1 00:00:03,533 --> 00:00:04,133 Hello, this is. 2 00:00:04,133 --> 00:00:05,533 Darren and this is. Page. 3 00:00:05,533 --> 00:00:06,566 And this is. 4 00:00:06,566 --> 00:00:08,066 Where Lemonade. 5 00:00:08,066 --> 00:00:10,666 Where we talk about what happens when life through you lemons. 6 00:00:11,066 --> 00:00:12,766 You make some lemonade. 7 00:00:12,766 --> 00:00:14,966 Meaning some weeks it's lemons. 8 00:00:14,966 --> 00:00:17,100 Yes, some weeks it's just lemons. 9 00:00:17,100 --> 00:00:20,366 Yeah. 10 00:00:22,466 --> 00:00:23,700 On today's episode. 11 00:00:23,700 --> 00:00:25,833 We're going to unpack 2020. Two. 12 00:00:25,900 --> 00:00:27,800 You're using that buzzword. I'm back. 13 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:28,466 I know how good a. 14 00:00:28,466 --> 00:00:32,500 Job we're so trendy. 15 00:00:32,500 --> 00:00:33,366 All right. 16 00:00:33,366 --> 00:00:36,966 It's been a long time since we podcast and we really apologize for our listeners 17 00:00:36,966 --> 00:00:39,766 out there, but we are dedicated. It's a new year. 18 00:00:39,766 --> 00:00:42,400 We're dedicated to do it every week. 19 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:44,833 This year it's already missed the first week. 20 00:00:44,833 --> 00:00:45,866 We're so sorry. 21 00:00:45,866 --> 00:00:48,900 Like, yeah, people have just been, you know, I've had people 22 00:00:48,900 --> 00:00:52,833 in crisis mode because Page and Aaron have been podcasting. 23 00:00:52,866 --> 00:00:53,500 Well, you know, 24 00:00:54,466 --> 00:00:57,300 and you're going to find out why we kind of stop for a while. 25 00:00:57,300 --> 00:00:59,200 It's been it's been a really hectic year. 26 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:00,700 It has been a hectic year. 27 00:01:00,700 --> 00:01:04,366 Should we just dive in and unpack all this stuff? 28 00:01:04,366 --> 00:01:07,833 Well, yeah, First thing to unpack is four of our 29 00:01:07,833 --> 00:01:11,333 ten children got engaged in 2022. 30 00:01:11,733 --> 00:01:14,400 Is a busy year for engagements, right? 31 00:01:14,733 --> 00:01:15,200 It was. 32 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,966 And two of those four actually got married. 33 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,600 They did three weeks apart. Thank you. 34 00:01:21,133 --> 00:01:23,666 Matthew, Indiana and Jake McNally 35 00:01:23,666 --> 00:01:28,066 for making our October as chaotic as it possibly could have been. 36 00:01:28,100 --> 00:01:30,366 It was awesome, though. It was a fabulous October. 37 00:01:30,366 --> 00:01:32,700 It was fun. It was fun. Driven. 38 00:01:32,966 --> 00:01:36,833 It was fun with So let's go let's just go through the year. 39 00:01:36,833 --> 00:01:38,400 Is that the best way to do this? 40 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:39,433 Let's do it. 41 00:01:39,433 --> 00:01:39,866 All right. 42 00:01:39,866 --> 00:01:42,300 So let's say we kicked off the year 43 00:01:43,433 --> 00:01:46,166 with a little birthday celebration for me. 44 00:01:46,166 --> 00:01:49,766 My birthday's in January, and page two took me to Palm 45 00:01:49,766 --> 00:01:52,933 Springs and I went, Huh? Yes. 46 00:01:52,966 --> 00:01:55,633 I gave that trip to you for Christmas. 47 00:01:56,233 --> 00:01:56,700 Right. 48 00:01:56,700 --> 00:01:59,966 And I had planned you know, I planned a little trip to Palm Springs. 49 00:01:59,966 --> 00:02:03,233 I, you know, reserved a couple of shows and. 50 00:02:03,766 --> 00:02:08,200 And you open it up on Christmas and you're like, what are we old? 51 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:09,900 And I knew you were going to say that. 52 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:10,866 I know these were old. 53 00:02:10,866 --> 00:02:13,733 People go. To vacation. Oh. 54 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,233 But true. Is it true or not? 55 00:02:16,233 --> 00:02:17,100 Is it true or not? 56 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:19,800 Well, actually, I think I think a lot of old people live there. 57 00:02:20,133 --> 00:02:22,900 But I don't know that a lot of old people go there for vacation 58 00:02:22,900 --> 00:02:25,000 like we saw a lot of people our age. Yeah, I guess we. 59 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:27,600 Saw a lot of. These were old. 60 00:02:28,833 --> 00:02:30,233 You don't live there. 61 00:02:30,233 --> 00:02:31,266 Oh, you know what, though? 62 00:02:31,266 --> 00:02:32,466 It was a lot of fun. 63 00:02:32,466 --> 00:02:33,900 We actually had a lot of fun. 64 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:36,400 It was actually a really fun place. 65 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:37,200 It was? Yeah. 66 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:41,233 There's lots to do in Palm Springs, out in the desert. 67 00:02:41,233 --> 00:02:43,500 We went on a Jeep tour in the desert. 68 00:02:43,833 --> 00:02:45,000 That was really fun. 69 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,633 And up some slot canyons up there. 70 00:02:46,633 --> 00:02:53,433 That was a lot of fun and we went to a back door was a back door. 71 00:02:53,433 --> 00:02:56,033 No VIP. Sounds really. All right. 72 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,666 It was a VIP. No, it was a VIP. 73 00:02:59,666 --> 00:03:00,366 Behind the scenes. 74 00:03:00,366 --> 00:03:01,533 Behind the scenes. There we go. 75 00:03:01,533 --> 00:03:05,300 That's behind the scenes of the zoo in Palm Springs, 76 00:03:05,700 --> 00:03:08,500 which was really kind of cool because we had a guide for us 77 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:09,933 to take us around the zoo 78 00:03:09,933 --> 00:03:13,100 and we got to go in other places that people didn't get to go 79 00:03:14,466 --> 00:03:16,166 and we got to feed a giraffe. 80 00:03:16,166 --> 00:03:17,366 It was I got. To hang out with them. 81 00:03:17,366 --> 00:03:19,400 What were those walls? Wallabies. What are those? 82 00:03:19,466 --> 00:03:21,466 The Wallabies. Yeah, Wallabies. Yeah. 83 00:03:21,466 --> 00:03:23,800 They're like just jumping all around us. Yeah. 84 00:03:24,100 --> 00:03:25,633 So it was a fun trip. 85 00:03:25,633 --> 00:03:28,300 That was when COVID was still a thing because you know, it's 86 00:03:28,300 --> 00:03:29,433 not a thing anymore. 87 00:03:29,433 --> 00:03:32,366 And it doesn't exist anymore because we're ignoring. 88 00:03:32,366 --> 00:03:33,066 It. Don't you remember? 89 00:03:33,066 --> 00:03:35,466 We went to the first restaurant we went to. 90 00:03:35,966 --> 00:03:37,966 They said, Do you have your vaccination cards? 91 00:03:37,966 --> 00:03:39,333 And we were like, 92 00:03:40,233 --> 00:03:41,100 No, no. 93 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:43,133 I think we found them on our. 94 00:03:43,133 --> 00:03:44,466 They're on our phone. Yeah, yeah. 95 00:03:44,466 --> 00:03:47,833 Because we were like, I didn't know that was a thank you. 96 00:03:47,833 --> 00:03:49,833 We still had to show. 97 00:03:49,833 --> 00:03:51,733 Oh, and we took the gondola. 98 00:03:51,733 --> 00:03:54,166 Yeah, yeah. We went to the top of 99 00:03:55,133 --> 00:03:56,800 whatever that Piqua San Simeon. 100 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:58,666 No, no, I don't know. I don't know. 101 00:03:58,666 --> 00:03:59,733 But it was pretty cool 102 00:03:59,733 --> 00:04:03,433 because we were down in the desert where it was 80 degrees or so, 103 00:04:03,866 --> 00:04:08,833 and just take the gondola up out of palm Springs and there was no other ground. 104 00:04:08,833 --> 00:04:11,733 So we took our snow gear with us and had a snowball fight. 105 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,800 Was fun. It was fun. 106 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:15,900 All right. So that was January. 107 00:04:15,900 --> 00:04:20,200 And then in February, you decided to head off to Sedona? 108 00:04:20,733 --> 00:04:21,266 I did. 109 00:04:21,266 --> 00:04:23,366 I did my girls trip with Jill and Eileen. 110 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,966 And then I went straight from that trip to Utah for Zoe's birthday. 111 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,933 Which I missed this year. 112 00:04:30,933 --> 00:04:32,566 Yes. They were upset with you. 113 00:04:32,566 --> 00:04:35,700 I was upset. Well, this is a little problem. 114 00:04:35,733 --> 00:04:38,433 Here's a tip to all of you that have grandchildren. 115 00:04:39,066 --> 00:04:43,966 Don't go to every grandchild's birthday for the first five or six years, 116 00:04:43,966 --> 00:04:46,200 because if you miss one, you're in trouble. 117 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,900 You get called. Out. And I got called out by Emma. 118 00:04:49,133 --> 00:04:53,066 Emma, that I wasn't there for Zoe's third birthday because I've been there 119 00:04:53,066 --> 00:04:54,600 for all of her birthdays. 120 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:55,733 Well, I don't think this year we're going to 121 00:04:55,733 --> 00:04:57,300 be there because we're, we're kind of a little 122 00:04:57,300 --> 00:05:01,966 we're going there, but not for birthdays, so we're going to anyway. 123 00:05:02,033 --> 00:05:04,066 So we're going to I think we're breaking the cycle this year. 124 00:05:04,066 --> 00:05:08,166 Yeah, we're going to break half of Yeah, well, but we have to be there 125 00:05:08,166 --> 00:05:12,300 for Emma's eighth birthday because she's going to get back to that. 126 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:15,133 That's a big deal. Definitely. Definitely. 127 00:05:15,133 --> 00:05:17,700 Well, not your first grandchild, I guess you spoil them. 128 00:05:17,766 --> 00:05:18,633 That's right. 129 00:05:18,633 --> 00:05:21,566 And then in February, drumroll. 130 00:05:22,766 --> 00:05:23,233 Paige had. 131 00:05:23,233 --> 00:05:23,700 Surgery. 132 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:24,900 I had my big surgery, 133 00:05:24,900 --> 00:05:27,966 which we've we podcast did about this, but this is just a little rundown. 134 00:05:27,966 --> 00:05:32,300 But yeah, so I had my part of my colon taken out that was super fun. 135 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:37,233 And I got some white hair during the month of February and March. 136 00:05:37,433 --> 00:05:39,166 But we You're welcome. 137 00:05:39,166 --> 00:05:40,233 I hit our deductible. 138 00:05:40,233 --> 00:05:42,466 Nice. Yes, you did. You get her medical. 139 00:05:43,066 --> 00:05:46,433 So the rest of the year was just cake. 140 00:05:46,433 --> 00:05:48,500 And I was. Like. Yeah. 141 00:05:48,533 --> 00:05:50,033 So doing it was, you know, it 142 00:05:50,033 --> 00:05:53,000 wasn't, it wasn't as bad of a recovery as we thought it was going to be. 143 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,633 It was actually pretty, pretty chill recovery. 144 00:05:55,633 --> 00:05:58,600 And it's good now. 145 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:00,500 It was well, it was kind of a chill recovery. 146 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:01,866 It was it was tough. 147 00:06:01,866 --> 00:06:04,266 It was tough for not just you. 148 00:06:04,266 --> 00:06:05,866 It was tough for everyone around you, too. 149 00:06:05,866 --> 00:06:07,800 Yeah. Because we were worried about you. 150 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,400 And then we went down to Southern California 151 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,000 to go see Paige's mom at the end of March. So. 152 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:19,100 And this was right at the very end of when you could travel again. 153 00:06:19,733 --> 00:06:23,533 So we kind of had your eight week recovery, and then we 154 00:06:24,033 --> 00:06:27,666 we went down to Southern California at the end of March to go see your mom 155 00:06:27,666 --> 00:06:31,633 and your sister and Delon and Alex. Yep. 156 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,766 So that was a fun that was a fun. 157 00:06:34,766 --> 00:06:37,200 I'm done with recovery time. Yes. 158 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,466 And just a little a quick little trip. 159 00:06:39,466 --> 00:06:42,000 Yep. So and then April, 160 00:06:42,833 --> 00:06:45,600 April, we saw Journey and Toto. 161 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,133 Oh man, that was awesome. 162 00:06:47,133 --> 00:06:48,600 That was it was some friends. 163 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:51,466 That was super fun. 164 00:06:51,866 --> 00:06:53,133 Oh, my gosh. That was so fun. 165 00:06:53,133 --> 00:06:55,800 If you get a chance to go see Journey in concert, do it. 166 00:06:56,100 --> 00:06:57,233 Yeah, they're really good. 167 00:06:57,233 --> 00:06:58,366 Oh. Awesome. 168 00:06:58,366 --> 00:07:00,300 Yeah. Yeah, it's actually a lot of fun. 169 00:07:00,300 --> 00:07:04,633 Toto, one of the lead guys came out with his walker to get on stage. 170 00:07:04,633 --> 00:07:05,500 He literally did. 171 00:07:05,500 --> 00:07:07,500 That's just not even a joke. 172 00:07:07,866 --> 00:07:11,066 And then they sat him at a piano, and he played the piano and sang couple songs. 173 00:07:12,233 --> 00:07:13,200 You know what? 174 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,333 They're getting old because we're all good. 175 00:07:16,333 --> 00:07:18,600 This goes back to Palm Springs. We're all lonely. 176 00:07:18,833 --> 00:07:21,300 Yeah, Not that old. 177 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:24,233 Oh, my gosh. Look, I do need to get my hair. 178 00:07:24,366 --> 00:07:25,266 Hair dyed. 179 00:07:25,266 --> 00:07:39,000 I got a little gray coming up, but not that much. 180 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,533 But April was actually a busy month for us, too, because Andy and Jacob 181 00:07:42,933 --> 00:07:45,366 graduated from BYU, Idaho. 182 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,800 So we drove. 183 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:49,766 We drove, didn't we? 184 00:07:49,766 --> 00:07:50,133 We did. 185 00:07:50,133 --> 00:07:51,733 We drove to Idaho for their. 186 00:07:51,733 --> 00:07:55,766 Graduation and there was a big snowstorm, was it not? 187 00:07:55,900 --> 00:07:56,700 It was a snowstorm. 188 00:07:56,700 --> 00:07:57,566 It wasn't huge. 189 00:07:57,566 --> 00:07:59,100 But yes, we were driving and we were. 190 00:07:59,100 --> 00:08:01,866 Driving, you know, so it's a little bit of white knuckle driving for about. 191 00:08:01,866 --> 00:08:02,700 Yeah, there was. 192 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:05,633 About probably 3 hours of the 12 hour drive up there. 193 00:08:06,500 --> 00:08:11,033 And then we had a big we had some big plans for Andy 194 00:08:11,033 --> 00:08:15,300 and Jacob right after their graduation for graduation, President 195 00:08:16,866 --> 00:08:18,633 Jacob and I both served 196 00:08:18,633 --> 00:08:23,200 church missions in Brazil, So we were pressing up our Portuguese. 197 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:26,766 We had to show off to our wives, the beautiful country of Brazil. 198 00:08:27,700 --> 00:08:33,100 And so the idea was, was right after graduation, we would come home, 199 00:08:33,100 --> 00:08:34,033 we get packed. 200 00:08:34,033 --> 00:08:37,866 Andy and Jacob would meet us in Houston. 201 00:08:37,866 --> 00:08:39,900 I think we were flying through Houston. 202 00:08:40,366 --> 00:08:44,233 So so we we left Thursday, drove to I don't know if Wednesday, Wednesday 203 00:08:44,266 --> 00:08:46,633 drove to Idaho. Thursday was their graduation. 204 00:08:46,633 --> 00:08:47,266 We drove home. 205 00:08:47,266 --> 00:08:48,666 We drove home Friday. 206 00:08:48,666 --> 00:08:49,833 This is very quick trip. 207 00:08:49,833 --> 00:08:53,433 You know, when we were driving home Friday in the car. 208 00:08:53,433 --> 00:08:54,000 I started. 209 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,566 Getting started feeling sick and we're like, oh, it's like, oh, we're. 210 00:08:56,566 --> 00:08:57,733 Supposed to leave Monday. 211 00:08:57,733 --> 00:09:00,133 We were supposed to leave Monday. Saturday. 212 00:09:00,133 --> 00:09:00,733 You woke up. 213 00:09:00,733 --> 00:09:03,200 You were really sick. 214 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:04,933 We decided to test you for COVID. 215 00:09:04,933 --> 00:09:07,933 Because Why? Because why do we do that? 216 00:09:08,233 --> 00:09:10,533 We did that because at the time. 217 00:09:11,033 --> 00:09:12,666 I couldn't get back into. The U.S. 218 00:09:12,666 --> 00:09:16,400 We didn't have to test to go to Brazil, but we had to test to get back 219 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,233 into the United States. 220 00:09:18,233 --> 00:09:21,666 So we tested you had we did like what, three or four tests 221 00:09:21,666 --> 00:09:23,200 because we're like, are we. 222 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,433 Surely this test is. From. Yes. 223 00:09:26,100 --> 00:09:28,433 So that was on Saturday. 224 00:09:28,433 --> 00:09:29,500 We were supposed to leave Monday. 225 00:09:29,500 --> 00:09:30,900 So that trip was. 226 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:35,000 Off and I called Jacob and the on Sunday they were going 227 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,000 to fly from Salt Lake to 228 00:09:40,500 --> 00:09:43,200 meet us through San Francisco and then head down. 229 00:09:43,766 --> 00:09:45,766 And the plans changed. 230 00:09:45,766 --> 00:09:47,233 So they were homeless. 231 00:09:47,233 --> 00:09:49,866 They didn't have a place to live 232 00:09:49,966 --> 00:09:53,433 for that week after their graduation because we were going to be in Brazil 233 00:09:53,433 --> 00:09:55,433 and then they were going to go back to 234 00:09:55,433 --> 00:09:59,100 their new place that they had just gotten a brand new job in Austin, Texas. 235 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:02,300 What a logistics nightmare for them and for us. 236 00:10:03,833 --> 00:10:07,333 So, yeah, I tested positive for COVID and that canceled the whole trip. 237 00:10:07,866 --> 00:10:08,400 Yeah. 238 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,633 And then three days later, you tested positive for COVID one. 239 00:10:11,666 --> 00:10:12,700 Yeah, You got it. 240 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:15,866 Yep. So we had the most boring. 241 00:10:16,633 --> 00:10:18,466 It was it was a little challenging. 242 00:10:18,466 --> 00:10:20,933 Yeah. That week, spring break, because Sam was off. 243 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:22,800 We had made arrangements for everything. 244 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,933 The other kids were with their mom, which Sam went to Disney World 245 00:10:25,933 --> 00:10:29,100 with his sister because we were supposed to be in Brazil. 246 00:10:29,133 --> 00:10:30,633 So we were at home. 247 00:10:30,633 --> 00:10:33,933 Yeah, it was kind of a bummer week, but and we were sick, 248 00:10:33,966 --> 00:10:35,500 so we were kind of like looking at each other. 249 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:38,833 Are you going to go get water for us or 250 00:10:40,100 --> 00:10:42,233 can you give make some soup for. 251 00:10:42,233 --> 00:10:43,200 This type of thing? 252 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,766 You were a lot sicker than I was. I didn't. I didn't get it that bad. 253 00:10:45,933 --> 00:10:48,400 But we ended up we ended up at the end of that. 254 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,766 We going out to Bodega Bay. 255 00:10:51,766 --> 00:10:55,200 Bodega Bay and doing a small little hike out there 256 00:10:55,766 --> 00:10:58,333 to get out of the house and to get into some fresh air. 257 00:10:58,333 --> 00:11:01,133 It was really nice. Don't worry. We were inside. 258 00:11:01,133 --> 00:11:02,066 We were outside. 259 00:11:02,066 --> 00:11:04,233 Never came in close contact with anyone. 260 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:05,200 Right? 261 00:11:06,166 --> 00:11:06,666 If anyone. 262 00:11:06,666 --> 00:11:08,533 We don't want to get any emails about this. 263 00:11:08,533 --> 00:11:11,166 We were not spreading COVID, don't worry. 264 00:11:11,166 --> 00:11:11,700 No, we weren't. 265 00:11:11,700 --> 00:11:14,400 And I felt really bad for Andy and Jacob because, I mean, we had bought 266 00:11:15,233 --> 00:11:18,600 packages for river cruises and jungle cruises. 267 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:20,333 I mean, the whole. Thing, it was all planned. 268 00:11:20,333 --> 00:11:21,600 It was all it was. 269 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,533 We had just we had started packing. And. 270 00:11:25,900 --> 00:11:27,933 We'd gone for two years without getting COVID. 271 00:11:28,033 --> 00:11:29,000 And that was a major. 272 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,533 LEMON Oh, it was a horrible and that. 273 00:11:31,533 --> 00:11:33,600 Was a really bad. LEMON Yeah. 274 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,266 And then we were supposed to go straight from Brazil to back to Utah. 275 00:11:37,266 --> 00:11:39,900 We were flying straight to you to for Julianne's graduation. 276 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:42,933 That's right. And so we ended up flying. 277 00:11:43,433 --> 00:11:44,166 We flew, right? 278 00:11:44,166 --> 00:11:44,700 We fly. 279 00:11:44,700 --> 00:11:47,500 Yeah, we flew from here. 280 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,200 To Julianne's graduation, which was two weeks after Jacob's. 281 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:51,433 Yeah. 282 00:11:51,433 --> 00:11:54,933 So once again, we were not we didn't have COVID anymore. 283 00:11:55,066 --> 00:11:57,133 You know, not contagious and. Contagious. 284 00:11:57,133 --> 00:11:58,300 We were fine. So. 285 00:11:58,300 --> 00:12:01,900 So we went back to Utah for Julianne's graduation, which was which was lovely. 286 00:12:02,266 --> 00:12:03,066 It was lovely. 287 00:12:03,066 --> 00:12:07,133 And I felt bad for Jacob and Andie because that was her graduation present. 288 00:12:07,133 --> 00:12:10,633 So we we went with the trip 289 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,966 on a trip with them later on in the year in November, 290 00:12:14,933 --> 00:12:16,333 and then not to Brazil, 291 00:12:16,333 --> 00:12:19,833 because that was right after I looked at, Hey, let's go to Brazil. 292 00:12:19,833 --> 00:12:24,033 Then during Thanksgiving, right after a very contested election. 293 00:12:24,033 --> 00:12:25,333 I'm glad we didn't go. 294 00:12:25,333 --> 00:12:26,966 There was a little bit of rioting. 295 00:12:26,966 --> 00:12:30,300 And now, I mean, now it's pretty chaotic down there. 296 00:12:30,900 --> 00:12:34,233 So we're glad that we got to go somewhere else with them. 297 00:12:34,233 --> 00:12:36,100 Which well, but I feel bad because Julianne's 298 00:12:36,100 --> 00:12:40,600 graduation present was also a trip that we were going to do at Thanksgiving. 299 00:12:41,133 --> 00:12:42,866 Yeah, with. Julianne. 300 00:12:42,866 --> 00:12:47,000 But because Andie is a teacher and she only has so many days off of work, 301 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:48,633 she had the whole week of Thanksgiving off. 302 00:12:48,633 --> 00:12:51,800 So we had to bump Julianne's trip a week because Joanne's job 303 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,333 is a little more flexible. 304 00:12:53,333 --> 00:12:56,166 We did bump Julianne's trip for Andie and Jacob's trip. 305 00:12:56,166 --> 00:12:57,366 So sorry, Julianne. 306 00:12:57,366 --> 00:12:59,500 You've been great and very understanding. 307 00:12:59,966 --> 00:13:02,033 Yeah, we'll figure out that trip, Julianne. 308 00:13:02,033 --> 00:13:15,300 Yes, we will. 309 00:13:15,300 --> 00:13:15,566 All right. 310 00:13:15,566 --> 00:13:17,166 So that leads us through April. 311 00:13:17,166 --> 00:13:18,700 What a chaotic four months. 312 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:20,866 There was a lot. 313 00:13:20,866 --> 00:13:22,300 I mean, you had major surgery. 314 00:13:22,300 --> 00:13:27,233 We both got COVID and we were traveling and changing travel plans constantly. 315 00:13:27,233 --> 00:13:29,000 It seemed like, Yeah, yeah. 316 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,700 But then we you always have to have you always have 317 00:13:32,700 --> 00:13:35,633 to have something in the works. 318 00:13:35,633 --> 00:13:36,533 What are you talking about? 319 00:13:36,533 --> 00:13:37,466 You have to have a plan. 320 00:13:37,466 --> 00:13:41,400 You have to have a trip planned ahead so that you can say, 321 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,300 Oh, I'm looking forward to something. I you know. What? 322 00:13:44,333 --> 00:13:45,300 And it can be simple. 323 00:13:45,300 --> 00:13:48,900 It could be a simple, Hey, we're going to go to Mendocino Coast or. 324 00:13:48,900 --> 00:13:50,066 Yes, I don't have to. 325 00:13:50,066 --> 00:13:52,466 I feel like that makes me sound like some kind of like 326 00:13:52,466 --> 00:13:54,000 housewife of Orange County or something. 327 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,833 I don't have too housewives. 328 00:13:55,833 --> 00:13:57,933 I also housewife people. 329 00:13:57,933 --> 00:13:59,633 I do not have to. But you're right. 330 00:13:59,633 --> 00:14:00,600 Even if it's just 331 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,233 even if it's just an overnight trip, one night someplace for you and I to go to. 332 00:14:04,233 --> 00:14:08,233 I mean, I do like to have something to look forward to. 333 00:14:08,233 --> 00:14:10,033 That something doesn't have to be a big. Trip. 334 00:14:10,033 --> 00:14:12,366 It does not. But big trips are nice. 335 00:14:12,366 --> 00:14:14,333 Yeah, I'm not sure why so. 336 00:14:14,333 --> 00:14:15,366 And we and we just. 337 00:14:15,366 --> 00:14:19,566 We'd already spent the money on a trip to Brazil, so we had travel credits. 338 00:14:20,133 --> 00:14:24,100 Well, we'd also we also had travel credits from other trips that we canceled. 339 00:14:24,366 --> 00:14:24,733 Yeah. 340 00:14:24,733 --> 00:14:26,433 With Iceland and. Yeah. 341 00:14:26,433 --> 00:14:28,600 So I had to, I had to use some, some travel. 342 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:28,933 That's right. 343 00:14:28,933 --> 00:14:33,600 We had to use, we had to use this was for the from the Iceland cancellation. 344 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:34,600 Yes it was. 345 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,966 And we had to use this seven night stay anywhere. 346 00:14:39,733 --> 00:14:41,533 At a Category five hotel. 347 00:14:41,533 --> 00:14:42,966 Anywhere in the world. Anywhere in the world. 348 00:14:42,966 --> 00:14:46,266 We had to use it by the end of June or we lost it. 349 00:14:46,500 --> 00:14:48,500 Yeah, well, we're not dumb. 350 00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:50,800 We're not going to lose a seven night stay. 351 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,333 Oh, hello. 352 00:14:53,333 --> 00:14:56,000 So. So we looked all over the world. 353 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:00,933 We did for a for a really good category five Marriott Hotel. 354 00:15:00,933 --> 00:15:02,366 Those are hard to find. Yes. 355 00:15:02,366 --> 00:15:04,533 Because sometimes a category five is like a courtyard. 356 00:15:04,966 --> 00:15:06,566 Yeah. Depending on the place. 357 00:15:06,566 --> 00:15:09,133 And sometimes a category five is really nice. 358 00:15:09,433 --> 00:15:12,900 So we found a really nice one in Portugal and that's how we ended up in Portugal. 359 00:15:12,900 --> 00:15:14,766 And what a lovely trip. 360 00:15:14,766 --> 00:15:17,966 And Portugal's, I mean, that was the resort we stayed 361 00:15:17,966 --> 00:15:20,766 at was off the beaten path, which was kind of nice. 362 00:15:21,166 --> 00:15:23,033 We had our own beach to ourselves. 363 00:15:24,633 --> 00:15:26,933 The weather was absolutely wonderful. 364 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:29,366 Yeah. And the food was incredible. 365 00:15:29,366 --> 00:15:32,233 You check out our check out our podcast on Portugal. 366 00:15:32,500 --> 00:15:34,766 In fact, we even podcast it from Portugal. 367 00:15:35,033 --> 00:15:36,266 We did. That's right. 368 00:15:36,266 --> 00:15:37,566 So you can see me. 369 00:15:37,566 --> 00:15:40,333 I was all burnt because we went to the beach. Mm. 370 00:15:40,733 --> 00:15:42,800 Because your skin's like, transparent. 371 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,433 I put sunscreen like a vampire. 372 00:15:46,033 --> 00:15:48,966 A sun hits them and it's like burn immediately. 373 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,133 But now. So yes, Portugal was lovely. 374 00:15:51,133 --> 00:15:55,000 And then another trip to Utah for Mitchell's first birthday. 375 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:56,966 You can't miss the first birthday, even though the child's 376 00:15:56,966 --> 00:15:58,966 never going to remember their first birthday that we were there. 377 00:15:58,966 --> 00:16:00,633 Oh, but the other kids remember. Yes. 378 00:16:00,633 --> 00:16:03,233 So I got back in the good graces of Emma 379 00:16:03,766 --> 00:16:05,833 because I showed up for Mitchell's birthday. Yes. 380 00:16:06,066 --> 00:16:09,000 Yes, you did. So, yes, Another trip to Utah. 381 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,400 And then July we stay home. Finally, we. 382 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:14,133 Stayed home and we had a lot of visitors come to us, which was great. 383 00:16:14,133 --> 00:16:15,333 So the joy was fun. 384 00:16:15,333 --> 00:16:17,166 People came and visited family. 385 00:16:17,166 --> 00:16:21,533 We needed a break from running around and visiting kids. 386 00:16:21,533 --> 00:16:25,466 And so and then right before school 387 00:16:25,466 --> 00:16:28,466 starts in August, we decided to take the three 388 00:16:28,466 --> 00:16:31,500 youngest kids, which are now not little kids anymore. 389 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:33,200 My goodness, they're huge. 390 00:16:34,666 --> 00:16:35,333 All grown up. 391 00:16:35,333 --> 00:16:38,633 Now to 116 year old and to 17 year olds now. 392 00:16:38,633 --> 00:16:41,200 Yeah, we took them to Alcatraz to drop them off. 393 00:16:41,933 --> 00:16:42,833 They wouldn't keep them. 394 00:16:42,833 --> 00:16:43,700 They wouldn't keep them. 395 00:16:43,700 --> 00:16:45,166 No, no. 396 00:16:45,166 --> 00:16:47,300 So, yeah, that was a fun trip to San Francisco. 397 00:16:47,300 --> 00:16:50,400 We went to Alcatraz and Chinatown, and that was fun. 398 00:16:50,633 --> 00:16:51,600 We were there during one 399 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:55,333 of the one of the moon festivals, I think, which was kind of fun. 400 00:16:55,633 --> 00:16:56,466 It was fun. 401 00:16:56,466 --> 00:17:01,933 So. So hanging out in our local area was always, always good. 402 00:17:01,933 --> 00:17:04,966 And it doesn't cost that much to head over to 403 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,500 either. Oldtown SAC or San Francisco. 404 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:10,800 It's kind of fun. It's very cool. 405 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,333 And then let's see, September 406 00:17:13,333 --> 00:17:15,533 I had a girls trip with 407 00:17:15,533 --> 00:17:18,900 some of our daughters, so a couple of our daughter in law didn't 408 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:22,033 weren't there for the trip, but we got to go. 409 00:17:22,033 --> 00:17:23,800 We were It all came about 410 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,800 because of Joseph and his amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. 411 00:17:27,300 --> 00:17:28,333 My kids growing up. 412 00:17:28,333 --> 00:17:30,433 We watched that with Donny Osmond. 413 00:17:30,433 --> 00:17:33,133 If you haven't seen it, go watch it, Donny. 414 00:17:33,166 --> 00:17:35,233 You didn't watch it. You're obsessed about it. 415 00:17:35,366 --> 00:17:36,866 Just tell the truth. Yes. 416 00:17:36,866 --> 00:17:39,666 And my kids, my daughters especially, 417 00:17:40,866 --> 00:17:43,266 have good memories and have it all memorized. 418 00:17:43,266 --> 00:17:47,066 And so we saw that it was going in to the what's 419 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,633 to a con to account theater in St George. 420 00:17:50,066 --> 00:17:53,433 So we decided with our kids that live there in Utah, 421 00:17:53,433 --> 00:17:57,866 we the girls, we had a little weekend in Saint George hiking and. 422 00:17:58,233 --> 00:18:02,933 Well, this was this was right before the two weddings that we had in October. 423 00:18:02,933 --> 00:18:03,400 Yeah. 424 00:18:03,433 --> 00:18:05,866 So it was kind of nice because you got to spend some time 425 00:18:05,866 --> 00:18:07,900 with your future daughter in law a little bit more. 426 00:18:07,900 --> 00:18:09,933 Makayla was there, so that was super fun. 427 00:18:09,933 --> 00:18:12,500 We had a great time. That was awesome. 428 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:13,966 So in October. 429 00:18:13,966 --> 00:18:17,566 October, boy, you kids, it was funny because they said, Well, 430 00:18:17,866 --> 00:18:21,800 dad, we're we're almost having one in September and one in October. 431 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:24,400 So it's really two months. It was three, three weeks apart. 432 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,000 They were three weeks apart. 433 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,266 But yeah, so a wonderful trip out to Georgia. 434 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,300 My gosh, Matthew and Anna's wedding. 435 00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:33,766 Gorgeous. Oh. 436 00:18:33,766 --> 00:18:34,533 Oh, that was. 437 00:18:34,533 --> 00:18:38,300 That was almost a lemonade or illuminate moment. 438 00:18:38,500 --> 00:18:40,400 Oh, yeah. We were worried about the rain. 439 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:43,300 Because there was a hurricane that came up the Gulf 440 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:47,066 and the remnants of that hurricane were hovering over Georgia. 441 00:18:47,533 --> 00:18:50,233 And we were literally looking at the rain every day. 442 00:18:50,233 --> 00:18:51,566 It was an outside wedding. 443 00:18:52,666 --> 00:18:54,466 It was a great venue. 444 00:18:54,466 --> 00:18:59,033 Just this cute, oh, plantation home, just wonderful. 445 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:04,733 But it wasn't big enough for everyone to come inside for the wedding. 446 00:19:04,733 --> 00:19:06,833 So we were trying to find other venues. 447 00:19:06,833 --> 00:19:10,566 I was calling all over the place to church buildings 448 00:19:10,566 --> 00:19:14,433 and Marriotts and and convention centers. 449 00:19:14,433 --> 00:19:16,966 Everything was booked solid, so. 450 00:19:16,966 --> 00:19:19,366 We just prayed. A lot of praying went on. 451 00:19:19,533 --> 00:19:23,366 And it ended up being a beautiful day and absolute. 452 00:19:23,366 --> 00:19:25,400 Beautiful, absolutely gorgeous day. 453 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,700 And then three weeks later, we had Jacob McKinley's wedding here 454 00:19:29,666 --> 00:19:30,833 in the Sacramento area. 455 00:19:30,833 --> 00:19:35,233 And two days before their wedding, it once again an outside 456 00:19:35,233 --> 00:19:38,200 wedding at our friend's property in Lincoln and. 457 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:39,600 Down. 458 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,100 Rain was expected for their wedding. 459 00:19:42,100 --> 00:19:43,833 We're like, seriously? 460 00:19:43,833 --> 00:19:47,000 But that's Mother Nature teasing us here in California. 461 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,133 Yeah. And we didn't at once again, we didn't have a backup. 462 00:19:49,133 --> 00:19:51,400 You think we would have learned our lesson? But there was no backup. 463 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:56,000 We were just praying once again and beautiful day like that. 464 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:00,700 So, yeah, we could have fretted about it and but we didn't. 465 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:03,000 We, we said, Hey, it's going to be. 466 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,466 We said, if all else fails, we can bring everybody here to our house and. 467 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:08,400 Eat. Food, eat food. 468 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:09,733 But yeah, it all worked out great. 469 00:20:09,733 --> 00:20:12,600 It was both weddings were absolutely lovely. 470 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,166 And we got to New Daughter in law's. It was. 471 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:16,233 Oh, they're great. 472 00:20:16,233 --> 00:20:17,166 They're great women. 473 00:20:17,166 --> 00:20:17,833 Yep, they are. 474 00:20:17,833 --> 00:20:20,466 I love calling them daughter. Yeah. 475 00:20:20,466 --> 00:20:24,033 And they each bring their own uniqueness to the family, which is wonderful. 476 00:20:24,166 --> 00:20:25,633 It's exciting. 477 00:20:25,633 --> 00:20:36,166 They are fabulous. 478 00:20:36,166 --> 00:20:38,466 Oh, and then November. 479 00:20:38,500 --> 00:20:40,766 I love November. 480 00:20:40,766 --> 00:20:43,466 I rarely saw you in November. 481 00:20:43,466 --> 00:20:45,733 Y footloose, baby. 482 00:20:45,733 --> 00:20:47,566 I got to cut loose. 483 00:20:47,566 --> 00:20:50,933 Footloose. All right, so, Sam, our 484 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,366 ninth child, right? 485 00:20:54,366 --> 00:20:57,433 And the one that's with us 100% of the time. 486 00:20:57,733 --> 00:21:00,433 He was Willard in the play. 487 00:21:00,433 --> 00:21:03,666 Footloose at the musical, Footloose at school, at. 488 00:21:03,666 --> 00:21:05,300 His high. School, at his high school. 489 00:21:05,300 --> 00:21:08,133 And there is one person that made every single 490 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,300 every single 491 00:21:11,300 --> 00:21:13,666 performance except for one 492 00:21:13,666 --> 00:21:15,833 page. I went to every single performance. 493 00:21:15,833 --> 00:21:17,966 What do you. I thought you missed one. Oh. 494 00:21:17,966 --> 00:21:18,600 No, I did not. 495 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,866 I went I went late to when I was like, Oh, you want to play? 496 00:21:21,366 --> 00:21:22,366 I went to every scene. 497 00:21:22,366 --> 00:21:24,566 Everyone who didn't make it to everyone. 498 00:21:24,866 --> 00:21:26,000 You didn't make it to everyone. 499 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,833 I went to three. Yeah. 500 00:21:27,833 --> 00:21:28,933 What do you mean? Who didn't make a difference? 501 00:21:28,933 --> 00:21:29,966 No, someone made it. 502 00:21:29,966 --> 00:21:31,966 Except for one was a marilyn. 503 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,733 No, David. David got. 504 00:21:33,733 --> 00:21:35,000 Sick. No, He missed the last. 505 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,866 He missed the last two because he was sick. Yeah, He's. 506 00:21:37,866 --> 00:21:39,466 Trying to make it to everyone. 507 00:21:39,466 --> 00:21:41,400 And Sam stole the show. 508 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,966 Oh, he did. He was so. Good. Awesome. 509 00:21:44,066 --> 00:21:47,166 It was so he was the comic relief in the play. He. 510 00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:49,600 He had such great stage presence. 511 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,400 It was. He was so good. Check out our YouTube channel. 512 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,033 Will put up some clips of the show up there. 513 00:21:55,366 --> 00:21:56,233 He was fine. 514 00:21:56,233 --> 00:21:57,100 I was shocked. 515 00:21:57,100 --> 00:22:00,033 I was like, That's my little Sam up there. 516 00:22:00,033 --> 00:22:01,633 He was stealing the crowd. 517 00:22:01,633 --> 00:22:02,233 Oh, man. 518 00:22:02,233 --> 00:22:05,400 He found he found his his calling with that. 519 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,000 He loved being on stage. 520 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,400 You know, he knew how to work the audience. 521 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:10,666 It was it was wonderful. 522 00:22:10,666 --> 00:22:11,166 It was great. 523 00:22:11,166 --> 00:22:14,133 So, yeah, that was the that was the middle of Thanksgiving lot. 524 00:22:14,133 --> 00:22:16,266 And he of course, we hadn't seen Sam for a month 525 00:22:16,266 --> 00:22:18,600 because he'd been practicing and rehearsing the play. 526 00:22:19,466 --> 00:22:25,566 And then and then we headed on a wonderful trip, the graduation trip for 527 00:22:26,566 --> 00:22:29,500 Andy and Jacob to no other than 528 00:22:30,733 --> 00:22:32,066 Amsterdam. 529 00:22:32,066 --> 00:22:36,766 Now, I said, Guys, really, You want to go to Amsterdam in November, 530 00:22:37,533 --> 00:22:41,700 Amsterdam and Germany and Brussels? 531 00:22:41,700 --> 00:22:44,400 And I said, It's going to be cold and wet. 532 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,433 And Paige said, And there's Christmas markets there. Yes. 533 00:22:49,566 --> 00:22:50,700 Which was a trip 534 00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:54,033 that we had planned to Christmases ago that we had to cancel because of. 535 00:22:54,133 --> 00:22:56,300 COVID. Hit COVID. 536 00:22:56,300 --> 00:22:58,733 So I didn't even know when they when they first 537 00:22:58,733 --> 00:23:00,666 said they won because we said, pick your second trip. 538 00:23:00,666 --> 00:23:03,166 If we're not going to Brazil, where is your second place you want to go? 539 00:23:03,166 --> 00:23:09,033 And Andy really wanted to go to Amsterdam and Germany, and I was like, okay, great. 540 00:23:09,033 --> 00:23:12,733 And then I start like, you know, Googling, what should we do? 541 00:23:12,733 --> 00:23:15,733 And I'm like, Oh my. Gosh, Christmas market. 542 00:23:15,733 --> 00:23:19,600 So and then once Andy found out there were Christmas markets, there was nothing 543 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:25,800 I could do to convince him to go to Hawaii or Puerto Rico or some warm place. 544 00:23:25,833 --> 00:23:26,333 Nope. 545 00:23:26,333 --> 00:23:30,666 Instead, we got on our rain gear and our. 546 00:23:31,133 --> 00:23:33,233 It wasn't too bad. The weather wasn't too bad. 547 00:23:33,233 --> 00:23:35,200 It was chilly a few days and it rained. 548 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:36,866 It didn't rain as much as we thought. 549 00:23:36,866 --> 00:23:39,300 We had to bundle up. Yeah, we had to bundle up. 550 00:23:39,433 --> 00:23:41,700 But Christmas markets. Oh, my goodness. 551 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,166 They know how to do it in Germany. 552 00:23:45,166 --> 00:23:48,000 In Korea, incredible Christmas markets. 553 00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:50,300 So much fun. 554 00:23:50,300 --> 00:23:55,966 So we we went to several several places Amsterdam, Cologne, Germany, 555 00:23:56,766 --> 00:23:59,366 Brussels, Belgium 556 00:23:59,366 --> 00:24:02,133 and and a couple other small towns Brugge 557 00:24:02,133 --> 00:24:08,066 and get into a wonderful trip with them and we got to spend some time with Andy, 558 00:24:08,300 --> 00:24:12,366 our daughter in law, who we're continuing to get to know and love even more now. 559 00:24:12,733 --> 00:24:13,200 It was great. 560 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,433 And if you are planning on going to Christmas markets in Europe, 561 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,766 give us a shout because they are not all created equal. 562 00:24:20,766 --> 00:24:21,566 No, they are not. 563 00:24:21,566 --> 00:24:25,466 In fact, check out our YouTube channel where you're going to see some 564 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:30,000 some travel logs on on the Christmas markets. 565 00:24:30,466 --> 00:24:34,800 So and the highlight of it was Felice Navidad in German. 566 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,800 You got to check out that podcast. 567 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,400 That was pretty funny. 568 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:43,866 All right, December, how could we keep traveling? 569 00:24:43,866 --> 00:24:48,266 We had to go watch the grandkids in December and to meet 570 00:24:49,266 --> 00:24:51,366 my future son in law. 571 00:24:51,866 --> 00:24:53,633 Yes. Yes. 572 00:24:53,633 --> 00:24:57,000 So our sweet little Julianne fell in love 573 00:24:57,900 --> 00:25:00,166 and got engaged. 574 00:25:00,166 --> 00:25:03,533 Well, he was he wanted to talk to me. 575 00:25:03,533 --> 00:25:07,600 And I said, okay, where we go up and watch the grandkids for 576 00:25:07,633 --> 00:25:09,100 what was that, three days or so? 577 00:25:09,100 --> 00:25:10,666 Yeah, four days. 578 00:25:10,700 --> 00:25:17,133 I got to spend some time talking to Boyd, who is Julianne's fiancee, where 579 00:25:17,133 --> 00:25:20,900 he asked me if he could marry my daughter after I talked to him for a while. 580 00:25:21,333 --> 00:25:23,466 It was wonderful. He's a great guy. 581 00:25:23,466 --> 00:25:25,766 And and then we left it at that. 582 00:25:25,766 --> 00:25:27,900 And then he calls us up afterwards 583 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,200 and says, I want to propose to her on Christmas Day. 584 00:25:32,033 --> 00:25:36,133 Because that was her childhood dream to get proposed to on Christmas Day. 585 00:25:36,133 --> 00:25:38,900 So he wanted to surprise her 586 00:25:38,900 --> 00:25:41,233 because he had told she was coming home for Christmas 587 00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:44,400 and he had said, I can't go with you 588 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,600 and I can't go to my parents house for Christmas because I have to work. 589 00:25:48,166 --> 00:25:53,133 And so he wanted to surprise her so that was that was kind of a nightmare. 590 00:25:53,133 --> 00:25:53,766 Poor guy. 591 00:25:53,766 --> 00:25:58,200 He was flying in on Christmas Eve night and then he was going to be here 592 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,500 only for Christmas Day, surprise her, and then fly back the next day. 593 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,366 He was in the middle of that southwest nightmare. 594 00:26:05,900 --> 00:26:09,766 It wasn't just Southwest the first day, but it turned into a nightmare. 595 00:26:09,766 --> 00:26:15,000 So, yeah, his first card, his first flight was canceled on Christmas Eve. 596 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,133 And then he called me up and said, Well, I'm not going to make it 597 00:26:19,133 --> 00:26:21,133 until Christmas Day because we had it all arranged 598 00:26:21,133 --> 00:26:23,100 where he was going to do it, and we were going to, 599 00:26:23,100 --> 00:26:26,666 you know, get Julianne there for some lame excuse that we made up. 600 00:26:27,766 --> 00:26:30,533 And then he called me and said, I got to push the time. 601 00:26:30,533 --> 00:26:32,933 I got another flight for Christmas Day 602 00:26:32,933 --> 00:26:36,000 and I'm not going to get in until like 11 or 12. 603 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,266 And so we arranged all that 604 00:26:38,266 --> 00:26:41,633 and I hung up the phone and tried to make some arrangements. 605 00:26:41,633 --> 00:26:42,366 He called me back. 606 00:26:42,366 --> 00:26:46,500 3 minutes later, my Christmas flight was canceled, too. 607 00:26:47,766 --> 00:26:50,266 He said, I'm getting on a train 608 00:26:51,266 --> 00:26:55,800 from Salt Lake City to Folsom, California, to Sacramento. 609 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:56,266 Yeah. 610 00:26:56,266 --> 00:26:59,700 He hopped on the train at like midnight and got here at 3 p.m. 611 00:26:59,700 --> 00:27:01,300 the next day 612 00:27:01,566 --> 00:27:05,066 and came here, showered, changed and and. 613 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:06,533 At 4 p.m. 614 00:27:06,533 --> 00:27:11,966 proposed to Julianne at Temple Hill in Sacramento. 615 00:27:11,966 --> 00:27:12,966 It was wonderful. 616 00:27:12,966 --> 00:27:14,000 I hid in the bushes. 617 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,600 I got some great pictures which I will post the couple on our Facebook site. 618 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:19,800 You can see those. 619 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,566 I also I was I was hiding in the bushes, taking pictures. 620 00:27:25,266 --> 00:27:26,433 Not creepy at all. 621 00:27:26,433 --> 00:27:28,400 Not creepy at all. 622 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,033 And then I hopped out of the bushes and scared Julian a little bit 623 00:27:31,033 --> 00:27:33,000 and then took some real good pictures of them. 624 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,166 And then you left because they want to be alone. 625 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,066 I sat on the bench with them for a little bit to talk to him a little bit. 626 00:27:38,066 --> 00:27:40,800 Now, I left. He did. Not. I ran away. 627 00:27:41,066 --> 00:27:45,000 So as you can see, it was a crazy 2022. 628 00:27:45,766 --> 00:27:46,500 It was. 629 00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:49,666 And there were a lot of there were a lot of lemons thrown at us, frankly. 630 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,666 Yes. The surgery was probably the biggest. 631 00:27:53,666 --> 00:27:55,266 LEMON The COVID. 632 00:27:55,266 --> 00:27:57,033 Cold. The biggest. 633 00:27:57,033 --> 00:27:59,666 LEMON Yeah. We got a little kind of down. 634 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,500 Yeah, we did. 635 00:28:01,500 --> 00:28:03,166 We did. But 636 00:28:04,766 --> 00:28:07,200 two weddings, four engagements. 637 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,033 Next year, we got two weddings down, 638 00:28:09,033 --> 00:28:12,900 and Alex are getting married and Julianna Boyd are getting married. 639 00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:15,366 So we've got and they're not a month apart, which is great. 640 00:28:15,366 --> 00:28:18,500 Yes, they're several months apart, But, um, 641 00:28:18,866 --> 00:28:23,133 so we're very excited to get more in-laws in our family, too. 642 00:28:23,133 --> 00:28:23,800 Son in laws. 643 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,233 We're very, very excited. We love both of them very much. 644 00:28:26,533 --> 00:28:28,300 And we plan on making a lot of lemonade 645 00:28:28,300 --> 00:28:30,433 this year, hopefully not as many lemons this year. 646 00:28:30,433 --> 00:28:33,600 Hopefully this will be a a little bit easier year. 647 00:28:34,666 --> 00:28:36,500 But we must have we make 648 00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:43,333 a lot of lemonade. 649 00:28:43,333 --> 00:28:45,500 If you like today's episode. 650 00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:48,733 Give us five stars on iTunes, Spotify, Google. 651 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,600 And head to Facebook and like us. 652 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,100 And check out our blog at Where's Eliminated Talk. 653 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,133 Where you can leave questions and comments. 654 00:28:58,133 --> 00:28:59,633 And but most of all. 655 00:28:59,633 --> 00:29:01,033 Go out, make some lemonade. 656 00:29:01,033 --> 00:29:03,733 You bet your baby.