September 16th Letter

makin banana cream pie for a ward party!

Petersen, being cute

marsden, being angry

larsen, being happy!

marsden, being angry

playing some vball i love that shirt!

setting.........ps, this is the day we saved the guy!!!

Hello family! Life is good. Highlight of the week is for sure the New Brighton Ward's Chili cook off! The Sunday before they mentioned that not too many people had signed up for pies, so i signed up to make two banana cream pies. The party was a blast. There was a good turnout and the chili was GREAT. And everyone loved our pies. Sadly, not too many people got to try them, because they were gone so fast! Definitely delicious. And on Sunday a couple people brought friends to church, and we had a great Sunday school lesson. it was sweet. hearing about Elaine was hard, so it was hard to think of stuff to write, so i just wrote this. It was so hard to hear about Elaine's passing from cancer. I cried for the first time since we lost the CIF quarterfinals game my senior year, back in 2007. Wow what a loss. I've never known of someone like Elaine. She REALLY had concern for you when you were injured, and would help with more than athletic injuries. She was SO easy to talk to, and always was willing to provide good common sense down to earth advise. Everything with her was REAL and alive. The training room was a place you could just feel comfortable in. I'll never forget when i had my second concussion, and she looked at me with a straight face and said, "You have some draim banage." I thought i was hearing wrong and going crazy, and she kept going at it. 3 minutes later she stopped and was just cracking up and then i realized she was teasing me. Its one of my best memories. There's really no words that can entirely capture what she's done in life and how much she means to so many people. I wonder if she's up there in Heaven right now, taping up old long gone Elsinore High school football legend's ankles. Maybe working at some heavenly rodeo or something, i don't know. But I know that she is up there, in a better place, with no more pain for her to struggle with. Thanks for everything Elaine, I love you!