Whirlwind weeks

Wow, it's been a quick and whirlwind month.  Here's what's been going on:

Janet and Jacob came to visit!  The 7 months since we saw them at their reception in Delta had been the longest we'd ever gone without seeing Janet.  Needless to say, we were happy to have them here.  While they were here we went to the art museum, played lots of games, the boys had some male bonding time, and celebrated my birthday.

 

 

Joanna and Ben came over to visit while Janet and Jacob were here.  Ben was only here a day, but Joanna and Russell stayed for a week.  Then Ben came back and picked them up.  It was great to have company and Russell was pretty entertaining.

 

 

Shortly after they went home, Rene left for a long business trip to Malaysia, Thailand and China.  During this same time, Brian was gone for eight days on a business trip to Las Vegas.  Sarah and I pooled our resources and I went out to Utah to spend that time.  Even though I had some days when I didn't feel good, it was nice to have someone to talk to.  I enjoyed seeing Camille every day and I think she got used to me.  Janet and Jacob were also around often and that, of course, was fun.

 

 

Jacob brought us some beautiful flowers from the lab he teaches.
















Springville Art Museum

Now I'm home.  Rene is back from his trip and will be home this weekend.  But he'll have to go back to Chicago, of course.  But we just have two more weeks to get through, then we'll be going to Boston to visit the Franzens.  Yippee!