Yesterday we came down to the valley where Loye has been working practically all this year.  We bought a camp trailer so he will have a place to stay.  It is quite a nice trailer and is completely self-contained.  I have spent the day reading and writing in my journal, something I have been wanting to do for quite a while.

The weather here is so hot and humid that the best place to stay is right here under the refrigeration.

In the evening we went over to Dahl and Shelley's to celebrate Lindsey's 5th birthday we were there, also Lindsey's Bradshaw grandparents and her Aunt Janet and Uncle David with their daugher P.J.  Shelley served ice cream and cake.  She had the house all decorated with crepe paper and balloons.  Dahl and Shelley are going to move from their house as they have sold it and want to build them a bigger house.

While we were at Dahl's we had a phone call from Roger, Jared, Jason and Liza.  Roger said he had work at home next week if Loye wanted to work up there.  Jared and Jason wanted to know where jason's physical was as he needed it in order to play football.  They are both in my purse (down here.)  Liza said her and Mark would not be down Tuesday to go to the temple with Yvonne and Bart who are being married on Wednesday.

After the party Loye and I came home and went to bed.

It has been so long since I wrote in this journal with any regularity and now I would like to keep it up better.

Since I have slacked off there have been many important things pass by that I haven't written about.

One of the things I must make mention of is that Shanna and Jim are getting a divorce.  It was a shock at first but I really don't think shanna has ever been as happy as she had a right to be, and now I just hope and pray she can find happiness with someone else and also have a family.  She is a good girl and I really want her to be happy.

Roger is being ostracized by Dean Sellers and Pres Eddie Hancock and Pres. Pete Shumway want Roger to sue Sellers for defamation of character.  I hope Roger can do what is best for all concerned.  Roger is a good man and a good father and he has a good wife.

Loyelin and Rick are considering buying a new house and they need one so bad.  They are stuck off up there in Shumway with no car most of the time.  Besides they need a new home for their family.

Dahl and Shelley, I think are doing pretty good.  They have sold the little house that Dahl built, and they are going to rent an apartment until they can build a new house.  They also have my youngest granddaughter who was born June 6, 1986 and she is the cutest baby.  Her name is Amber.

Jared although he has been interested enough a couple of times to get married as yet hasn't taken the plunge.  I'm sure he would be lots happier if he would get married.  he does have a horse and that fact has made some changes in his life.  He takes good care of his horse and he has changed from Rock and Roll music to Country and Western and he now wears cowboy boots.  It does help him to have an interest in his life.  Jared teaches primary ad he is very dependable.

Josh I pray that he will soon get strength to shun evil in all it's forms and go forward and upward.

I love all my children.

Jason is at an exciting age this year.  He is just starting High School as a freshie and he is looking forward to the new excitement of the year.  He was just ordained a teacher.  I just pray that he goes and grows in God's kingdom as well as in school.

I know I have not recorded my happiness about Mark and Liza and their sealing in the temple, we are so pleased and happy about this.  It was such a special day.  They both looked so handsome and nice looking, and when they brought the 4 little kids up to the sealing room it was almost more happiness than my heart could contain  Tiffany patted her hair and said "I pretty", and she sure was.  As Liza was carrying her out of the temple she started singing "Old McDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O."  Some of the old folks smiled as she went by.

Mom isn't feeling too good.  She is mostly lonesome and we all need to visit with her more  I love my Mother and I want my family to know that she is a good, and religious lady.  She loves her family no matter what they do and she has always tried to support them in almost everything they do, at least when she could.

Many of the families have had weddings.  Rion Ramsey married and divorced Bonnie Ellsworth they had a baby girl Riann.

Becky married and divorced Lloyd Gorman she had a baby girl Jamie Ranae, she later married Gene Shurling.

Eric is in Charlotte, N.C on a mission and Rob is a freshman.

Scott Ramsey married Kendra Crosby and they seem to be real happy they have a baby girl Kendyal.

Amy Lewis married Glenn Whetton they now have 3 children, a girl Tony and 2 boys Darren and Jerome.

Matt Lewis married Suzie Cluff and they have a baby girl Mallory.

Stewart lewis is in Korea on a mission, and Tana Lewis is in Hawaii working as a nanny.

Ivy Lewis married Craig Jones.  Benda, David, Vera, Megan, Dennis are all still home.

Kim Rogers married Keith Brimhall they have 4 children - Chad Burdahl, Abbey, Ashley (who was born premature and weighed only 2 1/2# but has done real well and is cute as a button) and Blake Rogers.

Kristi Rogers married Mike Russell and they have 3 children - Chauncy Moroni, Valerie and Jay Hunt.

Monte Rogers married Dana Crandall they expect a new baby this week.

Yvonne Rogers will marry Bart Judd Aug. 20, 1986.  Yvette and Ann are still home.

Ross Lillywhite married Lurlyn Cassidy they have 4 children but I do not know their names because we have neglected to visit with them enough.

Paul Lillywhite married Bonnie Polson (I think) they have 7 children.

James Lillywhite married Kaylyn ? they have 1 little girl.

Julieann Lillywhite married Roy Madison they have 5 children.

Sheryl Lillywhite is married but I have forgotten his name.


Loye's family runs this way.

Geneva Hall married Brent Horne they have 4 children Deron who will go to Roanoke, VA Oct. 1 on a mission.  Darrel, Dustin and Kristen.

Keith Hall married Janet Brinkerhoff they have 6 children, Brian, Scott, Shawn, Deon, Kelly and Kimberly.

Kent Hall married Carol Lofgreen they have 6 children Rachell, Ryan, Terry, Dawn, J.C. Summer and they are expecting again.

George Hall married Denise Gillespie they have 6 children, Brad, Nicole, Kevin, Jolyn, Charlie, Caressa.

Charlayne Hall married Doug Brewer they have 3 children Brett, Charlee and Becky.

Verlyn Hall married Steve Stratton they have 3 girls Rayell, Amy and Kari.

Randy Hall married Vicki Peterson.

Craig Hall not married.

Irva Reeves married Fred Whipple they have either 4 or 5 children Loren, Dalyn, Julie and Reed.

Linda Reeves married and divorced a man by the last name of Romero but I don't know is 1st name they had 1 child Raymond.

Ronda Valee Willis married Ronald Smith they have (I think) 5 girls and 1 boy but I don't know their names.

Keeven Willis married Judy ? and I don't know how many children they have.

Stacey Willis married Gary Farr and they have 5 children.

Kristi Willis married Doug Hatch and they have 2 children.

Mark Willis is still at home.

Greg willis married Holly Powers they have 2 children Chareese and Amy.

Brent Willis married Naomi Bushman they have 2 children Bretyn and ?.

Kay Willis married Mitzi Hammond they have 1 baby named Joseph.

Willis who is one of Jason's best friends is still at home and only a freshman.

Maybe this will sort of keep things in perspective of who are our main families.

We are still in the valley finishing these apartments.  I am going to finish my cleaning this week and then I'm going home to satay.  I guess we really pulled a boo-boo by hiring some Mexican ladies to help us clean.  Larry Richardson (the general Manager for N.K. Lewis) hasn't paid us yet so we haven't paid the ladies so they went to the labor commission and they are after Larry and Norman Lewis.  I sure wish some times you could turn back time and re-do some of the mistakes we make.

Even though I feel depressed tonight we did have a good time over the weekend.  Don and Judy's family sponsored the Roger's Family Reunion at Los Burros (up above Vernon) this year.  It was really nice, the area up there was just beautiful, and Don, Judy and family really had things set up nice.  They had everything so organized, Rion and Bonnie were there to do their part and Scott and Kendra (who plan to get married Aug. 23) were really a big help.  Eric and Robbie also really helped.  Becky and Gene who are living in Louisiana were unable to be there as they plan to come to Scott's wedding in August.

This year they made a plaque for the winners of the horseshoe pitching tournament.  Rion made it and it's a traveling trophy whoever wins it gets to keep it until the next year when they have to give it up to whoever wins it next year.  Well this year Loye and I won it.  Rion took it to have our names engraved on ti.  They also played volleyball and since this is the year of the "Summer Olympics" in Los Angeles we had the "Dummer Olympics at Los Burros".  Everyone participated and all had a good time.  Even Mom seemed to enjoy herself.

Some of my family was there, of course Jim and Shanna couldn't make it.  Mark was working graveyard so him and Liza didn't go, we took Candon and Rikki with us.  The rest of us had a good time.

Jared told us Sunday that he is going to marry Denise McCray Caldwell.  She has been married before and has a little boy called J.J.  We think Jared has made a good choice because her family seems to be good people and Jared seems to be so happy with her.  She went up to the reunion with Jared and she seems to have a good time  They haven't set a date yet.

Jared wants to buy our house and we told him we would sell to him.  We would build a new house up on the corner, up on the hill.  Loye has always wanted to build there.

We are back in the valley, hopefully this week we will get through, but who knows?

Rikki came down with us, so each day we take her over to St Joseph's for her radiation treatment.

Tomorrow is the 4th of July so I guess we will go to a movie or maybe some fireworks if we can find them.

Today was another cold Easter.  It has been so nice all month, (it even got up to 107 degrees in the valley) but today there was a north wind and so it was cold.  However in Colorado they had up to 3 ft. of snow, so I guess we are really lucky after all.

Since I last wrote in here.  Ed Muder has passed away.  His brother Merne is very bad off and has been for quite a while.  When they took Ed to the valley he said he would die before Merne and he did.  It seems like we got along pretty good for awhile and then people start dying until 3 to 6 have gone then it will let up for a while again.

This month I canned turkey at the cannery and had 73 cans when we got through I bought 1/2 batch.  It was fun going down there with Pearl, Lauana and Lorraine Solomon, Judy Tidwell, Teri Crook, Marie Duncan, Percy, Maxine, Bill, Sherry and Merline Hancock and Vera Palmer also Carl and Harriet Martin.  Work is really a breeze when you have lots of good help.

Shanna and Jim have moved into a new house (to them) that they are buying in Modesto California.

Loye, Roger, Jared, Josh and Dahl have all been working in the valley this last month.  Roger however is working in Alpine with Chan this past week and I guess he will be working there for a while.

Loyelin's baby Richard Edward Loye Aceves was blessed in church on the 1st day of April.  Loye blessed him, he is a real cute baby but he has congestion so much that I think he may have allergies.

On Wednesday April 18 I rode with Sheree to the valley to be with my family down there until Easter.  She (Sheree) was going to the valley to take Amy for an operation.  We met Amy and Glen Whetton (Amy's fiance) in Globe and they rode on down to Scottsdale Memorial Hospital where she was to have plastic surgery on her face.

They took me by Dahl and Shelley's where I spent the next 3 days.  Jason went with me and wanted to spend some tie with Willie but Willie had Valley Fever and didn't feel like doing much.  Jason went to work with Loye one day.  We went to the pageant "Jesus The Christ".  It was presented on the grounds on the North side of the temple.  It is a very impressive pageant.  Although the weather was cool the program was really good.  And scads of people were there.

Sat. morning we went through a session at the temple.  The High Council from our stake were having an excursion.  I always enjoy going to the temple.  Lots of our High Councilmen and wives were there.

While we were in the valley Loye Jared, Josh and I all went to Red Lobster to eat.  Then the night of the pageant Loye, Jason and I went with Dahl's family to Matta's to eat.  Always a good place to eat.  Too bad some of these neat things couldn't be strung out a little bit but oh well!

This morning we got up and Loye and I hid Easter eggs for Liza's kids.  Rikki wasn't feeling so she staggered around a little bit.  I sure do worry about that precious little girl.

Loyelin and her kids came by in their Easter Finery on their way from church.

Mark sang a solo in church and really did a good job.  He sang "In the Garden."  Russ Crossman and Scott Burt talked and they both did a good job.

Came home and fixed dinner then Loye had to go to High Council.  I have to finish getting Loye ready to go back to the valley.  So until next time.

Here it has been over a month since I last wrote in this journal.  I must try to do better because I forget a lot of the important things that happen.  Merrill Brimhall (assistant principle at the High School) passed away after a heart operation, also Marion Gallagher (another teacher at the high school) fell off from a roof he was working on and never got over it.  Mike Ramsey (from Snowflake but an old time resident) died of a heart attack.  It seems like I have left someone out who has passed away but maybe it will come to me later.  Brent Garvin (Loye used to pitch against in softball) died with heart trouble.

Rikki survived her operation just fine.  It was determined she has a low-grade malignant tumor.  It is supposed to be slow-growing.  The doctor suggests radium treatments to kill the tumor.  These are so hard on her that I think Mark and Liza are going to try an alternative first.  It is such a worry but we are all praying for her.

Loyelin's baby has been in and out of the hospital a couple of times.  Once with pneumonia.  He seems to have very low resistance to colds and congestion.

Mom has felt better until just here lately and she complains of her stomach hurting her.  We have had some beautiful spring weather.  But according to the T.V. that will all change as we get a series of storms that will blow across our state.  We really had some  much needed moisture on Tuesday but I'm afraid that some of the fruit that was just about to blossom got froze.

After Rikki's operation I went to Mesa and spent 2 days down there.  I got to go eat lunch and visit with my dear friend and former neighbor, Shirley Knight.  I really enjoyed catching up on all the news of her family.  And I got to visit and play with my grandchildren Jacob and Lindsey they are such cute kids.  And Shelley was so thoughtful and good, I really enjoyed my visit to the valley.

Josh spent about 3 weeks home working with Roger but he has gone back to the valley now.

I've got to get ready for work, it's just about 6:30 am and I have to be there at 7.

Today is Sunday I was the only one who went to meetings today.  As we went to the valley on the rooter bus yesterday to the state basketball game to watch Snowflake play Sahuaretao in the State Championship game where Snowflake won by 4 points in a real thriller.  We seen Dahl and Shelley and Jared and lots of people we know.  We got back at 1:30 a.m. and although we enjoyed our ride on the bus, we have been worn-out all day.

There must have been some bad news for November but since it wasn't written down I can't remember what it was.  So I think a journal should be written in everyday or at least no later then every week.  At least I will try.  This has really been an exciting month and a busy one.  I made caramels for Katie, Maybelle, Mom and myself.  Maybelle made fudge and Katie made penoche.  After school let out I hurriedly with Loyelin and Liza's help tied 2 quilts one for Jared and one for Josh for Christmas.  On Sat. the 24th of December, Richard Edward Loye Aceves was born and he was born c-section at 10:15 am.  He weighed 7# 2oz. and is so cute as can be.  Also Janet Hall had a girl Kimberly Genay who weighed 10# 1 oz.  and was born on the same day.

Christmas Eve we had a Willis get together and supper it was really nice but the nicest of all was the arrival of Jim and Shanna who we hadn't seen for just about 2 years.  Here they came walking in and no one was even expecting them.  It was such a nice surprise.

Christmas morning we had breakfast here at our house.  I hope we never get to many to have this little get together.  All of Sheree, Judy, and Shum's families were there and all of mine except Dahl, Shelley and their family.  Of course Anna Lou's family have hardly ever been here.  She is doing so good in England.  I do hope she had a good Christmas.  I almost forgot, Monte wasn't here.  He is in Boston on his mission.  Judy's family was happy because Scott had just got home (from Birmingham, Alabama where he had been serving a mission).  But they were sad too because Gene, Becky and "Jamie" are moving to Louisiana where Gene has employment.  They are leaving this week.

Karlie had her boyfriend Ron Vias here with her.  Ben went down to Tucson just recently and baptized Ron a member of the church.

Christmas afternoon we ate turkey, dressing ect. at Liza and Mark-oops!  We ate here, Liza made the turkey and dressing.

Loye, Jared and Josh went back to Mesa to work on Monday.

We all went to Show Low, Jim, Shanna, Mark, Liza and I and looked for tile that him wanted to buy for our kitchen (I would really like that.)  but the stores were closed.  We ate at McDonalds and then they rented 3 shows and we went up to Mark and Liza's and watched them.  "Star Wars", Twilight Zone and Night Hawk.  The next day I took down decorations and we went back to Show Low.  We didn't get any tile but seen lots of pretty stuff.  We ate at Asian Gardens then came home and watched 3 more movies eating all the while.  We watched "Blue Thunder", "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and Gandhi all were good but I'm tired of movies.

Wed.  Shanna and Jim left I hope it isn't another 2 years before I see them again.

Uncle Ez Shumway died Dec. 26, so on Dec 29 his funeral was held in Gilbert, I and Jason went down with Ben, Sheree and Mom.  Uncle Ez had lived a good life and they said lots of nice things about him.  We seen and visited with lots of relatives.  Mom and them came home after the funeral, but since Loye was working down there, we stayed at Dahl and Shelley's with Loye.  We all went out and ate at the Bonanza.  Dahl, Shelley, Josh, Jared, Jason and Loye and I.  Josh didn't want to go as he had lost his jacket with his bill fold with $235 in it when they had returned to the valley after Christmas.  Loye and Randy had suggested they call the D.P.S. and see if it had been reported so he did and took his phone number in case it was.  After we had ate at the Bonanza and gone back to Dahl's we got this call from Josh saying someone had found his bill-fold he was so elated!  He had to go to Fountain Hills to pick it up.

We came home Fri. evening Sat. I went up and cleaned Loyelin's house and bathed the cute little baby.  Sun. the time changed on our church and we go to 12 noon for our church time.  The boys went back to Mesa.  Loye left Mon. morning.  Jason and I spend the day at Loyelin's.  Ate birthday cake with Mark.  Tuesday in school again seems good to be back.  Maybelle had sad news about her sister she is only expected to live 2 more weeks or less.

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.

We got up about 6:30 A.M. and Dahl took us all over looking for grapes but we didn't find any.  As we got back into town we stopped at the Circle K to get some gas.  After getting the gas Dahl tried to start the pick up but nothing happened.  They worked a while but it just wouldn't start.  We borrowed Mark and Liza's pick up, so we were pretty worried about what had happened to it.  Dahl called Shelley and she came and took me back home with her.  After a while Loye and Dahl came.  We don't know why it wouldn't start and when Dahl tried starting it after a while it started right up. 

Shelley fixed us some bacon, eggs, and toast for breakfast.  We called Randy's for Josh but Randy said Josh had already gone.  So we thought he would be over any minute so we waited and waited but he didn't come.  We wanted to be home by noon so we could go to Monte Rogers' missionary farewell.  Finally at 11:30 we decided to start home so we did.  When we got to Payson, we called Dahl to see if he had heard from Josh.  Dahl said he had called and that he was home.  He had come by Dahl's while Shelly was picking me up at Circle K.  He thought we had gone on home and that Dahl and Shelley had gone to church, so he just went on home.  We got behind some slow traffic and came up on the rim.

We took baths and Loye went to a High Council meeting.  We (Jared, Jason and I) went over to Shum and Cathy's to an open house party for Monte.  The Stake President got hung up in a court and didn't get over to set Monte apart until after 10:00 P.M. when we left.

We got up this morning and Loye, Jason and I went to the valley to watch Josh wrestle.  We left home about 6:30.  Lots of traffic coming up the mountain.  We got in the valley around 10:00, and went over to Dahl and Shelley's where Josh was staying.  He said they weren't  doing anything at Apache Jct. except playing around and going tubing down the river.  So he has been working for Dahl the last day and a half.

Dahl and Shelley were going boating with Shelly's sister Leann and Mike her husband.  So we went to the wrestling banquet at Sir George's.  All of the wrestlers were there.  Coach Glen McMumm from Apache Jct. was conducting the program.  They had the coaches from Phoenix College, Mesa Community, ASU, and NAU.  All talk to the boys.  Then they introduced all of the boys and read their statistics, except no one sent any statistics on Josh.  No one from the school thought he was important enough to come down for in fact he didn't even have a suit to wear and had to borrow a singlet from a boy from Benson.  Needless to say he didn't do very good, he got pinned in the first round.  I think he was pretty embarrassed.  After the match Josh went with Randy Hall and Warren Shumway and went to a movie.  We stayed for the rest of the matches then went over to Dahls and spent the night.  We sat up until 1:00 A.M. visiting then we slept on he floor because Jacob's water bed sprang a leak.  But we were so tired it wasn't any trick to go to sleep.

Memorial Day, Mom was up early doing her decorating out at the cemetery.  Aunt Thora was helping her.  I don't know what she would do without Aunt Thora, they enjoy each other even if it's to hear each others complaints.

Dahl and Shelley who had been camping up on the mountain called from Lakeside and wanted me to bring their car up and drive Jared's pick up (they had borrowed) home.  I called Loyelin, no answer, Liza, no answer, Mom, no answer.  I thought ( I was all alone in the world)  Finally I called Sheree and she said she would ride up to Lakeside with me, so she did on the way home we stopped and ate at the White Mountain Cafe.  We had an enjoyable time.  We visited with Dahl and Shelley and her 2 sisters Janet and her family (who had gone camping with them) and Vickie (who is expecting her 7th (I think) baby)  who lives in Lakeside, back of the drive-in-theater.

Came home and watched Jason lay ball.

Josh, Stuart and Monte all graduate.  Yahoo!!  It's finally over for the summer.  Kate, Maybelle, Gwen, and I all went over to Trappers and had chef's salad to celebrate.  Liza came in and wanted to go to Pinetop.  Since I wanted to go with her she order her a salad and waited for me.  We were supposed to pick up a check at Aschauers for Loye but Art was gone and wouldn't be back for a while so we went shopping.  I bought some graduation presents.  Then we waited about 2 hours and he still hadn't got back so we went down where Loye was working in Linden  The boys teased Liza about always having to be where Mark is and we all had fun, Liza to (I hope).  

We came on home to get ready for graduation.  We went down about 7:30 and the program started at 8:00 pm on the football field.  There was a big crowd.  

Dahl and Shelley came up from Mesa.  They were late but we seen them come in so we signaled them to come and sit by us.  After the ceremony we went down to congratulate Josh and to see if his diploma was signed, it was.  Then we (all but Josh) went up to Show Low to the Pizza Hut and ate.  Got home about Midnight.

Josh went to an all night party at the Snowflake Golf Course club house.

This morning we got up and fixed breakfast and ate and got ready to go to Mesa to watch the baseball game between Snowflake and Dysart in the class A State Tournament.  We left about 7:30 a.m. In Mark and Liza's green thunderbird.  Mark and Liza, Mandy, Judy, and Loye and I all went down.  It was kinda crowded but we made it just fine.

We went by Dahl and Shelley's and visited a little bit then we went over to Fiesta Mall where I eventually bought me a dress (a float) to wear to Loyelin's wedding.  We also bought Loye some clothes.

Then we went on over to Diablo Stadium where our team was all warmed up and ready to play.  But they got beat the first inning when they let in 3 runs.  I kept thinking they would get it together and win but they just kept making errors and at the end of the game the score was 5-6 in favor of Dysart.

The boys were pretty disappointed but it's all over now, and so is Josh's High School Sports.  It has really been fun watching him participate these last 4 years.  He has been a good athlete.  Now he needs to concentrate on more serious things.

After the game Judy went with Sue Wood and said she would meet us at Rion and Bonnie's.  We went back to the Mall and got our purchases then we went to Garcia's where we emt Dahl and Shelley and we ate spanish food.  It was really good.

While at the game we visited with Van Shumway who is assistant principal at Dysart.  He said it broke his heart to beat Snowflake the place where he spent his High School years.