Got up early and got some of my work done so I could go up to the park and watch my grand daughters (Cristina, Kris and Tara) play ball.  Loyelin and Liza coach the team.  They won 17-1 so it wasn't too competitive.  While I was there I remembered I was supposed to go visiting teaching so I went and got in Jared's pick up and started to back out but something was holding me up.  When I got out to look it was Jason's bike I was hitting and it was all bent out of shape.  He had parked it there using the kickstand to hold it up, but I guess the wind had blown it over underneath the pick up.  I went on and with Idell Solomon we got our teaching done to Jackie Vaughn and Judy Tidwell.  

When I got home Jason met me at the door in tears about his bike.  He had been camping the night before so he was so sleepy he could hardly see straight.  I finally talked him into taking a nap.  He didn't want to cause he said naps were for kindergartener's but he didn't last long when he laid down, he was soon fast asleep and stayed there about 3 hours.  Finally I had to wake him up to go watch the Roger's family play ball.  They lost again.  So we came home and went to bed.

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.

Today was ward conference for us.  The theme of the conference was service.  They showed 2 films one called "The Mail Box", and the other was called "Uncle Ben"  they were real inspirational films.  One was about this old lady who walked everyday out to the mailbox to see if her children had written to her, but they never did.  Finally one daughter called the old lady's neighbor and told her they were going to put her in an old folks home.  The old lady trudged out to the mail box in the snow and there was a letter from her family.  But before she could read it, she had a heart attack and died.

"Uncle Ben" was about a man who was an alcoholic and the only relatives he had was a sister who had 2 sons and 1 daughter.  His sister died and because he was an alcoholic the court didn't want him to have the children.  But he promised the courts he would change if they would let him raise the children.  From the day he took the children until they all graduated he hadn't taken one single drink.

When we came home we really had a hail storm.  The streets out here were really flooding and about 2 inches of hail fell.

Loyelin, Rick and the girls came over and visited for a while.

Loye had a sports meeting he went to and we all went to bed early.

Saturday I haven't been worth a nickel all day.  I have simply been pooped.  Nothing worth writing about.

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.

8th Grade graduation for Yvette Rogers.  Our last day to cook, we made enchiladas.  Cleaned 3 ovens.  Will Wilson came and helped us clean our vent screens.  We had to work our way out of a pretty big mess.

Nothing special happened today.  But I loved it because my children and grandchildren and my mother are all nearby to cheer me up.  And make my load seem lighter and of course my precious Loye is here and I love him.

Our last day to make bread at school this year.  We had texas steak with biscuits and gravy.  Turned out to be quite a day with lots of work.

Came home washed, cooked a roast with carrots and potatoes for supper.  Then we went to Snowflake to watch the boys play ball at 7:30 on their team was, Mike Russel, Roger, Mark Williams, Ernie Pettyjohn, Joe Hatch, Keith Brimhall, Alex Stradling, Monte Rogers, Jared, Rick Aceves, Ken VanWinkle, and Shummy.  They got beat over 20 points.

At 9:30 pm we went to Taylor to watch Josh play for the Play Boys they played N.A.S. the score was 3-0 in favor of N.A.S.  On the Play Boys they had Joe Tigert, Jerry and Jerome Martinez, Troy and Gail Tanner, Tony Tate, Mark Pachta, Josh, Chad Walker.