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05/16/16 Birthday week and Laurito's visit



 May 16, 2016

Grandpa Ray Laurito and Grandma Suzanne

Andy, Katie, Holly & Dallas, chilling at Griffin's
Gma Griffin, Kay and Randy Phillips
WOW this weekend went fast and thank goodness I had an emailed reminder or I might have not written.  So Sorry!!!!!
Gma and Gpa Laurito have been staying with us all week so our schedules are a little off! 
This week we have stayed busy doing all the usual stuff plus two!  Monday I went to the chiropractor because I've been having a sore neck (the opposite side from earlier this year).  We had our usual Monday night pizza and then played pickleball late in the evening.  It's getting too hot to play earlier in the afternoon, darn it!
Tuesday I was fortunate to get off by 6:30 p.m. so I was able to have dinner with the family and hang out for the evening!!!  Laurito's came Tuesday evening and we visited a little.
Wednesday the girls had young women's and we went and played pickleball while my dad and Suzanne walked the path down at Sullivan park.  Afterward Gpa Laurito tried pickleball.  He's never played before but he did pretty good!  He just had surgery a month ago on his prostate so I was a little nervous but he did just fine!
Thursday evening Gpa Laurito offered to take us out for dinner.  Since my birthday was Tuesday I got to pick.  I picked Dickie's. What a fiasco!  We went to the Dickies here in Washington and it smelled really burnt in the restaurant.  We waited outside for the grandparents and when we were all ready we went in and the guy at the counter said he was closing the place down because he was the only one working and everything was burning in the back.
So we drove across town to bloomington Dickie's to find two very slow workers.  We stood in line for close to 1/2 hour before getting food.  And there was only a couple of people ahead of us!!!!  The food was great but holy cow, makes me not want to go there again for awhile!  twice!  We had a nice visit and good dinner once we got it!!!

Holly and Katie swimming at Linda's pool

Friday evening we went to see Miracles from Heaven with Laurito's and Marlee.  That was a real tear jerker movie and had a good message.  I think everyone really enjoyed it.
Dad's ending his season so he's working all the time so he wasn't around much Friday and Saturday.
Saturday we mostly hung around the house and then I took the girls swimming for 2 1/2 hours.  Pretty mellow Saturday. Dad and Suzanne spent the evening visiting her brother and his wife.
Sunday we sang in the choir and Dad gave a great lesson on Forgiveness. It was ward conference and we got to see Sister Turner, Brother Condie, Brother Melessa, President Lewis.  It was nice to see our old friends. Brandon Condie wants to come when you do your report.

Holly & Emily (Linda's granddaughter)
 Our lesson this week was really struggling and not coming together. Dad had gone through it a couple of times and also felt like there really wasn't much to it.  I read three different books and 2 ensigns Saturday evening (not cover to cover..you know searching for supplement to the lesson) and couldn't find anything.  Sunday morning at 8:33 (I was supposed to already be at church for choir) I googled and found something.  I went and printed it and then forgot it on the printer. Luckily dad was able to get my text and grab it.




Charity and Linda Hill
As we were reading it we realized it kept referring to a supplemental guide that went with it.  Which I hadn't printed.  We were able to find that online and read it on dad's ipad.  Dad was able to take that print out and give a really great lesson on 3 hours sleep and 30 minutes in sacrament meeting.  He's pretty amazing.
I guess the other point of that story is that we were both praying to find something for our lesson and although it didn't come as early as we'd have liked or as easily as we would have liked, we were guided and able to find what we needed before we needed it and deliver a great message.

Sunday we had dinner at mom's house (meatballs and rice...so delicious!) with Randy and Kay, Laurito's, Griffin's and us.  Dallas and Mck(she had to leave for work).  It was a nice evening and we talked after dinner about church and life etc. 
So we are finishing out the school year now only 8 days left!!! Katie has a concert tomorrow night which she has a solo on her soprano sax and she's pretty excited about that.
Hope you are doing great !  Love you!!! Mom

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