Stuttering

Sweet sentiments. I called Scott about the latest miscarriage as I was headed home from his workplace. He immediately left and almost beat us to the house with this bouquet of beautiful flowers. SO thoughtful. Only days after that, my friend brought the fabulous red roses to the Wednesday evening church meeting. How generous and loving are these people!

Last Friday Grandma Johnson drove in town and spent the late morning and lunch hour at our house while I cleaned for a men's study that was meeting there later. When the boys woke and guys came over, we all went over to Bullhead park for them to play ball for a while first. They ended up staying there for their study. A couple of them brought Scott back and hung out for a while. One of them is an excellent guitar player. He played a few songs on Dad's guitar. I didn't know it could make such nice sounds!

Saturday, Grandma spent the morning with us. We then went to the Smolenskis to visit with them and their new babe, my brother's family and some friends from Montana. The MT connections didn't make it, but we had a GREAT time.

Sunday we spent the day in Santa Fe with the church. Garrett taught the class, Scott preached, they took us to Il Vicinos for lunch, the boys napped at the minister's home, and then the teens had an areawide which Scott spoke at. It is an amazingly joyful and encouraging church. What a blessing, and totally exhausting trip! We were gone from 7:40am-9:30pm.

Monday was Scott's first Softball game. He seemed to have a blast. It was right by our house, so the boys and I went, leaving early around 9pm.

Scott drove a lot for work last weekend and in the early part of the week. Since the car gets better gas, we switched vehicles. The boys absolutely thrill to riding in the beat-up Jeep. Can you tell they're pleased? On Tuesday, I think, we went to visit my brother at his workplace, which is when this photo was taken. Brendan takes us into the zoo to play on the playground and check out animals.

The next day, Wednesday, we did our grocery shopping, stopped by Golfernoggins to see if it was open (it was/is!!!), and then spent the lunch hour on campus. Scott was manning a table to sign people up to play in a volleyball tournament the CSC puts on for UNM. While on campus, we saw a couple familiar faces, which was fun. One friend, Melinda, is a young woman Scott and I used to hold a bible study with.

Thursday we did our "normal" day of free lunch at the CSC and then returned back there in the evening. Three of the students spoke on the importance of being a part of a church body. It was long, but good.

Friday was the big Spring Slam. The people from the CSC did a great job socializing with the UNM students as well as helping prep for the event. When we got there at 6pm, the party had been well under way for several hours. Lots of interesting people!

One of the later games. Some of the guys holding down the fort at registration.

Patrick seems to be the Grill Master at these big campus events.


Here's the roster. Camera Man is one of our more involved and helpful students this year.

Enjoying the BBQ.

Scott worked Saturday morning, which was during the boys' cousin's birthday party at the zoo. With hands full, I didn't get many pictures. The one of Toby, he's completely interested in the cotton from the nearby trees that gathered by the shops. By this time, he was so tired, he just laid on the ground and played with it. Ranne is absorbed with the music machine.

That's it for now. Sorry this is so impersonal and factual. There was a lot to get out.

Today Ranne woke from his nap talking about all different types of birds. He was speaking of the flamingos at the zoo and said, "And there were three "mangos" in the water..." It took me forever to figure out what he was talking about.