{For 18 months – Jan ’17 to
Jul ’18 – I'm posting our letter to Miranda while she's on her mission to
Cochabamba, Bolivia. Our letter titles are taken from a list of family
sayings & catchphrases we recorded onto a pillowcase she has with
her. You can read her adventures on her mission blog: www.hermanamadsen.blogspot.com!}
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I can hardly believe it's time to email you again about our family happenings... it's like time is flying by. I'm so grateful for this time to reflect on what our family did this week, because it reminds me to take advantage of the time we have together in this house. Everyone's growing up right under my nose.
Tuesday night Morgan had another game. Watching him is so fun.
On Thursday, Halle & Connor stayed home from school together and had a couple hours of homework time. I love how Halle listened to him reading his baggy books Luke such a big sister:
Friday, Morgan had another game... look how big that kid is!
Instead of telling Heavenly Father how big our problems are, Tell your problems how big your Heavenly Father is. - Keith Tanaka, sacrament meeting.
The kids making Valentine's cards for someone... =)
In other news, the Blue & Gold banquet is this week for cubscouts. It's a luau, and I'm up to my eyeballs with preparations. As usual. =) Zeus ran away yesterday, came home last night through the back door like nothing was wrong, ate a lot this morning, threw up on Halle's electric blanket in her room. H&K found Pepper IN THE TOILET!!! She misjudged her exploration, and ended up standing in the water... it was yellow. Poor poor Pepper having to clean that off herself!!! She still hops up and drinks from our bathroom faucet. I told you about Sterling bringing his live mouse in the house to play with and losing track of it when the dogs started chasing it... Surely all our news is not pet related!
Ah! It's the Valentine's Dance for Derek this week! I get to go dance with him and take pics... he has a crush on 2 girls; and one girl with special needs has a crush on him... Even though he wants to ask his 2 crushes to dance for the 2 Boy's Choice dances, he said he's going to ask Claire for one of them because she's no sweet and wants him to. What a darling, sweet boy. I'm so proud of him.
Carlie has some boy news to tell you, but she really has to do it herself... nothing llama worthy, but still. Her own tale. =)
And we took these for you tonight:
Love you so much hermana!!! Have a great week!!! Love, Mom
And something that didn't make it into the letter. Jeff's Valentine's flowers for me... that man.
