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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Here you have a picture of the other side of the trailer. We have three slide outs. One is a dining area, another is the kitchen area. At the end of the trailer we have a living room and the third slide out is the bedroom. The trailer is thirty-two feet long. Our living area, kitchen, dinnette and reading area is 18 ft. long and 12'8" wide. The other 14' is where we sleep bath, hang our clothes, etc. We have a lot of storage space underneath as well as a lot of closets and cupboards inside. Our frige is both electric and gas as is our hot-water heater. There is a computer station, a place for television and other electronic equipment. We have a satilite dish and generator as well. Others have even nicer units than we do. Things just keep getting better but this will last us for as long as we are capable of using it. Don't get too envious and don't feel sorry for us. Just rejoice with us as we enjoy the good life while we are doing name extractions and indexing under the shade of some beautiful trees.

We thought it appropriate to put a picture of our summer home so everyone could see it. We are sitting here under the treas with our temperture in the high seventies instead of the high eighties or nineties. We have internet so we can communicate via e-mail and work on line with family search or read the news world wide as well as go fishing every morning except Sunday. Since Bernice grew up in Coalville, we know a lot of the people in the ward and are able to attend meetings here two or three times each month. We have good books to read and many other advantages that only retired people in good health can enjoy. Friends and family can come and visit us. We can have up to ten people stay over night. We can handle three or four in our trailer. We don't want you to feel too sorry for us.

The rest of our immediate family at Gibbons reunion on June 28th--Don and Donna, LeeAnn, Margene, Gene, Vorelle and Steve, VerNon and Bernice. Sorry, I forgot that Andrea, Greg and Kayla also left early so was only in the first foto.

This foto was taken as we arrived and lunch was being set up. Tony and Karen left before other fotos were taken after lunch time.

Saturday 28th we enjoyed being with about 200 decendents of the fifteen children(two died in infancy) of G.G.Grandfather Thomas and Sarah Elizabeth Lack Gibbons. A short history was given of each one--Gene gave it for our Grandparents Oliver and Eliza Gibbons. There were 14 of Wilbur & Lucile's posterity present. The luncheon was pot-luck and it was very good.

Chaya, Catharina, Ammon, Rex and Victoria visited us on June 21, here in Coalville. It was great to have them come by. We did some fishing. They went swimming and we had a couple of meals, including roasting hot dogs and marshmellows. It was a fun day.

We wanted to visit with Fistan also but he was taking a late nap. They brought him out of his bedroom but he went right on napping. We saw him and he woke up long enough to look at us and then was gone again. This was June 24, after we had visited our dentist to get our teeth in proper condition.

Here is our newest great grandchild, Zeddi, son of Jonathan and Mitzi Bingham. He was born June 16, 2008, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

We visited Jonathan and Mitzi Bingham June 24, so they could show us our newest great grandson, Zeddicus Archemides Bingham. They were to leave for Kansas by the end of the month. Jon is getting prepared to spend a year in Iraq. They now have two little boys. The oldest is two years old and is named Fistandantilus and is called Fistan.