Day family newsletter - May 2014

June 1, 2014

DAY FAMILY NEWSLETTER – MAY 2014
Everyone came over for Mother’s Day and we enjoyed chicken enchiladas, planting backyard flowers, and seeing the new addition to our family, Bill & Katie’s Hazel. She’s a real cutie and a great addition to the family.

Wiggin’s had an opportunity to spend a week in Columbia in an undercover sting operation for a non-profit organization dedicated to freeing kidnapped young girls sold into slavery/sex trade. He joined a group of about 12 other undercover people who worked in conjunction with the Columbia undercover police and freed about 15 girls and sent the perpetrators to prison. He may do this part time from time to time until he reaches his 20 years of police service in November and is eligible for retirement – depends on other opportunities as time goes by. Jackie and Wiggins have got their backyard all fixed up and the pool open for summer. They just celebrated their 4th anniversary on the 20th.

Debbie/Stuart’s Kaylee came up last Wednesday to spend a week with grandma/grandpa. We have enjoyed her zest for life and never ending energy. Been to see two movies so far – Godzilla and Maleficent, two pretty good movies. Also to a graduation party for a niece’s daughter. Today it’s off to Wheeler Farm to meet up with Steph/kids, a trip to 7-11 for treats, and I gave Kaylee her first lesson on how to make Swedish pancakes for breakfast.

We enjoyed seeing Sherilyn’s lecture at the Assembly Hall on Temple Square a few weeks ago. She is very professional, a good speaker, and did a good job outlining the life of an early pioneer woman who was secretly married to Joseph Smith, and then later to an apostle and came out west via the pioneer routes to Salt Lake. But now that I think of it, all of you were there also (except Alisyn), and know all this.

Steph took the last of her three girls to Disneyland (Taylor, 6 yrs old). She has taken Jessica and Sarah in previous yrs. Taylor thoroughly enjoyed being on a special trip all by themselves with Mom, flying on an airplane for the first time, and seeing the wonders of Disneyland. Linda and I packed our suitcases and lived in Steph’s house watching the kids during their trip

Hazel Boyd was born May 4th to Katie and Bill and Linda has spent some time helping with their kids while Katie has gone to the doctor or needed some help. We went to their house one evening for pie/cake to celebrate Katie’s birthday. Katie is looking at possible back surgery for some vertebrae that need fixing.

Linda and I saw another good movie earlier in the month, Heaven is for Real. We got our garden planted a few weeks ago, and Steph’s kids helped me refurbish and repaint The Garden of Eat’n sign that hangs on the fence. Linda and I have started the project of staining our backyard fence again – hasn’t been done in about 15 years.

And that’s the news from the Days for the month. Love, Tom & Linda