Shalyce's Birthday Party

We celebrated another year of Life with Shalyce. Everything was almost perfect but one of the fruit Pizzas didn't have an equal distribution of fruit for every slice.

Celebrating Bre's Birthday

We went to the Moss's House to celebrate Bre's Birthday. We had a blast, the food was delicious (even thought the steaks Jeff made were still mooinng) and it was fun to see all the baby boys together.

Sitting on the Sofa

Just hanging out on Saturday Morning.

Visiting the Porters

We went to see the Porters from my mission in Belize, it was so nice to see them. Visiting the Porters was their Great Grandchild. She was born 5 days after Lucas but the weighed the same. Lucas was trying to put the moves on her, he showed her his big smile and his shiny tooth. We had a great time catching up and Lucas fell asleep on Sister Porter.

Grandma & Grandpa Banda's Anniversary

Grandma and Grandpa Banda wanted to celebrate their anniversary with the family. We celebrated at Olive Garden. Grandma and Grandpa were sad to see that Lucas slept the whole time. We had a very enjoyable time.

Uncle Elder Shem Banda buys a Monkey

From Elder Banda's Last letter, September 2 2007:

Friday August 31st 2007

The day was crazy with excitement, I went with elder Olsen to the bank and returning back we saw a monkey that was really small and sweet. I don't know exactly what happened but I was then walking away with 60 soles less in my wallet and a monkey on my shoulder. It really had no logic so.... um I have a pet monkey don't worry I took it to the vet, all the "what not stuff" is taken care of. Well I didn't have time to explain to president that I had a pet monkey. I went to the appointment with Hno Torres again and he said his wife wants to be baptized with him, sweet blessing!!! Then I bought the monkey a sweeet collar and he was going to be called Gorge (curios) but we went with the name CHAYO, it's the name of the monkey in the Movie Testaments. So I took the monkey home and he slept with his banana and in a bag filled with a towels where he was out cold.