Thursday, May 05, 2005

On Wednesday

My brother Michael got his mission call on Wednesday! Like a lot of crazy Mormon families, we had been taking bets on where he'd be going (not real bets, sillies, because that would be very UN-Mormon, as if we had not listened to April conference AT ALL!). (Another aside: lots of LDS young people--19 year old boys and 21 year old girls--volunteer to serve missions; when you apply, you send in your papers and they can send you ANYWHERE out of like 350 missions in the world--it's just crazy opening that envelope to see where you will be for TWO WHOLE YEARS).

Enough parentheses--anyway, I placed my bet on Tacoma, Washington, and GUESS WHERE MIKE IS GOING?! You guessed it! Well, actually, I guessed it. Michael heads to the Empty Sea (MTC: Missionary Training Center) on August 31st to prepare to serve in WASHINGTON TACOMA.

So what did I win? Where's Ed McMahon?? Is it a car? A vacation? Oh, I could use a vacation...

Just kidding. Congratulations, Mike. Buckle your seatbelt; it's quite the ride.


PS: HAPPY CINCO de MAYO! We ate Mexican food all day to celebrate, and Heidi finally had her one year check-up. She's bright and healthy--she weighs 25 pound 10 ounces and she is 31 inches tall. That's like the 110th and 80th percentiles, respectively, so she has to go on a baby diet ("less milk and juice") and exercise ("she'll thin out when she learns to walk better") program. That's my roly poly girl!

2 comments:

Jill Petersen said...

Heidi is 7 lbs bigger then Jack! even closer to 8 if you count those 10 ozs on Heidi! Jack needs more food and less exercise!

Oh, and I am still very impressed that you guessed where Mike was going. I couldn't believe it, down to the the city and everything! You must have the most spiritual inspiration! J/K

Laura said...

Moldy cow....you really guessed Tacoma! that is too cool.......let me give this a try......when will we be able to move?.....are we gonna have anymore kids?.....lol...j/k

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