Grandma Honey

Earlier this summer Den's oldest son Kevin, his wife Karina and 
their daughter Kaylee came to see us for a few days. 

One day while out to lunch Kevin told me THE best sandwich is at 
Chick-Fil-A and do you have one of those here in Clovis? I said, 
no, BUT, we are getting one very soon! 

He said, "Oh you will LOVE it!" 

Well here's our Chick-Fil-A so many of us were excited about 
getting in our neighborhood....



I heard from various store clerks near our home there would be one  going up here, and we would watch it every few days as we'd drive  by. Then came the day when the sign went up!

Triple A....Chick-Fil-A...what's the difference. Reminds me of  that old telephone game we would all play in grade school. One  little change in a sound, and the story was completely different!

And apparently this little change in sound went from clerk to clerk  and store to store....
because I heard from several sources it would be a Chick-Fil-A. 


I guess the only way we'll get a chic…

Bob Ellis died. He was the DA for Bill's murder trial.

I remember something unusual.  
During the trial I would see this unknown woman sitting in the 
court room. She came in alone, and left alone. I finally asked our 
court advocate about her one day and she said,"Oh that's Bob Ellis' wife. Whenever Mr. Ellis is in court, she's here too."



After reading in his obituary this week:
"Bob was the master of home improvement projects and was 
the envy of many of his wife's friends, a great "honey-do" guy," 
I realize they are examples of 'what goes around comes around.'

She was there for him, and he was there for her.

Since the trial was 18 years ago, I don't remember any of my many 
conversations with Bob Ellis, but I do remember how kind and 
helpful he was.

He would call me with updates on our case, and always willing to 
talk when I called him with my multitude of questions. 

Fast forward 18 years later, and I've learned he has passed f…

1. When McKay first sent me this picture I didn't know why.  Then he said, "Can't you see Grant?" Then I gasped. 


2. What happened to this girl, I could only dream about. She had 
NO idea she was pregnant until she was 28 weeks along! Wow, she 
got to totally skip that first trimester, and the 2nd one too. 
(This is Kara Vukovich. Her mom, Terri Emler, grew up across the street from us.)




3.  Just so happened, the missionary to the right here, Dylan Tanner 
Jr, lives in my sister Robin's ward here in Clovis, but he spent the 
last few months of his 2 year Boston mission in McKay and 
McKenna's ward! 

They had him over for dinner several times.

Dylan's father, I might add, was Tyler's 11 year old scout leader  right after Tyler's Dad died 20 years ago. What a blessing that was.


4. Lunch from leftovers in the fridge:
Leftover salad, lentils, GF pasta, and chicken,  with honey mustard dressing. SO good. 
5. I spotted this picture in Kirklands recently.
I just wish ev…

A friend of mine told me something years ago 
that helped me this past week.

She said when her 2 youngest kids went to Utah to visit their older 
sister and family, she asked her older daughter to give her younger 
siblings some chores to do while there.

I was curious about that at the time.

This info came in so handy this past week as my 8 year old 
grandtwins stayed with us.

I wanted to keep them busy and happy.

And I know that 
all play and no work does not a happy person make. 

I really didn't care if their beds were made, but it was good for 
them, so I asked them to. 

Only one morning did they forget. All about keeping them busy and happy.
Grandpa taught them how to set up tables for  our weekly vegetable club.
Sweet Tea folded laundry
Jonas wasn't real thrilled about folding his own laundry. He said,  "My Mom does that for me at home."
But seriously I saw pride all over his face as he carried  that same laundry down the hall and put it away.

I may have made up some of the jobs.




And …

Look who arrived to stay with us for a whole week ....

while their parents climb Mt Whitney, AGAIN. (the highest mountain in the US, I might add) 

First things first. Shortly after they arrived I had them unpack  
kind of like one would do after arriving to summer camp

and organize their outfits into the closet 
I then explained that we were all going to my eye appt. I thought I better warn them it was located at the hospital.
Their eyes got very big, so I assured them all was well,  that was just where my eye doctor's office was.
Their eyes were still big and looking worried Jonas asked,  "Will we see any dead people?" I assured them we would not. 
Glad we got that cleared up.
They were patient little waiters.  So after my appt we took them to Sweet Tomatoes.
We literally had not been there in years, 

and they did not remember it at all.


They were thrown off by the name. What child is attracted by "sweet tomatoes?"
But once they began eating,  Jonas said several times, "I love…