Reagan has had quite the busy summer. He spent a week at his grandparents in Colorado, went to Boise Youth Spectacular (EFY Boise style), Youth Conference, last week was the 50 miler, then the family reunion and then High Adventure. He also got some very good news too-read on.
Grand Junction trip:
Reagan flew on an airplane alone for the first time to Salt Lake where his grandparents picked him up and drove him back to GJ. They stopped at the Provo City Center Temple on their way. I don’t think he knew that he had actually been in the tabernacle long before it was a temple. Our stake conferences were there back when Reagan was a newborn.
His grandparents kept him busy all week and tried hard to stuff him with food.
Go Carts and Mini Golf
A visit to Annette, Grandma’s “rock hound” friend. He loved talking to her about all her collection. This boy loves rocks and archaeology.
The Fruita Dinosaur Museum
Here is an excerpt from the journal Grandma kept of a few of the days of his trip.
Thursday we went to Dinosaur Hill and looked at the mine where some guys found 2/3rds of the skeleton/fossil of an Apatasourus. Reagan dug around in the same hill and brought home a bunch of interesting rocks. Next we drove out to Rabbit Valley where there was supposed to be an active dino dig. but it was all covered up and looked abandoned. Too hot to do the associated hike so we went home,had dinner and later drove over the Monument, did a hike near the visitor’s center, where I am very glad Kami was not with us. Too many sheer 1000 foot drop offs. At the end of that hike Reagan ran into a huge strong spider web that excited and freaked him out. Then we went to Freddy’s for frozen custard.
Friday was fossil hunting on Douglas Pass. Totally fun. Tons of success. He will of course show you the fossils. Make sure he tells you about Dick King. I also have to say that it was so fun to see Reagan interacting with both Annette (rock hound friend) and Dick, both old geezers so well, very comfortably, no awkwardness or shyness, lots of enthusiasm. Dick told me that he had tried to get his grandaughters interested in fossil hunting with out success. So I think he enjoyed Reagan immensely. After that long day we went out to Chick-Fil-A. for dinner.
Saturday we shopped for his Colorado t-shirt, went to see Cars 3, came home for dinner and a mango (Grandpa taught him how to peel it) and some more ice cream for dessert.
Sunday we visited Grandma after we had lunch at about 3:30. He wasn’t sure about visiting Grandma for a whole hour. But he did fine, and answered her repeated questions patiently, we took pics, etc. She made him laugh with her statement about how all the great grand kids were smart and good looking. 🙂 Also, on the way home from church he started helping me fix my phone notification sounds. And I was grateful he knew so much.
(Grandma continues…)
He always thanked us for the things we did. He helped with meal cleanup, and he ate what we fixed. Just not very much, except the last night, when he had 4 ribs and some salad, and a mango and ice cream!
We loved our week with him!
And we love you, for agreeing to let us spoil him for a week!
Thank you for having him, G and G! He had a great time. I vividly remember visiting my grandparents in NY when I was his age. Instead of ice cream every night it was sugary cereal every morning. And gumdrops in the gumdrop jar. Good memories! Aren’t Grandparents great?!
Peanut Free No More!
As most of you know, Reagan has been allergic to peanuts his whole life. We recently signed Reagan up to do a Peanut allergy desensitizing study. They basically pay you to eat small amounts of peanut dust that will gradually desensitize you to peanuts so you won’t have a dangerous reaction when you eat them. In order to qualify for the study you have to have a level 14 allergy to the peanut. That takes a blood test. This boy almost passed out, he hates needles so much, but he survived and we waited a week to hear the results. They called us back to tell us that his level was 0.05!!!!!! Which means, he’s NOT allergic to peanuts, maybe never was. The next step was to do a food challenge. So on July 5th I took him in and we spent 5 hours in the doctors office while they fed him gradually increasing amounts of peanut butter. He didn’t like the taste that much, and I told him it’s just because it wasn’t JIF.
But he had absolutely no reaction. So, we are now totally peanut allergy free at our house and I am so thrilled!!!! Peanut butter cookies here we come! So, on second thought, maybe it’s my good news. 🙂 Or maybe it’s Liberty’s. When she saw this picture just now she said, “It’s gonna be so great! We can have Oaties whenever we want! It’s like the best life!” lol!!
The 50 Miler+14
Last Saturday we waited for him to get home from the 50 Miler so we could turn around and head to a family reunion in Utah. He had such a great time on the hike it took him from Boise all the way to Glen’s Ferry to tell me about it-about 1.5 hours! He loved it. Admittedly, part of the joy came from being able to actually eat real trail mix with nuts in it for the first time in his life! Kudos to all the young men leaders who went along and made it great. Then right after the reunion we dropped him off in Rexburg so he could attend High Adventure where his poor blistered feet had to hike 14 more miles in the Tetons! He just got back from that one yesterday! Whew!
Now it’s time to focus on getting ready for his next big adventure…. HIGH SCHOOL!!!!
Watch out world!
Short n Sweet 
He hardly landed. I hope he loved it.
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Sorry you missed Stack Rock. When do you want to go to the gem museum?
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And get a bunny tracks (questionable name for an ice cream treat, but better than a dumstick.
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We sure loved having him here! Glad he could fit us in!
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