NEWSLETTER FROM THE DAYS - MAY 2010

June 1, 2010

NEWSLETTER FROM THE DAYS – MAY 2010

The big news this month was that Jacquolene “Jackie” and Burdette “Wiggins” Shumway were married on Thursday, the twentieth of May, 2010 at five-thirty at The Edelweiss Center in Midway, Utah. The day started with all the sisters getting make-up and hair done while Grandma and Grandpa Day (us) watched the four flower girls, Jessica (age 7), Kaylee (age 4), Sarah (age 4) and Taylor (age 2). We got the girls hair done that afternoon, and then everyone traveled up to the Homestead in Midway to get checked into our rooms before heading over to the Edelweiss Center for the big event. Jackie planned the entire event, and the lady she hired as a wedding planner did a superb job. A lady reverend performed the ceremony, and in talking to her, she knew Jackie and Wiggins from their shared biking hobby (Harley’s). Just immediate families were invited along with Jackie and Wiggins friends and coworkers, most of who were policemen that they have worked with. They had a very nice catered dinner buffet, followed by dancing, drinks, photography session, cutting the cake, the whole nine yards. Jackie was striking and beautiful in her full length wedding gown, and all the bridesmaids wore black with pink high heels. The guys wore pink vests under their tuxedos, and pink socks. Jackie got me pink socks and a pink tie to go with it. We all stayed over and had breakfast the next morning at the Homestead before heading back to Salt Lake. The night before the wedding, Linda and I hosted a very nice wedding dinner for immediate family at the Olive Garden. Debbie lent Jackie and Wiggins her motor home for a honeymoon trip to the Portland area. They were originally going to do the trip on their Harley, but because of the weather forecasts, hauled it behind the motor home in their cycle trailer to stay a little drier.

Some of our kids/grandkids joined us one Sunday afternoon to see the new Shrek movie. And Debbie/Kaylee and Katie/Jack joined us to do Memorial Day flowers this year. We added a stop this year for Jackie Baird who died almost one year ago. Linda and I babysat little Taylor for a couple of days while Stephanie took the other girls on a singles camping trip up Logan canyon. They ended up coming home one day early because of bad weather, but still had a good time. I finally finished reading Little Women yesterday. I just loved this book, perhaps because we also have four daughters.

We celebrated Katie’s birthday the morning after the wedding while having breakfast at the Homestead. We celebrated Mother’s day with a back yard barbeque at our house and got our backyard flowers all planted. The grandkids helped me start with the garden planting, and I finished it a week later. These are all yearly rituals for us, and mark the beginning of spring.

I did a 5K walk for life with some people at work – we were on the Patty Martinez team – she works with us - her breast cancer showed up again. We all wore pink t-shirts that said “These boobs are made for walking” on the back. I now wear this t-shirt while mowing the lawn. And that’s the news from the Days.
Love, Tom & Linda

Day family newsletter - April 2010

NEWS FROM THE DAYS – APRIL 2010

Cole and Jessica invited everyone to their new home in Lehi for little Emry’s first birthday party. She was walking everywhere, and enjoyed having so many people around. It’s hard to believe that our little great granddaughter is already one year old! Cole and Jessica have a cute home nestled away at the very end of a rather large subdivision in Lehi.

I took Danny to the airport for his big Hawaii trip to visit the Kimball Boone family, and I’ll let Danny tell everyone about all of his activities. The next day, we had everyone over to our home for an Easter egg hunt. Because of the weather, we moved it indoors, but all the kids had fun finding all the hidden eggs. Jessica, our 7 yr. old granddaughter, helped me hide the eggs in the front room for the one yr. olds – Jack and Emry.

Linda celebrated another birthday on April 15th (same as Sherilyn Farnes), and the following weekend, we all met at the Spaghetti Factory for her birthday dinner. Quite a group at 22 people. Alisyn, Deon and Shelley joined us as well! Linda got some new glasses – the final step of her cataract procedure, and is pleased to be able to see perfectly. She had failed her eye test for her driver license renewal one week prior to getting her new glasses, but has now gone back and is legal again.

I continue to follow Danny’s lead and walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes daily. I started after hot tubing with Danny last Thanksgiving and seeing how much weight he had actually lost over the previous year. After I also started to watch calorie intake, the pounds finally started to come off. Like the movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons, where he ages backwards, I am likewise having my baby (excess stomach weight) backwards. When I started, I was in my third trimester, or about 7 ½ months along. Now, after 5 months of “babying my baby”, I’ve moved backwards into my 2nd trimester, and lost over 15 pounds. My goal is to deliver by Thanksgiving and then not get pregnant again.

A question “Does belonging to the tea party, or supporting/believing in/rallying for the tea party infringe upon the word of wisdom?”

I took Debbie to see a play at the U this past week – 42nd Street. We enjoyed having a night out. Debbie works almost exclusively with Indian people at American Express. They contracted with a company out of India and hired 200 people to come here to work on a 5 yr. contract. So Debbie is getting to be quite an expert in their culture, arranged marriages, religion, etc. Debbie is a Risk Manager, and works at keeping theft losses at a minimum in her division. Linda babysat Kaylee, and they enjoyed going out to Noodles for dinner and having ice cream while we attended the play.

Stephanie’s condo is still for sale, and she was disappointed that it didn’t sell before the new home buyer $8K program ended April 30th. All the girls are attending a naughty or nice wedding showing for Jackie this weekend given by one of Jackie’s friends.

Katie ran in the Salt Lake half marathon a few weeks ago with a friend. And I’m going to walk in a 5K for cancer next weekend for a coworker. We got to babysit Jack one evening recently, and enjoyed seeing him walking all over the place. He loved being here at the same time Steph’s kids were here, and having all the extra kids around. He even sat on our swing set for the first time and enjoyed swinging.

Can’t believe Jackie and Wiggin’s wedding is almost here. Wiggins recently completed 5/6 years of undercover drug work, and is going back to being a “street” cop again this month. He’s glad, as you get burned out doing undercover after so long.

Linda and her boss hired our niece, Danielle (Linda’s little sister Jaelyn’s daughter) to work part time in their office. Linda has enjoyed the extra help. She replaces one of her boss’s sons, who left to get into another business. Linda recently did another blanket for our nephew’s daughter who Linda fell in love with on a recent visit with her brother.

And that’s the new, the whole news, and nothing but the true news, from the Days.

Tom & Linda