Email from Mom: Sunday, February 12, 2023

From: Mom
Date: Sunday, February 12, 2023
Subject: Superbowl Sunday

Good morning.

How are you today? How was this week for you? How are things going? Did you love Zone Conference and being back with all the other missionaries? What did you guys focus on during that? Did you end up having interviews? Any news on new transfer dates and what that looks like for you coming home? So many questions but I am getting stuff written on my June and July calendars and so I want to be sure that I get it all accounted for with you coming home.

This week here at home has been good. It has been full of wedding talk, prep for the Superbowl today and the food we are going to have, getting Brooklyn through another week of school even though is was only a 4 day week (Friday was a mental health day so no school....so dumb), and then getting her ready for her big birthday on Wednesday!

As usual, B will stay home on her birthday but this year we will head to the DMV and she will take her driving permit test. She is hilarious. I told her I had it scheduled and she immediately got nervous! She will do just fine but it is funny how scared she all of a sudden got. She is going to her tried and true pork chops and white shells for dinner and then I ordered her a cake that is a Nike box with a Panda shoe on top. She has no idea so that will be fun. I also have a couple of her friends who I asked to sneak over and have cake and ice cream with us. I hope that will work out. Kaitlyn and Eric will be up as well so hopefully she will have the best day. I got her the shoes she wanted too and a couple of new phone cases. It is weird to think she will be 15! Ugh...it is that time thing coming back to get me.

Today is Stake Conference at church annnnnnd we are going to pass on going. There will be no announcement about any changes and I am just so done with our ward that it is better if I stay away and do my own studying and learning the best I can. It is so hard. Kaitlyn and Eric will be up to watch the Superbowl with us and Kaitlyn has broken a couple of nails that we need to repair too so that should be fun. I am going to do mini sliders, some nacho cheese in a crockpot for nachos, some mini smokies with bbq sauce, I have cookies and candies, soda, and well pretty much all the good healthy stuff. Not so much!! Ha! That is what the Superbowl is for right? Junk food and your favorite people around you.

This next week is busy in that I have cookie orders to drop tomorrow, Valentines Day on Tuesday, Brooklyn's birthday on Wednesday, a couple of nail appointments on Thursday, Brooklyn doesn't have school again on Friday but she has an appointment to have her hair extensions tightened, and Saturday her and I are going to meet Kaitlyn to start some wedding dress shopping. CRAZY! Sunday Tyler and I fly to Hawaii for the week while Grandma comes here to stay with B. Somewhere in the middle of all of that I need to find time to do regular things like grocery shop, laundry, clean bathrooms, give the dogs a bath, DUST....the worst, and figure out what I am going to need for our trip. The end of February is going to go by so freaking fast!

We did go and get Rodeo tickets for this year. I cannot believe that we had to go already for that! But because we own a home in Oakley we got an early ticket sales opportunity so we got the best tickets. Well I think so anyways. And it will be so fun. Grandma and Cowboy are going to come up one night and stay at the cabin with us. Kaitlyn and Eric will come up for the weekend too and come with us. You will be home. It is going to be such a great 4th of July weekend. I already cannot wait! Once the Rodeo is done then it will be game on for Lake Powell gathering and finishing up all things there to go for that week. I am going to need both of these things after the crazy June we are looking to have. It is all so so good though and I cannot wait!

Well...it sounds like my laundry buzzer is going on so I need to go get things swapped out. I cannot wait to hear from you and hear how this week has gone for you. It was so fun to see your pictures on your drive. It looks like you got to perform baptisms this week? And Elder Proffit looks so grown up! His mission has turned him from a young boy to an incredible man. You can just seei it. I love that so much!

Keep working hard and know that I love you one million. Have the BEST Sunday. I love you for forever,

Mom