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07/29/12 Parade, Warby's & packing

Bring in the clowns!
7/29/12

Things are moving at quite the pace on this side of the world!
We had the 24th Holiday on Tuesday (no court!!!).  Started early with the parade.  Me and Dallas and the YW dressed as clowns, dad drove the grand Marshall in his mustang, Melva Page, Bryce played in the stake president's band and the girls kazooed with the primary.  So none of us SAW the parade!  Ha.  Hopefully dad will hook you up with a couple of pix though.  


Driving the Grand Marshall, oh yeah!
I didn't think the parade was going to happen because right before (like 7:30 a.m.) we had a DOWN POUR, thunder lightening storm like no other.  But being Utah, it cleared up and just left us with a very muggy warm morning.  Probably saved us from a real scorcher though!
After the parade we walked around the park and got icee and hot dogs while the boys manned the mini putt putt course for the kids.  
Another down pour hit close to noon and I think they shut down the festivities at that point (not sure, we left!!!).  Boys were home not too long after!
Warby's invited us to go to their parent's house for a swim BBQ the evening of the 24th.  The Riley's and Condie's were there too.  We had chicken and chips and cupcakes and jello and swam.  Amy's parents have a nice place over in Bloomington close to Jared's place.  It has a great game room and pool out the back.  It was fun!
Everything is coming together on the house sale/purchases too!  We passed both appraisals and inspections and financing is in place.  The people buying our home gave us a list of things to fix but we think we can do it for about $500 or so.  We are going to hire Steve Loui to take care of a couple.  1- replace whirlybird fans on roof (2); 2- replace roof tiles that have blown off roof (just a handful of them); 3- fix sprinkler head that is pointing at house (I did that one); 4- replace screens that don't fit ($140 and jones paint and glass will have us in business); and finally get a 1 hp garbage disposal in the kitchen.


Everything should be done by next Thursday.  We ordered the disposal online and it will get here Tuesday and we asked Steve to come back Wednesday to complete repairs.  Hopefully these won't be a big deal!
Work is staying really busy too and Dad's work has picked up quite a bit -- the magazine is going again.  
Lots to do with packing up and all so we are just trying to stay on it!
Probably going to go to Capitol Reef this weekend for the Bahr family reunion.  We reserved Th, Fr and Sat nights at the Days inn.  Couldn't get our cabin. It was taken.  Bummer.  But we got 2 rooms so we can at least spread out a little. Depending on how things are going with the house we could possible shorten the trip a little or not go at all.  I think we'll at least try to get up there for some of it though.  Mom is in charge and she would be so disappointed if we didn't come.
Dallas will finish his first class at the Dixie Applied Tech college Thursday too.  Wow time flies!  Seems like he just started that.  Far as I can tell he is doing fine.  Can't babysit his grades for him anymore though so it's all up to him!  
He took apart the old lawn mower yesterday and tried to get it working again.  No luck yet but he thinks a new spark plug might do the trick.  We'll have to get one next week.
Anyway, that sums up our week.  Hope you had another terrific week!!!  We really LOVE reading your letters to the family every Monday night.  I don't know what we'll do for family night once you get back!  You  might have to have the lesson the first few weeks to show us how it's done!!!
Getting ready to head to church before long...5th Sunday, so it's going to be combined.  

Love you lots!  (Be sure to let me know about your 2nd debit card.  I'll work on that tomorrow if needed!!!) mom.

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