Elder West "poddy trianing"

I am loving, LOVING, getting my brothers emails each week. I remember how fun it was to get emails from my other siblings and I am so glad to get to have a missionary sibling again.
I have to be honest, my baby brother Joe is funny, but in his letters he is a hoot! Seriously he has a great writing voice. He told a story this week about how everyone was talking about a party, but instead of saying fiesta they tried to say party...but they pronounced it poddy! All i can do is laugh and be glad that Joe is also teaching some English classes while he is there! Hahaha, sigh, he said to tell our potty training kids that in El Salvador people celebrate going to the "poddy".
Keep up the excellence little brother (who by the way is several inches taller then me! :) ;) )

Fit one celebration 2015- Cheer for our uncle

Fit one celebration. Not much to say this year. I was planning on running the race right up to the day before I was very sick and was not able to make it. I had intended to pick up the shirt later in the week but time got away from me. Either way I did what I could I supported the cause and I will see that race next year! It was a very hard decision for me not to run; believe it or not, but in the end I think I made the right choice. I doubt the other runners would have wanted me coughing all over them.


That same day in the later morning of the day my brother Joseph had a race for cross country so we took the kids to see that. They got to  see a race that day and cheer for their uncle and I was so glad we went.
Running is Awesome! (and real hard- but worth it!)

Uncle Joseph Runs Fast!

Track meet!

We went to Uncle Joseph’s track meet on Thursday the 2^nd! I forgot to take pictures of the kids with him after the meet- ugh I hate when I forget to photograph those times!- but I got a few pictures of him looking great running!

Go Joseph! Go!

Also after the meet we made a trip to the library, and since I wasn’t going to leave my camera in a car parked in the parking a garage I took a few pictures of the kids! We go to the library every week and we always leave with a HEAVY load of books! The joys of reading!

These pictures are at the fountain just outside the library!

All work and no play…

Last week and spring break as we helped at my parents house the kids (and some adults) and Joseph, made sure to have some playtime.

 My parent had many big projects but one of them was making a gate in the back fence and digging an path and leveling the ground back there to meet up with this lovely kinda of common area. It is actually the property of a family friend in our ward. Since almost all of the houses that aback it are also friends/ ward members it has become a kind of common area! The kids found plenty of new areas to explore!