Twentynine

It's amazing how fast 29 years goes by! I am trying to think of something memorable Kerry and I can do today for our anniversary - after watching Emily's softball game tonight that is. Maybe we could head on over to Twentynine Palms, except I have to shop for groceries for Stake Girl's camp this weekend, so a trip will have to wait. Not sure a Marine Base is the best place for an anniversary trip anyway.

Here is a list of memorable Anniversaries past.

1st anniversary - we had a newborn, Adam was just 12 days old. We couldn't bear to leave him for even an hour so...we had our anniversary at Kerry's parent's house where they "babysat" Adam inside and we BBQ'd steaks outside on their back porch.

4th anniversary - we had another new baby, Veronica was just 3 mos old, and we lived in Wymount Terrace. Our good friends and neighbors, Steve and Mari Roberts, volunteered cheerfully to babysit for free so we could go out to dinner and a movie. The movie? Ghostbusters!

10th anniversary - We lived in Rexburg, and had 4 little kids. We took them to Grandma and Grandpa Park's for the day and went golfing at Jefferson Hills golf course and then out to dinner.

11th or 12th anniversary - June 25th that year was the Rexburg Relay For Life event, and Kerry had signed us up to walk a certain amount of time on the Basic American Foods team. We walked the same number of laps as the number of years we had been married. I think it was 12.

15th anniversary - It was a Sunday, so we just had a nice dinner with our little kids - no Emily yet - then went on a peaceful stroll around Smith Park. Our last anniversary in Rexburg.

24th anniversary - Simon & Garfunkle concert in Salt Lake city - the kids are now old enough to just leave them without grandparents or babysitters. We had a nice room at the Marriott downtown. Our seats were up pretty high, but it was a great concert.

25th anniversary - Maui! We had a condo right on Napili Bay. We snorkeled every day, went running up to the airport on the hill, took the road to Hana, climbed a volcano - and spent June 25th on a sunset dinner cruise. Perfect! There was a newlywed couple on our cruise, still in their wedding attire. We told them we would meet them back there in 25 years for their 25th anniversary and our 50th.

Usually we'll go out to dinner, or sometimes the Temple on our anniversary. Plans for our 30th anniversary next year are to go to Canada! We haven't been there since our wedding trip, it's just not on the way to anywhere. This time though, I think we will need a passport.

Purple Shirt

Since it's past midnight now...this is the day that is the last day of radiation. It's also the day of the Relay for Life. Thomas and Caley came down for the survivor's dinner tonight, and he got his official purple shirt. I think he looks super cool in purple.

Crossroads of the West

Today was fun, Steven flew for the first time. He is the Youth Governor for Idaho for 2010, and today began the national conference for all youth governors in Washington D.C. He had to be at the airport in Salt Lake by 6 a.m. in order to get to D.C. by this afternoon for orientation. Kerry got some photos of the governor going through security. The interesting thing is that today Veronica and Kyle flew home from their annual Outer Banks trip, so they were also in the Salt Lake airport, and probably crossed paths with Steven somewhere over the midwest. They had the same connections - Chicago departing and Denver returning.

And then, because it truly is the crossroads of the west, Marisa's friend Doug from the wiffleball game was also flying into SLC this morning returning from our favorite destination, HNL. I wouldn't be surprised if Sarah was also in the airport today, since SLC is her home base for her airline job.

It's also JC and Norma's 60th anniversary today, so truly momentous is this date in Park family travel history. 10 years ago today we were in Yellowstone for their 50th anniversary, when Adam was a brand new high school graduate who was still 17, the age Steven is now.

We had some time for a Sunday drive on the way home, so we stopped by the Utah Capitol Bldg. where Emily learned that her lot in life as the youngest child when all of the older children are gone is to get dragged around by her aged parents looking for things like the Mormon_Meteor. It wasn't there, it was vandalized and moved from the Capitol, so instead we found the Mormon Battalion monument and the name of Great, great, great (great, great?) Grandpa James Pollock Park from whence the J comes for all of the boys middle names.
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