photos from the summer of 2011

I'm finally posting a few pictures from the summer:
Antelope Island Stampede and kite festival, peeling corn, Olympic Park with Trevor,Carl and Blake and riding the lifts at Sundance. I know, amazing isn't it? It was my dad's idea too! He told me to ask the lift operator if it was ok first, then he said, yes, he wanted to go on the lift. He was disappointed it didn't go further (it looked like it continued up another hill), but he enjoyed waving at the people we passed.

George was making his bed when I came over. I had him hurry and get dressed to talk to Sharon on skype. We got disconnected :( he’ll talk to her another day. After wards he was really confused and kept taking about who wanted to see him or talk to him. We went for a drive to get out of the house. We went to Plant Jungle. He knew he had been there before but was confused as to why we were there. When we left he told me I better go and “Pick up my order.” He didn’t know who told me to go there and thought we had to pick up a plant. We came home so he would be around something familiar. Dennis said he has been going to bed really late and has been confused other days too. It’s weird cause he was pointing out all the stores to me and telling me places we had been. He said “This is creek lane” and then told me how to get to his house. He knows what’s going on but at the same time is confused. Day light savings time is this Sunday too.

George was in his pajamas watching baseball. I started talking to him about it and he said he didn’t know what it was. I tried to find the picture of him playing baseball. He is confused today. I know he didn’t get a lot of sleep last night. He was slow to get going today, he ate at home and we went for a drive up the mountains. It snowed a little the other day and there was still some snow in some areas in the mountains. We went his old house afterwards. When I pulled up I asked him where we were and he said “That’s my home.” He was busy around the house when I left.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
George was outside reading the paper when I pulled up. I came in, said hi and let him finish the paper. When he came in we went and got ready for the day. He went outside and picked some tomatoes and we had those with lunch. He wanted to eat at home so I made him some lunch and we ate outside. It’s a really nice day! We were looking at his rocks from Snowbird and he was interested in doing that but I checked, and they don’t open again until the summer. He made a comment on one of the rocks saying that it looked like a face; he said “See, eyes, nose and mouth.” He hand motioned driving and said that he wanted me to drive him to the mountains. We ended up at Brighton and I thought we could take a little walk along silver lake. We had to come home and George got in the shower.

Friday October 28, 2011
When I came in today, George was still asleep. I let him know I was there and he got up in a little bit, got ready and then went outside. I had him trim the top off of some of the bushes. We came inside and got ready to talk to Sharon on skype. I made George what he wanted to eat and he and Sharon had lunch together. :) After wards I took him to the podiatrist and when the girl came out to take him back he said “You’re new” she laughed and said she had been there but hides in the back. When they were walking back she said “How are you doing?” and he said “Getting old.” They walked past one of the rooms, he looked in and said “Hello doc.” With a smile on his face. We went to Sugarhouse Park. They were having their first pumpkin races on the pond. It was pretty cool to watch, everyone was in a big pumpkin and had to race out to a turning point and go back. Most of them were wearing costumes. There were kids there feeding the birds. There were a lot of birds today and a couple cute little kids that made George laugh and smile.

George was up again until 3am, this time I guess he was looking for his wallet. Both he and Dennis looked for it. It was a mess when I came in, clothes and towels everywhere. It was found in his bedside table. He was still in his robe when I came over too. The weather is starting to get cool, and by the time he was ready to go it was getting kind of late so I chose for him today. I was showing him the Living Planet Aquarium website. He wasn’t to sure about that and said “I don’t care.” I told him if he didn’t care then that’s what we were going to do today. When we got there, he said he didn’t recognize it. (He said that with the pictures I was showing him online too). We were in Calypso café and he said “This is the first time I’ve been here.” He kept falling asleep when we were looking around. Maybe because it was dark, or maybe he was just tired from last night.

George was still asleep when I came over. He was in bed with robes, belts, jackets…I told him I was here and let him wake up. When he was ready he said he wanted to go to the mountains. We got something to eat and then went for a drive up big cottonwood canyon and some of guardsman’s pass, it was pretty today. It was a long drive and he fell asleep on the way back. He took a shower when he got home. (When Dennis came home he said that George didn’t get to bed until 3am this morning :/ )

It’s a nice day today :) George was sitting on the porch reading the mail when I came over today. We got on skype to talk to Sharon and he even had some coffee with her and something to eat. When he was done on skype, we went back to get him ready for the day. We saved some of the pumpkin seeds from his pumpkin the other day. We added some seasoning and baked them. When they were done I gave one to George, he didn’t like it. (He was sweeping the kitchen while they were getting ready.) We went for a walk and he just kept trying to ‘sweep’ with his cane. We came back and I got a broom so he could sweep the driveway.