October 1, 2007

Dear Family----

Chuck asked that I write this family letter today. I’m squeezing it in just before I go to the soccer field to take pictures of Katie’s team for the 2007 Soccer Season. It’s her senior year and they have absolutely no chance of even going on to region, so their last game is tomorrow against Dixie.

Dean is the high priest secretary and troop committee chairman and enjoys both of them. He’s been busy with work with the just the right amount. He is probably heading up to Provo Wednesday to do a job for a designer in Provo. Its good money or he wouldn’t be heading up there.

Trudy (me) is just quilting and doing children stuff, like SEP’s, soccer games, parades, laundry, cleaning (very little), chasing kids around, well…you know the mother routine. I’m still doing Webelos and team teaching the 11 year old primary children. We just had our program Sunday. We are possibly coming up north over UEA for a baseball tournament, but it hasn’t been finalized.

Katie is busy, but after this week things should become sane again. She had homecoming week and dance to prepare, soccer practices and two games a week, yearbook, and then of course work. Their season is over tomorrow, so she will have from 3-6 available everyday, which is really nice for all of us. She is re-taking the ACT the end of October, and hopes to improve a couple of points. She wants to go to BYU. If she gets a couple points higher, she should get a good scholarship.

Brook is the least busy. She just has to march in all the parade in southern Utah until Christmas. The bands were scheduled to march, but didn’t in the Swiss Days Parade in Santa Clara because it was pouring. She loves band and because of band (the band received money for us keeping them) we had two exchange students from Japan stay with us for 11 days. They were very quiet and it was interesting. Brady was very good with them and did his best to interpret anything we needed. I’ll attach pictures of them. Their names were Kyohei (key- o- hay) and Hayato (high-yacht-o).

Brady is playing football as a freshman. He goes to school at 7am two days a week for weight lifting and then practices until 5:30 four days a week. He is starting up his baseball tournament team and hopefully will play up north over UEA. I love baseball and pretty much don’t care for football. His little league team didn’t win the state tournament and didn’t go on to Oregon.

As far as the other children, we’ll have to catch up next time, so I can send this off to Chuck before the day is over.

Hope all is well with you and that this season of the year is slowing down just a bit. I thought it would, but not at our house yet.

Love, The Berryessa Family