Email from Mom: Sunday, January 2, 2022

To: Christian.garcia@missionary.org
Date: Sunday, January 2, 2022
Subject: Sunday

Hey! Happiest of Sundays to you. How are you doing today? How was church? Any ami's attend alongside you?

Our week here mainly consisted of spending time at the cabin to get it ready for carpet this week. We painted the multi bed bedroom that I am officially dubbing the 'flower room' because I also incorporated a light pink accent wall and ordered the sweetest bedding for the Queen bed and will decorate accordingly. It sure made a huge difference to get rid of the mustard yellow! We also painted the loft area walls a lighter beige and got rid of the red wall that goes up the stairs there too. I was going to just do the lighter beige but Tyler likes the light pink so much that we opted for that instead. And I won't lie, I LOVE it. :) Once carpet is done we will paint the room that B stays in and then make a decision on what to do for the upstairs bathroom. We have got to get rid of the red for sure. It is just too dark for such a small space. We need to really open it up and so the first thing to do will be to get rid of the red. I don't know what colors to use in there just yet but I am on the hunt for a new mirror and light fixture up there as well. Decorating a cabin is hard work. HA!

I would love to hear all about your interviews this last week and how President Proudfoot sees things and if he had any sound advice for you at this stage of your mission? How was your big New Years Eve feast? I am so sad we didn't get some sort of photos of the goat that you had for that! Overall was the experience all you thought and hoped it would be?

What does this next week look like for you? I am so thrilled to be back to routine with school and what not. It will be nice to have some sort of structure back in place again. We counted today and Brooklyn has only 94 days of school. That is how many days of actual school. We didn't' count like Spring Break, days off, etc. but 94 is not that many!

I got a text last night from Kaitlyn's friend Brynlee. Her and Bryson got engaged yesterday! So fun. I am so happy for them both. They are great together and I think this is just such a good thing. I asked her if they knew when and she said maybe June, maybe July. I hope July because I think Kaitlyn will be super sad to miss that but it is what it is right? Still such good and exciting news.

We have 9th grade orientation this week for Brooklyn as well. High school. How the heck did that happen?! She doesn't seem to phased by it but it is sure riding on my brain like holy cow. Time continues to fly by for sure. We will head to the cabin this weekend to get it put back together and to paint the back bedroom. From there we will figure out the next project to tackle I imagine. :/ I am already SO not looking forward to whatever that is. We still have a basement undone here at home so maybe that will be enough for now to worry about.

I hope you have a really great week and more importantly I hope you know how much I love you. You are doing amazing things and I love being your Mom and being able to witness them as they play out. I have so enjoyed seeing you grow week by week. Thanks for including me in on this crazy ride you are on. I love you for forever.

Mom