Hello, Handsome. Goodbye, San Diego

This is the elevator to the parking garage - Steven was standing in front of this poster advertising Hyatt's $35 haircuts.

Its been a fun, luxurious 6 nights in this hotel, but I guess it's time to go home now.  School, marching band, work - life awaits.  We spent our last night going to the San Diego Temple and the Cheesecake Factory.  It's been fun spending time with Marisa and Doug in their beautiful part of the world.  They have been excellent tour guides & hosts.  The last time I was in San Diego was probably the Holiday Bowl in 1979.

Sandy Eggo

Vacation time for Steven, Emily and I - business trip time for Kerry.   So far we have driven across the hot desert, had lunch in the McDonald's in Barstow that is a train car, strolled around Seaport Village, sung along with Marisa playing the organ in Church on Sunday (her debut), and gone swimming with the Haycock's.  Oh and this lovely free hotel room with a view of ...the other side of the hotel, but a little bit of the ocean too.

March 1, 1993

(One time for FHE we all wrote in our family journal.  Kerry just found that journal in a box.)

Veronica Anne, 3rd grade
Today we didn't have any school because the teachers had inservice or something.  We got to go rollerskating, too.  They guy who owned the rollerskating rink somehow knew there was no school today.  So that's mostly what we did today
In three days is my birthday.  Today is Aunt Peggy's birthday.
Steven's being pretty funny right now.  A minute ago, he was crawling along, and then he just fell flat on his face.  We all started laughing.  He saw that we were laughing, so he started to just crawl along, and fall on his face on purpose.  It was funny!  Then, mom gave him a marker to draw on a piece of paper.  But he tried to eat it.
Jennifer Strobel just called to ask if I could come home from school tomorrow.  Mom said yes, and I told her I would need a note to give to the bus driver.  Then she said, "Well, I guess we shouldn't write "Hail to the Bus Driver" on it.  (over) ------------>
Veronica Anne, 3rd grade, (continued)
I guess that's all for now.  Oh, wait.  Me and Marisa are going to trade bedrooms with the boys.  But dad said we had to clean out our rooms first.
Okay.  Now I'm definately finished.
Well that's what happened today.  THE END

(Thomas 1st grade)
Today I haited it I almost got blined playing blined mans bluff.  Poor Tom Tom got the cold got a stay home from school got Goosey Coff.  Thomas
You guys can you brake all of my bones I anet like school?  I love this ya guys  This is fun ha ha.  I was just playing peekaboo With Steve.

(Adam 6th grade)
Today we didn't have to go to school for a teacher inservice day.  We went skating at 1:00.  I'm lots better than the first time I skated, a few years ago.  Now I can even skate better than Kevin Cook.
A few weeks ago I got some new Bladerunner in-line skates.  It took a couple days before I got to use them.  While skating, Kevin and his friend Travis Kay told me that I wasn't supposed to use a black brake.  Later, I looked around and found a power ratchet and some tool and used them at the same time to get the back wheel off the right skate.  After I got that off, the brake and the contraption it slides into came out of the skate.  Today I used them and since they're so light, I can go faster and even jump and do "360's!"
Yesterday, while eating some really badly burnt microwave popcorn, one of my teeth fell out.  I thought it was a "granny" or unpopped kernel and about swallowed it.  Then I felt my soft gums where it came out and screamed my head off!  Mom asked me if I ate a "hideous little creature" in my popcorn.  I showed her my tooth, (which had a filling in it) and then she said "was it already loose?"
Right now, Dad's having a myocardial infarction with the Phantom of the Opera cd.  He's standing by it bobbing his head and dancing.  Now hes's filling the atmosphere with his rendition of "Music of the Night."  Can you say air pollution?
Steven's been acting silly lately.  Earlier tonight, he was crawling and slipped and we all laughed.  Ever since, that's all he's been doing.
Baseball starts pretty soon.  Today, me and Justin went to All-American Sports after his paper route because we saw huge banners that said "SALE"  I checked out some mitts and noticed the interesting bat configuration on the ground.  They were in swirls, one next to the other.  They came up a few feet off the ground.
Basketball just officially iended for me.  Our record was 5-3, but if you take away the points other teams got off of bad calls, we were 7-1.
I think I might get my first A-.  In health, I missed a test thanks to Mrs. Parker, who just HAD to take us on a stupid, boring field trip to the hospital.  I never have got a chance to make up the test.  I probably will tomorrow, after school, if I can.
That's all I can think of right now.  AP