Jenny’s Blog

july 4

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:29:01 -0500

for years now, we have spent the evening of the july 4th and the mclean home celebrating with good food and ice cream. i made the buttermilk ice cream and it was good! my first... we also had some texas sheet cake in honor of lynne’s birthday - sarah said i need to get the recipe. it was a little lonely without tom, he went home on the 30th and back to work in order to pay for all the vacationing the rest of his family was doing so we tried to muddle through without him. you can see we had to work hard, but we managed ...

here we are .. waiting for dark and alec framed with aaron’s fingers. it would have worked better if alec had given us a prettier face! oh, notice the hair cut ... nice.

july 3

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:16:00 -0500

since the 4th fell on a sunday, the white rock annual 4th of july parade and back yard ... party ... were celebrated on the 3rd. personally, having the fireworks a different evening than the parade sure made for an less tiring and stressful day. alec had the camera ...

i asked him to take a picture of jacob in the float with sam - jacob’s 2nd cousin - alec said .. really? i said yes ... so after the eye-rolling, he ran out in the parade and took a picture. helpful child. aunt lynne was thrilled to not have to ride in the wagon to be sure that sam didn’t climb out -- at least, that’s what i heard, i bet she was really disappointed ...

june 28

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:49:32 -0500

the boys really wanted to hike the east rim trail so they got up really early - 6 am - and took themselves to the park because they didn’t want to hike in all the heat. i want melanie to notice the backpack alec is wearing ...

june 27

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:38:27 -0500

this is alec with his graduation cake his parkinson grandparents got for him ... grandma made a delicious steak dinner and then we had chocolate cake. i like chocolate cake.

any comment alec? no? ok.

june 26

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:24:43 -0500

now it’s time for everyone to part ways and go home ... some of us only had a 30 min drive AFTER we had made our way through the park, but some people had to go all the way home ... blech! we stopped in zion’s and rode the shuttle to the lodge just so carly could buy a tshirt (none of the one’s at the visitor center were any good). then we stopped and ate at in-n-out burger -- we know how to vacation!