Alex and Tim's Summer Adventure

Chrystal complained that I haven't put anything in our blog about Alex and my visit to Idaho and Utah, specifically our visit with Chrystal and Chris.

Our first stop was in Des Moine, IA to have breakfast with Joe, Tracy, and Corbin Lowery and Toni Frame.  Breakfast was good but the company was awesome.  It had been too many years since we saw them and it was so good to see how well they were doing.  I'm the fat guy in brown.  Alex is standing next the largest ear of corn he's ever seen.

 On the way through Nebraska we hit 200,000 miles on our Blazer.  Since Alex put many of those miles on, he was given the honor of driving it when it rolled over.  Mile marker 23 in Nebraska.

 Our next stop was at Chrystal and Chris' for a couple of days before heading to Boise.  On the way to Boise we had a great visit with Karl and Linda Henderson in Farr West and spent time in their pool cooling off.  Then we were off to Boise.

The main reason to go to Boise was to deliver a Tree of Life mailbox that my sister-in-law, Kirsten, ordered.  One of my students made it for a project.  It really turned out great.

Our work began on Mom's (Joyce Mast) "Honey-Do-List".  It started with only 3 on the list, but it grew to 15 by the time we got done.  The biggest project was cleaning Dad's (George Mast) garage.  This was a 2 1/2 day project cleaning out "treasure" from years of collecting.  We started by moving all the large shop equipment to Neil's.  Next was putting up shelves to get the hundreds of canning jars, thanks Neil, off the floor.  We were able to put most of the food storage stuff on the shelves with plenty of room for more.  With all the cleaning we actually found a work bench there.

We did a lot of painting on the window frames and front door.  Neil fixed the in ground water sprinklers and tried to soak me while I was fixing the front steps.  It was very rewarding to do all this work for Nancy's parents.  I love them very much.


We had a good time at Neil and Kirsten's, BBQing on a wonderful summer night

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Ok.  Now the fun part of our trip.  Alex and I spent 5 days with Chrystal and Chris.  We went to Mt. Timpanogos National Park.  Alex and I tried to hike the trail, but the altitude and being old was too much for me.  We took pictures instead.

Of course we played with Ridik and Mogie, their cats.

Tall mountain, short daughter

Alex almost fell in the river.

Chrystal

 My last visit was with Claire Everson and her family.  They are soooo cute.

Alex and I made it home safely and it was a great road trip with my son.  He is a senior this year and that may have been the only time he and I get to take a trip like that before he serves his mission as he turns 19 next August.  We will see where that adventure takes us.

The New Arrival

I'm not a good blog updater and too much has happened since Chrystal updated our blog last year.  Since the update we are now very proud grandparents of Jonathan Otto Dillivan III, who was born March 27th.  We call him LJ for Little John.  He is so precious and such a good baby.  He is now 6 months old and almost crawling.  He likes to rock back and forth until he lunges forward.  He gets where he wants to, just not very fast yet.  LJ and Grandpa are great buddies.  They laugh at each other which is very contagious for everyone else.  Unfortunately LJ live in Memphis with Mom and Dad, so we don't see him as often as we would like.