Willis Family

Well I keep getting worse at the Journal keeping.

The ball games are all over for the kids.  My "Little Angels" came in 3rd on their league with Teree Webb (I think it is supposed to be Fuentes), and April Ellison making the all star team.  I thought Cristina would make it but she didn't.  Ann Rogers made it from her team, "The Blue Jays."

The little league ended their season with the "Pirates" coming in 3rd.  Ryan Hancock, Garrett Hancock and Clinton Neff all made the all star team with Scott Hall getting honorable mention.  Lyn Hancock and Jerry Peck was the coaches for the "Pirates", but I can honestly say these boys knew less about playing baseball when the season ended then when it started.

We made rolls one day for the 4th of July barbecue and another day we cut up slaw for the same purpose.

Dahl and Shelley came up for the 4th as Dahl was playing in the ball tournament at Show Low with his Mesa Ward team.  They played 3 gaes but got beat all 3 games.  Last year we were in Alaska for the 4th so it was sure seemed nice to be home at least for the celebration as last year nothing exciting happened in Alaska and the boys never took any special time off from work.  However, the 4th was on Sunday last year.

It was nice to hear the Anvil as it exploded and made these earth shattering blasts.  And not everyone gets reminded by their Stake President that "it's time to get up to celebrate the 4th of July", as he rides around in the parade of cars, ambulances, band and Anvil to wake everyone up.  Of course the band with the Jennings Drum is always a highlight.  However, this year Judge Jennings had passed away so one of his family members played the drum.  At 6:30 am we went over to the rodeo grounds and ate a pancake and sausage breakfast prepared by the Kiwanis Club for $1.50 per person.  It was a real tasty breakfast.  We came home and got ready to go to Show Low to watch Dahl play ball.  But when we got there his team had drawed a bye and they didn't play until noon.  We went down town and watched the parade.  I have seen much better parades.  Taylor's Rodeo Queen rode in the parade.  Calli Lee was queen with Wendy Webb and Tana Lewis as attendants.  Tana looked real cute.

After the parade we had to come back to Taylor so Loye could help serve barbecue.  Jason, Loyelin, Mark, Liza and their kids all ate barbecue.  It was really good.  We then went back to Show Low to watch Josh play with the Video Magic team, but they got beat.  So we came back to Taylor and just got here when we found out that Dahl had a game at 3pm but we didn't go back up to watch it.  At 6 Loye had to go help with the barbecue again.  As soon as he got through we went back to Show Low where both Dahl and Josh were playing ball.  We watched Dahl's game but they got beat.  Finally we came home and watched the fireworks.  Then Dahl and Shelley went over to Mom's and slept and we went in here to bed.

Chan had come home from Alaska about 1 week ago and he sort of wanted us to keep his care here so it would be out of Keeven's way so Sunday morning Loye, Jason and I rode to the valley with dahl so we could bring Chan's car home with us.  We went straight to Keeven's where Dahl and Shelley left us.  We got in the car that didn't have any air conditioning.  We went over to the Red Lobster, went by the Price Club, then came home (and it was hot).  We got home about 8pm.  On the 4th we did absolutely nothing except wash clothes.