For Bailey's Child Development class they had to bring a photo of when they were a tiny baby and see if people could guess who they are. Isn't she a doll, she was a beautiful baby! She is a beautiful teenager now! Wow!
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Re-Do Knife Block
I have seen lots of people re-do their butcher block knife holders and have thought about it for awhile. It is hard for me to paint good wood. Mine was hickory like the cabinets and still looked good, but I wanted some color and something new. Couldn't decide if I wanted to leave it solid or antique it. Well I had it painted and went and top coated it and was bringing into the house to dry and it slipped and I smeared it. So I antiqued it and glazed it and I love it.
Memorial Day Week-End-Great Fun!
Bailey, Macie, and Stockton drew a picture for Dalan. We Love Elder Lerwill!
Stockton didn't want his diaper changed and layed down on the top stair. Silly Boy!
What a ham!
O.K. funny story. I went with Stacy to see a new Chiropractor in the valley and he told me that I could wax my hands while he worked on Stacy. I was like o.k. what is that? He said you know like they do in the spa's. I said well I have never been to a spa. (How funny) Well I did it and it felt amazing. I was telling Katie about it and looked them up on line and thought it would be awesome to have one. Katie said to look at DI that she had seen some there around Christmas time. Well our DI hasn't had any, but she went to her DI and lo and behold, they had one. So crazy. The lady checking her out was like what is that? Well Katie took it home and scrubbed it good and got it looking brand new. She bought some wax and we all go to do our hands and some of us did our feet. It felt so good. Wes and Stacy even got in on the fun. It was great. Thanks Katie, I love it.
Stockton being kind of grouchy and hiding under his blanket. Check out his fancy finger nails. Oops don't notice his finger nails for his Dad's sake. He wanted to have fun like the girls. He is so dang cute.
The kids think Uncle Stacy is so Cool. Bailey and I agree!
Stoneburg Baptism
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
E-Mail May 31, 2011 Stoneburg Baptism
Hello hello, is so good to hear from you all. it feels like it has been a long time since i have emailed! but all is going well here. sounds like you understood why there was no email yesterday! i found out that it was memorial day on the day of! haha, you don't recognize holidays on a mission! :) bailey i cant believe you got a motorbike!!! that's awesome. my computer cannot open the pics big because it doesn't have the right programs to. you will have to try and send a different format or some prints! :) that is so sweet. i couldn't tell, is it a 230 or a 100? plz fill me in!
that is so sweet you got a coyote!! good job. we see them some down here running through parking lots and digging through trash! they are nasty looking dogs! would touch them at all!
that is great that you finally got planting done! :) now you can sit back and let the weather water it for you and just enjoy the cool weather! :)
we sure are being blessed now with weather down here. it is still cooling off into the 80's at night and it is beautiful! still hot during day but the night are a little relief. everyone says that it is really abnormal, by now we are usually in the 110's and over 100 day and night, so i feel blessed. i keep saying it's because of me! i bring cooler weather! haha
Hattie added you as a friend, that's awesome! Hattie is the 2nd oldest. she is awesome and you two would get along great! That family is amazing! the baptism went perfect!! it was so amazing, president Ellsworth came and was there and shared some thoughts. it was great to see them all get baptised. such a fulfilling weekend! the whole family was crying through the whole service and you could just tell that they were ready! olin has had such a amazing change of heart! his entire countenance has changed and he is doing great! so exciting. i have a letter in the mail to you with a little bit more info. i don't have very much time to email today so i apologize.
on Sunday i got to confirm Hattie and was so sweet. the first 30 mins of sacrament meeting was just all of their confirmations. it was pretty crazy. it has been pretty crazy running around everywhere and trying to get everything done that we need to.
we had zone conference on Thursday and it went really well. it was pretty much a re-run of zone leader council so it wasn't too much new for me and elder Thomas but it is always a real privilege to be able to be in the presence of president and sister Ellsworth. they are such spiritual giants and are such great examples! they are amazing. :)
next Sunday we have kind of a exciting thing going on, we are having a mission presidents fireside where a few recent converts talk and then president talks. they are amazing! well me and elder Thomas were chosen to sing a special musical #. we are in a group of 10 other missionaries and it is going to be sweet! we prac yesterday morning and it is going to be sweet. we are singing I Love the Lord to the melody of be still my soul! it will be acapella so hopefully we can hold in all together! :) haha it will be kinda fun!
i also seen Tedd this week and he is doing awesome! :) said that things are working out and getting better. him and Alysa are pretty much engaged but he said that its not solid quite yet because they are going to wait a year so they can get married int the temple! make my day! he is great and i look forward to that day! :) sweet sweet!!
Well i am running out of time and i am trying to get everything put together to send you a package so be
looking for that some time in the upcoming week or so!
glad to hear that you are all doing well and are enjoying being out of school! i am sure that is a relief to all! :) have a good week and be safe and keep healthy! :) we will be in contact soon, time sure does fly by!
Take care! Love
Elder Dalan Lerwill
E-Mail May 31, 2011 Stoneburg Baptism
Hello hello, is so good to hear from you all. it feels like it has been a long time since i have emailed! but all is going well here. sounds like you understood why there was no email yesterday! i found out that it was memorial day on the day of! haha, you don't recognize holidays on a mission! :) bailey i cant believe you got a motorbike!!! that's awesome. my computer cannot open the pics big because it doesn't have the right programs to. you will have to try and send a different format or some prints! :) that is so sweet. i couldn't tell, is it a 230 or a 100? plz fill me in!
that is so sweet you got a coyote!! good job. we see them some down here running through parking lots and digging through trash! they are nasty looking dogs! would touch them at all!
that is great that you finally got planting done! :) now you can sit back and let the weather water it for you and just enjoy the cool weather! :)
we sure are being blessed now with weather down here. it is still cooling off into the 80's at night and it is beautiful! still hot during day but the night are a little relief. everyone says that it is really abnormal, by now we are usually in the 110's and over 100 day and night, so i feel blessed. i keep saying it's because of me! i bring cooler weather! haha
Hattie added you as a friend, that's awesome! Hattie is the 2nd oldest. she is awesome and you two would get along great! That family is amazing! the baptism went perfect!! it was so amazing, president Ellsworth came and was there and shared some thoughts. it was great to see them all get baptised. such a fulfilling weekend! the whole family was crying through the whole service and you could just tell that they were ready! olin has had such a amazing change of heart! his entire countenance has changed and he is doing great! so exciting. i have a letter in the mail to you with a little bit more info. i don't have very much time to email today so i apologize.
on Sunday i got to confirm Hattie and was so sweet. the first 30 mins of sacrament meeting was just all of their confirmations. it was pretty crazy. it has been pretty crazy running around everywhere and trying to get everything done that we need to.
we had zone conference on Thursday and it went really well. it was pretty much a re-run of zone leader council so it wasn't too much new for me and elder Thomas but it is always a real privilege to be able to be in the presence of president and sister Ellsworth. they are such spiritual giants and are such great examples! they are amazing. :)
next Sunday we have kind of a exciting thing going on, we are having a mission presidents fireside where a few recent converts talk and then president talks. they are amazing! well me and elder Thomas were chosen to sing a special musical #. we are in a group of 10 other missionaries and it is going to be sweet! we prac yesterday morning and it is going to be sweet. we are singing I Love the Lord to the melody of be still my soul! it will be acapella so hopefully we can hold in all together! :) haha it will be kinda fun!
i also seen Tedd this week and he is doing awesome! :) said that things are working out and getting better. him and Alysa are pretty much engaged but he said that its not solid quite yet because they are going to wait a year so they can get married int the temple! make my day! he is great and i look forward to that day! :) sweet sweet!!
Well i am running out of time and i am trying to get everything put together to send you a package so be
looking for that some time in the upcoming week or so!
glad to hear that you are all doing well and are enjoying being out of school! i am sure that is a relief to all! :) have a good week and be safe and keep healthy! :) we will be in contact soon, time sure does fly by!
Take care! Love
Elder Dalan Lerwill
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Spring Time in Idaho Falls
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Early Birthday Present
Bailey got her birthday present early. We wanted to save it but by the time her birthday comes at the end of June, summer is half over here. She has wanted a motorbike for awhile and we never took her too serious. But we had just talked about it and said well maybe we should buy her one. Then two days later we came across this bike. Really weird. It is Bailey Size and it is awesome. She was so surprised and happy. Stacy thinks it is great too, he has a new pipe mover!
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
E-Mail 5-23-2011
Hello there, i cannot believe that today is the 23 day of May, it sure has really flew by fast! glad to hear that bailey is excited to get her finals done and out of school for a little while! :) hope and pray that you can finish up the crops this week and the weather will keep being good. it sure has been nice here. it is really weird for it to stay this cool this late into the year but we are loving it! they say it will 105 by the week end so here we go! :)
hope you get the equipment repaired and all goes well. i was driving to the mission home this week for zone leader council and we were driving through the pima salt river reservation(saves us about 15 mins) and they were all out in their fields planting pima cotton, looks like a little different method but there was still big tractors involved and it made me smile! :)
I got your package at transfers at the mission home! it was so awesome i loved it! the dvd was so fun and it was great to see. weird how really not too much has changed...i have forgotten what it looks like there with all the mnts and snow and green stuff called grass! haha but it was wonderful to watch and it was so fun to see dad planting. i really enjoyed it and after elder thomas' said that he wanted his family to do one! :) we had a good time and it brought up alot of funny stories! i cannot believe how much water is still in the fields! crazy, i hope that it sinks in and you can keep alot of it in the ground for a long time this summer! made me really laugh when you were talking about me and Nathan getting the sand rail almost stuck! good times! thanks for the goodies and ties, fun fun. thanks!
:) sounds like the valley is really crazy with out going and incoming missionaries. i am so excited for all of them and their sweet experiences and hard times that await them in the next two years! :) best thing anyone could ever do! that is so awesome for Micheal sterling! tell him congrats and give him my address. i would love to hear from him!
also you sent me that clipping about the solar powered church. well in that article it talked about the one Spanish branch, well that is the branch i was in when i was in my last area and i drove past that building every Sunday on our way to church! it looks like a really nice building and i guess if your going solar...Arizona is the place to do it! ;)
We have had a crazy busy week here and this coming week is looking about the same. tomorrow we have meetings with our district leaders for the first bit of our morning, wed we have district meeting, Thurs we are having zone conference which we haven't even looked at yet, Friday we will be weekly planning and then Saturday we have several teaching appointments already set up with WML's plus we have the Stoneburgs getting baptised at 6:00!! :) it will be pretty hectic!
Last night our stake had a priesthood meeting on preparing for service. it was so awesome, the stake presidency here is so awesome and they all are so missionary minded. president Ellsworth was also there and gave a amazing talk! he scared me and elder Thomas pretty good! there is all of the priesthood of the stake all gathered together in the stake center and out of the blue president asks us to stand up and recite a quote out of PMG, it is the work quote by president Benson. we hadn't practiced it or said it in over 6months. it was so nerve racking, haha. we got it though and we were yelling it so everyone could hear. leave it to president to push us a little out side our comfort zone! :)
so we are so excited for this weekend, the stoneburgs are doing great. they all came to church for the 4th time this Sunday and it was amazing to see them all there. on of their daughters is primary age and got up with them and sang a song in sacrament meeting, it was touching to see! they are getting interviewed for baptism tomorrow and hopefully everything will go as planned, and it will, they are so solid. It is going to be such a amazing baptism. our stake president is going to be there, along with president Ellsworth!! YA, he is coming for the baptism! :) an entire family getting baptised. so sweet! :) i am excited to send you pics next pday! :
we are being so blessed her. we are now covering the singles ward and come to find out the ward had requested for the sisters to leave because they weren't doing anything so the ward is so excited to have us there. its a blast covering that ward and we are getting so many referrals! we are teaching this lady named Chantal, she is 25 and is so prepared. we found her last week and she is doing so well. we set a baptismal date with her for the 11th of June in 2 weeks. she has been attending church with her family some where else and just now is deciding to move forward with it all! so awesome. we also started teaching this man, "Rey" he is 23 and said to us in our first lesson that he is looking for more peace and hope in life and hopes that he can find it here. he came and played volleyball with the ward on Thursday and absolutely loved it. all the members just wrapped him in their arms and made him feel like he was on top of the world. he is a real humble guy and will make a great member, we haven't had a chance to set a date with him yet but will be getting baptised in June some time! :) we are being so blessed!
so many people who are prepared, not only in AZ but everywhere across the world. i feel so blessed to be able to be apart of this wonderful work and see peoples lives change as they accept and live the gospel! :) i am so thankful for all your wonderful support and love that i receive and your willingness to help. i sure hope you are seeing as many blessing there in your lives as i am here! i always pray for you all and hope the best at the beginning of this new summer! :) have a wonderful week and keep up the good work there! i love you all.
Love,
Elder Dalan Lerwill
hope you get the equipment repaired and all goes well. i was driving to the mission home this week for zone leader council and we were driving through the pima salt river reservation(saves us about 15 mins) and they were all out in their fields planting pima cotton, looks like a little different method but there was still big tractors involved and it made me smile! :)
I got your package at transfers at the mission home! it was so awesome i loved it! the dvd was so fun and it was great to see. weird how really not too much has changed...i have forgotten what it looks like there with all the mnts and snow and green stuff called grass! haha but it was wonderful to watch and it was so fun to see dad planting. i really enjoyed it and after elder thomas' said that he wanted his family to do one! :) we had a good time and it brought up alot of funny stories! i cannot believe how much water is still in the fields! crazy, i hope that it sinks in and you can keep alot of it in the ground for a long time this summer! made me really laugh when you were talking about me and Nathan getting the sand rail almost stuck! good times! thanks for the goodies and ties, fun fun. thanks!
:) sounds like the valley is really crazy with out going and incoming missionaries. i am so excited for all of them and their sweet experiences and hard times that await them in the next two years! :) best thing anyone could ever do! that is so awesome for Micheal sterling! tell him congrats and give him my address. i would love to hear from him!
also you sent me that clipping about the solar powered church. well in that article it talked about the one Spanish branch, well that is the branch i was in when i was in my last area and i drove past that building every Sunday on our way to church! it looks like a really nice building and i guess if your going solar...Arizona is the place to do it! ;)
We have had a crazy busy week here and this coming week is looking about the same. tomorrow we have meetings with our district leaders for the first bit of our morning, wed we have district meeting, Thurs we are having zone conference which we haven't even looked at yet, Friday we will be weekly planning and then Saturday we have several teaching appointments already set up with WML's plus we have the Stoneburgs getting baptised at 6:00!! :) it will be pretty hectic!
Last night our stake had a priesthood meeting on preparing for service. it was so awesome, the stake presidency here is so awesome and they all are so missionary minded. president Ellsworth was also there and gave a amazing talk! he scared me and elder Thomas pretty good! there is all of the priesthood of the stake all gathered together in the stake center and out of the blue president asks us to stand up and recite a quote out of PMG, it is the work quote by president Benson. we hadn't practiced it or said it in over 6months. it was so nerve racking, haha. we got it though and we were yelling it so everyone could hear. leave it to president to push us a little out side our comfort zone! :)
so we are so excited for this weekend, the stoneburgs are doing great. they all came to church for the 4th time this Sunday and it was amazing to see them all there. on of their daughters is primary age and got up with them and sang a song in sacrament meeting, it was touching to see! they are getting interviewed for baptism tomorrow and hopefully everything will go as planned, and it will, they are so solid. It is going to be such a amazing baptism. our stake president is going to be there, along with president Ellsworth!! YA, he is coming for the baptism! :) an entire family getting baptised. so sweet! :) i am excited to send you pics next pday! :
we are being so blessed her. we are now covering the singles ward and come to find out the ward had requested for the sisters to leave because they weren't doing anything so the ward is so excited to have us there. its a blast covering that ward and we are getting so many referrals! we are teaching this lady named Chantal, she is 25 and is so prepared. we found her last week and she is doing so well. we set a baptismal date with her for the 11th of June in 2 weeks. she has been attending church with her family some where else and just now is deciding to move forward with it all! so awesome. we also started teaching this man, "Rey" he is 23 and said to us in our first lesson that he is looking for more peace and hope in life and hopes that he can find it here. he came and played volleyball with the ward on Thursday and absolutely loved it. all the members just wrapped him in their arms and made him feel like he was on top of the world. he is a real humble guy and will make a great member, we haven't had a chance to set a date with him yet but will be getting baptised in June some time! :) we are being so blessed!
so many people who are prepared, not only in AZ but everywhere across the world. i feel so blessed to be able to be apart of this wonderful work and see peoples lives change as they accept and live the gospel! :) i am so thankful for all your wonderful support and love that i receive and your willingness to help. i sure hope you are seeing as many blessing there in your lives as i am here! i always pray for you all and hope the best at the beginning of this new summer! :) have a wonderful week and keep up the good work there! i love you all.
Love,
Elder Dalan Lerwill
Friday, May 20, 2011
No Burning Daylight Here
Stacy had an awesome day yesterday planting. He got 300 acres drilled on the mountain ground. Big day! Yeah!!
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Bluebirds of Happiness
I LOVE BLUEBIRDS!
They make me smile every time I see one.
I used my cricut to cut out bluebirds out of vinyl and put them around my house in every room. They are not always visible at first. So if you come to my house you will have to see if you can find them all. It is a reminder for us all to be happy and always thankful for the blessings we have.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
End of Sophomore Year!
In Memory of Zip
It is hard to lose a pet when that pet becomes a member of the family. Yesterday the 17th of May 2011 Zip can feel better, see, hear, run, and jump. It is sad to see another era of our life end. We got Zip because I wanted a red heeler dog. Stacy thought I was crazy. At the time we had a border collie dog we were breeding and a whole batch of puppies. When we saw that there were heeler pups in Ashton I convinced him that we needed another dog. Well needless to stay Zip is the one who became a permanent part of our family. The kids even remember going and getting him. We went to these peoples house and in their back porch I think there were 3 puppies that we could chose from. We all put our two cents in and we came home with Zip. At that time the movie "Last of the Dog Men" was around and he had the coolest blue heeler named Zip. Plus we all liked it. He was such a fun dog. Here are some of our memories of Zip. He loved to play with the kids. When we would go sledding he would always come and chase us up and down the hill. When Dalan was playing baseball he and his Dad would go out to practice batting. Stacy would throw it to Dalan, and Dalan would hit it and Zip would go get the ball and give it back to Stacy. He loved to go with us in the pick up. If he could tell we were headed that direction he would jump up and want to go. We took him a lot. He went on multiply camp trips with us. We would tie him up at night and if some wild animal was near we would feel him jerking on the camper trying to get loose and go and protect us. He loved to ride the wheeler with Stacy. As he has gotten older he hasn't been able to jump up into things for a while. It made us all sad. For a little while we even helped him and picked him up and put him in the pick up. Being a cow dog, he did love to chase cows. He got to help us here some, but loved it when we took him to the Curtis Ranch and he got to chase. Not sure if Grandpa always approved of his behavior. ha ha. When we lived over at our old house and our kids were riding the bus, you always knew when it was time for them to come home. Zip had a sense for time and he would sit and wait for them and go and walk with them. It always amazed me. I think Zip was probably in most or near by, all the first day of school pictures. He didn't like the guns and one day we had a wiener roast and were shooting guns. He would always come and sit by or under my chair when this happened. One day he walked over to me and lifted his leg and peed on me. I wasn't very happy at the time. But thinking back on it, he was claiming me and liked me. He loved to be around us, in fact he has slept under neath our bedroom window most of his life. At our old house he would be right there, we could even hear him some times. I think he went there cause he could hear us talk. When we moved to our new house our bedroom window is high above the ground but he would go right next to it by the retaining wall. He loved to run and chase squirrels. Especially when getting the sprinkler pipe ready each year. Zip loved to wiggle his way into the house, especially on cold winter mornings, especially as he got older. He thought he was so tricky. What a personality he had. He LOVED his belly rubbed. He would lay stretched out and his hind leg would go to just a wagg'en. We figure Bailey was 2 or 3 when we got Zip. We always said that his birthday was on the 1st of Feb., so he was 14 or 15. Pretty old for a dog. There won't be another one like him just because of the time of our life when we had him. Great memories, we will miss him.
Zip, Please tell Toots, Hecktor, Patch, and Snag HELLO.
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