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14 hours in my truck in about enough to wipe anyone out. At least that is my opinion and I am sticking to it. This past Monday I raced Mark and Kim home to Washington… They won, even with my 12 hour head start. Of course they took a plane to Washington and I took the truck. They were down for a family reunion, we also celebrated our niece Stella’s birthday a week ago (today). It was actually a week and a half ago, we were all able to gather Friday (the 20th) of last week. She is a cute baby. So as you may have gathered I (Jerel) have been in Washington for most of this week, working like a mad-man. I’m sorry to those of you I did not get to see while up here. Next trip I will try to not work so much and spend some time with you. I am looking forward to seeing my family tomorrow after the drive home.

Inez should be able to fill you all in on what happened down there while I was gone, I will post that update Sunday Maybe she will have some picture for me to post as well. Till then, you all take care and please keep in touch with us.

– Jerel

Not alot happened this past week. We are gearing up for the family reunion this next week and the visiting family that will be here. Randy and Sarah came down to visit on Saturday, we had fun being with them.

I did go and see the new Harry Potter movie with Inez, It was pretty good, though having read the book, the movie felt more like a synopsis of the book without a ton of development. It was worth seeing (as a matinée). It did not feel too incomplete, the more important events of the book were there, it just felt like I had read the cliff-notes is all. But hey, you try to fit a book into a 1.5 - 2 hour movie and see what you have to cut out.

– Jerel

Wow what a week. We were invited down to Inez’s Aunt Jan and Uncle Dave’s for the Fourth of July. We went down on the third and stayed the night with them in Mt Pleasant, Utah. The morning of the fourth we went with them down to the town breakfast and then later on that morning we saw the parade. Esperanza must have gathered 5 pounds of candy at the parade. I think she had a great time. Faythe was having a great time too, he was a little bumed about losing the rubber duck race as he had plans for the prize money. Our family had a great time and are grateful for the invitation to spend some time down there.

On the fifth of July we went with Randy and Sarah and their family to the Rock Cliff Campground at Jordanell State Park. We camped there for 2 nights. As you can see Inez and I had a nocturnal visitor he’s back there climbing the tree trying to get into the hanging trash bag. We had allot of other visitors too, from super-sized prairie dogs to little chipmunks.

The heat was brutal in the middle of the day, but we did get to cool off in the river. Speaking for myself I think we all had a good time up there.