23 August 2015

Dear everybody!
   Well I survived speaking in Sacrament meeting today. Peggy and Teresa spoke with me; I think it went really well, and we didn't go over time. Now I can concentrate on preparing my lesson for September 6th.
   Yesterday, Gran and I ran some errands in St. Anthony, and then went to lunch with Jocie and Janie. We had such a nice time...don't do that often enough.
   Dad has had a bad cold, even missed a couple of days of work, but I think the worst is over. He isn't coughing nearly as much now.
   I rearranged the livingroom yesterday. I'll send a couple of pictures. No big changes...just things I've been wanting to do.
   Dad and I are paying our tithing on line now, and we love it!  It's so much easier!  Have you all tried it yet? It's super easy, no need for tithing slips and envelopes any more. 
   Not too much to report this week.  Just love you all!
Mom/Johanna/Nana

Hello everyone!

Mom your living room looks fabulous!  You always do great things with furniture!  We did a little bit of rearranging, but in our laundry room instead.  Natalie you inspired me to get it organized!  And we have been needing to find a better place to store all of our food storage so we moved our big shelves over a few feet.  Most of you have not seen my laundry room, but the shelves used to be right against the wall.  I'm mostly including the pictures for Mom.

And I'm including a couple of pictures taken from the same place near our house.  One was in the winter time on a nice sunny day and the other was taken today around 1pm.  The smoke has been crazy here!  I know a lot of you have had lots of smoke too!  Today and Sunday have been the worst so far, although it has already cleared up some since this afternoon.  Whew!  Everyone around here is praying for rain and the firefighters. 

We are all gearing up for school!  It starts on the 1st!  We bought all our school supplies yesterday.  I'm so glad that is done!  Stephen has been busy with football practice.  His first game is Friday.  Because of the smoke they get to play in the Kibbie Dome, the indoor football field at the University of Idaho.  Unfortunately we don't get to go!  On Ellen's birthday we gave her tickets to see The Wizard of Oz at a community theater in Pullman, and it happens to be on Friday.  So we will miss his first game, but there will be plenty of others.  Annie will be starting dance and piano again the week after school starts.  She will also be taking band twice a day so that she can play flute in the advanced band and drums in the beginning band.  She is very excited!  I'm a little worried about practice time, but last year was just the same except for the drums and she still managed to get straight A's so I think it will work out.  Ellen is taking piano and wants to play volleyball and basketball this year.  She's starting middle school and is pretty nervous!  Naomi is also taking piano and is going to start band this year.  She wants to play the trumpet!  Noah is excited for 2nd grade!  We won't find out until Friday which teacher he will have, but he might have the same teacher he had in Kindergarten and is pretty excited about that possibility.  He liked her a lot!  If not, he will have the same teacher Stephen had in 2nd grade and we liked her a lot too.  It's so nice to have such great teachers!  Noah is planning to play soccer this fall for Moscow Parks and Rec.  He has been wearing his soccer socks as much as possible this week.  They are bright orange, just like his shoes!  And Spencer will be hanging out with me.  It will be a busy but hopefully good school year!  I'm just not sure I'm ready for it all to start! 

James contacted Bear Hunting Magazine this week about advertising his automatic bear bait door.  They were very excited about it!  He's working on getting an ad designed and it should be in the Nov/Dec issue!  We'll see what happens. 

I haven't been doing much but trying to get everyone ready for school.  Working out here and there, but not much biking because of the smoke.  Sigh.  Cleaning up the laundry room really made me want to sew something!  But I have to get my sewing machine fixed first.  Sigh again.  Oh well!  I have plenty to keep me busy!  Oh!  I'm also going to attach a couple of pictures from our quick visit to Cheyenne.  One is everyone in front of our old tree.  The other is what our lot looks like now.  I was standing on front corner of the lot.  Hopefully all the pictures aren't too much!

I'm so grateful I got to see all of you this summer!!!  I love you!!!

Aimee