Brooklyn and Addison survived the first week back to school. It may have been the hardest on Harper. When you are used to having two fun sisters around to make every day so much fun, she found it to be quite lonesome being home without them. She is looking forward to Tuesday when she starts her one day a week preschool. She is quite a social little lady and I'm sure will enjoy school a lot. Becky isn't sure what she will do with two hours a week by herself, but she is willing to find out.The whole family said good by to their 2000 honda accord on Saturday afternoon when they sold it. Becky's mom had passed it along to Becky when she graduated from college and it has been a goer for almost10 years for them. They sold it to a cute Grandma who was so excited to have that sweet ride.
Jakes parents returned home last week after a very fun visit, just in time to prepare their talks to speak in church today. They were giving their farewell talks today and will report to the MTC for some speedie spanish lessons this week and then off to the beautiful country of the Dominican Republic for the next 18 months. Jackie (Gigi) will serve as the Mission Nurse, so all the elders and sisters will get to call her when they aren't feeling quite right, and Jeff (Bumpa) will serve in the office keeping everything organized and running smoothly. Tatia has been busy this week getting ready for the quick trip to New York this coming weekend. Jake's best buddy growing up is getting married and Jake is going to be his Best Man at the wedding. Tatia has shopped and found everyone cute outfits to wear and is looking forward to this coming adventure.
We had a fun visit with Charlie, Keelie and Callum in the Tee-P on Saturday night. It was a little cozy inside but Graypa and I LOVED seeing them and hearing about their week. Maybe the funnest thing was hearing about Mackenzies new hair. Keelie thought it was pink and purple and we were happy to see how pretty it looked. You are a brave lady Kenzie! I loved it.
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Our LA Thiots
Pierce has had a great week with many of the commercials he made coming out. Dick has showed me a few that he had put on face book. I'll see if I can figure out a way for you to take a peek at them. Dick said in one of them it even had a quick view of the Pierce. Go PJ! Stacy has been busy editing photos and send me about 100 photos this week of our sweet Adelaide. Talk about my best day. Thanks Stacy.
Kara has been making preparations for Skyler's birthday for a few weeks now. She has kept everything very top secret and now I understand the reason why. On Friday night she hosted a very fun birthday party at their apartments swimming pool. What a lovely pool and picnic area they have. The weather man had forecasted rain, which we would never discourage, but I will say we were not disappointed when the weather was picture perfect for an outdoor party. Nice and warm so the pool felt perfect. We were so glad that Kara's family could come as well as our Mansfield Thiots. Kara's mom had been in a car accident earlier that morning. She was a great sport and came and swam and was so fun. We are so grateful that she wasn't hurt except for a burn on her arm from the air bag going off. OUCH! On Saturday morning, Kara and Sky left their house at 6 am and headed to an airpart to take sky diving lessons. Yes you read that right. I guess if your name is Sky, you must have a secret yearning to Skydive. They both took lessons and had a fun day and about 4:00 took their dive. They both loved it and they both survived. I was so glad that I didn't know what they were doing so I didn't have to worry one bit all day. Thanks for keeping a good secret Kara!
Dick has had a good week and I'm glad to report he is feeling better and after a follow up with his doctor doesn't have to go back for 3 weeks. He is so funny and said he guesses he would have gotten better on his own, but I'm glad he went. He got to play some golf this week once and turned down a couple of other opportunities. I think he could retire and play every day and be one happy man. Not for a while.
Every Friday when I come out of the temple, I take a picture of something and send it to Penny and ask her if she can guess where I am. This Friday when I came out, these four friends of mine were jut leaving the temple. I asked if I could take their picture and send it to my Penny. They agreed. Can you see what a big smile it gives you to be at the temple? Penny guessed right away where I was.
This week was kind of visiting teaching week. It seems like all my gals wanted to wait until school was back in to schedule appointments. It was fun to get to catch up with everybody. It's fun that Tatia's birthday tomorrow falls on labor day. Her real birthdate was not on labor day but would have been very well named. What a blessing it has been to have her in our family. Maybe her being the only girl in our family has made her even more special to me. She is a darling daughter and a very dear friend of mine. I miss her being so far away but appreciate all the huge efforts she makes to keep in touch with us. Thank Heaven for FaceTime on the phone. Almost, not quite as fun as being right there with them. Sometimes Penny ends our conversation with,"Thanks for coming over Grammy!" That is almost how it feels like I've just spend time with them. Have a good week everyone. I'll be thinking of you and how much you mean to me. SLY Robynn
