It's July Already!

While Jeff's been too busy to post updates on this blog, I guess I will be the one to inform everyone what we have been up to. Adam participated in a Boy Scout Color Guard on Memorial Day at the Catholic Cemetary in North Pittsburgh. Our friend, Jim Larsen, has returned earlier this year after serving with the Marine Corps. in Iraq. He trained the Scout Troop to perform the ceremony which received rave reviews. People were very impressed by the great show of respect and dignity by our Boy Scout Color Guard.

Adam finished 9th grade on the first of June. Now he is a video and computer game addict all day, every day. He gets so carried away that he needs to be reminded to eat or go to bed. Adam stayed up past 3:30 am last Monday. The blinking lights from the computer room awakened me at that time, and I realized that he had not gotten to bed when told to do so at 10:30 pm the night before. What a doofus!

Jeff started his new clinical rotation at West Virginia University Medical Center in Morgantown, West Virginia. He has to be back Fridays for class at the U of Pittsburgh. We all had our birthdays within the last week of June. Mine was on the 1st of July and yes, Jeff did forget to wish me a happy birthday. Later that day I dropped Jeff off at the airport to fly to Temple, Texas for an interview. While at the Dallas airport to catch a connecting flight, he remembered and called me. Jeff is a doofus times two!

Our family celebrated the 4th of July by volunteering at the Cranberry Community Park booth during 9:30 am to 2:30 pm. Our LDS church was selected to oversee the Children's Tent for the day, where the kids can do crafts, meet the "Balloon Guy" and watch "The Magic Man". Jeff and Adam assisted the children on patriotic airplanes, necklaces, and stick-on tattoos. I was yelling out in a 'cheerleader voice', encouraging others walking by, to write support messages on the large banner to be sent to the miltary men and women in Iraq. Jeff kind of steer clear of me, possibly being embarrassed that I was doing my patriotic duty or maybe I was too loud. There were no signs set up indicating others to 'sign the banner' to show our support to the troops in Iraq. I was thinking how all the men and women during their service abroad would feel, wishing they are back home in the States to celebrate 4th of July with their families.We also collected money donations to purchase calling cards for the soldiers and ended up over $580.00! Lynn Arrington, overseeing the LDS volunteers, said that they never received so much support compared to 4th of July last year.

We are looking forward to see family in Alberta during mid-summer. Jeff's mom has a Judd family reunion going on in the town of Magrath. This will give an opportunity for us see his side of family that we haven't seen for a long time. Adam and I haven't seen Jeff's parents for 4 years.

Speaking of reunions, my old high school, Harry Ainlay Composite High School of Edmonton, Alberta will have a reunion for the 1981 graduates on Labor Day week-end 2007. It has been 26 years since my graduation from there, but sadly I will not be able to attend their reunion activities. I was able to register on the reunion website: http://www.hachs81.com/ allowing me to reconnect old friends that had registered. There were 736 graduates from 1981, but only 200 had responded to the website. This is a big challenge trying to inform all the 1981 Ainlay grads about the upcoming reunion after 26 years, especially to Mike Evans, our so called class president for life. So anybody who knows somebody is a 1981 Ainlay grad, please refer him or her to the reunion website.