April 18,2011 Kade and Brooklyn

Thank You Loren and Rachelle for putting up with us for an entire week. It was so much fun even when we were suppose to be bored weeding the back yard. We loved the aquarium and USS Lexington and our trips to Bishop and Padre Island. It was very difficult to come back (especially after today when I met the load of work they had saved for me at PC). It was so special to be locked in a room with Brooklyn and her books and to just get to hold Kade. Alex is so light, even though he has gained weight I think he actually lost it since he seems so light. (I will say though that it was fun to hold him again last night as well.) Thank You again for the trips and all of the time you spent worrying about what you could do to entertain us. We really aren't too hard to entertain. We love you and were so glad we got to come down even though Marie was so scared to get on those planes. She actually loved sitting by the window and looking out to see the ground so far below us.

Apr 12, 2011 #3 A road trip to Loren's work

Brooklyn is ready for a trip to daddy's work so we can have lunch with him.

We started out across the wide expanse of the Texas countryside.

And kept going across the wide expanse of the Texas countryside.

We got onto the freeway, well 70 mph 2 lane road.

And passed by the sprawling expanse of new buildings, well old buildings.

Then we passed by the tall mountains stretching across the wide expanse.

We passed by the renovation housing projects.

And we saw where they were getting all of their water for the expansion complete with the water storage facilities.

We also passed by the gas station collection systems.

Then we finally reached our destination of Bishop, Texas.

We then returned past all of the business districts.

And more businesses.

Then finally past the Post Office of the Chapman Ranch, Tx, somewhere midway between Bishop, TX and our destination of Corpus Christi, Tx.

Apr 12, 2011 #2 Loren's Home

A very skewed look of the inside from the corner on the south east.

Outside views

Apr 12, 2011

April 10,2011 Set 2 Kade's Blessing

April 10, 2011 Kade's Blessing

April 3, 2011

How old were you when you got your driver's license? Did you have your own car?

I was 16 when I got my driver's license, 22 when I got my first car (given to me by Marie's dad), about 35 when I bought my first car that wasn't given to me, and finally 57 when I bought my first NEW car.
Cars were not really a priority in my life. If it ran it was good enough for me. Even though I didn't get my license until I was 16 I actually started driving when I was eight years old. It was a tractor and it was set at the slowest speed so that all I really had to do was to steer it between the bales of hay in the field.

April 2, 2011

What kind of clothing did you wear? Were there fads? How were your clothes different from clothes and hairstyles toady?

I wore levi's and western style shirts for the most part. I am sure there were fads but not in the small town of Duchesne. We were pretty much all farmers and wore fairly plain clothes that could be ordered from Sears catalogs. We usually got a couple pair of pants and a couple shirts. However most of the time I didn't have to get any because I had hand-me-down clothes to wear. The hair styles were fairly simple for boys. My hair was cut about once a month by my mother or later my brother Stan. Hairstyles are different for the girls but I can't explain how but I can tell you to pull out my yearbooks and the changes will be obvious.