Old Madison Memorial Hospital

This is a picture of the first Madison Memorial Hospital built in the 1950's. In the 1970's Rexburg and the surrounding areas had outgrown this building and a new hospital was built next to it. This old building then served as an annex building and housed offices for hospital employees. Well, now the Rexburg area has outgrown the 1970's hospital and a new one is in the works. (Or to be added on the 1970's one.) In order to do that the original building must be torn down. That is going to happen in a few more weeks. This building has been my second home for four years. I have spent 14 hours a week working in my office in this building. I moved to a new office this past week. Following is a picture of my old office all packed up and ready to go. I do not have a picture of my new office yet because it is a huge mess right now. But that may come later. Now my office is in the back part of Key Bank. I will stay there for two years until the new hospital is finished and then will move into that. I am not very sentimental about the loss of this building because I have only lived in Rexburg for 6 years. But there are many old timers that have many memories of it and are sad to see it go.

Rigby Lake

The camera is found so I was able to take it with us to Rigby Lake today. One of Kevin's friends invited him to come for his birthday and so Ethan, Jake, and I went along for the fun. (We were invited, too.) I had never been to Rigby Lake but I plan on going again. It has a fun sandy beach and of course water to play in. They also have picnic tables and a playground. The kids spent most of their time wading in the water, catching minnows and playing in the wet sand. It was a fun way to spend an afternoon.

Los Angeles

Last week I went to the American Association of Diabetes Educators Conference in LA. It was a good conference. We spent the days in lectures and visiting vendors' booths. In the evening some of the drug companies sponsored events for us. The first night was a wine and cheese networking event. That wasn't too exciting for me since I don't drink wine and cheese doesn't excite me too much. But the second night we had two events. The first one was appetizers and the Biltmore Hotel (where the first academy awards were held). Then later that night we had desserts and Irish coffee. Don't worry, I just had dessert and water. But we did get some cool cups. Later on in the night Patti Labelle was going to talk about diabetes and perform. But it was so loud in there you couldn't even talk to the person next to you and we were tired do we gave up waiting for her. Friday night we had a nice dinner and the a musical called "Songs of the Cinema". They sang many songs from movies and it was wonderful. That's just my kind of thing. Oh, and before the musical Josh something or other talked to us for a few minutes. He is an actor on the show "Las Vegas" and was also Tadd Hamilton in "Win a Date With Tadd Hamilton". I recognized him but he is not an actor I really know. Also at one of the booths on Thurday Kevin Covais from American Idol was signing pictures. I was not really a fan of his but Tracie really liked him so I had him sign one for her. Unfortunately, I didn't bring my camera or I could have gotten a picture with him. Which brings me to why there are no pictures on this entry. We can't find our camera. Even though I didn't take my camera to LA, I could have been creative and taken a picture of Tracie's picture of Kevin or something. But no pictures until the camera returns. Our flight home was uneventful. All of that terrorist stuff happened while we were there so I was a little concerned about flying home, especially from a major airport like LAX. The security was tighter but we got through pretty fast and made it home okay. Hopefully there will be pictures on the next entry.

Things growing in our yard

I knew I needed to have a blog post for today and I didn't know what to put on it so I took pictures from our yard. Not the most exciting thing. Our yard still needs some work. There are some big projects that need to be done this fall but we have a lot of things that look good. Here are a few of them.















A big green pepper















Apricots (I've already made one batch of apricot jam from the ones that fell on the ground)




















A bushy clematis that has yet to flower















Our beautiful green tomatoes. There are a lot of them. Anyone have a good recipe for salsa?
















Day Lilly















We'll have a lot of apples this fall.

Kevin's summer

Well Kevin's summer vacation is coming to an end. So I decided to show you what he has been doing this summer.















Played X-Box















Played T-Ball




















Played X-Box





















Played soccer















Played X-Box

So you can tell what he would do most of his summer if we didn't make him do other things. We also attempted starting piano lessons and he has to read and do jobs. But I will be glad when school starts again in a couple of weeks. He has been on the waiting list for swimming lessons and his name came up this week. So the last two weeks of summer vacation will be swimming lessons. Swimming pools and swimming lessons in Rexburg are a whole other blog entry sometime.