretty much the same but more mature and wiser. Monday night I was outside with Bryan and Jason. Karl and Helen were out there for a while also. Bryan showed us all around his yard and showed us his trees and plants. His hobby is very much plants. I think it may have started when he worked for Kim Johnson while he was still in high school and the summer before his mission. He may have also worked for him after his mission as well. In fact, I think he did. After Karl and Helen went in I started playing “I’m going to get you” with Jason. He would run and I would go after him. He went slow enough that I didn’t have much trouble keeping up with him. He some how got the idea that he was “safe” by the flower box Bryan has in the middle of his garden. He would run around then head for the flowerbox when he wanted a rest. He would run and then turn around and face me squealing; he’d place his hands over his face and then run at me and grab me around the legs. We both had great fun. I can safely say that it wore me out much more than it did Jason.


My husband and I were each able to call and talk to our mother's and wish them a Happy Mother's Day. Of course we were there with Bryan, Michael called that evening. Karen had brought me a gift the day before we left. After we got home I found out that Richard had called Monday and Kim had sent me a nice card. It was good to hear or see each one of them.

We left Bryan’s about 10:30 am Tuesday morning. We had an uneventful trip until we got to Denver. The plane was late starting to board. We all got boarded about two minutes before we were to take off, then we just sat there. After about ten minute, the captain came in front of the cabin and told us that they had found something suspicious in one of the bathrooms. We all had to deplane taking everything with us that we had brought on board. They had called the police and the fire department. We stood in the gateway for about ten minutes, then they told us to sit down in the terminal. After we had all been sitting down about a minute they told us we could reboard. We took off a full hour after we were first told too. I was told that someone had wrapped an air freshener from the toilet seat in toilet paper. My husband was told that someone had spread foot powder all over the bathroom. Maybe it was both. Anyway, buy the time we got to SLC our shuttle had left and we had to wait another hour for one to arrive. So we were two hours later getting home than we had anticipated. All in all it was a good trip and we had a wonderful time and are glad we went. Of course it is always good to get home.

Wednesday morning I had a 10:00 nail appointment and then we had to be at the FHC at 12:15. I kept telling myself that I could let down and do nothing Thursday. That did help me get thro’ Wednesday. I had Thursday and Friday only to prepare for my class on Saturday. It was on the Advanced Focus filter of the PAF program. Again, I felt the Spirit helping me and guiding me as I was preparing it. I spent about 6 ½ hours total on that class. I’m glad that I understood it as well as I did. I had used it twice to help partrons to isolate some of the individuals on their programs that had things on their individual screen that needed to be changed. I also had to write up the program for me to give and also the step by step instructions of how to use it. It went very well. I have only two more classes to teach and this round will be over. I will start again on July 12. I anticipate it being easier to teach the second round. I sincerely hope so.