T Ball 2017

The season started on March 19 right when Don and I were in Kauai but Connor handled the first practice and the first game for us.  Our games have been bright and early Saturday morning at 8am. We only had one 9am game and that was the very first one.  Kyle's team is the Cardinals.  He doesn't like getting up early on Saturday-neither do we but we go and he has fun but mostly because we tell him if he has a good attitude and plays without fussing we will go to McDonalds for breakfast after the game.  It's worked the last few games.  We only have 2 more games in the season.  There have been a few times I have not wanted to take him to practice because he is tired or more likely because I am tired but I have pushed through so we don't teach him to be a quitter.  I can't very well pray that he will be engaged and active if I don't teach him to be.

Weight Loss

Yeah it isn't happening.  It probably doesn't help that I'm eating cookies whilst on the treadmill.

Lost

This past week a 14 year old boy went missing here in the valley.  Rumors were rampant about why he ran away but regardless it was a mother's worst nightmare.  After the boy had been missing for 24 hours they called out Search and Rescue from Las Vegas.  I went over to the command center set up at our church parking lot to volunteer to help look for him.  I had found out earlier in the day that the boy was our insurance agent's grandson.  The Search and Rescue team divided up groups and sent them out to look in their predetermined fashion which was not conducive to our valley and the issue at hand.  They had our group start at the boys house and walk in a wide line through the subdivision's empty lots looking in yards, in bushes and under tumble weeds.  This seemed very futile especially because that neighborhood had been searching and watching for the previous 24 hours and so I went off with another gal into some actual neighborhoods where there were houses with yards, and numerous hiding places.  I had Abby Morgan watch the boys and I had to have her bring me some shoes as my decision to go help look was pretty spontaneous and I was not dressed for hiking through the bushes. I looked for about and hour and then they moved us over by the river because they said they had a credible siting.  We looked there for an hour but by 8:00 I had to get home.  This is my one souvenir left in my shoe for all my desert walking.  The boy was finally found the next morning out in Moapa.  It hadn't been him that they thought they saw after all even though they called off the search because they said he was running away from searchers.  I had a rough night sleeping Wednesday night even though I had never laid eyes on the kid other than the missing picture they were circulating.  I was just sick about all the things that could have happened to him and was so worried for his family.  I was impressed how the town came together and so many people helped.  Connor stood watch at the reservoir with Joe Perez most of the day and even went out after dark with Chris Zundel and Luke Minogue to look in the fields where they thought he was hiding after the official search got called off.   I took dinner to the family the evening after he had gotten home and gave him a big big hug and told him that I was so glad that he was home safe.  I found quite a few similarities with our Savior and how he searches and waits and hopes to find us and how he will be saying to us that he is so glad that we are home.  I even bore my testimony on Sunday because of the parallels.

May the 4th Be With You

We like to celebrate obscure holidays.  Today was Star Wars Day where we celebrated with our Star Wars shirts. Kyle had his friend Johnny over and he had a Star Wars backpack so we had to get a picture.