How I spent part of my summer vacation (by Steve Rigby)

Greetings y'all from almost way down south in Dixie, and yes that is a real river boat on the real Mississippi, river that is. The river cruise was great and the food was awesome.

The business trip (yeah right) would have been more fun with Debbie there instead of hanging around with a bunch of other publishing types talking about boring publishing stuff the whole time. Best part of the trip?....the fried frog legs smothered with lots of butter; no they don't taste like chicken, they taste like............well.........frog legs of course.

You might ask, as I did, what is Beale Street? Well I found out, it's jazz central but in Memphis. No Elvis was not there, he had to mow his lawn that day. My only question is,"what were all of those weird odors in the alleys"? Oh, and the Jazz was pretty good.

According to Dough Boy (the taxi driver) we actually drove by Graceland but no Elvis sightings, at least the real one.

Next trip: Bamff, Canada ehh. We'll post pictures later.

We are looking forward to a slow and lazy summer and hoping to spend a lot of time watching the grass grow, except for a few trips. We will miss all of the families that are graduating and leaving the ward. Good luck and many happy paychecks. We are also excited to welcome new families to the ward this fall.







We had a great trip to Seattle to spend time with Andy, Amanda, and Evelyn. We had a good time at the zoo and aquarium.

Thank goodness for strollers and good walking shoes.









We ran across some distant relatives at the zoo.....
There was a striking likeless to the Rigby boys.










When we are not relaxing we will be spending a week in Seattle for Tyler's one year check-up and then we are off to Banff, Canada for a family reunion. We'll take plenty of photos. Debbie and I are planning to take a self-guided church history tour in the fall with Debbie's family. It sounds great.

The Fun Has Just Begun!

Everyone we know has a blog and we figured it was our turn to create one. We are both busy with work and Tyler is busy with school and looking forward to drivers Ed this summer. He is doing a lot better. Steve is still serving as Bishop and is hoping to stay there forever. Debbie is FINALLY done with school and is glad to have the diploma. Our family is growing, and we hope it continues to grow. We had 3 additions to the family as we had 2 wedding over the summer and one granddaughter.