Pizza!

We all got together tonight to celebrate a little belated Fathers day/Aimee and girls are in town/time to get together and eat pizza! We met up at Peter Piper Pizza. I took my kids there MANY times over the years. The pizza is pretty good... the kids are entertained for quite a while... they love to get the little junky toys and candy with their tickets that we could have bought for 50 cents but spent $10 on tokens... and the best part is we leave the mess there!

Here's all the dad's that were there

All the dad's got a treat bag.

If you've never been to Peter Piper Pizza... there is a certain WAY to do things...FIRST you eat pizza and don't give the kids tokens until they have eaten a goodly amount of pizza... THIS is a VERY important step!

Then maybe ride some rides...
BUT... sooner or later they will realize that money will get tokens and tokens go in the little slots and then the fun begins!

Game time! This requires skill......and athletic talent!
OOPS!

THEN after you play all the silly little games TRYING SOOOO hard to get as many of these valued tickets as you can...

You put the hard earned tickets in the ticket eater...

and it counts the tickets for you... I will have to say that this technology is great... in the old days we had to count them individually!
and THEN you get the junky... cool toys and candy!

So there ya have it... our family and a great time at Peter Piper!

Dogs and frogs...

This weekend, along with the usual weekend stuff... cleaning, shopping, working on house blah blah blah... Mike and I dogsat ( two weenie dogs and a boxer, who thinks he's a weenie dog). When we told our primary class what we did, they said "Dogsat... what's that?!?" I thought it was a common term... but in case anyone else is wondering... dogsitting is the same as babysitting except with dogs instead of kids. And as an extra bonus... each evening we were greeted by some VERY noisy frogs hopping in and out of the pool. It was SO exciting that one evening we got a flashlight and watched (and listened) to frogs for almost two hours. Yeah I know... we're easily entertained.... Oscar
Rocky

Toby

Froggy

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there and ESPECIALLY to Mike and my boys... Dustin, Jaron and Steve!

the Crash...

Well... Friday morning started out with a BANG... literally. Mike was on his way to work and was run into by a motorcycle that ran a red light. The impact was behind him so he didn't know what hit him til he got out of the truck. All persons involved were very lucky to not be injured more than what they were. The motorcycle driver was walking around, but the passenger was taken to the hospital. We wish her a speedy recovery. Mike has a very sore hand... initial x-rays don't show a major break so we will just keep a watch on it. The driver window shattered but he only received a tiny cut... We're very thankful for guardian angels!

Mike has an older truck that he kept in almost perfect condition... kind of crinkled now...

Glass was everywhere... even in his shirt pocket!

The point of impact in the back...and damage all the way to the front tire.

So thankful that it wasn't worse... trucks can be replaced... anyone have a good truck for sale?

from Brazil...

Here's this weeks email from our missionary:

Oí família, We baptized again this week! I took pictures but i forgot to bring my camera with me today.Next week I´ll send pics. The baptism went well, her name is cecilia and she is good friends with the other kids we baptized these past few weeks. Transfers were this week too and...... I stayed the same. Elder Camargo went to Rio Verde and Elder Summerhayes is my companion now, he´s from Seatle Washington. He´s cool and a good missionary. When elder Camargo was packing up his stuff, we were talking and he said that i was his only companion that never argued with him or he never argued with. I was a bit surprised because he has a year and a half on the misson and has had a number of comps.... Aaron is in the mission neighboring mine now. The missions already combined. When i was in Uberlândia, I was in the same state as him. So he is pretty close to me. And Andrew Millet is in the mission next to me too, but on the other side. Aaron is on the right side and Andrew is on the left side. But all is good here in Anápolis and i will stay here for at least another 6 weeks....One of the elders in my zone used to be a professional soccer player before the mission on a very well known team, Palmeiras. And he droped everything he had going for him to go on a mission. So he came to our area and was a motivotional speaker. everyone here is crazy about soccer. But the activity didn´t go so well because of other things that were out of our hands, but we still had investigators there so that was good. Now that´s it , ask questions if you have any. Tchau Elder Lewis

This weekend...

This weekend was just a fine ol regular normal weekend. .. AND normal to me means WONDERFUL! I love normal! So some of the normal regular stuff was(in no particular order):
Help decorate a reception/party... something I used to do a lot (I kinda miss it)so it was great fun. Trent even helped... just like old times... Went to the reception/party of a dear friend of mine.... It was great to see how happy the two newlyweds were and great to see friends that were so much a part of my life for many years... and then we stayed to help tear down.. thanks Mike and Trent... which was also great fun cuz it was more time to catch up with my friends. ALSO... this weekend... we slept in... twice, I got new tires on my car... now it REALLY needs a wash, Mike worked on the floor some more, I went to the grocery store and the Mall, cooked, baked some brownies, ate brownies and ice cream... YUM... cleaned, did laundry ... almost finished, went swimming a little... I'm close to off white now... planned our primary leson, watched a movie and ate popcorn with Mike, decorated the bedroom a bit ... it's lookin good, checked out some new recipes I wanna try... went to church and now I'm blogging a little. Yep... It was a regular normal weekend... and I loved every bit of it!

from our missionary...

Here's the latest from Brazil and also a challenge to all of us!

Oí familia - Hey we baptized again! We baptized Luan and he´s 11 and he is one of the kids that asked us to be baptized.(Blessings from God) some others asked us if they could be baptized and we´ll baptize Cecilia next week. We don´t baptize at our church, we have to go to the stake center in the center of the city to baptize. Cecilia, who we´ll baptize next week, has learned tons of stuff already. It´s crazy because we haven´t taught alot of stuff to her yet but she already knows from reading the book of mormon, and remembering. Memory seems to be a nationwide fault here in Brasil. But it´s all good. We also had a conference with President Tobias the week which was good. We learned alot about leadership skills and acccomplishing our goals. We want to beat the missions in northeast brazil. The missions up there baptize a TON every month and we want those numbers down here in the central part. Sister Tobias also talked alot about health because it´s winter now and she doesn´t want anyone to get sick. It´s still warm here though. Arizona´s winters are alot colder. It gets cold for about 2 days a week and then back to warm. Cold is about 60 degrees and warm is about 85. But conference was good. President was playing with us at the end because he is going to have his 3rd baptism next week and he doesn´t do any tracting or anything like that. So you guys at home can still baptize people while not doing missionary `work´, but just talking to people that walk by you or you come across. That´s about it for my week so if you have any more questions just ask. Tchau Elder Lewis