Falling Behind

The last couple of weekends have been very fun. Last weekend we travelled to Burley to celebrate my 10 year class reunion and to attend the Cassia County Fair. The reunion was very good the attendance was very high and it was good to see freinds that I hadn't seen since shortly after graduation. Everyone seems to be doing well and staying in good shape. THEre were only a few like myself who seemed to have added a few pounds and only a few that had lost a noticeable amount of hair. Friday was dinner at Maury's Stake house and Saturday was a family picnic at storybook park. Saturday afternoon we attended the fair with Mom. We ate some fair food and Bridgelynn rode the Merry-Go-Round at the carnival. Sunday we went to church with Mom and said goodbye to Dani who moved to Logan on Monday to start her life as a USU Aggie.

This weekend my work had a summer party at Nat SOO PAh. It was fune there was some really good BBQ and the girls enjoyed the swimming pool. Unfortunately the turnout was petty small with onlyfive or six families showing up. At least they did something this year the prior two summers have had no work parties. Hopefully we can use this party as a springboard for future events with more people coming. Bridgelynn is getting better at going under water in the pool but is still not showing much interest in practicing to swim. McKinzie also seems to go under water well, but I do need to remember to shave my chest before swimming with McKinzie becuase she kept using it as a handle and I spent most of the time with her in pain.

There was one agravating moment this week, and that was getting called to Jury Duty in Boise. I don't live in Boise anymore, so I am disqualified from surving, but the only proof of residence they accept is a driver's license or voters registration from Jerome. My driver's license doesn't expire until next year and I have never in my life registered to vote and wasn't planning to this year, but it looks like I am either going to register to vote or renew my license a year early. I haven't decided which option to follow yet. For those of you who wonder why I haven't voted in my 11 years of elligibility it is becuase I live in Idaho where republicans always win at the state and federal level and so far the only locality I have ever cared about is Burley and I have never ben an ellgible voter in that county. Who knows maybe if I live in Jerome long enough I may take a larger role in determing who leads the town.

Family Reunion

Last week was an eventful week for my girls and I. We went to the annual Powell Family reunion up at Thompson Flat which is between Pomerrelle and Lake Cleveland. We were there from Thursday until Saturday afternoon and we only left our camp ground one time to briefly drive to the top and the mountain and to stop by Lake Cleveland. Most of the time we spent hanging around the camground cathcing up with family and playing games. I spent a large prtion of the day Friday helping my uncle dig a hole and wrap a pig and then bury it in the hole to cook for dinner. Unfortunately we rushed the fire a little bit and the pig wasn't done by dinner time. So we rewrapped the pig and redid the fire and ate him for lunch one Saturday. It was my first time seeing a pig cooked this way and it was pretty good.

Saturday evening we went to my Dad's 50th birthday party down at the boat docks on the river. Cherie, Bridgelynn and I went out on the boat and even got on an intertube for a little bit. It was Bridgelynn's first time on a boat and on an innertube. She loved it! She was little nervous at first but once she got used to it she had a fun time.

Stay tuned I will add pictures in a little bit.