Lewis Scuttlebutt

I can't believe that summer is over. It has gone so fast. We just put the Fair to bed for another year. It's always a lot of work, but for some reason it holds some excitement. August has been very eventful for us. Tori turned 18. Holy Moly!!! Now she's an adult. She started classes last week at BSU. I think they went pretty well. She had some quizzes this week already. Got A's on them so that helps with getting to relax a little. She was pretty anxious about starting. We gave her a shopping spree for her birthday, so we went to the mall today. Got her some cute outfits. Alex leaves tomorrow for his retreat to kick off his new school. They go to McCall for three days, then he gets a 5 day weekend before classes starts on the 8th. I think he is pretty excited. He just spend the last two weeks working every day for Granny and Pappa. I think we are going to use the money to get him a laptop. I think he did a great job for them. Love you all ~~Mitzi

at least 3 of them (that's all she had)..... Teeth that is......... Isn't she the cutest little chipmunk?! Couple of updates: 1. We decide to let Alex go to the art school. Decided to borrow against my 401k. At least it won't be losing any more money. We're scheduled to register him on Tuesday. 2. I didn't get the new position. They gave it to another girl who already works at Supervalu too. I used to work with her when I was in Application support. Took a little ego hit, but am not unhappy about it. I really like what I do and who I do it for. Love you all ~~Mitzi

Congrats to Alex for getting accepted to that school. Apparently the art director really liked his work and they think he has potential. Duh, I've known that forever. Glad to see someone else recognizes it. Now the hard part. Coming up with the money. They are going to give him $1,500 in scholarship money, so that only leave $8,300 for me to come up with. I can make payments directly to them each month with no interest but they will be about $920.00 a month. Eck! That's almost a house payment! No of any part time jobs??? I guess I have some contemplating to do. Love you all ~~Mitzi

Thursday evening and all day Friday I attended the Jones Family reunion hosted by Marilyn Jones Wadsworth. We gathered together in Nampa, Id at the Lion's park around 4:00pm. Some of the kids played kick ball and others played on the swings and slides. That evening we had sloppy joes and hot dogs, salad, chips and brownies for dinner. After dinner we put together a barefoot soccer game with was a blast. The most challenging part of the game was to keep from falling over the little scrappers that were playing with us. You'll see what I mean when you look at the pictures. Friday we started about 11:00am and had lunch of sandwiches. After lunch most of all the kids invaded the pool for the afternoon. The rest of us just sat around in the shade at the park and visted. Uncle Leroy had a personal history written by Leah, so some were reading that and talking about it. For dinner we had chicken, salad, chips, beans, watermelon. After dinner we got into our big circle and each of Ray ...