Dorothy

July 13, 2008
Dear Family,

Alan and I have enjoyed using our season tickets for Hale Center Theater. We saw “Annie Get Your Gun” in May and “The Curious Savage” in June. Surprisingly, none of our children were in any plays during those two months. However, Heather has been rehearsing as a “Who”- mother in the Alpine community play, “Suessical the Musical” that will be performed seven days in July. We’ll be going tomorrow night.

We enjoyed seeing and visiting with John’s family at Zachary’s wedding reception in May. It was fun to see some of the former ward members as well. Zachary’s wife is very pretty.

Jason and his family came down over Memorial Day weekend. Most of the rest of our children came home too. We just played games and enjoyed each other’s company.

Marcus graduated June 3rd from high school with the ceremonies held at the E-Center.

June 7th we went to the baptism of Daniel’s former girl friend in Provo. She had a lot of friends there in her support, including 9 of us, and Daniel’s new girl friend. We enjoyed walking on the BYU campus, reminiscing, and telling our children what we remembered from our BYU days (I’m glad they don’t mind listening).

It was nice to visit with Lucy and her children while they were in Salt Lake during the time Casey and Rachel went to EFY. And it was nice to visit with Jennifer, even though it was short, when she and Steve were visiting Mom last week as part of their road trip-visits/vacation.

We got to have our two grandchildren stay with us for a week the end of June while Becky attended her ward’s girls camp as assistant ward camp director. They sure were a lot of fun to have around.

One day in June, Ariane and I were given an assignment to help clean the Tabernacle. Marcus and Kevin came also (after I volunteered them) which was a good thing because with the other two volunteers, we were the right number for this cleaning team. We had fun mopping all of the wood floor under all the benches on the main floor as well as the balcony. We got to stop and rest briefly each time the missionaries brought in a tour, when everyone had to be quiet as they gave the “pin-drop” demonstration when they talked about the acoustics of the building.

This past week, from early Wednesday to Saturday night, Marcus and Ariane went to Martin’s Cove in Wyoming on a pioneer trek pulling handcarts with the other youth in the stake. It brought back lots of fond memories when we went four years ago. They had a good time, even thought they got hot and worn out. Marcus drew the picture for their theme, “Faith in Every Footstep” used on their flags and journals (I am sending the picture with this letter).

During June we refinanced our house and got it energy efficient. The added comfort of central air-conditioning, a new furnace, attic insulation, vinyl windows, and siding is very nice and we hope it pays for itself in the long run as they say it will. When you come to visit next, you may notice our yellow home isn’t the bright yellow it used to be, but rather much lighter in color.

We hope all of you are enjoying your summer. It is already time to start thinking about the kids going back to school next month with registration and all. The summer is just to short!!

Love to all-
Alan and Dorothy and family