12 July 2007 Texas trip - Ruth and I spent the last two weeks in Texas with LaDawn and Denisa' family. This was an unusual trip in that it rained every day that we were in Texas. This was the first time we have visited Texas when the temperature in Cache Valley was hotter than in Texas. It was in the 80’s while we were in Texas with 70 to 100 percent humity and in the low to mid 90’s in Cache Valley.

Khadajah and Melena both turned 8 in June and were baptized on 1 July. John baptized them and they asked me to confirm them. We took several pctures of the family. John’s mother Barbara Moore came out for the baptism.
We also attended a presentation for the 4th of July in which the whole Dalley Family were involved.

We went to Fort Worth one day and visited the museum where they had a special
display of the Star Wars materials. I took Kjirstina and James to a rifle range for their combined birthday where they both did pretty well and I think they enjoyed themselves.

It rained so much that we were unable to take Denisa' kayak out because of the
flooding.

On our return to Utah were detoured to visit Flint and to see Cally and Jed's new baby, Harvy. They are in the process of adopting him.

2 August 2007 LaDawn, Craig and family have been visiting with us since
Monday. They arrived about 8:30 pm and we had a turkey dinner prepared for them.
Tuesday we took the kids to Stokes Nature Center up Logan Canyon in the morning and we went up Smithfield Canyon in the afternoon so the kids could wade in the water. James didn’t want to go because he said it wouldn’t be any fun but when we got ready to come home he was the one who wanted to stay.

Wednesday, we went to Salt Lake to visit the church sights. The down town area across from the temple realy look odd about half of the buildings are gone making way for the new church
center. We ate lunch at the ZCMI food court. For some reason they have left that in place even though the rest of the building is now empty. While we were there --- Fouk, who was the Assistant Scout Master in Newarl ward when Chuck McMarrow was there. He joined the church at that time. His now the long term Scoutmaster there and had fifteen scouts with him. They were going on a super activity of climbing in the Teton Mountains. We were really surprised to see him.

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