Paiute Trail Jamboree, August 2019

Opening Cermony

Theron's cousin Marjorie Kogianes (that's Greek to us) talked to Theron about the Paiute Trail Jamboree in Marysvale, Utah.  While Theron was in Lake Powell with the family, I was tasked with finding a place to park the trailer.  Found one finally and on August 7-10, we attended our first ATV Jamboree.

Gus and Marjorie

If you have ever wondered who buys ATV's, well let me tell you - everybody.  There were older than us people, younger than us people and families of all shapes and sizes.  There are lots of ATV's over every shape and size, also.

Theron's family in the early years of his growing up used to mine in Marysvale and so we were on a quest to find the old mine.  Our family only went their a couple of times - it was hot, dry, dusty and made us continually on the look out for snakes.  After two day and multiple calls to family members, we finally got in touch with Kendall and honed in on the exact location.  Our last day, we found the mine.  It is officially located with gps coordinates and documented in pictures.  Here are a few.

A Bryce Canyon Road Trip

When you have a Corvette and can take the top off and the weather is perfect, you have to take a road trip.  Our road trip was to drive to Enterprise, keep on the road to Cedar City and then crest the mountain over to Bryce Canyon.  A perfect day and lots of sun.

The only surprise was the top of the mountain and three feet of snow still remaining.

Grandpa - When did you get to be that old?

May 21, 2019, Theron is 68 years old today.  When did that happen?  Not only that, but we attended his 50th year class reunion.  Good old Union High in Roosevelt, Utah.  They just opened a new high school and we were able to tour it and see all the new innovations.  This isn't our learning environment that's for sure.

Now the tongue says it all.  Theron decided to redo all our deck chairs and Adrian's card says - Measure twice, cut once, say crap, crap, crap and go back to the hardware store.  Ain't it the truth!

 Happy Birthday Honey!!!!

50th Union High Class Reunion

May, June and July 2019 - The Catch-up on all Things Family

The family has been busy and so have we so I just need a few pages to catch up on what was happening in the spring and summer.

First, Cameron went on his first official date, the junior prom.  He has turned into handsome.

This next picture is the Dixie Arena where we attended and helped with the area youth indexing event.  During the week of the event, the youth indexed over 250,000 names.  It was awesome.

The kids enjoyed the pool while dad worked on installing the solar panels.  I love all the stickers on the panels.  We are definitely identified. 

As soon as we came home from our around the world trip, we planted our garden.  It looks great now and it did produce some tomatoes and peppers this year. We are learning.

We always love when Adrian has tickets to Tuacahn because she comes to visit, of course it doesn't take much to bring her and Taylor down.  We enjoyed the hike over to Paradise and touring the old Church there. 

It was up north for us to Kacy's pre-school graduation and some - well called on account of rain baseball with Tyce and Mason.

 Marc was at Maker Faire in San Francisco, but all the rest of his family attended their little Kacy's graduation.  I love the pink boots!

This picture of the triplets is precious and we hope they will be called on missions. 

Grandma and Grandpa had a great time staying with Mason, Ali, Tyce and Kacy while mom and dad went to Boston.  Always good to see the parents do something for themselves.

This was the first time in probably 40 years that I braided a little girls hair and put another one in a pony tail.  My hair just isn't that long!

Sun, Sun Everywhere - Captured on our house NOW!

We returned from our around the world trip on April 10.  Theron had been watching our solar system engineering closely and we were able to pick up some of the brackets and other small items to start the solar install.

Theron started immediately when we returned and submitted for permits from Washington City.  As he was working on this, we received a call from Glen and Kristi Davis, who we met in Yuma, Arizona.  They were coming home and volunteered to stay in St. George for a couple of days and help install the solar brackets.  What a big help.  It went rather quickly with two people working on it.  So now the electrical wiring, new circuit breaker boxes and the racks are all in place.  The panels were delivered and waiting.

A week later, we received the solar permits and inspection and the panel install was a go.  How do we get the panels from the ground to the roof?  McGyver to the rescue.  This little (well actually it was big) contraption - pulley system was devised just for that purpose.  We installed three or four panels by ourselves and then the weekend came and Curt came to help.  Tyler Sprague (a part-time neighbor) came to help and within three hours the panels and inverters were installed, the system was ready for final inspection.

Just two days later, they changed the meter and we were now in solar business. 

39 panels
12 Kw system