Jill Checks Back into the Game

Well, I keep having high ambition that I will post every Monday. I like this blog, and I like seeing these entries. So, despite my life being a bit hard to pin down with exciting detail and the utter lack of pictures right now, I will post. Yes, I will post.

So, I live in Atlanta now. It was a wild journey. The interns and I packed up the national Break Away office after a full day of work and left for Atlanta at 12:30 a.m. That's the 12:30 that is right after midnight, not after noon. That made for an ouch of an arrival at 5:30 am to Atlanta. We slept that journey off, only to unpack a lot of heavy files and boxes in the sweet, humid South. No complaints really though, because it allowed for me to come back to a fairly well settled office and life, rather than having to do move the office and myself after a pretty hectic summer.

I haven't seen much of the outside still. It has rained incredibly hard here a couple of times, which I don't understand being from the West and all. We have some quick hard rains in the Mother Droughtland. Here, they have long days of are-you-a-hurricane torrents. Lots of loud thunder too. The kind you'd have to say "hush child, hush" if you were holding a scared youngin' to the bosom.

Oh boy, it's after those kind of lines get typed out that I know it might be a little too late in the evening for this experimentation. Perhaps I'll write a bit more over this long weekend, which I am greatly anticipating.

Amor!

A lovely vacation

It was a bitter sweet return to Arizona life for us. Bitter because it is hard to be away from family, and to have something that we had looked forward to for so long gone in the blink of an eye. Sweet because it was a great vacation, and we have a lot going on here to get back to. Here is a breakdown of our trip, for history sake.
We left on a Thursday and traveled straight, with only a stop for dinner and two stops for gas, to Moab. We arrived late to Grandma Shirleys house, but she was very welcoming. We slept good, and the next morning enjoyed some time with her and her brother Bob. Great people, and it was so nice to have a stopping point. Friday we left Shirleys and headed to Price. After Clint had a quick visit with his grandpa Rex while the kids and I showered and changed, we headed to Salt Lake for my cousin Marcies wedding reception. It was great to see the family, Marcie looked beautiful, the food and the company was great. Friday night we were at Beckis. Saturday we visited the Cheney family (friends from BYU), and then Clint golfed with his brother and friend while the kids and I went to Salt Lake for a picnic with the Chases. Again a handy way to get back in touch with a bunch of family. The kids had a great time and the adults had an even better time. Saturday night we stayed at Clints brothers house in Eagle mountain. He and Erin were great hosts. While we were there Dewayne, Vickie, Dewaynes daughter Camille,and Dewaynes grandson Dillion stopped by after a trip to Lake Powell. We enjoyed visiting with them. Sunday we drove to Spanish Fork, went to sacrament meeting with mom and the Paces, left the boys and took off for Boston. I think that I covered the early part of the trip in the earlier blog. The last half was fun too. We enjoyed our time with Jeff. Little italy was great. I am still craving the Pizza that Jeff ordered. Mmmmm. Jeff and Clint had a good time at the Blue Man group, and we enjoyed our quick road tour of Rhode Island after we dropped Jeff and Liza at the airport. I left for Salt lake the next day. Ruby was so good on the airplane rides. I was very proud of her. I was so happy to see the boys again. The Paces did a great job of taking care of them, I am eternally grateful. The week was packed with fun activities. A trip to Park City for school shopping, a birthday barbque for dads birthday, Jills arrival, a day at 7 peaks, time with grandma, BYU clothes shopping to prepare for the upcoming football season, ice blocking, snow cones, topped off with a trip to scofeild. I loved every minute, even (in reflection) dealing with Mason. Sunday was a tearfull goodbye, I think I must have looked very foolish weeping as I left Beckis church. In order to avoid another tearful farewell, we had to quickly pack up the car and head out from Beckis house, before they returned home from church. It was a close call. Grandpa Jim was kind enough to join us in our trek home. It turned into a 15 hour ordeal as we took a wrong turn, but again the kids were troopers and we stopped only for dinner, gas, timeouts..;.. and directions back to where we should have been. Now we are home again. We enjoyed Dads visit. Isaiah started pre-school on Tuesday and is loving it. I was a bit timid about his first day, but his ease with all of it has made it very easy to deal with. Next on the to do list is scouts, book club, potty training, iggys school, Igs birthday, changes in clints work schedule, BYU football etc, etc. That should be enough to keep me busy until the holidays roll around and we can enjoy our family again. Sorry for the novel without Illustration, I will add those soon. Thanks to everyone for making it a wonderful trip!!!

Pictures from my visit to Boston

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Hello eveyone, this is the first post in a while for me, sorry. It will not be a very long post here either, I'm letting the pictures do the talking for me- enjoy. First Nanci shows us what she thinks of the chocolate chip cannoli. Next, Ruby gets in on the fun- she does have Italian blood and taste buds too. The pictures may look out of order but we did have dessert first (to Clint's distress- he wanted a real sit down meal). And we did eat- here is Nanci enjoying her paninni(sandwich) and Clint having finished his, and Jeff had some of the best pizza in a loooong time....



Clint made a friend with the local Blue Man Group member.....

Ruby was the most impressive person of our group to everyone in Boston- where ever she went she was dressed to impress as well...

Clint felt that the Church in Boston was true too when we found this parking spot at the temple specially marked for him...

...and at the end of the visit, my girlfriend Liza and I flew back to Baltimore after only two days and two nights there. It was quick but well worth the trip. Thanks Clint, Nanci, Ruby and Intel!

Boston

Its vacation time for the Guymons. We left on Thursday and made our way to Utah. With quick visits to Clints grandma Shirley in Moab, Mom in Price, Piacitelli family in Salt Lake, Paces in Spanish Fork, friends in Provo, and Clints brother in Eagle Mountain, it was a busy weekend. Worth every minute of travel. So after leaving the boys with the Paces, Clint, Ruby and I began another stint of long travel, this time on the plane. It went well. Ruby was such a trooper and slept the whole time. On the way to Boston Clint and I sat by a woman who was a minister, she was very nice and interesting, and invited us out to her home. Today was our first full day in Boston. We joined a walking tour and saw some of the downtown sights. Our tourguide was wonderful, and it was a good way for us to get in some good history to go along with the sights. Clint had to leave for his class at 2:30, so today was a short tour day for us (we got a late start after sleeping in), but we plan to start early tomorrow. We are having a good time. Thanks a million Becki for taking on the boys I know there is no place they are happier. I am so glad that Ruby and I will be back for a week, the few days we were there were much too short for me. Ok, well I will keep you all updated on the trip, I hope you all haven't given up on the blog. We are excited to see Jeff, and will post pictures when we get home. Love you all.