Happy Birthday, Grandma Doris

It was a very busy weekend as we celebrated Grandma Doris' 92nd birthday on September 20.  Larry flew in from Seattle for the festivities, Kaytee stopped by after she and Josh spent a few days at a body building expo in Las Vegas and my cousin Cliff Elford accepted my invitation to spend the night in between points A and B (he's been in all 50 states in his travels).  On Thursday we picked up Larry at the Las Vegas airport, then went to a movie ... something he says he rarely does at home.  On Friday, we picked up Adyn and Skylar from Mark and Kim Postma and spent a busy and fun day (fun for me ... for Larry, not so much) at the new Water Conservancy District Park, had lunch at the Pizza Factory then headed to the St. George Children's Museum (Adyn and Skylar's favorite place when they come for a visit), finishing up the day playing in the water features in the Town Square).

Cliff arrived on Sunday evening and we had fun catching up with our cousin (oldest son of Eloise Henion Elford, one of my father's five sisters).  On Monday, I took Larry to my Rotary club meeting held this week at Dixie Middle School where as a club we learned the intricacies of pickle ball.  It was fun!  Monday night Larry and I had plans to volunteer at Tuacahn for "Sister Act" but they had changed the schedule and were performing "When You Wish" instead.  Larry was disappointed and of course, had no experience with any of the Disney music.

Sadly, we also didn't get much time with Stacy's family since Taisley was diagnosed with "mono" and Stacy is still sick with some kind of lingering gomboo!

On the "up side" we introduced Larry to the card game, Phase 10, which he seemed to thoroughly enjoy.

I was grateful to have my brother around for a few days but I'm not sure he enjoyed me as much as I did him.  Sadly, I probably won't see him again until our mother passes - or until her 93rd birthday!

PS:  Another cousin made contact this weekend.  I got a text message from my cousin Cynthia (Bert and Carol Owen's youngest daughter) who works for SelectHealth and was the one who did Grandma Doris' online enrollment.  According to Cynthia, "I made a note (of her birthday) when we enrolled her."  I said in return, "she won't know who you are because she has some dementia."  Her response, "If her face lights up when she hears someone is thinking about her on her birthday, that's all that counts." I thought her text was a lovely gesture.