End of the Year

"Miss Patti"

This week was Katie's big end of the year show for her pre-school. After three times the songs are still the same, but the kids are just as excited. Katie had fun and enjoyed singing for us. She has a teddy bear picnic on Wednesday and then she is officially done and ready for Kindergarten!

Saturday was also Senior Graduation party day. Les did the rounds with the kids and then I met them at the last one. It was for our next door neighbor. They held it at the park near our house. We had fun visiting and even saw one of our old neighbors that had moved away. I find it hard to believe, but we have been in this neighbor almost 10 years and have made some fun friendships with our neighbors through the years.

This weekend was also our Stake Conference. One of the stake counselors gave a great talk on pornography. Rather than dwell on the we "should nots", he spent most of the time on the beauty and meaning of intimacy betweeen a married couple. He then finished by stating how pornography cheapens that relationship. I actually came out spirtiually lifted which is hard to do when covering that topic. I mentioned that we can now hand out the usual copy of the "Miracle of Forgiveness" and a copy of this talk along with it.

Have a great week!

Brant

Can You Guess What's Missing?

Tuesday, Wilson Tree Service arrived about 7:30 am and removed the three big trees between our deck and Stavros deck. Shane had wanted to for several years because he worried about the trees leaning over our house. We kind of liked them so told him not to worry about it. Finally I could see that the trees really were leaning quite a bit so I told him to go ahead. The tree service said it would save him about $300 if they could boom them over our house. I had already gone to work but Mom said they went right over the house. I wish I had stayed home to watch. When I got home everything was all cleaned up and all that was left was a little saw dust. It really leaves a hole in the sky and Tracy Stavros is not at all happy. I guess Shane will sleep better at night, Zack said he worried every time the wind blew.

Not much news this week. One of our custodians took the "buy-out" and retired this week. We had a little party for him on Thursday. The other two who will be leaving will stay until December (the latest the church will allow them to stay).
Mom and I got another calling today (we will be sustained next week). We will teach the temple preperation class. There is a recent convert (single mom) and a 19 year old boy that are getting ready to take the class but Bishop Walker said neither is quite ready yet. We will probably start in a month or two.

That's all folks.