It was less than a year...right?

    So we have been here for a whole year as of this week. Kids have grown, the projects around the house have grown, daddy's waistline has grown...

    Great Aunt and Uncle C invited us to a picnic lunch at the park and I have to say they didn't mean a little picnic lunch. These guys do a catered quality luncheon for an army, but what was really the nicest  was to see family even if it was way too short of a visit. Thanks again guys. It made me realize once again how fast a year can fly by. Lets do it again when we can all find that bucket time someone must have stole from us.    

    We have been trying to pack the days a bit full around here. Mommy has had her plate full with going back to clinic and treating patients under the "new normal" health safety guidelines. Daddy has started doing 2020 Census work during the afternoons and evenings. Marshall is trying to rake in as much summer cash as he can and get with his buddies when he is not helping around the house. Zach is playing a bit of catchup still on summer school but also chomping at the bit to earn a buck or two however he can too. Madison has taken to wearing recyclables as jewelry and has a mini Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizarding constructed upstairs that have Millie and Eleanor attending. (I have found dozens of "wands" in odd places in the house lately and keep getting into trouble for throwing the special ones outside.)

We had some friends move away this week from out of the ward and neighborhood. I think he and I kind of come from the same mentality where we don't try to keep up with every friend we make along the way. There is this push it seems with the Facebook generation to somehow keep updated with everything going on in everyone's life constantly. We take a slightly different view maybe and try to enjoy the time we have with everyone we have close by and when we go separate ways we know our paths will cross again and we hope to pick up right where we left off last time. One of the last texts to them went something like this:

Me: Gonna miss you buddy.

Him: Too bad with this china virus stuff we didn't get more campouts in.

Me: Too true. Life is busy but eternity is a long time, right?

Him: Yes, yes it is. Catch you on the flip side if not sooner.

That is how I like it. To all those friends and family out there that we wish we could see more often, we love you. We are just hoping to pick right back up where we left last time as soon as we cross paths again.