Letter to Zach 1/14/07
Tonight we had Mom and Ra over for dinner to celebrate Mom’s birthday. It was really fun. I made a cake that tasted like chocolate dust and fell apart as I tried to get it out of the pan. We just slathered the chunks with frosting and laughed over it. The kids drew mom the most adorable pictures. Today was stake conference and the kids were so good. Lizi is in a particularly adorable stage right now. She sat still for at least an hour! We figured out that Sam moves his body at least 8 times for every one time that Lizi does. Since we are on the subject of kids, I wanted to let you know that they plan and connive all the time about what they will do when you get home so be prepared! They look forward to that day with great anticipation. The latest scheme is that Sammy will have power to climb walls (sticky suction cup hands) and Lizi will have the power to be invisible. When you get home Sam will be high up on the wall and Lizi will be invisible and when you come into the room (at the airport?) you won’t be able to see them and then they will jump out and scare you! Consider yourself warned.
We are all getting very excited for the arrival of little boy Beckwith. We would be even more excited if we knew his name. We have thrown a few ideas around but can never come up with anything. I still LOVE the name Solomon (Saul for short) but I can’t sell Grant on the name-mostly because of Solomon in the Bible and his 5,000 or so concubines. I am feeling so thankful to have good results of the amnio. I never realized what a burden not knowing from week to week whether this baby would be healthy or not. Knowing that he and I have the same blood type now makes it possible for this to be a perfectly normal pregnancy. What a blessing that is. I feel like the Lord just keeps on blessing us so much. Just when I think that life can’t get any better it does. How am I so lucky in the face of so much suffering and pain in the world, and even in our own family? In my less faithful moments I worry that things are so good, and have been for so long that they can’t possibly last and I wonder what horrible trial will befall us next. However, in my more faithful moments I tell myself and I truly know that as long as I am trying my best, whatever the Lord has in store for us will only bring us closer to Him. I should relish the idea instead of fear it. And isn’t a life of blessing and gratitude just as much a part of His plan as suffering? Especially when you have a spouse as good and true as mine! Lately I have marvelled at what an amazing and steady person Grant is and feeling so grateful for him. (As you can tell I am at what is called the “Golden Age” of pregnancy. It is the middle part where I am no longer throwing up as much and not yet so huge I can hardly move-so I feel pretty comfortable and really excited) But back to Grant, I just feel so excited for you that you are doing what you are doing now. Because I know that what you are doing, your missionary service is part of what made Grant the amazing man that he is. I know that because of what you are doing you will someday have a wife that will praise you and adore you as much as I do Grant.
Isn’t it nice to be so far from this all and engaged in such a cause as yours? I loved being immersed in the work and having no other cares (especially not dating and money cares). I want to let you know that we all love you so much. Mom tonight said, “I bet you love having your house all to yourself again and not having hungry teenagers here all the time eating you out of house and home.” Grant and I (and especially the kids) don’t feel that way. We feel like a huge hole was left (and I don’t mean the one in the wall from your heel) when you guys no longer lived here. You enriched our life so much. I love to look at pictures from that time and feel so lucky that we could spend so much of that together. Thank you for what you have given us of yourself. The Lord is lucky that he gets you now. I’ll try not to be jealous.
With all our love.
Grant, Candice, Sam, Lizi, Boy, Charlie, and Psycho Cat.
By the way, the week after Christmas we went up American Fork Canyon to a place called Tibble Creek Resevoir. There we walked across a frozen reservoir and to a snowy slope in a clearing in the middle of a forest. The sledding was great fun. The funnest part was that Charlie was there with us -he was so entertaining! There was a part of the reservoir that wasn’t frozen. Charlie gingerly walked to the edge of the ice and then dove into the water and swam around for awhile lunging at the ice chunks that broke off when he jumped and eating them as he swam. Then, Grant put him on the sled with him and Charlie, Grant and Sammy went down the hill together. It was really funny. Oh, and Charlie weighs 110 lbs now. He is officially on a diet because the vet says he should only be 95-100 lbs. He doesn’t look fat, just really big!
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