Letters to my Children

6/20/2025 Hello my dear! I hope you are doing well and are feeling well. Hope everything is going smoothly with your companion and that you are enjoying working together. I hope you had a great week and that you are learning to live this newish area. We have had a fun-filled couple of weeks, and I feel like I’ve been on a dead run trying to get everything done. This is what we’ve been up to: Rob and Leisja came to visit when Blake went to the temple. Rob decided to stay    with his parents for a few days with the kids while Leisja went to girls camp the following week. So Tate got to have a nice long play date with Dax and Zeke! Tate also got to do another summer camp with Gavin at his music teacher’s house. They played and made beautiful art creations and —best of all—got to make their favorite trail mix! Jett got to go to a basketball camp at Farmington Gym, but it wasn’t quite as fun, and there was no trail mix. He did win a Gatorade and a Farmington pool pass though! Ethan...

Hi Ty! It was so good to talk to you this week. Good to see you feeling better! And also it was so good to hear about the potential of teaching a new family.  I hope everything goes well with your new friends and that you are able to see some positive changes in your new area. You are a hard worker and your heart is committed to this missionary work. I'm so proud of you! This is what we were up to at home: Ethan left bright and early on Monday morning with his friend Landon to go to FSY at BYU. He had a really great and uplifting week and made a lot of new friends. “Best week of his life!” I missed having him home! Meanwhile, Blake and I went bright and early to the county health department to get Blake’s mission immunizations. One more thing checked off the box! Tate had more swim lessons. He’s a little fish! Jett went to football training this week and his coaches are not stoked about the broken arm (again). He’s been having fun with trading cards lately, and Nate’s mom took them...

Hey there Ty! I hope you had a great week and that you are feeling better. You seemed pretty miserable when we last talked. I'm so sorry your bikes got stolen! Ugh. What a pain. Every day is an adventure, hm? Is the new mission president in charge now? I can’t wait to talk to you and get all of the updates. This is a two-week news roundup of what we’ve been doing: McCall Taylor has been working at the corporate offices of the Minky blanket company and she arranged for us to take the young women on a tour of the facilities. It was really fun. Apparently the owner of Minky is really generous and likes to spoil the employees. McCall gets free lunch catered every day she works and a 15 minute massage appointment! The warehouse was enormous and they had fun things like a soda and ice cream maker. At the end of the tour they gave every one of us free Minky blankets. The girls loved it (and so did I!). Dad once again received an award as one of Utah’s Legal Elite. We got to go to an award...