The great truck adventure...

BYE bye good ol truck... The insurance totaled it and hauled it away...

It's been two weeks since "the accident"... the person at fault's insurance gave Mike a check (I am TOTALLY convinced the only person that benefits from having insurance IS the insurance company)... so we started our quest to find just as good of a truck for little money. Since we both had Friday off we headed to Tucson. We thought we had some good leads there... but nope... they were yucky.... but we had a GREAT lunch at Cracker Barrell..

They have WAY yummy food and fun decor... So then were back on the road again to Mesa... and guess what... we found a very nice truck for a little money... plus some more...

So here it is... the latest addition to our family of vehicles. I'm glad that's all over. July is NOT the best time of year to go used car shopping!

the latest from Brazil...

Here's the latest missionary news:
Oí família- I´m really surprised no one said anything about Michael Jackson this week! Almost everyday we hear something about him. Alot of people here cried when he died. Also brasil played the u.s. in soccer this week in the championship and we almost won but it was a blessing that we didn´t because the people here are crazy and you never know what they will do. The last pics i sent were of my area and that is a bar. There´s a bunch of little bars every where. The pics of Idaho looked fun. The temple is really pretty. ...I didn´t even know tyler was old enough to go on a mission. It´s cool he´s going to Argentina, but i won´t tell anyone here because brasilians hate Argentina with a passion. Serious, Argentinans are not welcome here. ... This week nothing much happened. Our baptisms fell through because the mom is a druggie and a drinker and won´t sign the papers because she´s never in a sober state of mind. And also the branch president and 2nd counselor had a fight yesterday and i think we lost our 2nd counselor. The president and the counselor did wrong things but president gave him the boot. We watched the whole thing and i couldn´t believe my eyes or ears when it happened. That´s all the exciting stuff, we have 3 more baptisms for this sunday so that is good. Everything is going good here so you can tell everyone that I´m doing good and everything is great in brasil. .. That´s it, any questions for me? See you all later
Tchau Elder Lewis

Trent's trip...

Last week Trent took his first all alone by hiself vacation trip to Idaho to see his relatives. He had a great time. I gave him my old camera to use and kept reminding him everytime I talked to him to take pictures for us to see. The camera has been sitting in his room for a week so I confiscated it and decided I would post some pictures for everyone to see... I'm sure he'll put some on his facebook, but I don't do the facebook thing so I've picked out a few cute ones to blog. Thanks for the pics Tent!

Trent and mom at the airport having bonding time with some coldstone

notice Trent wearing a coat... Trent NEVER gets cold so he didn't bring a jacket... had to borrow one... it's a little bit cooler in Idaho than Arizona!

always horsin around... Trent is such a ladies man...

feeding time... Trent got some hands on country livin experience

awwww... kids and animals... always a cute picture

nice to see him helping out with the food Cousin Casey

Uncle Stu

Aunt Shirley

Twin Falls temple

Enjoying the view

There really are falls there

Cousin Drew

Thanks to everyone in Idaho for letting Trent hang out with you!

this week from our missionary...

Here's our weekly email from Brazil. It's great to see how Brandon's easy going personality has made a difference.

Oí família

This week nothing too exciting like an accident.... But i have the pics of the baptism here and some others. We´ve been teaching a member this week that just turned 8 and will get baptized this sunday. We don´t need to teach her but her family is demanding that we teach her. Its the same little girl in the birthday pic. Our branch president´s wife will have her baby this week, she will have a c section this week. She´s been in a lot of pain lately and she still has to walk everywhere because they don´t have a car and she has 3 other kids to take care of. All the members hated elder camargo as we have come to find out this week. I can see why, but i won´t say anything. They really like me and elder summerhays. They are so different now, i told elder summerhays that this is a completely different branch now. It´s weird how everyone changed for the better. Everything is good here in anápolis and i´m not needing anything for the time being... Anyone have questions? See you all later Tchau Elder Lewis

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!