BECCA HAS HER BABY !!!!!!!!!

Becca had her baby yesterday. This is her fifth and I believe our 72nd grandchild. (Becca, lincensed CPA, will confirm the number)

Becca and Paul moved to Heber valley last month to live in Grandpa McEntires farm house on the family 50 acres. While there, they are renting out their two homes in Highland and St. George in an effort to adjust to the new economic milieu.

We went up there a week ago to visit and they have really done a job on the old farmhouse, fixing, painting, repairing that cute home in that beautiful valley. Becca was almost full term then and was fussing about organizing pantries, things in the house displaying definite nesting urges. Mom would always do that as well as delivery time loomed near. When Becca was born and the entire family was way except for Roy, she delayed going to the hospital trying to match up 12 pairs of children's shoes for Sunday.

Becca also had a close call on her last baby almost delivering in the car. We were worried that she might have the baby somewhere in Provo canyon making her way down to American Fork where all her other children were born. She knew the time was near and even though plans were made of a weekend baby, She started feeling things Monday evening, made arrangements to go to the hospital yesterday and after only two pushes had this cute little baby boy.

He is a doll! I though he looked about a month old. He quickly found his thumb and knew what to do with it. Becca looks so great and Paul was beaming.

She will come out on Wednesday and back to Heber. We wish them well. They will name him Alexander. All their kids names start with "A"; Abigail, Andrewn, Anthony, Austin and now Alexander. They want their kids to be all "A's".

Things are getting busy again. The vacation for students is over and I am getting requests for patriarchal blessings. We are back to our shifts in the Temple. We go to Maine this month for a meeting of the New England Vascular Society (I was a founding member) for our CME credit. October will be the trip to East Germany. Need to work in a hunt there somewhere.. it is fun to think about it anyway.

We are richly blessed as a family

Alles Gute und alles Liebe,,,Dad and Mom

OKTOBERFEST IN THE UTAH MOUNTAINS

Dear Family,

It has been a long time since the last blog post. We have been busy with family and projects.

John and Emily and their kids went camping her up in Little Cottonwood Canyon and found that there was an Oktoberfest up in Snowbird high in the canyon.

Doug, Spence, Nate, Tommy, Oma and Opa went up there with Emily, John, Johnny, Natalie, Caroline, Josh, Jake and Joseph. They do this each year, had the tents etc. We went up there to get a good bratwurst.


Well here is Opa with a pretty good brat. The look reflects the pain associated with the cost of this brat but things are more expensive at altitude.

There was a musical group who yodeled, played instruments complete with accordion, large ommpa ommpa horns and everything else you associate with German folk Musik including also Dirndls and Lederhosen. The group was pretty good and the the Alpenhorns played Amazing Grace.


Outside were booths and things one could buy. They had the World Champion Yo-Yo guy doing tricks. When Doug and the boys bought Yo-Yo's he gave a little lesson to all. Here is a picture of the gang getting lessons on how to shoot Yo-Yos.

Before going to Oktoberfest, Emily brought Johnny who lacerated his leg on a sharp rock climbing in the Hills down to Doug's house. Doug stitched him up in the living room and all recalled similar incidents when Opa sutured the kids on the kitchen table at home in Boston and Michigan. Good to have a suture set at home.

Cheryl dropped her kids off for a couple of days and called one night and asked how they were doing. I replied "I got all the bleeding stopped!" Little five year old Emily broke a dish and raised a large flap of skin on the instep of her foot and was bleeding all over the place. I put pressure on it and the bleeding stopped and I did not have to suture the flap of skin. Then there was a shout from the basement, "Johnny is bleeding in his mouth!" He bit something but that bleeding stopped. I'm not sure how you can be a parent now days without some surgical skills!

School is starting and it has been a great, wild and happy summer with a great reunion and lots of family. We are greatly blessed.

Alles Gute, Mom and Dad