Loving My Van

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

New old boat

I had been thinking about it for a long time, but finally voiced it to T. "Can you keep your eye open for an older boat that we could replace Grandpa BD's with?" He had one on Kolob which was stolen years ago. I have always missed that little part of our heaven.

Well, T wasted no time. Within 12 hours I had six boats to look at, and this is the one we chose.

Life often hands us trials that are not fun to go through and we had one going on in our family. There was a sad heart and I suspected that this might help.

I'm so grateful that Dean has a good job, and that we could find enough pocket change to pick this little boat up. I can see many happy moments in our future.

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Oak City picnic

We changed things up a little in 2019 and instead of going to the derby went to Oak City for some quieter family t

ime.

Dean has been doing much better with his anxiety but with this many people here for a visit we didn't dare push things. He came home with me from the parade and we fixed Navajo Tacos for the family when they returned. Then about 4 p.m. we headed east.

It's been long enough since going there that the littles had not seen it, and the teenagers hadn't for a very long time.

A picnic in the Ponderosa was just the thing for the family. It was perfect: quiet enough to keep the Grands calm, and plenty of things to discover. I think this should be our new tradition.