Alan's Paper is done!!! and Manti Temple Pageant

Monday we had a normal day.  Alan went into work and worked on getting his paper done. We just had a normal Monday here at home.  Alan contacted the guys at 5D in San Diego to see if working there is an option.  They didn't call and talk to Alan until we were eating dinner.  He had a 10 minute interview with them.

Tuesday Alan worked on his paper more, but was finally able.to spend a little more time at home.  Tuesday was the first day of our anxious waiting!!!!  We went to the library in the morning.  The craft that day were little garden gnomes.  They were just made out of card stock with a cotton ball beard.   In the afternoon we just played outside.  I also went to the doctor in the morning.

lunch on the stairs again.

but it was sunny so they had to move to the shade.

Wednesday Alan got his paper all turned in.  We all celebrated and did a little happy dance.   He is happy with how it turned out and said it is a really strong paper.   Alan also hosted a group of high school students in his lab and showed them the cool things they are working on. We went to seven peaks in the afternoon.  Brett came and surprised us there.  It was fun to have him show up.  Alan had kind of a later evening, but it was bearable since we knew it would be the last one for a little while.

Thursday we found out that the company had gotten internal clearance from the upper management to hire Alan.  We were super anxious all day waiting for an offer, but one never came. Still waiting!   Besides being anxious we had a nice day with Alan home all day.  Maybe he went to campus for a couple of hours, but we got to see way more of him than we had been getting to.  We went to the Wymount activity in the afternoon.  They did bean bag bocce and bubbles.  The sprinklers were also turned on over on the softball field because the grounds guy was working on them.  He lets the kids run through them while he works.  Every loved it!  While they were on the water main broke while we were over there.  It just started coming out of the sidewalk...about 40 feet down from where it broke last year.  Jared had a good time playing in the sand from it and then watching them fix it.  That night was the quad potluck too.

After they were done working they scooped his castle back into the hole to help fill it in a little.

Friday was another fun relaxing day.  We just played more around here and Alan went to campus for a short time and to ask some questions. We went to the Manti Temple pageant that night.  Brett went with us.  We had a great time and everyone stayed up through the whole thing.  We haven't been on the weekend for several years.  More people go, so it took us a while to get home.  I don't think we got home until close to 2.

Saturday we had a ward breakfast in the morning. We got to meet the new bishop, Bishop Parker.  There was really yummy food: pancakes, sausage, eggs (which tasted really good to me) and fruit and juice. They also had some water games for kids to play.  From there we hurried down to the children's parade.  Jared rode his unicycle and so did Alan (and carried Connor) Lauren twirled baton and Bradley and I just walked along carrying flags.  We got to the start of the parade just in time to catch up to the very end and walk along to the band.  We just relaxed in the afternoon.  It was a really hot day.  Over 100 I think...the start of several hot hot days.  We went to the store..a new store that just opened called LoLo's. Jared and Lauren play a game and read every sign they see while at the store and make sure to shout out LoLo's every time they see it....at least they are entertained.  I also worked on making some cardboard armor for singing time.  Once I got it all cut out Alan sprayed it for me with some super cheap white spray paint we got.  He had to use the whole can and it still wasn't super white, but good enough for what I was using it for.  Alan also worked on some contract work he has been doing for 5D.

The camera was in a funny setting...and Alan was on his unicycle with Connor.

Sunday was a good day.  I did singing time. We worked on scripture power more...and mostly the second verse with the armor.  It was a fun singing time.  Especially since right now our primary is mostly boys.  There was only Lauren and one other girl in her class...the rest boys (9 or 10).  Our primary has gotten pretty small over the Summer.  That night we went to a patriotic service at the Marriott center as part of the freedom festival.  There was good music and the speaker was senator Mike Lee.  Who I didn't realized is the son of Rex Lee.  He had some funny stories.  It was a good week.  We were glad to see Alan a lot more!