iPhone

I wanted to publicly let everyone know something. I splurged. I was just too excited about the iPhone and just had to have one.

Just kidding. Dan did.
But he has since returned it.

He tried to sell it on Ebay but didn't find any buyers.


Dan had to explain to his parents his scam. He bought it and would be able to return it in 14 days with no questions asked. So he would post it to Ebay and if it doesn't sell, return it.

You can't see, but his parents weren't too happy.

Dan kept explaining himself.

I think he tried to soften his parents with the beautiful iPhone.

He ended up not selling it and taking it back.

Diane visits

Diane came up to Utah with Dan to keep him company in the car. Dan started summer term at BYU and Diane took the opportunity to visit us. Diane and Jen went up to visit Grandma Barnes at some point. Unfortunately they didn't take many pictures. This picture is the only one that came out of that visit.

Diane and Katelynn having fun.

One day Dan, Diane, Jen and Katelynn came up and ate lunch with me. It was a lot of fun just to relax in the shade during the quiet time of summer term.




Katelynn now has four teeth and like to chew on anything she can.

And to brush her teeth.

So Thursday, Jen made brownies with frosting for Enrichment and brought the left overs home and put them on the shorter shelf that comes off the kitchen counter. Katelynn at some point in the day grabbed the plate (paper, thank goodness) and pulled it to the ground. By the time Jen found her, Katelynn was already chomping into a brownie so Jen put her into her high chair and let her enjoy. And enjoy she did.

The Side Rear-view Mirror Incident

Our parking situation is that we park in an Apartment/Condo parking space along our building. We have an overhang, which is great in the winter with the snow, and the post for the side of the overhang is on the passenger side. The person on the driver side has a habit of parking on the line or partially on our side of the line. This habit is annoying but we haven't been too out of shape about it.
So Jen parked REALLY close to the pole one day because of the encroaching neighbor car. When she backed out later, not remembering that she parked close the last time she parked and that she needed to look in her mirror, so she hit the pole. Mind you only the passenger side rear view mirror was hit so it was way better than it could have been. That side mirror was dangling when I was at work. I came home and disconnected the wires which was the only thing left intact. Jen wasn't mad or shaken up, just extremely embarrassed. I think that stuff like this happens to everyone.
Anyways, I spent all day the next Saturday gluing with epoxy glue all the pieces back together and fixed it. I was very proud of myself. Especially that I took the entire thing apart to get under the mirror, something my fix-it dad has not been able to do without breaking the mirror. There are not many pictures because until I fixed it, Jen was too embarrassed for this to be posted, but once fixed she thought that I should be proud, which I was, and post it. These were the pictures I sent to my dad to get his advise on the direction I should go.

As you can see, it broke off completely.

I took a picture deep inside because that arm above attached to that white thing deep inside. I was trying to figure out how to glue that on deep inside. Luckily I figured out how to remove the mirror.

This glue was a miracle worker.

This is the end result. I was rather proud of myself. It didn't fit perfect but I think the molding was a little bent so it fit well enough.