7/2/1984: Stephen did very well in his softball game tonight. He was 3 for 3 with a triple, a double, and a single. In spite of all of this, though, they lost the game.
7/3/1984: The boys had their first visit to the dentist today. They did very well although the dentist was not able to get x-rays.
Stephen went to an opthalmologist about his eyes. It’s a virus and there is nothing to do about it.
7/4/1984: We went over to the Metlicks for dinner tonight. It was kind of a spur-of-the-moment invitation. After dinner we had homemade peach ice cream.
7/5/1984: The baby sitting co-op and families had a dessert potluck at Nancy Hatcher’s. it was scrumptious! I took a marble cheesecake and everyone wanted the recipe. They gave us a friendship
plaque and wished us good luck and safe journey.
7/6/1984: We took the bouts to the doctor today. They are doing quite well. Peter is maintaining his 1” lead in height and 1 lb in weight.
This evening we to the Schroeders to the Spaghetti Factory for dinner. It was delicious and quite reasonably priced.
7/7/1984: We went over to the Nefs for a picnic lunch today. They have a small pool which the boys really enjoyed. Later, the both managed to get pushed in and get their clothes soaking wet.
Stephen’s softball team won again.
7/8/1984: We made some home made ice cream today and invited the Smiths over after the evening service. We wanted to give them on of the high chairs.
It was a difficult Sunday since it was our last. I hate goodbyes.
7/11/1984: Joey and Heromi Somawang treated us to pizza before church tonight. Fortunately at church we didn’t have a whole lot of goodbyes. I don’t think I could have stood it.
7/14/1984: We were loaded by 9:00 this morning and could have left by 10:00 but the manager came by and said she couldn’t check us out till 1:00. Then when we finally did get ready to leave, the car battery was dead.
When we got to Mom and Dad’s we had a birthday party for the boys.
7/15/1984: Well we all got off today. The kids and I had delays for both flights. We thought we would miss the flight in Denver but John & Marlene helped us race through the airport. Then the flight was delayed anyway. Buddy met us in Atlanta. Stephen left at about noon and made it to Victorville.
7/16/1984: The boys went to school with Doug & Diana today. They seemed really excited, but their teacher said they began to wonder where I was by the end of the day.
Stephen made it to Holbrook, Ariz.
7/17/1984: Stephen had trouble with the truck today. It died and it took 3 hours to get it repaired. Stephen made it to Albuquerque, NM.
The boys did not want to go to school today.
7/18/1984: Stephen got to Elk City, OK today.
7/19/1984: Today Stephen made it to
7/20/1984: Nancy brought me over to Georgia today so I could get the keys to the house and take care of the utilities.
Stephen pulled in to Buddy’s at about 7:00 this evening.
7/21/1984: We got a late start today and didn’t get in until about 5:30. We have discovered many problems such as no shower head, tub stopper doesn’t work, air conditioner doesn’t work, etc, etc.
7/22/1984: This morning Jeff Jordan came over to help us unload the truck. Then tonight we had a rip-roaring thunderstorm. We all sat out on the porch and watched. It was kind of nice for a change.
7/24/1984: We returned the truck today. What a hassle. Two different places refused to take the truck. On the way to the second place Stephen went through a light that I couldn’t make and lost us. What a day!
7/25/1984: We got our phones taken care of today. We had planned to purchase one but since we got a free 3 mo. lease on one of the phones, we decided to put off buying till later.
7/26/1984: Today we did our banking. Things sure are different. We had to pay for the service whereas in Fresno there was no service charge plus they paid interest!
7/27/1984: What a day. We started out to do some running around this morning and had trouble with the car. In fact, it died. We had to be towed to a service station where we spent the afternoon waiting for it to be fixed. When it was done we raced to the grocery store to pick up the boys cake. At that point a terrible storm came up which knocked out our power for 3½ hours. I was still able to cook dinner, though, and we
had the boys birthday cake. Just as they were going to bed the power came back on so Daddy could read their new stories.
7/29/1984: We went to Second Baptist church today. The people were all very friendly and all had to see Naomi and make over her. We went back for the evening service and the watermelon feed afterwards.
7/31/1984: We started our painting today. We go the living room completed. It looks so much better. I just hope the boys will leave it looking nice now.
Naomi rolled from her back to stomach tonight.
