Well Loye's mother has really been bad since I last wrote in this journal.  Katie has missed several days work taking her to the Dr. sitting with her etc.  She now has to have an insulin shot every day.  Also she has to have help going to the bathroom.  She gets awful sluggish in her speech.  It's pitiful to see her so helpless when she has always been so active.  On the 27th of April, Loye's brothers and sisters and spouses took their mother over to "Trappers" to celebrate Evie's 78th birthday  All of the family was there. (The original family)  She seemed to enjoy it, but, hasn't been very well since.

Anna Lou and Sheryl Lillywhite were in taylor to spend "Mother's Day" with Mom.  Sheryl just returned home from a mission in the Des Moines, Iowa mission on the 11th of May.  Anna Lou has been home a little longer.

Josh has announced his intention to go on a mission.  I just pray that he really will go.  If he goes with the same determination he has in playing ball, he will be a great missionary.

Mark and Liza took Rikki out to Flagstaff for a check-up last Monday.  They are going to have to spend 1 month in the valley so she can have radium treatments.  My heart just grieves to think she has to go through such ordeals.

Mark and Liza took Loy and I up to "Crozier's" for a "Mother's Day" dinner.  We went with Roger and Cathy in their car and Jared also went.  We had to go clear to Pinetop.  I always enjoy being with my family.  I love them all.

I really miss having Loye home.  I'll be so glad if he can ever get a job here at home again.

Jason has started playing "Little League" again this summer.  He has Lynn Hancock, Jerry Peck and Kent hall as his coaches with Brett Hancock, Clinton Peck and Ryan Hall as the main players on the team.  Jason, Ryan Hancock, Clinton Neff, Scott Hall, Steven Smithson, Tommy Hancock, Aaron Hudson, Brett Rapier and a few more I can't remember just now, are all fillers on the team.  Hopefully they will make the main players look good, if they don't they get pulled and someone else goes in.  It's a pretty political game.  Anyway they beat their opening game against the Orioles 28-8.

We are certainly having financial difficulties that I don't know if we will survive through or not.  As of right now we owe $8,968.93 on our house with interesting adding up at $2.51 a day.  We have 66 months yet to pay which will be 5 1/2 yrs.  By that time Loye and I will be 60 years old.  I don't know what we will live on in our old age.  Starve I suppose.  Besides we have another accumulation of debts that amounts to $14, 290.10.  Which paid on faithfully can be paid off in 5 years.  Hopefully we won't get sick or anything and have work so we can make these payments.  So much for worries.

Loye is still working in the valley.  I sure wish he could find work here at home.  It gets pretty lonely here without him.

I need to pick over 40# beans so we can go down to the cannery Saturday and can them.  Merne Murder died April 28, his funeral was yesterday.  I went and it was pretty nice.  I didn't know him that well.

Loye's mother isn't feeling to good and she seems to get weaker all the time.

Mom feels fairly good expect her eyes have really been bothering her.

Liza's baby was born last Friday April 27th at about 8:00 p.m.  The baby weighed 5# 5oz.  She is sure a cute baby with lots of black hair.  Liza had quite a hard time getting her here but I'm sure she is worth the effort.  I guess they will name her Tiffany Lyn although I favored the name Samantha Lyn.

More deaths in our area, Steve Clark, son of Glen and Carol Clark was killed in a truck accident out by Flagstaff leaving 6 children and a wife who is expecting a 7th child.  Also Byde Hancock died of heart complications this week.  Merne Muder who is suffering with cancer is expected to go just any minute.

Liza is in the hospital, I drove her up last night and stayed until Mark got there, then I came home about 2:00 am and stayed with their kids.  Here it is 11:00 and so far nothing has happened yet.  Jared (who just came up from the valley last night stayed with the kids until I got here.)

Judy's son Eric was elected student body president at the High School for the next year.

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.