THE PARK POST

Jackson took the Myers Briggs personality test at school this week and it helped me understand him better, so I asked everyone in the family to take it.  Obviously a 12 min online test can't measure everything about ourselves, nor does it predict how we will act or that we will necessarily stay this way forever, but it can give us an insight into how we might be wired.   The test identifies four areas of your personality:       1. Favorite world: Do you prefer to focus on the outer world or on your own inner world? This is called Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I) .   2. Information: Do you prefer to focus on the basic information you take in or do you prefer to interpret and add meaning? This is called Sensing (S) or Intuition (N) . 3. Decisions: When making decisions, do you prefer to first look at logic and consistency or first look at the people and special circumstances? This is called Thinking (T) or Feeli...

It's July 31st today and I'm finally all caught up!  This last month took us to Utah and Idaho again.  It seems like that is a common theme in our life.  We spent the first couple days in Fairview at the Zoll cabin.    Mike, McKell and I left a day early and picked up Paige in Salt Lake so we could go to Idaho and tour her mission.  Jackson and Sydney stayed behind and came home with Grandma and Grandpa.  They had a really fun time with cousins playing basketball, riding four-wheelers, making up dances for the talent show and playing Mafia.   The four of us had such a fun time in Idaho.  The first day we picked up Paige at the Church History Library in Salt Lake, where she is doing a research internship with Dr. David Golding, a historian at the church.  We were able to go to lunch with him first and then toured the library to see where all of the history writing and archiving of the church takes place.  Mike and I we...

A couple days after graduation, Mike and I rented a beach house near Sunset, Beach California to celebrate McKell's  graduation.  She and seven friends planned this trip for months and everybody contributed money to pay for the house. Despite it not being very sunny, they still had a great time and luckily got along pretty well considering they've had some problems in the past with each other.  Mike and I enjoyed our time relaxing, reading and napping. On June 4 Grandma Arnell passed away.  She had broken her hip a week earlier and never really recovered at all.  She was ready to pass on so it was quite a relief for everyone that she didn't have to suffer for long. Mike flew out to Utah a day before I drove home with all the girls from California.  The funeral was in Blackfoot. It was the first time he and all his siblings had been together in a long time. Grandma was never really the same after Grandpa died in 2003. ...