Richins

what do I think about?   communication, family and kids, being a friend, cleaning and death and the process of dying. (Don't worry. I am not thinking of harming myself. It's on a bigger picture/ it happens to everyone level.) I will have to see if I can work on my communication and expound upon these things to explain but for now this is it.

Here are some of the pictures I took while at Uncle Lester's 97th birthday party that was in the first part of August. Everyone was required to have there picture taken with him before they could leave.  John Layland figured out that Daryl could wink and really encouraged him to do that in all of the pictures; he doesn't really need encouragement with that. It was fun seeing the Porter side of the family, though there were a bunch of people I didn't know. My bigger kids loved the trampoline and Ruth loved the drinking cups.  On a funny side note Janene thinks it would be great to set Uncle Lester and Roberta up on a date, you know, since they are the same age and everything! Roberta has NEVER been on a date so I don't know  if 97 would make her ready for her first one. It is a fun thought though!

Since I am a horrible journal writer, this blog turns in to mine for our family. Here are a few things that have been happening  or are happening that I want to remember. At the end of June our neighbor, Alan got our suburban running again for us! It started right up. It was amazing and Glen and I were both shocked but Alan was not, because that is how it is suppose to work. Glen made it through his first semester of grad school. Only four or so more till he is done.  Evelyn's memory is really slipping but she does remember important things,like when she didn't have a car and that my brother is borrowing her genealogy book. She REALLY doesn't like being 89, she says, "It is old and do you know what number comes after it?" Also she doesn't feel that old and she doesn't picture herself that old. 91 was how old one of her grandmothers lived to be and she remembers her being really old but she didn't ever picture herself living to be that old. ...