17 Years and Counting...

Hello!

Well, Frank's parents have been visiting for a few days. They'll be here all this week, then Saturday we all drive south for a Whitesell family reunion.

Yesterday Frank and I celebrated 17 years of being married! We went to the temple, just like we did in 1992.

(Washington D.C. Temple), (Boston Temple)

Then dinner and a movie, and Teresa made a great treat cake for us and left it out for when we got home. We saved it until today because who can eat a big dessert at 11:30 at night?

Happy Week!

New Word for the Week

Hello!

Let's see, the word for the week is RAIN, RAIN, RAIN!

No WONDER this place is so GREEN! Ha.

(The humidity makes your hair absolutely beautiful, too, as I'm sure you can imagine...)

Last week we visited the Hangens, just about 20 minutes from here. Frank attended high school with Tona, and their family lives in Stow. They raise turkeys every summer, get them nice and fat and then they become 24 families' Thanksgiving dinners come November.

Believe it or not, you can order baby turkeys, and they send them via the U.S. Postal Service. I'm not kidding! They put them in a little box all together to keep each other warm, and they arrive at the post office, a box of 24 turkey "poults." Did you know that word? I just looked it up. A baby turkey is called a "poult."

Tona said they are SOOOooooooo cute when they arrive, but they grow pretty fast, so the cutest time is in the first week or two. So, I asked Tona to tell us when the turkey poults arrived. The post office called them and said, "Come get your birds!" Because all those turkey poults are kind of loud and irritating to the post office staff. (And you know how you do NOT want to irritate a postal worker...could get messy.)

We went to see them when they were about 5 days old. Very cute! Here are the girls setting up an obstacle course for them.

And here is Frank holding a tiny one, and the box where they all stay together for the first couple of weeks:

Awwwww...aren't they adorable?

Have a great week!

Vacation time in Arizona

Well, I was visiting Mom in AZ last week--what a very fun time.

We started with a trip to Arizona for just Frank and I...my sister Kim got married in the Snowflake Arizona Temple last Saturday, and that was a happy day.

Then, Frank returned to brave the Real World as both mom and dad in our family for the week, while I stayed to play with my mom.

One night was a comedy show at a local theater, it was pretty funny. It was called "Harlie's Angels," a spoof of Charlie's Angels, you remember with Farah Fawcett and the others in the 70's. Every time one of them would say "We're Harlie's Angels," they would strike the pose of the silouhette, you know how one stands sideways with her hands posed to karate-chop someone, the right one has a gun pointing...

Another night was horseback riding, I'll have to get the photos out of Mom's camera. A far cry from my friend Marilee's horse experiences in

Canada right now, but it was beautiful scenery riding up the canyon, and cool temps with a breeze. (Notice the color-coordinated shirts...we didn't want to get lost, of course. kidding :) )

Can't say I could sleep in, since they don't do Daylight Savings Time in AZ...the sun gets up before 5 a.m.! But I took early cool walks in the sunshine, and temps later in the day were perfect: 85 degrees.

The electricity went out one evening so we took the golf cart around the neighborhood and golf courses. I counted rabbits. 93 of them-- also a deer.

Now I'm back, and I'm supposed to hit the ground running. Wow, at 6 a.m. my body still thinks it's 3 a.m. Why are my eyes not opening, again?

(It is SOOOOOOOOOOO hard to get back to work after a vacation...)

I appreciate sunshine, warm temps, and states that actually have summer. Plus Mom's house is so neat and tidy. An elusive goal I've always had.

Well, time to grocery shop, get gas, try to find the floor and countertops in my not-so-tidy place! Have a great week!