Well, according to my mom’s email this morning, their offer to purchase property in New Harmony, Utah was accepted. Her email: This is an OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! We have a PROPERTY DEAL in Harmony Heights, Utah!! We signed the papers last night via e-mail transmission, so we should be the new owners soon. Now all the […]

The City of Henderson just built a new water park a couple miles away from us. They have a pretty impressive Parks Department. Now that she’s out of school, Eliana’s trying to fill her itinerary with all sorts of fun things. Here are some photos from the first week of summer.

On Thursday Eliana and her cohorts finished this year of public school. As I mentioned earlier, she and Vickey cooked up a plan to have many of her kindergarten class friends over for a late night party. The played in the back yard, had snow cones, ice cream and popcorn while watching a movie. I […]

My parents are now at the Las Vegas airport waiting for their flight back to rainy Albany. It’s 100 degrees and sunny here in Henderson and in Albany it’s 64 degrees and rainy. We enjoyed seeing grandma and grandpa for a few hours yesterday and today, and going out to dinner with them last night. […]

We learned late this afternoon that my parents have made an offer on a 3.8 acre lot in New Harmony, Utah, just south of Cedar City. They’ll know early next week whether or not the owner has accepted their offer. I must say I’m surprised they were able to find something they could agree on […]

We received a voice message tonight that my parents—who are hunting in southern Utah for a place to call home after my dad retires in a few years—are extending their trip and will be back in Vegas on Saturday afternoon before flying back to New York on Sunday. We hope they’re having fun researching and […]

Tonight we rushed through dinner, dashed off to Cox Elementary School, ran into the cafeteria and dropped off a plate of our famous Reese’s peanut butter cookies just in time for the procession to begin and Eliana to walk in with her schoolmates. The kids sang along to a soundtrack in front of a full […]

Yesterday my parents flew back to Vegas from Salt Lake City where they were visiting my brother and his family. The first order of business was for my dad to go to a quick care center to get a prescription for a painful sore throat he managed to catch in SLC. When I got home […]

I spent some time this evening browsing WordPress themes to get our family blog more set-up. It’s amazing how many hundreds of available designs there are. Let’s hear it for open source code. I’ve been updating the family blog for an hour now and I’m really tired, so I’m headed to bed. Tonight Vickey had […]