Cute Brandon!

I had a softball game last night and afterward the umpire gave Brandon the game ball. He was so very excited about it. He said we had to get his mit out so he could practice pitching. I asked him what he was going to pitch for, he stated, "T-Ball". I explained to him that there isn't a pitcher in T-Ball, and after that there is coach pitch so he was going to be really good by the time he needed to start pitching. He was excited to be that good by then. I am glad that he wants to play like his mom. He also wants to bowl like his mom and grandmas. Hopefully, he wants to play football like daddy when he gets old enough. He might have to toughen up a little bit before he will like to play that, but we will work on that by the time he is big enough, I am sure. He starts t-ball on Tuesday so you can look for pics after that.

Bowling Report..

So we competed in the National Women's Bowling Tournament in Reno this past weekend. It was really cool. They have a special bowling complex that is just for bowling in the middle of downtown Reno. It is way cool. I will put some pictures on later. We all kind of struggled a little bit in the bowling department, but I think we all had fun anyway. My cousin Jamee came with us to help with Tyler, thanks for coming. I hope she had fun hanging out with us. I think she did. I did have a couple good games....one of which was a 200! I got a cool pin for that game. We won't know if we won anything until it is all over in July. But I am definetly not holding my breath. Brandon had fun camping with Angie and my dad. Thanks guys for taking him with you, thanks Trevor for catching him before he decided to tip over the 4-wheeler. I hear he tried to take it for a ride by himself. I must be off, Tyler is calling. I will post some pictures later when I have the camera out of the car.

We are off!

So the long awaited Reno trip is here. I am leaving Friday morning to go to Reno to bowl in a national tournament with my mom and Andy's mom and aunts. I am way excited! I don''t really expect to win a darn thing, I just hope we have fun. That is really all that matters, right? I will post when I get back and let you all know how it goes. We bowl Saturday @ 7 and Sunday @ 11. So you can think of us at those time and send us good luck!

My Mama!

Hey mom, thanks for everything you have done for both me and Andy this last couple weeks. Sorry I didn't come down today to see you on Mama's Day. I hope you know that I love you even though sometimes I don't say or even show it. I am amazed everyday how you were able to handle everything when we were growing up. Now that I am trying it for myself. Thanks for everything. Sorry, I am not the best at this mushy stuff. But hopefully you know what I am trying to say. As the BoyzIIMen song says...You were there for me to love and care for me when skies were grey, whenever I was down you were always there to comfort me. No one else can be what you have been to me...Mama, mama you know I love you.

Ok so there has been a lot going on since I wrote last so this post might be a little or a lot long. You don't have to read it if you don't want to :)

First of all...Andy waited as long as he could for his boss to call him back and he didn't so we decided that he should go out and get his CDL so he could drive truck. There are always jobs in that field. So he started driving school on April, 20th. He was in the classroom for 2 weeks down in Salt Lake and now he is with a trainer on the road. As of right now he is somewhere between Indianapolis and St. Louis. He will be on the road for 26 days. As for now I am doing alright without him, I am sure it will get worse as the days wear on. We talk everyday so that is nice. To make things even more interesting his boss called him on Friday and told him he had work for him, but we decided just to stick with this job at least a year and maybe everything in the construction field will pick up by then.

Next...We threw a suprise birthday party for my dad last week. That was way fun to see the suprise on his face when he showed up and everyone was there. Even my sister from California came in with her whole family (minus one...we missed you Matt). It was a lot of work but I think it was worth it. I think the hardest part was keeping him entertained the day of without having him pick up on what was going on. He was supposed to go golfing but of course it rained making it difficult to do so. Thanks Frank for being in charge of distracting dad for us. His birthday is tomorrow....HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD! We love ya!

Also...they have decided to give me a new church calling about a month ago. They obviously don't know what they are doing...Just Kidding! I am a teacher in RS, as if I didn't have enough stress! For those of you who don't know me so well....not really good in front of crowds...all I have to do is think about being in front of them and I start crying. I have decided that it doesn't matter what I plan to say because they can't understand me anyway...plus I can't read it through the water in my eyes. I have my dad to thank for the tearworks. He is the same way...very emotional! My first lesson was 2 weeks ago and I ended with about 20 min left in class. I think I talked really fast because I had 4 pages prepared, next time I guess I better have 8. I get to teach on the Conference Talks on the 4th Sundays. I guess that is one way to get me to read and study them. :) So if every 4th Sunday you could all pray for me to make it through at least 5 min without crying that would be great! I get to be off the hook this month because I will be out of town, and boy am I glad about that I found out it is Ward Conference which means the stake presidency will be there. No thank you!

Finally....the reason I will be out of town is because my mother, my mother-in-law, Kathryn and Shar (Andy's Aunts), and myself are heading to Reno on the 22nd to bowl in a national tournament. We are all way excited to be going. Andy's uncle Chris told his wife Kathryn "Don't you have to be good to bowl in that tournament" the answer to that is nope, if we were that good we would be on TV. We are going to go and do our best and most importantly HAVE FUN! Tyler will be going with us and Brandon is going to go camping with my dad and sister.

Well, thanks for listening to me as I rambled on about the happenings of our little life. I will try to be more dilligent in updating.