June

And the school year is over!!  Jacob was happy about that to say the least! 

Top:  Thea, Ashley, Regan, Violet
Bottom: Ella and Brynlee

I bought flowers for our front patio.  I was in Home Depot and these dahlias....I LOVED them! this picture does not do it justice!  Looks much better on my phone.  

We did our annual Valiant Activity Day camp on the Monday after school was out.  We had a fun time.

A few days later I went to Orson Gygi's for a sour dough bread demo.  The bread was great!  

Jacob and Jaxon do Cars and Coffee on the first Saturday morning of the month.  Jaxon made sure to get the whole day off so they can hang out.  In the evening we went to Catheys for pizza and a movie.

My friend, Shanae, had a bday and I took her to lunch.  I wanted pizza, but it was only on the kids menu.  I ordered a house salad and it came out with miniscule pieces of tomato and cucumber along with this weedy type of lettuce--the kid that looks like you went over to the field next door and picked it. 

Joy, Erin Bastian Grover, Me
Stan Bastian, Aunt Pauline Bastian

 

On Saturday, June 14, mom had a cousins reunion.  They are the grandchildren of Wilford and Leah Bastian.  All of their children have passed away--so it was mom and her cousins and their children.  

Grandpa Bastian was the oldest of 8 children and most of them had 6-8 children.  Mom is the 2nd oldest in her family and Uncle June is 15 years younger (Uncle Del Mar is only 7 years younger) than her.  June had 8 children and his youngest, Stan, is just a year older than me.  So that is the crowd Joy and I hung out with.  It was really fun to visit.

Greg Neher is an elder from my mission.  We have kept in touch over the years through Facebook.  He was called as a mission leader for the Lima Peru West mission and starts in July.  He was up here from Arizona that week to be set apart for his mission.  He and his wife had a casual open house on Saturday evening so I went to say hi.  It was so good to see him!  

When I left my  mission I took home a package for him to give his girlfriend Maren.  Maren, her friend Elizabeth, their families and our family became friends.  Maren and her husband, Stuart, are just finishing their mission as leaders of the Lima Peru Cusco mission.  It was fun to talk about what Maren has been doing and about his adventure about to begin!

The next day was Father's Day.  I bought socks (Jason was with me to pick them out), 2 shirts and some shorts.

He didn't really like the shirts, but kept the shorts.  

Father's Day gift giving was a bust

In the afternoon Jason's family came over for Father's Day dinner.  We all gave Randy ESPN so he can watch BYU sports.

It was a hot day so Meilin and Marshall went out to get wet.  Jacob ran around with them.  It was funny to watch Meilin try to squirt him and then he'd get her.  

The Day Break community hosts a summer concert series on Monday nights.  There was a Beach Boys tribute band and we went to hear them play.  It was a great night for it!

The only thing was it was LOUD!  I couldn't even talk to Jason.  The group sang some songs better than others, but it was fun.

   

On June 20 Mom went in for 2 small biopsies on her breasts.  They felt they got them out with clean boarders.  It was same day surgery and Kristina was in town to help the first few days.  Mom has since been feeling better, but tired.  Overall it seems to have gone well.

  

That night Jacob was with friends and the Cathey kids were at Laser tag at the library so we got together with Tom and Wendy to play games.

The following week was Jason's 56th birthday.  He received a watch charger from me and soda and Hot Tamales from Jacob.

Jacob trying to be sneaky

 That night we had everyone over to celebrate birthdays.  

Rob, Jason, Meilin, MarySue and Lilly 
blowing out candles

Saturday morning we went with Mylee to the Taylorsville temple as she received her endowments.  We then had lunch at Jared's.  In the evening we did dinner with Catheys and they invited a few people they know from playing frisbee.  Skyler, Hannah and .  Afterwards we played games.

The drinks Skyler and Hannah brought
kept over fizzing when opened

  

I had to take this shot.  The most
dessert I have ever seen on 
Wendy's plate.  

I can't believe June is over!