May 6, 2005

 

Dear Family----

 

          I thought I’d jump the gun by a few days and give Chuck a chance to get this posted before the last minute.  Today is Friday before Mother’s day.  Happy Mother’s Day to all of you mothers out there.  Yes, even though it’s Mother’s Day, I still have to do a lengthy sharing time and prepare the cute little handout the primary children will be doing for their mothers.  That’s okay, because I really don’t mind sharing time, and I did volunteer to do the sharing time.  We will get to talk to Erin Sunday, which should be fun. 

          Dean is scout master and enjoys it.  It is nice having your own boy in the troop.  He’s working on his tennis game whenever possible because come October he is eligible for the Senior Games.  That means that Chuck is also eligible.  Dean is just working hard and helping coach Brady’s baseball team. 

          I (Trudy) am on my summer break from school.  It lasted all of ten days.  Yippee skippee.  I haven’t had to take any summer classes until now, so I shouldn’t complain, but will anyway.  One class is only offered in the summer and the other class is in my minor and I love this teacher and want to take it from him.  BUT…the good news is that by the end of 2005, I will be finished with school.  I’ll have an apprenticeship class this fall and I’ll take 4 credit hours of PE of some sort of Dixie and I’ll be finished.  I actually lived through my third statistics class.  Things are looking up.  I’m still Primary President and it is always good.  You can’t beat the kids and their music. 

Kyle, Sheree, Konner and Taylor are all doing really well.  They went through the temple a couple of months ago and are doing wonderful.  Kyle is still working for the same company as their in-house computer geek.  Sheree watches her sister’s kids while she works, so she has her hands full all day long.  She works for the school, so I’m guessing she’ll be off for the summer.  Konner has one more year before he can start kindergarten.  Taylor Marie actually kinda likes Dean and me, sometimes.

          Drew is getting married June 25th to Jennie Hall.  Many of you have had the privilege of meeting her.  She’s a return missionary and just turned 24.  They are getting married in the St. George temple.  Drew just finished his first semester at Salt Lake Community College and works for America First Credit Union. 

          Katie made the freshman softball team and they were undefeated.  They ten-runned every single team.  She had a really good time and became a much better ballplayer.  She started into softball much older than all the other girls, so she is doing really well.  She will be in high school next year and once again be on the yearbook staff.  She is less than a year way from driving and holy smoke I’m getting old.  She loves school but will be glad to have the summer off.  Katie is going on a piano trek for youth conference the first of June and is excited.

          Brook is going to be the BMOC (big man on campus) next year, okay, little and a girl, but the oldest.  All three kids are still in piano, but their teacher is quitting and we need to find a new one.  They have a recital this end of this month.  Brook and Katie are going to EFY this summer.  They are going on June 5-11.  I’ll be squeezing in the drive up and back between school classes.  It is once again going to be an absolutely jam-packed summer.  Brook has a recital for band this coming week also.  Someday she may just grow into those big bells and drums.  Maybe not.

          Brady is getting bigger all the time.  He passed up Brook a year or two ago.  He is getting tall, and is definitely bigger than most of his friends.  He’s the pitch or shortstop in his baseball team and is their best hitter.  He’s not playing soccer anymore.  He made a choice and chose baseball.  That’s probably just as well because the soccer really irritated his tendonitis, although, he is very good at both sports.  Brady has loved his year at Lava Ridge with 7 periods a day.  Brady is working hard on merit badges in scouts and loves scouting. 

          Alix is graduating from high school this year.  She has applied for scholarships at Weber, but I don’t think she knows the results yet.  She was down here for spring break so we saw her for a lunch, but otherwise she played with her friends.  She wants to be a dental hygienist. 

          Erin is good; we get to talk to her on Mother’s Day.  I forward her e-mails, so you get the chance to read how she is doing.  She will serve until the first part of January. 

          I guess I’ll close for now.  I might try to attach some pictures to the e-mail to Chuck, but I still have dial-up, so it takes so long and I get too impatient.  If there aren’t any pictures, it is because I am too impatient.

 

Love,   The Santa Clara Berryessa’s