A break in the boredom

Since my last boring post a few fun things have gone on. My nephew Jordan got his mission call to Boston! He's the one who plays football for BYU. He could not have hand picked a better fitting call for himself. He is a huge Red Socks fan and has always wanted to go to Boston. He also wants to name a son Boston and was worried someone would beat him to it. We weren't able to be there when he opened up the call but we heard it was quite a party. There were tons of friends and family there to support him and everyone was so excited when he announced the Massachusetts, Boston mission. We were on speaker-phone but there was so much noise we only stayed on long enough to hear the big announcement so they sent us some pictures. He has a late birthday and most of his friends have already left for their missions so he is excited to get gone. Here's a cute picture of him and his youngest sister Ally who apparently cried most of that night because she thought he was leaving that night. She loves her big brother! I think he will make a great missionary.

On Thursday we went to a party for Greg's dad Eric who is retiring from the Summit County building department after 23 years. It was a really nice lunch get together with lots of people coming to wish him and Dixie well. He was the head of his department with the county and now will still do inspections for Francis and pretty much be a full time farmer. Something I think he's waited a long time to do.

Then on Saturday we had a surprise party for my mom who is also just retired from BYU after 20 years. She has gone back and forth about retiring for a while now and since my dad retired about 2 years ago I just don't think she could stand it anymore. It was too hard for her knowing she had to get up and go to work knowing he was at home without her everyday. The party turned out really nice and she was totally surprised. We almost thought she knew at first because it took her a minute to react. She thought she was going to dinner with my aunt and dropping off a flower delivery for a surprise bridal shower on the way. I hope she wasn't too disappointed she didn't get to go to Red Lobster. It's her favorite place to eat and she had starved herself all day because she was so excited to be going there. She seemed to have a good time though. Now she has plans to learn to golf, learn to scrapbook, and volunteer at the elementary school where my sisters kids go. We'll see. So far she's taken a lot of naps. (hee hee love ya mom). So there it is. We go from boredom to busy back to boredom. Still watching the snow except it is slowly melting. It's not fast enough for me or my kids. It snowed all morning here on Saturday and an hour away in Salem my dad was mowing his lawn. Crazy Utah weather! The kids had so much fun playing outside on the grass down there we couldn't get them to come inside. We all definitely have cabin fever and are soooooo looking forward to our trip to St. George next weekend . The weather better be dang nice!