Rasmania 102

Last week, after publishing the letter, we had family dinner and everyone came except the Jacksons.  The cousins especially enjoyed their time together.  I wanted to share the pictures that were taken because you can see the joy the kids have in playing with each other (especially when they play dress-ups!) Yuna and Yuli;  Ila, Bridget (Adrienne and Cub in the background) Todd is so happy when he plays cars at grandpa's house.  His favorite cars/motorcycles, etc. are the ones that are "off limits." Of course, it turns out that not much is off limits when it comes to Todd. Nick was the favorite uncle of the week.  He played with the grandkids in the yard most of the evening.  On the swing: Dojin, Bridget, Camden and Avie Then they found the dress-ups! Ila; Effie Ruby; Ila, C 3 PIO and Todd (I'm honestly not sure who is in the mask--maybe Finn). Ollie played the stud;  Camden was Batman Bridget, Hyeji; Ori and many kids in the background Princess Yuli Ba...

Back to School (Phase 2)                                                           Above: Hyeji, Doyeon, Yuna and Dojin Rasband Above: Dojin and Yuli; Doyeon, Yuna and Dojin Above: The Green team; Gunnar, Ollie, Finn and Ila Effie and Ori Rasband (The last phase of Back to School will be next week when Crista's kids return). Cute cousins: Avie, Foster and Yuli, left;  Avie and Foster, right Roy and I spent the week in Cedar City maxing out on the plays at the Utah Shakespeare Festival.  We saw seven plays in four days.  For my personal record I'm going to mention the plays we saw:  Emma (the musical); The Play that Goes Wrong (hilariously funny); Raisin in the Sun; Romeo and Juliet; Timon of Athens, Coriolanus; and  A Midsummer Night's Dream.  We were slightly disappointed with Romeo and Juliet because Romeo was a ...

Yuli, Hyeji and Camden eating seaweed and rice at Jieun's art studio Elise and Andy went to Charleston for the weekend to celebrate her birthday.  She's been there before (probably many times, but she found this picture taken in the same spot). Happy Birthday, Elise! Life can be so hard (I agree, Yuli, it's been a hard week) Roy spent a couple of nights at the cabin to do some more chores.  He loves it up  there, even though he works hard most of the time he's there.  As you can see, this antelope buck  was right by the street in town.  He's excited because he drew out on an antelope for the upcoming  hunt starting in September (he feels pretty lucky).  He's already scouted out some places to go and has seen some big bucks just hanging out.  Since Roy is good at making friends, he's also received permission to hunt on the private land of some ranchers that would like to get rid of a few antelope. He told Keith that he'd love to get an antelop...

There are a few items of interest this week: Our Georgia grandkids are the first to get back to school.  As you can see from the signs, Mav is starting 2nd grade, Max 5th, and Bevy, kindergarten.  I think Beverly looks the most excited. Later in the week I went to a family reunion--the Grant Cook family reunion.  In attendance: Debbie and Albert Bori; all of Debbies children, most of her grandchildren; Debbie's three living sisters, Laurel (and her husband, Dave), Darlene, and Margaret.  It was fun to catch up with a few cousins.  Darlene and Laurel are quite a bit older than I am, so I've never known them well.  Of course, I got to know Debbie when we lived in the South.  Albert told me that we are his favorite (I think he meant that we're his favorites out of all of Debbie's family 😀.  We had a good time visiting and then drove home through a horrendous electrical storm with torrential rain! Above:  Catharine with Laurel, and Catharine wit...