2 May 2021
Hi all,
Just a quick update on life here. Our car is acting up, it keeps dying at random times and then cycles through several alerts on the dashboard: check tire pressure, check vehicle stability, check brake system, check charging system. Most of the time it drives beautifully, but the sensors are making it think there's something wrong. We'll get it into the Toyota place in Rexburg on Wednesday.
For some time I have been trying to get the hospital marketing department to make a video for the hip and knee patients. It would save the pre-op nurse time and the patients would get more consistent education. So, a few weeks ago, one of the marketing guys called me to say they were making a film and needed a woman who could play a grandmother, struggling to keep up with her grandkids because of her bad knee. I thought that since I had been pestering them about the video that I'd better do my part, so I said, yes. The film maker emailed me the address in Idaho Falls where they would do the filming. I went down there and instead of a studio, it was an airbnb, really cute older home. They had found 6 grandkids for me, who were so cute and easy to work with. Well part way through the filming, I got a look at the outline of what they planned to do. At the top of the page is said "30 second commercial". That's when I realized that this was not the education film I had thought I was to be in. This was for an orthopedic doc who works for the hospital. It was too late to back out, so I may be on TV before long . . . and my name will be, Michelle! I didn't have to say anything; only one of the "grandkids" had a speaking part. I'll try to include a picture I took of the kids. Five are siblings.
A distant cousin who lives in Florida found me on Ancestry.com and was excited to see a lot of information that she didn't have. Our great-grandmothers were sisters: (hers) Margaret Lewis Clark, (mine) Elizabeth Lewis Walker. Anyhow, we've been sharing information and in the last email she mentioned her older brother, Allen Troshinsky, who lives in Rosemount, Minnesota. I googled it and found that Rosemount is only 5 miles from Apple Valley!
One last thing: in Come, Follow Me this week, it asked the question, "What does it mean to you to know that Christ is your Advocate?" I've heard for years that He is our advocate, but this time something clicked with me and I thought of all the times I have tried to be an advocate for my patients. This put it in a new light for me and means so much more than it ever has.
I love you all!
Mom/Johanna/Nana
Hi Mom, what a cool experience for you! I look forward to seeing your commercial.
We had a very nice weekend here in Denver. Sam and Brad stayed with us for a couple of nights while Sam was in town.
Joseph, Karen, Sam, and Brad all went to our Stake Conference fireside on Saturday night while Lynsey and I went on a double date with our close friends the Eastons.
They are moving to Chicago soon for a new job and we were able to enjoy a nice evening together.
Today is very rainy and it's been raining since last night so the ground is nice and soaked right now. The forecast is calling for rain most of the day. It's good to have the water and the temps are nice and cool.
We have had quite a few days of nice weather so lots of bike rides have been enjoyed recently.
I was able to help out our friend Brian Bezzant recently. His truck had been stolen about 2 weeks ago and he was out of town the other day when the Lakewood Police called him to let him know they had found it. He called me to ask if I could go meet the officers so he could avoid the tow and impound costs. I went right away and met with the cops. They were very nice and helpful officers. The truck was mostly intact, but they had damaged the dashboard and steering column a lot in the process of taking it.
We were able to get it started with some needle nose pliers and a jump start from another diesel pickup. All his tools had been taken out of course so that was unfortunate.
After Brian got home and was going through the truck he found some random paperwork that the thieves had mistakenly left behind when they abandoned the vehicle. Turns out the paperwork was a court summons that the thief had left behind from another crime he'd committed. So Brian was able to tell the police exactly who had stolen his truck! Hopefully, they will be able to track them down.
Joseph, Brad, and I were able to squeeze in one last day of skiing this year. It was a beautiful day in the mountains but was a bit too warm. The snow starts to get sticky when it's melting and the temperature was 55 that day so it was definitely melting.
We got in some good runs and called it a day around noon.
We've decided to sell our Highlander so we can continue to save even more money each month to put towards another rental property. I bought a little Honda Accord from a neighbor across the street that needed work. I was able to get it running and driving well so that's what I'll be driving for now.
Joseph's school has had 6 Covid cases in the last week so they were going to shut down and go 100% remote again, but the principal was able to convince the right people that if students would come back to school with a negative test they could keep going in person. The school provided the tests and Joseph got a negative result so he's in school this morning.
Well, I think that's all for now.
Love you all!!
Ben, Lynsey, Joseph
Hey Everyone!
Mom and Ben, thanks for your emails! I'm with Ben, I'm looking forward to seeing the commercial. They are cute kids.
We are all so happy that spring is here! It was super awesome to have Stephen and Annie home for a week or so towards the end of April. Ellen has a new job at a bakery, but went back to help at her old job at Gambino's one night during that week, so we all went and got pizza for dinner! She was able to take her break and come eat with us, so that was nice.
We've been looking for a new couch for a while, and I finally found a great one on craigslist about a week ago. It was only 4 years old and belonged to a sweet elderly lady who had definitely taken great care of it and it was a great price. The only problem was that she lives on the 3rd floor of this building. It does have an elevator, but it is small. Way too small to fit a couch. And the only stairs are those spiral stairs and another set just like it on the other end of the building. Luckily, she was having a new reclining loveseat delivered from the same furniture store that had delivered the couch, so they said they would get the couch down and put it in our van. It was so nice! I took a video of them getting it down from the 3rd floor. https://photos.app.
Most of the people living in the apartment building were older. This was in the corner of the elevator. I thought it was cute.
And here is the new couch! With Spencer pretending to sleep on it.
I don't have any pictures of Naomi, but she has been busy with driver's ed. Just two more weeks and she'll be done! She was pretty nervous about driving at first, but she's been doing a great job and is getting less and less nervous.
Noah has been growing like crazy! He is 5'8" now. He drove the tractor for the first time on Saturday.
And he has been busy with track. His events are discus, 800m, and 400m. At his track meet on Friday, he threw the discus 81 feet which was a PR, and 3rd place in 7th grade. He also ran the 800 in 2:47, which was also 3rd place. He was pretty happy! For right now, they have "virtual" track meets. Each team does all the events at their own school, then they compare times. This meet was against Pullman and Lewiston. You can see the results here: https://www.athletic.
On Saturday Ellen went to Prom with her friend Colin. The school had a prom that night, but it was in the middle school cafeteria and they all had to wear masks and social distance and all that, so Ellen and 5 of her friends had their own prom in her friend's backyard. It turned out very nicely!
Isaac, Autumn, Ellen, Colin, Sarah, and Isaac. Yep, two Isaac's.
Stephen is having a good time with Ashleigh. He sent me some pictures of the two of them today.
That's about all I can think of. We love you all!!!
Love,
Aimee
One more thing I forgot to tell you about!
Saturday night while Ellen was at her prom, Noah and I were watching the BYU Vocal Point live concert broadcast. They had a q&a portion at the end answering questions that had been previously submitted. Their last question was sent in by Ellen from Moscow and it was our Ellen!! They pronounced it like Moscow, Russia so Noah and I weren't sure at first. We had to text Ellen to see if she had actually sent in a question and if so, what was it. She had! She had asked how to stay focused on your dreams when they seem so far away. Vocal Point's answer was that they rely on the support of their family and others who love them to keep going and working toward their goal. We were pretty excited. 
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