Melissa, Andy and the kids' Blog

Dino time with friends. The gymnastics show off was fun.  Lilian's class was at about 4:30.  Then we went and ate dinner at the reservoir before the twin's showoff.  Lily did a great job, then during dinner she wouldn't eat and got all sleepy.  This evening we realized she had a fever.  Had no idea she was sick, until after she finished her show off.  Hannah during warmups Finn doing his stretches. Melissa decided to make a fidget mat for Grandma Clift.  She is living alone, they have lots of activities and outings, but Melissa read somewhere that this can be a good focus for her as her memory is struggling.  Helping to focus on fine motor skills and a distraction.  Mother's day was tough this year.  Melissa ended up sick, a cold Sunday and a GI bug hit her about 2 AM Monday. She spent most of Sunday in bed then we ate dinner together. During the night, when she was feeling awful, we decided I would take the day off work.  She spent...

For my mom's 70th birthday my sister, Trisha, had the idea for our siblings to surprise her. Trisha, Brian, Andrew and Mark all came.  I told my mom that we wanted to take her on a trail ride for her birthday weekend.  When she walked in I came out singing to her, followed by Andrew, then Mark, then Brian and last Trisha.  Mom was so surprised and excited. It was perfect! (April 30th, 2022) Mom with 5 of her kids. We did end up going for a ride. Brian had driven his jeep down, so he wanted to hit up some trails. We went down to Comb Wash Road because it is an easy trail for Mom. She gets a little nervous on trails.  Along the road there were some petroglyphs. Trisha rode in the back of one of our side by sides. Mom and Bill rode in Brian's jeep, so they stayed pretty clean. The kids loved climbing around the rocks and looking at the "pictures".  Mark and I explored some rocks too. Brian had 2 chairs and some shade on his jeep. Our trail buddies! That night we go...

Melissa took the kids, with friends, down to Five Kivas Pueblos in March and the trail was COVERED with glass and ceramic shards.  She mentioned how sad it was on Facebook and organized a clean up effort before general conference sessions on April 2nd.  Several families came down and we took out around 70 pounds of glass.  We only made it about 25% down the trail.  Here Melissa is helping a friend, Chad Vernon, and I lift the big garbage can over the narrow part of the trail.   Sunday, between general conference sessions, we went for a ride/walk to the USU campus for a picnic.  There was a loan goose hanging around.  So we ate and tried to avoid goose droppings... I don't think he'd been alone for long.  One fun part of spring in San Juan is catching the water at Cottonwood Wash.  We're lucky, Melissa will usually see Facebook posts about the water, so we know when it is running. Then the next warm day I have off, we go down.  It wa...