Big Poppy's Blog

Ruby on the 4th

Relaxing in Lake Tahoe

Ruby's Toes

Ruby on the Beach

A Serious Game of Solitaire

First of all I would like to congratulate Cindy for becoming the President of the Fernley Rotary. She spends a lot of time and energy for the Rotary. One of these days she will be the Mayor of Fernley. I am thankful for all she does especially for my mother.

We had a busy July. Sean and Natalie went though the Oakland temple on July 5th for there endowments, had great weekend at Frank and Kelley house. It was Ruby’s first 4th of July and she loves the fireworks. The night we came back from the Temple We BBQ some pork chops at 10 at night. Frank had us laughing about eating that late.

On July 29th we started our vacation in Tahoe with Jacob, Senessa, Freddy and the baby. We rented a place that was called Pine Cone Resort. They had a great swimming pool and hot tub. We play a lot of games and the game we finished with every night was Password, I was the sore keeper. I had a mishap one night BBQ and I tripped in front of the BBQ and my left hand landed on top of the HOT grill. Freddy told me to put it under cold water for at less for 15 min. and did for about hour; Senessa and Jacob want the store and bought me some bandage and ointment for by burns on three of my fingers and my palm. Within 2 hours I had no pain and it didn’t mess up my vacation.

Thursday morning Frank, Kelley, Stevilynn, Chipper, Grandma and Brian surprise us and showed up at Pine Cone Resort. They spent 2 nights there with us and had so much fun.

Friday was the Day that Sean and Natalie were getting sealed in the Reno Temple. I’m so proud of both of them. Sean’s family and the Lemmo family was there, it was so much fun seeing everybody, Bishop Thayne and his wife came to. After the Sealing the entire Lemmo group went to the Atlantis Casino in Reno and eat at the buffet and it’s one of the best. Friday night we went to Sean’s family camp site and had hamburgers and hot dogs and after the entire group went to the beach and played volleyball.

Saturday Freddy went home with his Modesto family(we were all very sad). Natalie and Sean stayed with us and we went swimming and did the hot tub. Jacob and Senessa took all of us for a late lunch (yum, yum). We decide to come home Saturday night so we can have a day to rest from our vacation and get ready for the work week.

I love being with my family and that’s what I live for. I especially love my Ruby she reminds me of my girls who I love dearly. I love my wife who is the backbone of our family, she loves to have the fun times with our family.

Last Saturday night just watched The Chours a French movie that I saw one morning. I told Deborah about it and I thought that she would like it. If you'd known me thrity years ago there would be no chance in hell that I would watch this type of movie. It's a really good movie. Music is the soul of life, it makes you happy and can sometimes make a sad place or sad time happy. Music is a big part of our family. Senessa and Natalie were brought up listening to various types of music country music however was not allowed. With marrying Deborah I started listening to everything from Rock to Opera and I have even attended many musicals. I am turning 50 in October. I have started many times writting a journal but have never kept it up. Senessa started a blog and logs something on hers about every two weeks, letting everyone know what is going on with their family. In some ways it is a journal. I think I will do a blog about the years after fifty years old (scary). This will be my intro for my blog. I decided to post this entry because of my wife. Without her and her music influence our lives would be different. So I start my blog with music notes and pictures that make me happy. I hope that I can blog for the next fifty years. Hopefully whoever reads my blog can read it to the end and maybe my children and grandchildren can keep it going!