HELLO....GOODBYE

I am going to Seattle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My first time :). You can see I am excited!!! Bye the way this is Erika. Tommorrow I am going to do a speech for 4-H. I should probley go work on it.BYE!!!

Time is flying by...

We finally have internet and email set up at home. Yeah! We went up to see Kass and Chad's new house Friday night and they let us use one of their old phones so I should be connected again by the end of the day. I have been feeling a little isolated without email and phone. Thanks Kass!
What a beautiful place they will have! I am so happy for them! The plans for the house look great! It looks like it will be a practical use for all the space and they will have great views from every window! How lucky Paxton and Tessa will be to have that great place to form their childhood memories! I am proud and happy for Chad and Kass of taking the big step of building. It will be awesome!
We got to see Jackson playing football Thursday. What an athelete! If he can stay focused on the game, he will be a force to be reconned with. How cool for me to have five grandkids to start. A little overwhelming how much I feel like a grandma! Kind of weird. Great kids.
We had a great visit with Kevin and Jessica. They have a lovely home and Kevin is a lucky man to have Jessica. Nice to get to know them both a little more. It didn't feel like we had enough time! I so appreciate Kevin treating Erika like a kid sister. He is a good brother for all of the girls!
Erika has been working on her 4-H record books since she got home from Bible camp. She is sure growing up fast! She has been such a good kid this summer with all of the new stuff we are throwing at her. Good to see glimpses of the adult she will be.
She helped Roger with an auction Saturday night. She does a pretty good job for a ten year old.
Roger has been working a lot and has a lot on his plate right now. You know the old saying, 'make hay while the sun shines', I think that is the way it is with auctions. Busy, busy in the summer. It was nice yesterday to spend some time at home with the three of us together. It seems like we haven't had too much of that so far this summer.
Grandpa Stan is doing well. Erika and I are preparing to spend a little time with him after his surgery before school starts. Erika loved being at his house last weekend. She said it felt just like being at my mom and dads. We will have to remember to get a new ball for Dolly next time we go down.
I better get moving, we have a busy day!

Church camp

I just got back from church camp and from being eaten alive on my head, my back, arms, ankles, and chin. Now that os eaten alive.:p

-Erika

Long Time no SEA!!!!!

Wow it has been a long time since we....I have updated!:) Well as most of you know we went to California here are some pics they may not come out good because it is my first time doing this....oh...this is Erika

Nothing Neu

Hi!!! This is Erika so if i spell something wrong...sorry!:) We haven't been up to much except I just got back from Alpine 4-H camp. While I was there I made a marshmellow gun and guess what my mom thought it was...... COOL!!!!!!!! As soon I got back we went to my 2 cousins wedding WOW it was short. Then i went to my dads and Roger and mom went to Jackpot.


This morning we went to Jaxson's T-Ball game it was VERY COOL!!!!! I think his team won but I'm not sure.

And thanks thanks for reading "Neu' Beinnings"!!!!!!!!!HEHEHE

What a crazy week it has been again! I didn't have any big plans for the week and that turned out to be a good thing. My good friend Christy called on Monday from the hospital. Her husband Dan was having trouble breathing Sunday evening and they ended up heading to the hospital. They found a mass in his chest wall that needed to be removed. Thank you to the surgeons and staff at PMC for their quick assessment and removal of the mass. They had to take a little bone with it but so far everything looks good and Dan is on the mend. They will decide what the next course of action will be. In all this, I have been blessed with the knowledge than Dan accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. He has been on the path for a while now. He is a great friend, a great husband to Christy and a great father. I have also been blessed with the opportunity of hanging with the kids. Great kids! Good friends for Erika and good friends for me and Roger.

Roger has been very busy this week. We haven't had any evenings together since the weekend. Two lunches and a quick wave in the morning.

Erika went to a horse judging event on Monday and placed 7th overall in the junior division. Great job for the first time out! She qualified for state but the state contest is during the week of church camp at Cathedral Pines near Sun Valley. She has been helping Grandpa with the sheep this week and I haven't seen too much of her either!

I had the opportunity to have lunch today with my friend Patty. She is doing ministry in a little town in Illinois with her husband Quentin. Lovely to see her and spend time with her. I am so bad about keeping in touch with people so it was terrific to spend some time visiting.

Beautiful weather today so I think I will go out and enjoy it!

Well, I have decided it to start looking for a regular job. I have loved the past year having some flexability with my time and have loved working at the school but in this day and age, we have to have a regular added income in order to buy a house that we would like to live in. Bummer. Three part time jobs can't cut it.
June is off to a busy month. I have been cleaning and organizing Roger's place to make it comfortable for us and Erika had one free week after school got out with nothing but soccer. She finished the season on Saturday. Although it wasn't necessarily a winning season, it was a good one for the girls. This was the first time she was on an all girls team and it has been great to watch those relationships develop. They really look out for one another. They did great in their tournament this weekend too. Won two out of three!
Now she is off at horse judging and starts day camps for 4-H this week. 4-H camp in Alpine next weekend and in a wedding for her friend Elise this weekend. Keeps me pretty busy!
Roger purchased a camp trailer at an auction last fall so our next project will be to fix that up. Not that anyone can afford to go camping with the price of gas the way it is! It will be fun family project by any means! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Bye for now.