A Last Hurrah

We will miss our Rancho La Quinta getaways! Especially the clear sunny days, balmy evenings, three par golf and relaxing by the pool. What wonderful memories we have of delightful days with all our family members....Fun to spend this Memorial Day weekend (great weather) with the Harris family. We met them at the Living Desert zoo to get up close and personal with snakes and cheetahs and giraffes and wart hogs!Will ran everywhere and loved it. Later, we cooled off in the pool, ate a splendid salmon and mahi mahi dinner at the Fisherman's Grill, took a walk at dusk on the course and watched (a pretty cheesy) Marley and Me. What an annoying labrador!....Laura prepared a splendid chicken parmesan dinner on Sunday(which we greatly savored, poised as we are to begin the China Study diet). Our favorite new game: Wits and Wagers. Blaise and Ray are trivia masters!....The house is set to close the third week in July.

Online Radio Station for Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints

Broadcasts are now available online live from radio.lds.org. Great opportunity to hear addresses from the prophet of our church, President Thomas S. Monson, as well as members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and others on topics related to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, happiness in family life and personal preparedness in these challenging times. Broadcasts also include the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Check it out!

Salt Lake Wins

It looks like our dear ones are headed for the Promised Valley where Derek will be completing a six week internship as part of his major in hotel management at BYU Hawaii. Derek will be working for the downtown Salt Lake Marriott. Congrats, Derek! So look forward to seeing you and Hillary in June. And getting to know again Baby (now on her feet and walking) Jocelyn!

Sold Sign

We accepted an offer on our home in Rancho La Quinta. To our astonishment, the buyer knocked on our door the next evening so excited to have closed the deal. He is a Christmas tree farmer from Welches, Oregon, (where Ray's sister lives!). Closing date is July 21st.....We will miss all the getaways and fun times with family....

You Made All My Mother's Days!

Dear Ones, as Mother's Day approaches I reflect on some thirty-four years of being a mom. I loved it all. (Maybe there's a little bit of forgetting that takes place.) You are so very dear to me and I feel enormously blessed. Early on it was a wee bit hard. Some physical challenges at the onset. But once you arrived I liked each of you very, very much. I loved being a mother!! Now I am astonished at what you have achieved and are achieving and who you are becoming that I only had the smallest glimpse of at the start. Your talents and humor and propensities and strengths. Each quite different; each a joy. Know I love you and yours and look forward to all that lies ahead....Steve wrote me when Natalie was born: "You are a mother now forever." Love, Mom