Sam and Henry

Jonny and Jenny got a fabulous deal on a resort hotel in Los Angeles.  They scheduled a well-earned post-baby couples trip during the weekend of July 23, 2022.  I promised Jonny that Dave and I would tend Sam and Henry. We picked the boys up from Jenny's mom, Shelly Leatham, on Saturday afternoon.  Shelly had a full house when we got there.  The children of her son, Danny, were there, and she was expecting her daughters, Tess and Tori, to join her soon, with their children.  Tori’s children had begged their mother to stay with “Nana” for a month.  “How can you turn down your grandchildren?” Shelly asked me.  I don’t know.  I can’t do it, myself.   Shelly watched Jonny and Jenny's Thomas and Jonathan, while we took Sam and Henry.

We ate supper at Hires, before Dave took Sam and Henry to the movie, “Top Gun”.  As Henry and I ordered chili and Sam ordered a Hires burger, I thought back to the many times David and I took Michael and Jonny to Hires when they were little.  I also ordered a root beer float for old times sake, and I was appalled at the cup and a half of soft vanilla ice cream that sat on top of my mug of root beer.  Of course, I ate it all.

I took the boys with me to Church on Sunday.  I asked them if  they needed to take anything to divert themselves during Sacrament Meeting.  They told me, a bit offended, that they didn’t need a thing.  Jonny later laughed, when I told him that.  “At our ward, they need all kinds of things to get them through Sacrament Meeting.”  After Church, Sam and Henry helped me make bouquets for their beleaguered Grandma Leatham, and for Camille's dinner table.

I had suggested to Camille that Sam likes pork tacos, and so she set up a full taco bar for us in her kitchen—pork, salmon, several sauces and salsas, and corn tortillas.  

Uncle Steve likes to tease the boys as "the Joker."

Ollie is the most elegant dog I've seen!   I envy his lean, sleek body, in just the shade of red hair I prefer.

Emilie was home from Dallas, and we loved catching up with her.

On both Monday and Tuesday mornings, Dave and I took Sam and Henry to their golf lessons.  Golf is becoming a favorite sport for Jonny's family.

On Monday, after golf lessons, Dave took the boys to the cabin for the day.  He then took them to the movie they requested, "Paws of Fury."  Dave sighed, "I knew just what kind of movie it would be when I saw how 'Paws' was spelled."

On Tuesday afternoon, I let the boys play games on our downstairs TV, as I handled a closing.

We then ate a late lunch at Spaghetti Factory.  There was some posing for the camera!