At the cabin 2024

Joe could only stay at the cabin for one week this summer because he needed to get back to get to work.  Ellie only wanted to come for one week.  The first weekend that we were there, Clell and his family came and they had Ethan's baptism in Panguitch Lake.

Nate was able to come for two weeks, but we signed him up for FSY at the University of Utah for the second week, so he only spent one week at the cabin with us.  Partway through the week, we started to hear about a storm that was forming in the Gulf of Mexico.  Joe started to watch it and was worried that it would cause problems with his flight and getting home when he was supposed to, so he changed his flight and Ellie's flight to the day before.  When he was in town, we did lots of fishing.

We also did a little bit of four-wheeling and hiking with Grammie and Grandpa.

Nate and Joe chopped and split a ton of wood so that Grammie and Grandpa would have wood for the weekend.

When we got up to Salt Lake City to pick up Ellie and drop Joe off, Ellie's flight from Houston madie it in, but Joe's flight to Houston got canceled.  He was able to book a later flight that he hoped would be able to make it to Houston before the hurricane hit, but we had some time to kill while we waited.  We went to Park City and rode the alpine slide and hiked. By this point, we also had Nate's friend, Jacob with us because he was also going to FSY with Nate.

Joe did make the second flight and made it back in time just to be there for Hurricane Beryl.  Which was very intense for a very long time.  It tore the plastic sheeting off our back pergola and brought down several large branches from our trees.  

We stayed behind and spent the rest of the day in Salt Lake going to the planetarium and then to a $5 sushi place. Then we dropped Nate and Jacob at FSY.  Ellie and I went back to the cabin.  We took it much easier at the cabin without the boys.  We did puzzles, went to a play in Cedar City.  We went to a presentation Grammie and Grandpa did at the church where they showed the pictures they took in Alaska and Africa.

After we picked up Nate from FSY, we had a few hours, so we met Kim and Kaiya Dibb for brunch for a few minutes to catch up before we went out of town.  It was fun!

 

Marley

She's still everyone's favorite in the house.

On birthdays she has a birthday shirt that she wears to celebrate with you.  It says "Happy Birthday to You."

She crosses her paws in front of her when she sits.

This is what AI made when Michael told it to make a bernedoodle with a reindeer stuffed animal

My friend opened a store that would clean dogs for a monthly subscription price.  My family all decided it was a necessity for Marley. After a few weeks, sometimes I would find her in the morning like this, hoping it was the day for her bath.

Since she was regularly getting bathed and combed, her hair was no longer matted and we could do some funny hair styles with her hair.

Like the butt crack part.

 

Nate worked at Chi-Fil-A for most of the Fall semester.  He would get home at about 9:30 at night and would bring his free meal with him. He had Marley conditioned to sit and beg for a free nugget from his meal.

She had two favorite toys, a stuffed reindeer and then this squeaky reindeer.  She was very very careful, however, not to squeak the reindeer.

The Wedding Announcement

Funny story- The morning of the wedding, Macy and all her bridesmaids were already at the venue getting ready.  Joe and I are at Ellie's senior awards luncheon.  We get a call from Adam.  He is freaking out because his face is bright red.  He had washed his face in preparation for his wedding with the hand soap in his bathroom and it had made his face bright red.  He did not know what to do.  We recommended some cortisone cream and luckily the redness subsided pretty quickly.  What was in the soap?  Cinnamon.  Good lesson, do not ever use soap with cinnamon oil in it on your face- especially on your wedding day!