Letters to Elder Robison

Hi Sam!

Hope you are doing well!

Our week has been pretty good. Bryan was working like a crazy psycho this last month, and this week was the first one were he actually was able to come home and see us during daylight hours. We missed him, and it is nice to be back to somewhat normal family routine. I probably rely to heavily on routine...oh well...working on my ability to be more flexible. 

Oscar and Angus had more soccer games yesterday, and they were super fun to watch. They were more aggressive with the ball and Oscar's team passed and played like team. Oscar scored three goals, and was all around playing much improved. Angus also scored a goal and was fun to watch, he almost dances down the field. He kept trying to give a high five to a team mate and it took them about 10 tries to get it right. It was funny to watch them miss high fiving that many times...

We finally poured out the remains of our tadpole kiddie pool-turned-pond today. It was sorta sad, but surprisingly cool. Aside from one late blooming tad pole, which we saved in a smaller container, and several snails, we were certain everything was dead. Before we poured it out we found a fish skeleton, and several (like 12) different sizes of skin shedding from some mysterious water spider/beetle. From what we could tell from the skin, it has like 6 legs, a giant beetle butt, and eyes that protrude from the top sides of it's head. Anyhoo, we poured the pool into the flowerbed and as the water sunk down into the dirt we all of the sudden could see several of the mysterious water spider/beetle bugs crawling all around. IT WAS NUTS! Luckily I had my gardening gloves on and an extra container nearby, I grabbed up all of them that we could find. There were all sorts of sized, just like the skin shedding's. They were well camouflaged in the bottom of the pool during the summer, and we hardly knew they were there. Sorry if that was boring...I will send a pic of them. I have never seen a water bug like that.

A co worker of Bryan's offered us her old trampoline on Friday. FOR FREE! So we have a trampoline now, and the boys have been loving it. It is not as big as Mom and Dad's but it was free and in decent shape...so it is all good. 

This morning while playing trains and watching conference, Angus ran into the bathroom to grab some monster from the tub toys when all of the sudden we heard a crash and some giant Angus screams. I rushed in to see what all the commotion was about (if you have not noticed yet, Angus is a bit on the clumsy side...). He had blood dripping from his mouth. He tripped on basket (that he left on the floor earlier) and fell mouth first into the side of the tub. At first I thought it was just his lip that he bit/hit on the tub. As I looked closer inside his mouth I realized that he totally chipped off the back third of his right canine fang, and his middle right front tooth was now pointing crookedly inward. So, yeah. We will be taking him to the dentist tomorrow. Bryan and Oscar found his chipped tooth parts and we put them in a special little box. Does the tooth fairy visit for chipped teeth? I say yes.

We have been eating by candlelight and Jackolantern light at dinner these past few nights. The boys love getting the table all creepified for dinner. It is fun having boys who love creepy gross things. I picked up a science experiment book full of gross stuff, like fake poop making, fake vomit making, mold growing etc. A couple night ago we did the belching experiment and I got three ginormous belches, it freaked them all out. I thought of you and what a wonderful belcher you have become. I am so thrilled that I was able to pass that bit of dignified wisdom on to you. I sure as heck hope you are impressing your companions with it, and that you give credit were credit is due and tell them that I taught you...Ha!

Love you Sam. This turned into a jumbled novel. Hope that is okay. Thinking of you. You are always in our prayers. Every night. Honest. We love you and miss you.

Helen and boys.

PS. Can you believe that Ulysses turns ONE this coming Friday. WOAH.