The end of the school year always brings school programs. We enjoyed attending Daisy's performance with singing from each of the grades. She's a sweetheart, but gets shy when performing.
Corinne Ritz and Emily Jensen put on such a fun bridal shower for Emily. They went all out and it was very nice. Many wonderful friends came and "showered" her with lovely gifts. Emily was especially excited about the Bosch that her sisters and sisters-in-law and Smith aunts and myself gave her. She was over the top about it.
June 13th Crismon and Danielle arrived back to America from living in Taiwan for a year. They were extremely tired and slept for hours trying to recover and get back on our time zone. The long 24-hour trip was rough. They were glad to be here and we enjoyed having them. We had all the family gather on Sunday for a family dinner. During the evening, Bryson played his piano recital piece and others performed. Crismon worked odd jobs to earn money. They were with us until the end of June. We were gong to Utah for about 5 days, so they didn't have to be in our home alone, they stayed with the Vance's for some of the time.
We enjoyed meeting Corwin and Lynette at the temple to do a session and then visiting afterwards at the cafeteria. It was funny, one time Crismon and Corwin showed up with the same time. They are very much alike in many ways.
I have thoroughly enjoyed Visiting Teaching to Verla Jeffries over the years. She is just two months younger than Grandma Lewis born Nov. 22, 1920. I have been inspired by her faithful good life and her positive attitude despite her trials. She has been an avid reader and has kept us with the current news. Every night when she prays, she says each member of her family out loud by name. There are about 30 or so of them, so I was impressed by that she does that each day and that also helps her remember and think of each one. I want to be better at doing that.
We left on June 23rd to drive to Pocatello, Idaho to pick up Julia. Then headed to Utah for Brad Allen's retirement dinner and honor given to him by the Boy Scouts in that Council. He has been an incredible leader in the Boy Scouts as well as being the LDS Relations Director for a number of years. There were dignitaries there, along with Sister Rosemary Wixom, the General Primary President, and YM General Leaders. We're glad Alice-Anne could go with us as well as Emily and Bronson came up from Provo. Cousins Alejandra and Jasmine Gimenez and Harrison McCullough were at our table.
We loved staying with the Johns family, as always. We didn't have a lot of time to play with the children, but we enjoyed some time with them. We headed back to Idaho to take Julia home on Thursday, the 25th. We stopped at Grandma Julia's for a delicious lunch and visiting. Geoff and Peggy were out of town, but Roger & Andrea joined us. We then hurried on to Nampa Idaho to do a Reliv presentation for Cecily Croston and Shauna & Mike Arnell that evening. It went really well and they had a good turn out of guests. We spent the night with Cecily and then after a training in the morning with the two of them we headed home.
We had one last dinner with Crismon & Danielle, the Vance's and the Caudle's at the Vance's home on Sunday evening. We also celebrated Sydney's 12th birthday. She is maturing in to such a beautiful young lady. But then again, she has always been beautiful. She never went through an awkward looking stage. She's always been a special delight to us, as each one of the grandchildren are, too.
It was a busy, productive month. Along with everything else this month, we somehow squeezed in a trip to Minnesota for Seth to be ordained a High Priest and set apart as a counselor in the Bishopric. We left on Saturday the 6th and returned on the 9th. I'm amazed that my health was such that I could do it all. I know I suffered after the fact, but He blesses me beyond measure.
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