I'm a Grandma

I've decided to bypass children and children's children altogether and go straight to becoming a Grandma. Recently I've discovered a new hobby shared by many senior citizens. You may have seen them in your local community. They are determined, driven and early rising "mall walkers". Now I can't say that I have quite graduated to a "mall walker" but I am definitely the second cousin known as the "arena walker". I find myself growing tired of the Arizona heat, and really dislike staying in my office all day. I used to go for walks in a beautiful neighborhood near campus, but those days will not be back until November. In the meantime, I've discovered that just down campus from me is the McKale Center arena. It is the sports arena here at the University of Arizona. I walked there for lunch today and was immediately drawn to it by the high powered air-conditioning. I looked around and sure enough, I saw business dress with tennis shoes doing laps around the 2nd floor walkway. I of course only had flip-flops on but I was down. You can imagine how my confidence rose as people I passed commented on my speediness. "Look out for Speedy" and "Hey, I commend you, you've already lapped me twice." I have no shame in admitting that I will now spend my lunches doing laps with the elderly. It is better then sitting all day long and is a good break in the day. Who knows, maybe there is more to Thelma then we think.

You do it to yourself

4th of July

I can honestly say we had a classic 4th of July this year. We began with a 7:00am breakfast with our ward. (By 8:30 we were rushing to get home and out of the sun.) I decided to bring my camera because lately I forget I own one. Some of the highlights of the morning were: the mothers and babies all in patriotic fashion, my cousin Elder Orr, who is an ASL missionary here in Tucson, and really just the new hot patriotic fashions that I never knew exsisted. We also had a celebrity sighting. See below.

All in all, we just ate and mingled. It was actually pretty fun.

Celebrity. (Kara spotted him first) You may have seen him on Napoleon Dynamite...it is REX KWON DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In the flesh, although we didn't see him perform any moves.

That evening we went over to some friends', Chase and Caitlin's for a bbq/pool party. Good food and good times. There was even homemade ice cream.

We ended the evening with a caught frog. Little did I know, Greg had also caught a baby frog and brought it home with him. I didn't believe him later that night when he was in the kitchen saying he was playing with the frog. But sure enough, after I bet him that he was lying, he came out with a little frog in a container. He had to let it go. (I didn't even do a post about the newest fish he brough home. He brought it as a gift to me because my favorite fish Bloria died. The new fish was pregnant and had TWELVE babies yesterday, so now we have twelve Bloria's.)