Happy Father’s Day! It doesn’t look like the day before summer’s official beginning since it is pretty drizzly here. I am glad that some of you are experiencing real summer weather. Most people in
We sat out in a light sprinkle as we visited with Scott this afternoon. I made arrangements to swap Primary singing and sharing time so Dad and I could leave church a bit early to get to the prison as quickly as possible. I was concerned that it would be packed since it was Father’s Day. It was and they were hesitant to open up the outside benches since the weather didn’t look good. We were told if we went into a visit but it started raining, our visit would be over. We agreed to that just so we could at least get in. It was valuable to be there even though he called Dad at
We were able to talk a lot about his children. It is very discouraging that he doesn’t have contact with them so this day is a hard one to face. Scott talked about his running. He ran in a race last Saturday and, since Adrianne was running a half marathon that very day, he convinced his running partner to just keep running until they had run a half marathon also.
Scott talked about the annual car and motorcycle show at the prison that was held on Saturday. He said that he had a picture take
n of himself on the warden’s motorcycle. As he talked of the car show, I wondered if the Powells (I visit teach Karen Powell) ever were involved at all since they take their car to car shows. Today, just as I was leaving her home, I remarked that her shirt was cute. It had lots of stripes so she said she calls it her prison shirt and then said, “But they don’t really wear stripes, we were just there on Saturday.” They had friends that show their car so they took their vintage red California Special Mustang! She said it was very complicated to get through security so they probably wouldn’t show next year but maybe another time. I wonder if Scott saw their car.
Aunt Denise was here this past week so we had some fun dinners and played games some night
s with her. I know that might be a surprise to you but Aunt Denise has, in the last couple of years, started to like playing games. She was even willing to learn a new one for herself, progressive rummy! We also went to the movies one day. Katie also joined us in some of the visits with Denise; they have a fun relationship. That makes me so happy that my children love to be around their aunts so much. Aunt Denise and Katie had quite a ball together when Katie and her friends stayed in
Katie met up with Morty in 
topped in
I don’t know if many of you know that Katie also had a broadcasting job offer. She was offered to be the director of a news station in 
et out of debt. I think it was a very mature decision to realize that, in order to survive on her own with her first broadcasting job, she needed to first save up some money since there are strict contracts involved in accepting this sort of job. Plus, working for Southwest will be an incredibly interesting job, as jobs go, to get her out of debt!
With this new job, Katie learned that she won’t be able to be in the Seattle Rock and Roll Half Marathon this Saturday morning as that is the day she starts in Portland after a training day in Oakland. She has been training for that run for months. It was going to be fun to cheer her on in
Thank you for the Father
’s Day calls; they mean so much to Dad. It was so cute to hear Jenna and Rebekah in their sweet tones to say Grandpa Bea-Ver-Ton. We had a delightful call from Nate that just reminds us of how fun he is to be around and how he makes us laugh. He talked of the Gospel Doctrine class he taught last week and then said, “I must have done a good job. Even people who wouldn’t want to date me gave me pretty good compliments.” I guess I don’t understand the singles ward protocol in that I didn’t realize that you only compliment people so they will notice you and ask you out!!! I remember when he was a freshman at BYU and was so excited to teach Sunday School since he thought it would be a “chick magnet.” Those probably weren’t his exact words.
Dad’s Father’s Day was made more memorable as he said that he wore one of Grandpa Bitter’s ties to have something of his father’s. And now, today is Grandpa Maldonado’s birthday (since I am STILL writing this letter into Monday). I am looking forward to Dad using my Father’s Day present to him since it is a guided bike tour of the
Here is some family news: Grandma Bitter told us that Bryan and Allison Bitter in
This weekend there were some exciting new changes with my SendOutCards business; they added a photo editor like Photoshop to the system. I am going to LOVE that feature! They also changed my web page and actually gave me two web pages to explain the wholesale/business side and the other explains the retail options of my business. Now, if a person just wants to use my system to send a few cards instead of paying a fee for the program, they can pay as they go. Of course, the 62 or 93 cent card they get with their own system is now $2.99 but that pays postage and they didn’t sign up for anything (just saved a trip to the store and mailbox). VERY COOL! I haven’t figured out HOW that works; I just now that is an option now. It is going to be very nice; I just haven’t had much chance to check it all out. Besides, they said more people have been on the site this weekend than on their biggest days during the holidays so it has been slow since they learned they needed to add bandwidths??? Another great addition is they are paying me more to train people to use the system . . . woohoo! It just keeps getting better! Check out my new webpage to see the new stuff at sendoutcards.com/cardsbylori.
Cross your fingers that summer will peak it head from behind the clouds and drizzle here! I love you! Love, Mom
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