March 30, 2014
Dear Children,
We have had a great weekend and even several good
weeks. Today Railee Whitaker reported on her mission to the Salvador South
Mission. It capped off two great days of great instruction from our meetings.
It is always wonderful to hear from the returned missionaries but Railee had an
especially simple message that compared the success principles of a mission to
the same ones in life. The special musical number was especially beautiful
since we have two darling sister missionaries who both obviously can really
sing well!
Last night I had a gathering of friends over to
watch the Women’s Broadcast instead of going to the church to watch it. It was
fabulous meeting about covenants and again, the music was incredible. One of my
favorite parts was when the Sister Wixom had the primary-aged girls stand up
and start singing the song, Teach Me to Walk in the Light. We ate a potluck
dinner while we watched the broadcast and then played games afterwards. Enough
of the ladies went home so we could play Ticket to Ride; that is always fun! Jo
Black brought her Expansion Pack over and I sure like playing with those larger
cards.
This week was Spring Break in Oregon. It was kind of a bonus week for us
to get things done here since we had planned to be in Utah. We decided shortly before, not to
travel since Dad had his first job since Thanksgiving! But, not surprisingly,
it rained much of the week so he
Even though it was raining this past week, we were
able to catch a softball game of Alina's on the east side of town. She was in a
two day tournament now that she is on the Varsity softball team. She is one of
the young girls but certainly on the same level of the other players. She is at
second base and made lots of the game plays. Because they were playing on an
artificial playing field, the game kept going through much of the rain except
for the big storms. We were pretty wet by the end but it was a ton of fun to
see Alina play. She's the best!
March has lots of family birthdays. Dad's birthday
weekend was just as he would want it. We went on a short bike ride and then he
took off to ride his age by riding out to Hagg Lake.
By the time he returned he had gone 75 miles in total; no, he is not that old!
His request for a birthday cake was mint brownies. Now, if we lived close to
BYU, I would have just purchased them but I got Carol Stanger's recipe. They
weren't as pretty but VERY yummy. Thank goodness we took a meal to one of the
young moms in the ward who had surgery that weekend so I could get rid of some
of them!
We have had a few sun breaks, albeit short lived,
so Dad has been working on lots of bids. We hope we get a percentage of those.
We are happy for even the ones that say they are waiting until next year! I
have been busy with SendOutCards, working on another monthly goal; I am
energized by short term monthly goals. Two weeks ago I had my big event of the
year, the Portland Women's EXPO. Next year I hope that I have enough team
members that want to do it so I can spend my time talking with the other
vendors; it is a very busy show. They are the ones who need my service even
more to stay in touch with their leads in a more meaningful ways and stand out
above their competition.
I cannot believe that April is around the corner.
Yikes . . even more family birthdays!!! Have a great week ahead. I love you,
Mom
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