Dear Elder Alex,
Well, another elder safely home. Dad and I went to the airport Thursday and greeted Quinn as he came home. Only his immediate family was there and dad and I stood off to the side and waited for a bit. I was crying and he wasn't even my son. It's just so good to see him and to see you missionaries as you return. Melanie was there and she's getting married in 2 weeks, Joel came and he had a full beard and a mullett. He was quite the site. Last night we went to Hugentobler's for an open house. I took care of the food for it, so it was fun to be there the whole time and see everyone who came by. Then today we went to the 6th ward for his homecoming and Quinn did such a good job with his talk. He didn't actually tell us much about his mission, but he did call us all to repentance. :) He and Joel are taking off in 3 weeks to go to Kansas to sell security systems (who isn't?). They'll be selling with Oliver Erickson.
Also this week I went to Melanie Hugentobler's bridal shower given by Melanie Cameron. It was a kitchen shower which means all our gifts were something for her kitchen. She got lots of good stuff. Danielle Viehwig was there and her wedding was this weekend, which was a bit hard on Quinn. He got home on Thursday and went to her reception Friday night.
It was fun going to the old 6th ward. It basically seemed the same especially with so many of us returning for a visit today. I'm still not used to our new ward yet. I'm trying to meet one new person each Sunday. I sat by someone today who just moved here from Dallas. They adopted all four of their children and just returned from the Congo with their most recent adoption. So we exchanged adoption/Africa/new ward stories.
Today we had Jared over for dinner and games. Kendra is out of town, so he's batching it. Scott Adcock and some of his kids came over also later on and flew airplanes in our backyard, so that was pretty entertaining for all of us. While we were out there, the Hansen's came walking by including Derek and Kimmi, so they stopped in also. Then just after scripture reading tonight, Mel and Quinn stopped by. I love having people stop by especially on Sundays.
Both Kristina and Leah's lacrosse teams are still undefeated. Some games have been pretty close, but they are all fun to go to. Nikki says she definitely wants to play next year. We have another week of games.
Kristina had a date Friday night with a guy that has a crush on her. Sounds like it was a fun date. They went back to his house and did Iron Chef with the other couple. Then they went ice skating and then to a pizza place (which his family owns) where they practiced throwing pizza dough and made monkey bread and breadsticks.
Then on Saturday night, I guess there was a huge game of Fugitive in Eagle, at least a hundred kids showed up from a facebook invite. We let Kristina go but warned her that people would most likely call the police. They were starting at Seven Oaks and had to end up at the Middle School. About an hour and a half into it, dad and I just happened to be driving down Floating Feather back home and we saw tons of kids running and walking down the street and a police car pulling over a truck with lots of kids in the back. I thought for sure we'd see Kristina in the back of the truck, but when we didn't I decided to call her and warn her. She was back aways on Floating Feather and said she was so tired that she wanted a ride back to her car, so we went and picked her up. Turns out the police just wanted to know when the game was going to end and then they let them all go. Kristina says the police even do a fugitive game of their own once a year in Eagle with a cop car looking for the fugitives. That would probably be fun. It seems like I remember you playing that game once.
I loved your letter from last week. It just sounded like it was a wonderful week. Those pictures from the upper room at the Methodist church were cool too. Pretty impressive that you got to meet there. I also love hearing all the little miracles that are happening around Drew taking the lessons. I hope she is doing well. I love hearing your Bro. Potter stories. There's always Bro. Potters in every ward.
Can't believe this next week is May already. I know Kirk and Sarah are really getting antsy about their visa situation. It better come this week! It's also the last month of school for the girls. That's crazy. Nikki will be in middle school!! No kids in elementary. (actually I'm pretty happy about that)
I'm loving the new wood floor dad put down in my quilt room. The carpet was getting so old and dirty. Everyone likes it except for Roxy who refuses to step on the floor. Eddy could care less though. Good ole Eddy. Also we have a new screen door on the family room door that is magnetic (As Seen on TV) so Roxy and Eddy can just walk through it and let themselves in and out of the house. Eddy, of course, walked right through first thing, but it took a couple days for Roxy to realize it was a safe and good thing. Eddy would always walk through first and open it and Roxy would then run through. This is where Eddy has the advantage of not being much of a thinker.
Jared said Austin and Cameron are signed up to live at Liberty Square for next fall, so I was thinking of putting your name in there too since I haven't heard any plans from Dallas at this point. I think it would be better to at least get your name in somewhere. Let me know if you have any big objections to that.
That's about it here. We're all just plugging along trying to do our best. I hope you are well, happy and always in tune with the spirit. There's a scripture that says it all, "I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise." D&C 82:10 I love that He has made a promise to us that He is bound when we do what He says. I believe that He truly loves us and wants to be bound to His promises so that He can bless us as any loving parent would be. I can totally understand that kind of love being a parent.
Have a week of faith, hope and joy.
I love you very much.
Love you,
Mom xxoo
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