A Week Far, Far Away

It went incredibly fast. As awful as air transportation has become, it still has an amazing quality hurtled passengers through the atmosphere from one city to another almost 2000 miles away in four and a half hours. How glad I am to have done it so that I could be present for Granddaughter Sonja's graduation last Friday where she received her Bachelor's Degree in Social Psychology.

You may have seen the graduation photos and videos on Facebook where I posted them. Today, we'll post them here and add some since I am back at my laptop.

Time to go.

Jeff and Elijah front and center.

Graduates!

Time for the cookies and punch. Tim, Elijah, Sonja, and Jeff.

 Tim and Valerie hosted a big lunch at the Outback afterward. The cookies didn't interfere with appetites. Eveningtime at Sonja and Jeff's, Tim and Valerie grandparenting Dimetrios and toddler Kingston.

Early the next morning Great Grandson Elijah went with Grandma Valerie and Grandpa Tim to their home in New Mexico for a couple of weeks.

Kingston was well-rested the next morning, rearranging the living room and pumping iron...

Kingston with his 3# weight.

...and, watching some age-related cartooning.

Even though I greatly missed Elijah, it was great to have some time with his brothers and their incredibly busy parents. Kingston is 18 months old matches their energy and now makes sound rhythms and shouts as he laughs and joins in with his own language whenever he hears conversation. He'll soon be talking.

Dimetrios absolutely loves bubbles.

There was time to find a church nearby on Sunday. I happened upon a friendly, welcoming Episcopal church in Ogden.

Wish I'd thought of finding out some of its history as it's an old sanctuary out there in the land of the Latter Day Saints.

Sonja had work to do Monday and Tuesday. Jeff handles the kids during the day and they trade later in the day and are helped by a night nurse for Dimetrios during the sleeping hours.

I had time to go to the Golden Spike National Monument where I was disappointed that the two engines were not in evidence due to a manpower shortage that day. Still, it was nice to be there again and it wasn't hard to imagine how remote that event was so long ago.

We were able to get together for a final supper on Tuesday at the Golden Corral. No trouble being well fed there.

Driving through downtown Ogden there are horse sculptures and I captured one through the car window...

Back home the moving to Marge's is back underway despite the heat bubble roasting everyone right now.

From Wendy while I was away...Toby's solution for the heat wave.

Marge's cousin Candice is visiting. Independently, they emerged from

getting ready for an evening out and found they'd dressed nearly identically...

Marge and Candice.