April 2007 Newsletter
Thanks family for the newsletter entries. I am going to try including all of
it in this email and as an attachment. I already see some typos and stuff I
forgot, so please forgive me and remember it is they thought that counts.
You may just end up getting a couple of emails. love ya, Heather
CAROLYN
As of last week I started a new job @ Melaleuca. I am now in the Business
Develiopment Department they like to call the top of the food chain. I
really enjoy all that I am learning and I am really excited about it but it
has been a stressful thing for me to say the least because it is a lot of
schools I have never had, so it is a good thing that is teaching me a lot.
The commute to IF each day has been quite fun especially when I can stay
awake when I am driving, whiich isn't very often(ha ha) I think it will be
really good though it is not what I expected to be doing this summer but
obviously there is another plan in store for me that Heavenly Father wants.
I also moved once again, which after this time I feel like I never want to
move again just because I have so much junk. I live with 3 other women, one
is a professor at the college, another is a seond grade teacher, and the
other one is a nurse at a surgical center so all very quite accomplished
women. I have learned a lot from them and I haven't even lived there for a
week yet. I think it is also something I needed to do make the change of
moving. I loved my old roomates and still do but I feel I needed a change.
Wow, I said I was going to keep this short didn't I?! Oops!! I guess other
than that everything else in my life is pretty much the same. I am learning
and growing upon new things every day and I am so grateful for the gospel in
my life and all it holds for me. I know there is still a lot of progression
I can make in that way, in a lot of ways actually but I am truly blessed as
we all are. I love you all so much and I am so grateful for your eternal
examples to me, because I know they really are eternal. If any of you have
any advice you can give me that would be much appreciated. I think in the
dating world I need a lot of it. I know my time will come and that I am
truly learning to exercise patience and enduring to the end. I just hope I
am living right in all I should and praying daily that I can do the best I
can. Once again, I love you all so much and I think the world of all of you
because you are always there for me. Thanks for everything!!! You're the
Best! Seja um dos Melhores!
MOULTONS
Hi family,
Thanks for doing this newsletter. I won’t bother you with it too often, but
I thought it might be fun to catch up a little. Life in Southern California
is great. Trevor and I spent last night at a BYU Management Society/ Harvard
Alumni Association dinner with our friends. Pres. Clark from BYU Idaho was
speaking and receiving an award. It was fun to talk with people about BYU
Idaho and the church and their different jobs and to attend a nice dinner
like that where no one was drinking alcohol and you automatically had the
church in common. I loved listening to an “intellectual” talk since most of
the things I hear have to do with kids in Elementary school. It made me feel
like I still had a brain in my head. It was nice. When we got back though,
the babysitter was asleep and Harper and Tanner were fighting and the house
was a mess. We had hired one babysitter to watch Harper, Tanner and our
friends 2 little kids. It sounds like Harper and Tanner did most of the
babysitting. The babysitter was so tired that our friend had to go and wake
her up, not just like she drifted off, she was OUT!. Tanner had a big
scratch on his cheek that the babysitter had accidentally given him, and our
friend’s house was a wreck! Harper and Tanner were adamant that everything
was fine and the poor babysitter had had some late nights with lot of
homework and track practice and blah, blah blah. It made me glad that Harper
and Tanner are so responsible and it brought back many memories of
babysitting times that could have gone a lot worse for me. Anyway, enough
with my anecdotes. Trevor enjoyed his trip to Asia, we are happy he is home
for awhile. We are looking forward to our trip to Utah/Idaho this summer.
Things are busy at work for him and sometimes it feels like we are back in
Laredo with long days and then some church stuff to do as well. The church
stuff isn’t nearly as overwhelming and stressful, so we are happy for that.
Harper is beginning to practice for her class play. She will be playing Fern
in Charlotte’s Web. She is very excited. She had a fun time with Mom and Dad
last weekend when we went to the American Girl Place in Los Angeles. So
spoiled! Tanner is loving every minute of life except when he has to
practice piano or do jobs. He is doing the Hoops for Heart fundraiser for
the American Heart Association and he and his friends are taking it very
seriously. They have checked out books from the library about basketball,
they are going to make matching t-shirts, and they practice basketball at
every opportunity. They have decided to call themselves the Miami Heat and
Tanner is going to be Shaq (even though there is absolutely no physical
resemblance!). It is so fun to watch their determination. I don’t think many
of them have really worried a lot about getting donations, but at least they
are getting some exercise! My life is moving along. I continue to walk, play
tennis, spend money, visit doctors and dentists, and volunteer at the
school. I keep insisting that someday I will decide to actually devote some
time toward something and get something big accomplished. I will let you
know when that happens.
A big congratulations to the Zirkers, speaking of devoting some time and
accomplishing something big. You guys are amazing! Our hearts are with you
as you make some big changes and graduate from Dental School. Yeah!!!!!
We love all of you and miss you.
Love, the California Moultons
KIMBALLS
Hello from Michigan. Things are going well at the Kimballs. We are just
hoping to see some blue skies here soon and things will be even better. We
are keeping busy right now with the usual...work,
preschool our callings and chasing two kids around. We had a great time in
Idaho last month! Isaac and Meagan got to go to Grandma's preschool which
they loved! It was really fun to watch at least one of Devin's tennis
matches and spend some time on the farm. Isaac said his favorite parts were
the tractors, four wheeler and wrestling with Devin. Meagan's favorite part
was playing with grandma's cash register, and seeing Maya. We also got to
see Carolyn's new place of work! Quite impressive! We even got to go to
lunch with her on our way out of town!
We are all getting excited and feeling quite impatient for number three to
be here. After all, we all know the third child is the favorite right?
Kip received a promotion at work last month! We are very excited about
that! He is enjoying his work in product development finance right now. It
is fun to hear from him about the up and coming car features.
Isaac is enjoying preschool and is sort of sad this will be his last month.
However we spend every day discussing what he is going to do, see, eat,
wear, read, sing etc. at Kindergarten. He will start a
t-ball league in June with other incoming kindergarteners at his school.
That should be lots of
fun.
Meagan is as 3 as could be. She sure keeps things exciting around our
house. She loves playing with her baby Dakota (yes, the namesake of her
cute cousin) and playing kitchen. Her big thing right now is that I am not
allowed to call anyone else sweetheart except her, and if I try to call her
sweetie or something like that she promptly corrects me. "Mom, I am
sweetheart." Sometimes I feel like I should just call her boss.:)
I am doing well, and feeling quite large. People tend to remind me
everywhere I go. My favorite comments are "You look like you are going to
pop!" and I love it when people tell me that I am carrying so low and that
there is no way I am going to my due date! Everyone does seem to have an
opinion. Feel free to send me yours. I have been busy "nesting." That for
me usually includes innumberable sewing projects that never quite get
finished (at least not without mom's help).
We are looking forward to seeing Grandma/Mom soon and feel blessed to have
an excuse for her to come. We want to add our congratulations to Darrick
and Camille (and Camden and Dakota)! We are so excited for them and their
graduation, basement finished, and the sale of their home. Congrats! We
wish we could be there to celebrate with you.
We love you all!!
IDAHO FAMILY
Hey family,
Things are going good here. We just got another new calf today, another
heifer and she is big! I am thinking she weighs around 110 pounds. She is
a pretty thing with a lot of white on her. She looks alot like her mother.
Devin and I went out to check on the cows yesterday morning and as we drove
up, there was Bubba and Nellie right by the gate laying down and very
content. I guess Bubba decided he would lift his gate off the hinges and
escape. I went in and went right up to him and Nellie and they both got up
and walked into their correll without a fight. It was funny seeing them
there to greet us like that.
We had a fellow come in and dig out our ditch along the top of the farm.
He also put in 5 new culverts for us and made a pad for us along the East
side of the canel so we can drive along it on the 4-wheeler. All of those
things together will really save us a lot of time and be nice, but it wasn't
cheap.
Devin is doing great in tennis. He and Tanner had a match with
Hillcrest #1 last night. They played a shortened versioin and beat them 6-7.
Coach was very excited and I haven't seen Devin smile that big in quite a
while. Hillcrest is the only team that our team has not beat yet this
year. Devin and his team mates and some parents will be spending a few
hours to landscape the new courts on Saturday. It is going to be very nice
when it is completed. Devin also just registered for his SENIOR year
classes last night. I can;'t believe he is a senior!
Dad had a learning experience in Cuba. He said it wasn't necessarily
fun but it was educational. Talk about a country that has made little
progress in the last 50 years!. Like he said, "Communism is alive and well
in Cuba". He doesn't see much future trading with them because they have no
money. I am going to try to send a few pictures of Cuba with my part of the
newsletter. He was glad to get home.
As far as my life goes, nothing too exciting. I took my classes to
Pizza Hut for a field trip last week. That was fun. Next week, we are
going to the Library. I am totally full in both classes for next year. I
don't know where all these cute children are coming from, but Rexburg never
seems to have a lack of children.
We had a special fireside a couple weeks ago telling us about the
Rexburg Temple. It is so beautiful. I can't wait until it opens. Devin
and I were talking as we went to the farm this morning and he will be able
to receive his Endowments there before he goes on his mission. He said,
"Well I should, I was the only one in the family, born here in Rexburg."
Dallin seems to be doing great. He is working hard in his new area and
having great success. I think his mission president has alot of confidence
in him. We are gratefull for his success and appreciate all your support
and letters to him and I know he really appreciates it. I can't believe he
will be 20 years old on Sunday. Where does the time go?
We sure love and appreciate all of you. Thanks for choosing to do the
right and serve the Lord. Thank you for your examples of service that you
render every day to your families and neighbors. We don't like to think
about what our lives would be like without all of you. Thank you also for
you help and support to us.
Love, Dad, Mom and Devin
ZIRKERS
The Zirkers are all doing great here in Iowa. It is crazy to think that we
only have a couple of months left here. We are getting excited to leave and
move on to the next journey. We feel like we have been so busy over the
last couple of months, but yet we can’t put our finger on exactly why. We
have been working hard to get the basement finished up, which we think is
awesome! That took up about any free time that we had. Our goal was the
first of March, but we didn’t quite make it. We finally got it done and
on the market by the middle of March. We were so blessed and received an
offer only 9 days after putting it on the market. We felt very fortunate,
especially since there are a number of our friends and people in the ward
that have had theirs on for months and still nothing yet. They did an
inspection and we got the results from that and they didn’t find a single
thing that we need to do or fix. We are very grateful that things have gone
so well and hope that they continue to do so until we close in June.
Earlier this month we were able to go out to Denver for Garrett
(Darrick’s younger brother’s wedding. It was a drive but the kids did
great. We were looking forward to some nice weather and beautiful mountain
views. It was freezing and cloudy the whole time that we were there. We
did not see a single mountain. On our way out we were right in the middle
of a huge snow storm. It was no fun, but we made it home. I guess that we
will have to check out Denver another time. Once again the cavalier came
through for us. We are hoping that the trip out to Idaho will be its last
big one.
Darrick took his clinical set of boards just after spring break.
I guess that it was pretty rough up at the school that day. People were
dropping like flies. We found out that he passed with flying colors. Yeah.
He takes his very last set this Wednesday, the 18th, which is pretty
small. Everyone keep him in your thoughts and prayers that day. We will be
so glad to have that done! Graduation will be here before we know it. It
is on Friday June 8th for anyone that would like to join the celebration.
We have plenty of room.
The kids continue to grow and change. Dakota even wants to pick
out her own clothes occasionally. She sure gives Camden a run for the
money. They sure are fun. Camden is still in dance. Her recital is coming
up in June, so we are looking forward to that. Kota starts nursery at the
beginning of next month. YIPPEE. Although I think that it may be a little
rough. She is a great napper, and she will usually sleep for her dad during
that time.
We hope that you are all doing well. We are so grateful for
all of you and love you lots!
The Zirkers
Ok, here is the Editor’s sidenote:
We love hearing from you when Mom sends us your letters Dallin. You are thebest and we are all so proud of you. Keep up the good work. We miss you andare so happy you are doing what you should. Thanks for your example.Ok, here is the other Editor’s note:Camille and Mom sent some pictures and I loved all of them and was so happyto see them that I had to put them all in. Thank you.
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