Happy Birthday Jamie!

We're not sure if you'll read this in time for your birthday...but we thought we'd send you some birthday wishes anyway. Hope it was a good one!

Ty 1- Leslie 0

Sometimes it gets a little rough around here when it is bedtime. Les was putting Ty to bed when he jumped off a chair and one of his flailing arms caught Les right in the eye. She didn't think anything else about it and went to sleep. When she got up this morning and was putting on her make-up in the mirror- "Surprise!" This is her first shiner. Now if we could just think of a better story- say a bar fight or something exciting. Matt got any ideas???

Brant

A Little News

Well, it's official. I am out of the training program and out on my own. If/when we get a digital camera I'll post some pics of my car and me looking tough in uniform. My first night was pretty quiet. I just answered calls (barking dogs, domestics, 911 hang-ups, etc.) and only had time to stop a few cars. It's a little weird not to have someone over on the passenger seat to rely on or turn to for the answers. It was a year ago March when I started work as a marine deputy.

Kimbre is scheduled to take her state exam to cut hair next Monday in Boise. We'll be taking a quick trip on my days off, Sun-Mon-Tue. She has an offer to work a chair part time in the store she is currently working at now, and is excited to put her skills to use and get out from behind the cash register.

I had to speak in the Wallace Branch on Sunday when our ward's high council man asked me to come along. Remember Dante's Peak?? I got off work at 4:30am, printed off some talks at work, grabbed some tacos in the Del-Taco drive thru, came home for a shower and shave, then fell asleep on the couch from 6:00 to 8:00am. At 8:00 I got up, got dressed and met my ride in the church parking lot, still without a written talk. I wrote my talk in the car on the 45 min drive out there and come game time I rattled off a 20 min. talk on dealing with adversity and trials. I was a little tired and sort of dozed through most of Sunday school. No snoring or violent jerks though.

Thanks for the birthday phone calls. We're down in Moscow now for a night on the town and some cake/ice cream.