It's been a long time since I wrote

Wow! About a month and a half since I last put anything here. I really should write more often. Life has been quite busy for me though, and I am finally taking a moment to write.

While quite a bit happened, I know I'm not going to remember it in detail so this will probably be short despite it all.

In a nut shell, here are some of the events.

Casey was able to have his grandparents meet him in China so they could bring him home to Las Vegas. He has been fine, and there haven't been anymore episodes with him. Pam and Anne went to Vegas to see him and his brother and then they brought Casey back to the Salt Lake area for a visit. Zach, in the meantime had to go back East to take some finals that he had missed and do general catch up.

We have learned that my mother-in-law has had some mini strokes and this has caused her to have some form of dementia. This is concerning to us, especially since Melanie is in her home with her bi-polar disorder. We would like to find a way to get Melanie out and on her own to help out the situation in that house as well as to help out Melanie and her dependence. That is something that we will have to simply work out.

Our son had his final band performance that was held at the U of U. That was a nice time out. We let our daughter hang out with some of the people there and I think she had fun because of the socializing.

We were able to spend a little bit of time with Casey when he came to our home to sleep over for a couple of evenings. We didn't do a lot with him, but I was able to talk with him a bit and to learn a little bit about him. I enjoyed the time that he was able to spend at our home.

My family left to Florida on the 4th of June. We were there until the 11th of June. Our dog, Lizzy, spent that week with Randy and Therese (our next door neighbors). I went to Florida for a summit dealing with my work. It went Saturday through Wednesday. So, Friday evening we had to ourselves, but after the long trip there you are just kind of tired. We didn't do much but we did look around at the hotel. It was at the Gaylord Hotel in Florida. Take a look at the link to see how beautiful this hotel is. Our room was quite tiny though.

I went to classes all that week while my family was going out and hitting Disney World. They had a lot of fun with this. Monday evening, as a part of the summit, I went to Universal Studios where they had rented the park. There were a couple of rides in there that made me a bit sick, but I got through it without throwing up.

Tuesday, Aubree came up to see us from Tampa. She stayed the night with us on a blow up mattress that did not work. She had to blow it up about three times during the night. I'm sure she had a miserable sleep that night. But, while I was in class, Aubree got to go with my family to Magic Kingdom and then I met up with them after my classes were over. We had a good time out there, but there was one ride that said it was only a 30 minute wait and it ended up being a 60 minute wait instead in cramped hot quarters. My wife was going nuts with this because she had had a long day out in the heat.

Wednesday there wasn't a lot going on with the Summit, so I was able to go with my family to Downtown Disney. We spent the day just kind of hanging out. We did some swimming when we got home from that and then Aubree left to sleep at a friends house because that mattress didn't work out too well.

Thursday morning Aubree showed up at our hotel for a bit and then she had to head back to Tampa so she could go to work. We went to the Hollywood Studios of Disney and spent a good portion of the day there. That was kind of fun. My wife and daughter left before my son and I left. We only went to a few more things there and then came back. I saw why my wife was getting so tired as she went to these parks day by day.

Friday we had to pack up to go home and then left our bags with the Hotel while we went to Downtown Disney again and then we went shopping at a few places around our Hotel. It was just kind of a lazy time. We finally decided that we had better get to the airport and got there in plenty of time to catch our flight. After arriving home, we picked up our dog and called it a night.

Getting back to work was kind of a pain because there is some catching up I had to do. Then, we had to get ready for a move at work. I packed up my stuff from work on Monday the 21st and then Tuesday went to the new destination. WCF is now located in Sandy. We were the first group to move over and are still moving people over even now. Over this weekend, the computers will be brought to the new building and I will be going from there. It has been interesting because we have been helping others move over to the new building as well as doing our regular work. So far, things have gone smoothly there.

I do have to say that my wife and I had a good conversation with Zach on Skype (an internet phone). We spent a couple of hours discussing religious things with him. He is on the plane of not wanting to be religious right now. It was a fun conversation for both my wife and I (and I hope Zach enjoyed it as well).

Our daughter went to EFY (Especially For Youth - a church thing) and then our ward had it's Youth Conference. Thursday evening was a time for the whole group where they played games outside and then Friday they did Baptisms for the Dead and a service project cleaning the fence at the temple. They then headed down to Manti (close to Ephraim where our son will be going to school) to watch the Manti pageant. She ran into my brother and his family while she was down there.

Our son, in the meantime has been going out to Salt Lake Community College for their marching band. He has done a couple of parades and still has a few more over this next month (three this Saturday).

Well, that's about it. At least the things I can think of.