August 3, 2020

Good Morning Precious Boy!! YYYEEEAAAAAAA!!! I love Mondays when we get to talk to you! It has been such a funny week with Elvis with your head on it all over the house. We keep bringing you in different rooms and involving you in different conversations and it's so funny and fun. Elvis has very small hips and nice big shoulders and actually looks a lot like you. The funny thing is I think you're going to be the tallest brother at the wedding and that's going to be pretty great :-). How are you? How is everything? What is your week been like? How are things? We've mostly just been getting ready for the wedding. We've done tons and tons of things this week and we're all feeling like we're getting on top of it and that's good. We went to the snow cone machine and it's been super fun because we already have it and we kind of want to get one FOREVER! But there and I have the best talked last night. He was feeling kind of a d thanks and wondering if that discomforts applied to his relationship or his career choices or not knowing what he was going to do with his career or just trying to figure out where the discomfort was coming from where the lack of peace is coming from. We just talked about how awesome it is that we can go to God and lay it all out on the table and that you will help us figure out exactly what it is. After some fasting prayer and playing the piano a lot he feels like he was able to figure things out. At 11 at night we walked around the block just talking in the warm air and it was so fun. I love midnight watts in the summer it's one of my favorite things ever. So only five days till the wedding. We are having the ceremony at storm Mountain Amphitheater up in big Cottonwood Canyon. It is beautiful and made of rocks and it has Sarah Cliffs around it and beautiful views and they're why I say Bishop is marrying them, and then that we have lunch back here and it is going to be pulled pork sandwiches, Asian salad, cut up fruit, and snow cones. Grandma Jan is going to be the roommate speaker. She is so excited about it she's got all kinds of notes already it's really cute. We were riding the wedding song last night. We're going to kind of have a break in the middle of the day and then the reception we will have lights all over the trees around the patio and they will be on the patio by the waterfall then the dance floor and tables will be in the bowl and all the food will be on the bark. Not directly on the bark we are going to put a table under it :-). On a typical day around here Annie is in her room writing in her journal. She's been so good at reading scriptures and doing Journal. This is a typical day when nobody is over which is not very typical. I feel like we've had somebody living with us or visiting us almost all summer. And now the tiles are going to come and live with us for a week while they get their kitchen remodeled I'm actually super super excited about that. Anyway on a typical morning when nobody is visiting and he might be in her room writing in her journal and reading the scriptures, Seth will be laying on the couch just recovering from his longboarding wounds and listening to John Mayer's New Light song on repeat, Spencer will be cleaning the house or doing some yard project like crazy, and I would probably be working with Spencer. Life is just funny and beautiful. Grandpa Jello put in hours and hours and hours on the flagstone patio. It is so beautiful. I feel like one of the greatest manifestations of our Christianity is how we speak to each other. I already talked to yesterday called the tongue of Angels by Elder Holland and it was just incredible. I feel like that is one of the gifts of living the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the opportunity to live in a home or kind patient loving words are spoken. I'm not saying I'm perfect at this or we are perfect at this but we don't have screaming fight and it's such a beautiful blessing I think that is because of the gospel and because of the savior when we are successful. I love that. Someone once said that the true sign of conversion is how we treat each other and I think that has a lot of Merit. the whole idea that we temper our passions and bridle our feelings and control our tongue and filter are unkind words is so beautiful. It's what sets us about the animals and I respect so much people who can Bridal their selfishness and be kind.