Out of Town Family visit first time in almost 2 years! Had to take a year off because of the WuHan CCP Virus

 

 

Bailey visits!  Our first out of town visitor!

Bailey, Grandma in front of wildflower garden

I can't begin to tell you how great it was to have our first visitor since this horrible covid lockdown!  Bailey is such a joy and so much fun to have around.  She's about finished with her masters in business.  What's next for this beautiful girl? 

 

Joel and I at Venice beach

I go to LA to renew AU passport and visit Joel and Leah

Joel and I deep in conversation??

 

 

 Diane, Joel and his girlfriend Leah were the first to visit in May

It was wonderful seeing them, although I had just seen Joel and Leah when I flew to LA for one day to renew my AU passport.  What a joy to be seeing loved ones again!  I got to see my oldest by 14 months sister Diane.  We were so close we played together, got into trouble together and fought together as kids

Mom, Diane, Paul, Leah, Addison, Joel

Jacki, Larry,Sean, Ashley, Aubree, Airah and Gage visited in June.  It was the hottest time of the whole year.  Our highs were averaging 114- 116 and there were fired burning in the high country.  Jacki and Larry went up to visit his Mom, Dorothy in Payson.  They spent a couple days in a B&B in Pine and got to visit Strawberry before the fires started.  They were lightning started fired fueled by our dry year (not much monsoon last year and little snow).  It was burning a ridge above Fossil Springs where we spent a lot of time when we had a cabin in Strawberry.  I'm so close to my little sis Jacki because we pretty much raised our children together.  They lived in Strawberry while Larry was working on the RRoad then they moved to Phoenix where we saw them a lot.  Our kids played together, went trick & treating together & I helped often picked up Sean, Noel or Kelsea from school when Jacki was working

Home School Science Rocks Starring Jules!

 

Jules and I continue with our once a week science adventures.  Some of our subjects this year have been chicken eggs and sea shells, science of water (ocean levels in a jar, make distilled water, etc), Bread, yeast and how it fits into  Linnaeus's Classification of all living things, Ireland, Air pressure, potential and kinetic energy, ocean plants and animals and how they fit into Linnaeus's 7 levels of living things: Keep Ponds Clear Or Frogs Get Sick - stands for Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, Polymers (exciting due to love of Slime)

Volcano in a Jar