Reading

When I was in school I obviously didn't have much time for reading, other than text books anyway. So my friend Julie told me to read the twilight series, I love it. I read teh first book in a day and a half and the second one in a day, so now I am ready to start the third, let's see how long that takes.

Elder Nathan Ficek

For those of you that are interested my Mom put together a web site for my brother Nate while he is on his mission, the site is, www.missionsite.net/elderficek. It is great she will post the pictures and letters that he sends to her and other family members, you should check it out, he is getting to do a lot of clean up from hurricane Ike, and is seeing a lot of devastation.

Community Potluck

On Saturday the community held a potluck for the new hospital employees, Brett's clinic that he works for is the Bair Clinic and it is owned by the hospital, they hired quite a few employees, there is a new CEO, new physician, a PA and Brett the FNP. There was a lot of yummy food, I wanted to try everything, but I didn't want to look like a cow. We had to introduce ourselves and there will be an article in the paper next week, I will scan it in when it is published.

Sophie turns 5

Soph's birthday was on the 11th and Brett was not here yet, so I was just gonna wait to have her party but my friend Keri said No lets have a party, so we did. It was great fun.

Sophie and preschool

I decided to put Sophie in preschool to help her with her social skills, at first she was so excited and then when we got there she was so scared and wouldn't let go of my leg. After three days of this I snuck out, once she realized I was gone and that she was fine, she was so proud of herself. She is now doing great and loves going, hurrah for her. She is making new friends and gets to paint everyday, and she loves art.

Kaylie's first day of 2nd grade

Kaylie was very nervous to start school, luckily she was able to go in the day before and meet her teacher, see her classroom and see how excited the kids were to have a new student. That made things easier for the first day. She was even invited to a swimming party her second day of school. Kaylie made the twelfth student in her class and they even have a student teacher in her class this year. I love the student to teacher ratio.

The Branch

When we moved into our ward in White city, I thought it was so small, well I was wrong cause I had never been in a branch before. The first Sunday that I was there, there was 19 people. There is my girls and four other children, there is no youth. The primary children meet all together, there is no nursery. Church is only 2 hours, we have sacrament meeting first and then alternate from having Sunday school one week to relief society and priesthood the next. I love only having ti for 2 hours. I am hoping that I can get put in Primary so that I can change the way that they do things. we will see. We meet at the community center.
Anywho, there is me and one other younger mother and the rest are older people. Everyone is so friendly and so grateful to have us there, they have only had the branch for 2 years, before that they had to drive to Townsend, which is 42 miles away. The gal that has the other children is Keri, she is wonderful. She has 4 boys, one is in Kaylie's class at school. Our kids get along so well, and have so much fun together. Keri and I have so much in common including that we both got married right after high school. I am so grateful for her and that we get along so well. I am happy to have such a great Friend, plus her husband is the deputy sheriff so he knows everyone and everything, which is fantastic.

The house

I am not to fond of this house that we have to rent, but like I said it was either this house or stay in Medford till ours sells, and so far that is not going so smoothly. But here are a few pictures of the old place and our pet bee's i nthe tree out front. This house is so old that all th eplugs are only double prongs and we have had to get addapters to plug things in. Plus it is sinking down on one side, but the yard is huge and fenced, I will mention that is has not been kept up in years and it took us two days of mowing, hedging, sawing and edging to get it looking really nice.

But I am happy to ge here, the town is so nice, everyone is so friendly. Time moves at a slower pace here and it is so quiet and peacful, especially at night. I am going to be having a new phone number so for any of you that might wan that let me know, as well as my address.

Off We Go

We got our uhaul on Friday night, the 5th. Brett doesn't like to accept help from people, so we didn't ask anyone to come help us load, but I asked my brother Nick and he asked the missionaries. Thank goodness because we needed th help. Brett's parents came to they were so great, they stayed so late helping and came so early on Saturday and helped as well, thanks so much Patty and Devon, I love you guys so much. My parents took the girls to there house and watched them so that we were able to work, thanks so much to you also cause poor little Rissa was so confused.

Saturday the missionaries and Nick came again and we got everything loaded. Brett was great at getting stuff squished in there, we fit almost everything.

Sunday morning at the wee hours if the morn, we left. The trip went quit smoothly which is unusual for us cause we usually have some weird adventures. We stayed in Spokane Saturday night and then went the rest of the way on Monday.

We were all little sad to unload our stuff into our rental because we left our nice updated house to an old 1920's house that needs some serious work. But that was the only rental that we could find in the whole town and it is only temporary, so we unloaded everything by our selves. uggg.

Brett had to get back to work so he left on Wednesday back to Medford and I got the house all put together.