Sunday, May 24, 2026

Cecily's Graduation and End of School Fun










Cecily's graduation from the U. We are just so proud of her!

I knew as soon as they started speaking it was a done deal but it was still sad to see them sell out the county's birthright for a mess of pottage. Maybe it will magically be fine but I doubt it.
I've never seen so many farm bureau and John Deere hats at a protest though.

Jennetta was awarded the Noble Eagle at Bountiful Junior High tonight. We are so proud of her. And it's funny, the other award went to Alan L. Morrell's son Will. So I guess it's church history employee kids night?








Jetta's awesome volleyball team
Did I tear up on the last day of Jetta's 9th grade? Yes. She was awesome in SBO and her teachers all loved her and she is excited to now go to high school. And she was in the yearbook 30 times!
Pizza and milkshakes.

 Playing escape room simulator 2.

Saturday, May 23, 2026

Other bits and bobs from April

 

I just liked this drawing

Multicultural breakfast
Game night with Emmy and Mike

Neena's play!
And Jetta getting SBO pres for Sophomore!

NYC and DC work/fun trip

 How to spend a glorious few days in NYC: 1. Plan a few extra days on the East Coast for a work trip. 2. Take a red-eye and then luck out with a kind flight attendant who lets you have a full row because someone is in your actual seat. Then luck out with a kind hotel desk attendant who lets you check-in early so you can both eat the hotel breakfast and take a refreshing nap. 3. Get the cheapest tickets you can for two new Broadway shows back to back: Operation Mincemeat and then Maybe Happy Endings. Grab pizza in between. Then get a too good to go of pastries to get calories to get back to the hotel. 4. Sleep hard. 5. Wake up and go to a local museum, this time the Bronx Art museum (because it's a setting in of one of your favorite scifi books: The City We Became) and just feel. 6. Go to Central Park to read a book about cartographers in nyc. 7. Decide to do a third Broadway musical because tkts has The Outsiders half off (and make your youngest angry/jealous). It was my favorite, if you were curious. 8. Sit at the NYC city hall park and listen to the guy who feeds the squirrels talk about how much he loves those little guys as they climb up his pants.  9. walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to the NYU lecture I was delighted to attend. 10. And then say goodbye via bus to this lively/living city.





















Then I enjoyed a wonderful conference that I helped plan in DC and a lovely dinner at Greg Prince's house before heading back home.