Bread Box

I know that my husband REALLY loves me. He made this bread box when he was in college and we have used it since we have been married. He and I are big wood lovers, but I wanted to give it some paint and color for the kitchen. I hesitated to even ask, but he said I could paint it. I had some issues doing it, isn't the best job but it looks good in kitchen.

This is a picture on top of Jackson Pass today, yes June 9, 2011 at 11:33. This is getting hard to keep positive. We are only allowed maybe a day of sunshine and then we get rain. Don't get me wrong I love the rain, but we have had LOTS of rain. Yesterday it hailed really hard around Harpes Bridge toward Hoopes, so we hope the ground didn't get too beaten and our barley won't come up on the mountain. We would like to drive up there and look but it is so muddy. I just get started doing stuff outside and excited about it and then I can't go out. Yesterday we did get our new clothes line hung up. I was so excited to use it, did a loud of laundry and in a couple of hours it started raining. But I did get the clothes off before they got wet. It will be awesome if the sun ever shines. We also got the lawn fertilized and the remaining flowers planted. We need to spray the dandelion (which can I say I HATE) but we need dry weather again.

Bailey worked and got Stacy's shop so clean and organized. It looks great. Can't figure out why she had a blast vacuuming the shop and I have to beg to have her vacuum inside. The kids have always loved going and helping their Dad especially if it was an alternative to house work. But I can't complain cause that is what I would rather do too!

We finally got the shop door painted. It looks really good. We need a really nice hot day and we need to take down our back door of the house and paint it. Again, we are waiting for sunshine!

I am really into junk right now. (this is what Stacy's thinks) But I am loving the old antique things. Everyone in the neighborhood is having all the metal hauled out and crushed. I have so far rescued this old gas pump, an old truck door (stay tune for his home coming) and a old drill we drug home and put in our round about at the beginning of our driveway. (Have some plans for that too)



Bailey painted her Dad's shelves.



This is another antique that we rescued last year. The old outhouse holes. So cool. A big hole and kid size hole.

I LOVE this man!

 I LOVE this cute girl. Don't ya love her pink pipe boots!

We miss Dalan! But he is doing really well, a wonderful blessing for all of us!

E-Mail June 6, 2011

Hello, it was so great to be able to read all of your emails today and hear about all that exciting new stuff happening up there. cant believe that this is the 2nd time that you are doing green canyon with out me! time really seems to fly by. sounds like you had a wonderful memorial day weekend! i did not get your tape yet but i bet it will be hear soon. i am just finishing up mine and I WILL get it in the mail soon! haha, time seems to slip away really fast and i get behind, but that will get done this week!
That is so sweet that they are remodeling the church! it needs it bad and the new parking will be wonderful! wasn't it the last time that they did any kind of renovation was when dad was on his mission?!? now they are doing it on mine so that will be kinda different. nice though!

i read though all my emails and i got several companionship's in our zone that have been slacking with submitting baptismal records so we will be having to run around and get them all gathered up and faxed in! we are averaging about 8 baptisms a week in our zone so we are constantly trying to catch up! but that is a good thing! :)

I got a DVD of Justin's piano recital this week and we watched it this morning! he did such a great job! tell him congrats on the graduations and everyone else that did as well!

Bailey good job on your grades! that's amazing. you are so amazing, i wish that i had the perspective that you do when i was your age... i would have taken everything a whole lot more serious! :) keep it up and enjoy your summer! don't get too many blisters on your feet from swimming too much!

One thing about AZ is that EVERYONE has a swimming pool! now that schools out and it is really starting to get hot, everyone is always swimming. it looks like a nice feature for a hot day...but no, i wouldn't know! haha

so this week has been a little challenging with the work. we only taught about half as many lessons. we had to drop a bunch of people because they weren't progressing and we baptised the stoneburgs so we kinda cleaned house and we are starting over. we seen so many blessings this week!

We found a new investigator named Merced. she met with missionaries 2 years ago here but then had to last min move to Kansas and lost contact with the church. she moved back after graduation and her friend invited her over for dinner when we were there and we were able to teach her right there. she is so prepared and will be getting baptised the end of June. :) such a blessing. she came to the mission presidents fireside last night and absolutely loved it! she has awesome friends and is excited about it all. we are so excited to be able to work with her for the next little bit and be able to see her baptised!

we also seen another incredible miracle this week! 2 months ago we talked to this guy on the side of the road named Rodd and he was stuccoing his cinder block wall. he was really cold and kinda rude to us. said that he was catholic and wanted nothing to do with us. we offered some service to help him finish his wall and he kinda snapped back at us with a smart comment like sure come back! haha so we tryed and tryed and we couldn't ever get back in touch with him and we thought that he was just ignoring us....we were planning on Thursday night and we had the thought that we needed to try him again so we did on Friday, he and his wife Patty answered the door and invited us right in. he explain how a few days after we talked to him he had heart failure and had a pace maker put in and was just recently getting our of the hospital and on the recovery. we offered to finish their wall and do all their yard work, since they had been gone for so long it was a real mess. so Saturday morning we finish the stucco(which is a whole lot of work) and did their lawn in 105 degree weather! :) they fed us breakfast and we able to talk with them for a while and their countenances completely changed. they said that we can come back and teach them about our wonderful message! as we left, she was in tears and so grateful for the service, it truly softens hearts lets people know that we really care, its not just show. so awesome! the ward hears about these people and instantly starts fellow shipping them and inviting them to all the ward activities! so awesome and we are really excited for them!

also, Lee Greer invited her friend to meet with us in her home tomorrow! recent converts are the best missionaries and so so much for us! Lee and Paul both have been called as ward missionaries and are doing so great at fulfilling them.

we have also started teaching the stoneburgs cousin! she is really awesome as well and we taught her on Saturday and she came to church with them Sunday! great! Matthew and Olin received the priesthood on Sunday and that was so exciting for them! they are doing so great and are being amazing missionaries! that is really sweet that Kim talked to dad. YA,...she will defiantly talk and talk and talk! :) they are amazing and ya i got those pics that you sent to her. how awesome. i got them saved on a thumb drive and so i got them! call her or face book her when Katie has her baby and she will let me know... that is if i am still here in this area! haha.

transfers are coming up fast again. elder Thomas and i are wanting to stay together for another 6 weeks! we are going to pull all the strings we can and see if we can get it done! we are having a blast together! :)
well i will let you go but thank you so much for all your love and support. emails and letters both, i love hearing how things are going and it makes my day! all of you who send letters and i don't get back right away i apologize. i will try and be better! :) i hope that you have a great week and keep safe happy and healthy! i am doing great and will get you my package sent off asap! keep up the good work and we will be in touch soon!
Love,



Elder Dalan Lerwill

Awesome Day

We had a really good day yesterday. We got up in the morning and decided to go to Rexburg to buy some parts we needed. We also wanted to take Bailey and go eat out with her for her totally awesome grades. We just took our time and had a enjoyable time. We ate at Gringo's. So yummy. We were headed back home around one or so and went to Ryan's to pick up some barrels and we got to see their cute family. Well Logan, and Skyler, and Zack all had a ball game in St. Anthony. So we went and watched it at 4. It ended up getting rained out and we then went to Ashton to see a house that Ryan is building for a guy. Totally amazing. Wow! We took Ryan back home and then went and ate some supper, got gas, drove through the car lots and got home around 9. It was so fun just to spend time together. It was like the first real lax day since we have finished putting crops in. We didn't think we would go to the ball game at one because Stacy said, we would have to hang around til 4, well we hung around til 9. We laughed at that. We also went to DI (fun) got some awesome deals!

We are so proud of Bailey's grades!

So excited! Found these old shutters! Can't wait to figure out what to do with them. I think that I would be a crafters envy, and Stacy thinks I am crazy. Maybe he is right, we will just have to see. Katie gets one of them. Three bucks a piece, awesome.

AWESOME, just had to buy a new one of these! But this one I got at DI for  $1.50! Can't live with out one of these, especially during Salsa season!





Time Out For Women

I had a super great week end with my favorite women friends. My awesome MOM and SISTER and DAUGHTER. It was great. We all met in Pocatello on Friday. We went to Applebee's and had supper and then we went to the Holt Arena for the first event. It was so good. One of my favorite authors Jason Wright talked and Jenny Oaks Baker played her violin. Amazing. She is the daughter of Dallin H Oaks the apostle. Also the women that wrote President Monson's biography Heidi Swinton spoke and that was a wonderful talk. We went back to the hotel and visited and then tried to sleep.ha ha. Then on Saturday morning we ate breakfast at the hotel and headed back to the Holt Arena. It was such a fun, spiritual, uplifting day. Great speakers that totally lift you and beautiful music and song. Those that talked were: Amanda Dickson (interesting, she isn't a member of the church but we all hope she is some day), Macy Robison, Brad Wilcox (really good talk), Merrilee Boyack, Kris Belcher(totally awesome talk, she is blind and what a positive out look she has! A strong spirit. A the musical group Mercy River sang, we loved them.)  I pray that I can keep that spirit this week and CHOOSE TO BECOME!

This picture was taken by the TOFW staff and we saw it on their web site. Pretty cool, huh!

Fun Bird Watching

We had these two birds show up today and drink from the humming bird feeder. Gorgeous.

Fun humming birds in my front dining room window.

Picture Editing

I am excited, I am having this picture made into a canvas for Stacy for Father's Day. Hope it turns out good. Will show pictures later. Shhh. don't tell Stacy.