Another Double Day

It's Sunday and we're back from church. We have the early schedule this year, 9:00 a.m. to noon, so that gives us more home time in the afternoon.

We started out yesterday morning breakfast of pancakes with pure maple syrup and turkey bacon. Then it was haircut time for Grandpa. It was that or the purchase of a dog license. Later, while he was working on a Power Point presentation most of the afternoon and evening, James was working in the kitchen on his laptop computer while Gloria and the children went to Penney's to exchange some clothes for Laura and Bradley that Gloria had sent to them but were the wrong size. After Penney's, they went to Dinosaur Park over near the 7th-8th Ward's Chapel. They had a fun time there for about an hour before returning to the house.

Around 1:00 p.m. everyone but Roger went to swim at the Wave Pool. However, Gloria did not swim and Bradley didn't want to have anything to do with the waves. They stayed for about two hours and then came home and took some quick showers.

For dinner, we all went to Winger's to eat. It was about 6:00 o'clock by then. Gloria had received a coupon card worth $25.00 from the counselors at the high school for Professional's Day so it actually only cost about $16.00 to feed all six of us. It wasn't too bad, except it was pretty and we had to wait some time for our food. We watched some of the third game between the Lakers and the Jazz. The Jazz ended up losing it at home. One more loss and they're out of the playoffs. Oh well, we don't watch them much anyway.

After dinner, Gloria and the girls watched the new version of "Pride and Prejudice" (the one with the pink Bible) on video, while Bradley watched a video about some children that helped save the life of a Panda bear in China. James was still working on his laptop and Roger was still trying to finish up the Power Point presentation. (It's an unprofessional attempt on something for Gloria for Mother's Day.)

Around 9:00 we all started to get ready for bed. By 9:40 lights were out and it was prayer time and then beddy-bye.

This morning Gloria was up around 5:30. She took a shower and worked on her Primary lesson. She woke me up a little after 6:00 o'clock so I could get up a take a shower before the children and James awoke. We had warm cracked wheat cereal and biscuits with honey-butter for breakfast. Everyone then got ready for church and we were out of the house at about 8:35.

The Young Men's Presidency were the speakers in Sacrament and the Young Men and their leaders sang a medley of songs for the intermediate hymn. James and I attended Sunday School Gospel Doctrine class while Gloria and the children were in her class with her two class members. Then James and I attended High Priest Group Meeting while the kids and Gloria were in Sharing Time.

We arrived home a little after noon and Gloria proceeded to put Sunday Dinner together. Laura's sugar count made it necessary to delay eating for a while so it would go back to normal. We eventually roast beef, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, green salad, biscuits and more hone-butter. Then we topped it off with Heavenly Hash or Blueberry and Pomegranate ice cream. Pretty tasty!

While James took a much-needed nap, Gloria and the children played some games in our bedroom and Grandpa worked on his presentation on the computer. Then Bradley wanted to watch a video and so did the girls. So, the girls and Gloria were in the small bedroom, along with Grandpa, and Bradley was in the living room.

When James woke up, and the videos were over, it was time for our guests to start putting things together for their trip back to Kaysville. Everything was rounded up and stowed into the car and by 7:30 p.m. they were on their way "over the mountain." Stephanie was due back from New York to the SLC Airport by about 9:00.

By 9:00 Gloria and Roger were ready for bed, but not until having spoken to Macy and John by telephone, and to Audrie, of course.