Kysa is in swim club, and Shay is taking lessons, and afterwards they have a
blast together in the outdoor pool!
We have enjoyed getting missionary emails from Ty’s former player Jeremy Kuns. Just thought I’d post them from time to time.
Hey everyone!!! Well it was an interesting week. Octoberfest opened up in München this past Saturday...and because there are so many people that go to it...there are a lot more people living in Augsburg to take refuge for the next couple of weeks. Well there´s a picture attatched...but we had the opportunity to go to "Joseph Smith, the Prophet of the Restoration" movie and the church that we saw it at was right next to where they have Octoberfest :S haha it was quite a sight (given the fact that the subway station is in the middle of it. It was a very uplifting film though...I haven´t seen it since the Missionary Training Center and I really needed the extra boost which it gave me.
I think I forgot to mention last week. But the name of my new companion is Elder Bullock and he´s from Logan, Utah. He´s pretty new in Germany...but that doesn´t really matter when you have a testimony in your heart. We´ve been working hard and have found some new people this past week...two of whom are very promising. Unfortunately as with most weeks (sorry) I am running low on time and must go. Thank you so very much for the pictures....I know I can´t keep up with Dad with all of my pictures...but I try to do my best :) I love you all...miss you...and can´t wait to see you all again here real soon.
Love always,
Elder Jeremy Kuns
“It’s also the American Way to give the single finger salute and walk away.”
--Steven Frei
And then she grabs my hand and kisses it.
Shay is such a brown noser. But it works. She doesn't get yelled at when
she gets out of bed to give us compliments and hugs and kisses. Funny how
that works.
Ty and I are having a bit of a biggest loser competition before we head to
Vegas in a little over 4 weeks. We weighed in last night at 210 and 161.
Yikes! I'm not sure what Ty is doing for his diet, but I am starting Bill
Phillips "transformation" program and the Take Shape For Life diet. Bill's
stuff more for the motivation, workouts, and overall changes, and the Take
Shape For Life diet because it's working great for Steve Frei and I really
like Shawna Hodges, and I think it may be something that would work well for
Dad if he wants to do it.
Raleigh seems to be doing well after 3 days back to school. He had football
practice last night and tonight. He's enjoying football a lot and excited
for their first game on the 11th. It's looking like I will be missing the
VikingMan triathlon because we've just got too much going on that day. Ty
has the ACT's and I don't want to miss Raleigh's first game. Still not sure
what time the game is though so the verdict is still out on what I'll do.
I went up to BYU-I yesterday for a training for faculty. My online course
starts on Monday. I also went up to St. Anthony to meet with the folks at
Austin's office about marketing Austin as the new doc and an obstetrics
specialist.
I have been playing way too much tennis as I got roped into being on a
"twilight" women's team and playing mixed doubles. Six more matches to go
and it will be over, and then I'll just be doing lessons once/week with
Gretchen Maloney (a local pro) and some other ladies. Ty and I enjoyed
playing last week with Greg and Susan Ehardt. Hopefully we can do that
again because it was a good matchup. They are a little better than us but
it was quite competitive. I can tell I'm improving, thanks to lots of
singles with Ty with the kids riding around the Skyline tennis courts on
their scooters and bikes at night. It really has been a fun thing to do
this summer, and something we've never done before because I sucked too bad
to play a competitive game with Ty. I keep wondering, "Where was tennis all
my life?" Wow, I sure enjoy it. It's very addicting. Almost like playing
video games, except for the exercise part.
Last night Shay skinned her knee at the tennis courts and the combination of being tired and getting hurt was not good. As I tucked her into bed after major crying on the way home, she looked up at me and said, "Mom, you're beautiful, (paused, thinking)...AND...you're the BOSS...AND...you're the MOM!" She reminds me of that Garth Brooks song "She's Every Woman". She'll rage just like a river, then she'll beg you to forgive her.
She also reminds me of the little girl with the curl--when she's bad she's HORRID. But that's Kysa too.
Kysa took a late nap yesterday and so I let her sit in bed with me and write/draw in a notebook. Ty and I were watching her draw and she was being oh so cute. I said, “Kysa, you’re just delicious.”
She chuckled and looked at me like I was trying to pull something over on her, “Mom, you don’t eat me!”
Kysa can write her name, and so Ty asked her to write his name. She promptly wrote the T (without help), and then said, “What next?” I said, “Y”, and she said, “That’s in my name!”
Raleigh had his first football practice on Monday night after a big rainstorm. He came home muddy but had fun, and his coach Brad Perkins thought he did great. Brad has coached a flag football team for a couple years now but Raleigh hasn’t played until this year. He said he wanted Raleigh at tight end so he could block and catch, and I imagine he’ll play defensive line as well. He is one of the bigger kids but he is pretty fast. He needs to work on his catching but Brad thought he did a good job catching the ball at practice so maybe he is improving. He is playing football this year instead of soccer, yahoo!
We were able to have Breyden Parkinson (Aaron’s son) over yesterday and I just love that kid. We went to the primary activity and then to Arctic Circle. Ryker Perkins also came with us. Then the kids did the slip and slide and played in the water in the backyard.
Sympathetic words from Shay's nursery teacher Sister Nelson trying to
console my horror that we brought Shay to church without underwear on.
Naturally Shay told her teachers, but not Ty. In the rush to get Kysa to
primary on time (to give her first scripture) I gave Shay her dress to put
on. I never bothered to check her undies. Ty took Shay and Kysa and
Raleigh in the Ex while I tried to locate Kysa's scripture illustration.
I found it, and the girls were on time, only problem, no panties for Shay.
The nursery ladies had a pull-up, but Shay being Shay, she wouldn't put it
on. Little did Ty and I know or we would have ran home and rectified the
situation. (ha ha, rectified) I was mortified.sort of. I mean, she's 3.
I was more embarrassed of my parenting. I asked Shay why she didn't wear
any underwear, and she exclaimed, "Because you just didn't put any on me,
silly!"
Kysa did a great job on her scripture. A handicapped young man named Robbie
who is about 17 and still goes to primary was really impressed. On
completion of her scripture, he enthusiastically gave his approval-"Great
job!" It was cute. Kysa was proud of herself, and followed in Raleigh's
footsteps, giving the same scripture that he gave in September of 2006, his
first primary scripture. She had it mostly memorized. 2 Timothy, Chapter
1, Verse 7, "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and
of love, and of a sound mind."
Yesterday we had a fun fishing trip to American Falls dam with Grandma
Jer-Bear and G-Ro. No luck catching trout, but we did catch some bass,
including a lunker that Ty said was the biggest bass he'd seen. Before we
started catching fish we had some excitement when Kysa fell off the front of
the boat as she was dipping her feet in the water. I jumped in after her.
She freaked a little bit but not too bad, and Raleigh was kind enough to
jump in and swim out to her, which helped her relax. Shay also got in on
her own accord and proceeded to freak out. Raleigh enjoyed swimming in the
reservoir enough that he was really hoping to get in a 2nd time, but the
bass fishing area was quite mossy so we didn't get in again. After fishing
we went to Pizza Hut. The American Falls trip has become an annual event.
This was the 4th consecutive annual trip with Grandma and Grandpa.
