At the beginning of the month, Marian threw a big party. It was a Star Wars themed brunch at some steakhouse in Whittier.
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On one free weekend, we took off to drive Old Dale Road once again. It was Caitlyn's nemesis for a while but she has pretty much conquered it. She just wanted to do it again to get some practice driving the trail. She is doing really great. She just needs to work on getting her permit now.
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Christian spent most of the whole month taking apart his dad's Trooper to replace the entire air conditioning system. We had it scheduled for months but they kept yanking us around about the new compressor. In the end, we had to settle for a refurbished one as that is the only thing available. Every time he touches that Trooper, he finds out half the fasteners are damaged or just missing. He spent half the time searching for replacement parts or having to find some way to fabricate new ones himself. He also did a little bit of body work on it. He paid Caitlyn to help him clean and protect the dash and a bunch of other parts that he had to take off.
The a/c came together finally at some point but we were still scrambling trying to get all the pieces to put it all back together as not all of the parts we found even fit properly. As we were almost done, we found out we had a deadline as he planned to take it up to Oregon the next week to do some work on his property there.
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Caitlyn got to go to a couple more youth activities including another dance this past month. She is having a lot of fun at those.
We took my mom out for a Mother's Day picnic at the San Dimas Canyon Regional Park. My brother and his family was supposed to meet us out there but we had some miscommunication and he was having some problems with his neighbor by the time we realized the error that we told him to just not worry about it.
We've been to the park before but they haven't taken very good care of it in the past couple of years and they blocked off a lot of the trails so it wasn't that nice.
We went back to hang out at my mom's and ended up staying most of the day. My brother decided to come over that evening and he brought some tasty new Indian Curry pizzas for us to try. They were very different but pretty tasty. We want to see if we can figure out how to make them at home as they were pretty expensive for pizzas.
Christian smoked some ribs for my Mother's Day dinner and I got a bunch of cooking gadgets.
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Caitlyn and I went to the dentist this past month. Caitlyn has still never had so much as a cavity in all her 16 years so we are pretty happy about that! My dentist kept complaining about my high blood pressure so I guess I am going to have to do something about that soon.
Caitlyn finished her Junior year with straight A's! They went back to school 5 days a week this past month. They still had a really weird schedule so it was kind of irritating but we powered through it.
Christian has an additional week and a half of school so he is still slogging away with that. To top it all off, he had another kidney stone. We did not go to the hospital this time as he still had some medicine from the last time, and that's about all they can do for him anyway. It is just debilitatingly painful.
Emily is doing okay back at school. She joined another intramural soccer team. She has more roommates this year but she seems to be getting along with all of them better. She had a 24 hour stomach flu one weekend but she got through it okay. Either that her her and her roommate at something bad the night before. Who knows?
