Dear Family,
I SAID IT. I said it for the first time. I said, "Sure Mikey, I'll play that with you. Could you go get my reading glasses?" I'm depending more and more on my drug store reading glasses as type gets smaller and fuzzier. Oy. I'm about to become one of those ladies that wears them around her neck. That's not so bad, is it?
I quit my job at The English Rose restaurant for the summer to be home with Bub. I did that last summer and will probably go back in the fall, just working two lunchtimes a week again.
I continue to do graphic design at home which I so enjoy. I've done two full-color brochures for our local Boy Scout council recently and am working on a couple of others now. One of them was a Cub Scout brochure and I just happened to have the perfect picture of Mikey to include. We had gone to a scout family overnighter and, of course, I was taking pictures all over the place. So there's one of him in his uniform shooting a BB gun.
My days in the stake Relief Society are numbered. They should be sustaining a new presidency within the next couple of weeks, and I'm glad. I'm so ready for a change. It's been almost five years. 1.5 years as a counselor and almost 3.5 as The Big Cheese (-y One).
Michael-the-hubby has a new calling as Elder's Quorum teacher. He doesn't like teaching but he is so good at it. He'll teach once a month. We're going to Seattle soon for him to run a half marathon. His sister and her hubby live there. They live RIGHT on the edge of a forest. Michael has a new pair of shoes for running/work you might find VERY interesting. Take a look www.vibramfivefingers.com His are all black. A little scary at first glance. Of course when you wear toe shoes, you have to wear toe socks. He says the toe socks are SO comfy! Just don't wear the shoes to church, is all I ask.
Breanne finished her first year of community college. She works part-time at a nearby drug store. She walks to work, it's only 1/2 mile away. They love her there. She enjoys helping the customers and we like her discount.
Bree bought herself an electric violin. She has always wanted to learn to play the violin so she has one now. Being electric you can plug headphones into it and play silently. Besides, it's really unique-looking. She is the Relief Society pianist in the singles ward she attends. I don't like being a threesome at church without Breanne. This apron string this is icky. Ew.
B's boyfriend, Jack, who was baptized last year just received his mission call! He is so on fire about the gospel. He is going to Tampa, Florida, Spanish speaking. He already speaks Spanish.
The little Bubster Meister just finished 2nd grade. He also just finished his first year of Cub Scouts. I could just eat him up in that uniform. I completely understand mothers eating their young. Bring those cheeks over here, son! Or that neck!
He is going to take a tennis class over the summer and hopefully swimming which I've put off for too long. I've also started guiding him through a beginning piano book and hope to find a real teacher soon. He's doing great.
We got ourselves a digital piano a couple of months ago and finally just got rid of our giant upright. There's a little more space in the kids' room now. The digital is much smaller but has a full-size, 88 key keyboard. It sounds and feels like a piano but you can turn the volume up and down. This is a good thing in an apartment situation. Breanne was even playing it last night at midnight with headphones on so nobody could hear it. Not even us. Nice!
A couple of Family Nights ago a friend of Michael-the-hubby's took us shooting at a range. Little Michael was SO excited! We all were. Breanne recently inherited a rifle (30-06 for you gun people). It's your average hunting rifle. She brought hers along (we don't keep it at home, by the way). Well, Mikey and I had NO idea how loud and powerful those are! Hubby shot first and my primary ear protection was clearly not enough. I put headphone thingies on over my ear plugs. It was a little scary. I could actually feel the shot in my pant legs. It turned out Mikey and I didn't shoot at all. In fact, there were tears. Mikey was SO conflicted. He wanted to shoot so badly, yet it was too loud and scary. Even with ear protection. He and I walked across the parking lot, AWAY from the sound, and walked along The Bay which was right there. We'll go back another time when the friend brings his smaller hand guns. I'm telling you, I had no idea these guns were so powerful! And he says they are moderately-powered guns. There are others that would put these to shame.
On Saturday of April Conference, some Robinsons, Pimentels, and Feddocks had a little visit in San Carlos.
That's all the thrilling excitement for now,
Love, the Feddocks
The Jackson's home, originally a house and barn built in 1776, then joined (where the arched doorway is) by a breezeway addition called the "Scheune." Since it is a historical landmark they keep the traditional look of the building. Casey and Katie live in the attic apartment where the four dormer windows to the right on the third story.
