Send Me On My Way

For those of you who read my last post these past two weeks have been busy for a million reasons. There were 3,000 people in attendance at Mario's funeral. I praised Jesus for 4 hours! If this Mormon thing does not work out I have been assured that I am saved. It was beautiful though and it has brought the community together.

Mario's mother broke out into song. She was amazing!

Varsity players carrying the casket. The players are beginning group therapy soon which was offered as a free service by an outside clinic. So grateful for that. One player received a $10,000 scholarship in Mario's name and other scholarships have resulted from his death. Some good out of the bad. You can just see Travis in the back right hand corner.

The school probably thought it was a good idea to give us a break after that so they sent the Reed's to the senior picnic. Here's Travis and Mr. Rice getting ready to climb the rock wall. He's so hot in that equipment! YOW!

Ok there's me. Ps- it really hurts if you don't have shoes on.

What do white kids do at the Senior picnic? Play ultimate frisbee. Just so happens Mr. Reed is a beast at frisbee. I think it's cause he's tall or it could be that he knocked over high school students to win. Could be both.

Then on Sunday as many of you already know Travis was sustained as the new Bishop of the Ludlow Ward replacing my father. Yeah they made that guy Bishop. So that makes me Mother of the Ward. Yes, he is 28. And no, we NEVER even thought that was a possibility. It was great to hear the audible gasps and several "OH MY GOSH's!" Good news is we had 12 co-workers who came to support him. More investigators than I ever got to church on my mission. One wants to sit down with the missionaries and us and another one has already committed to come to church again and asked for a Book of Mormon.

Travis' Mom, sister Holly, and niece Bailey were able to make it from California. It was a fun visit. Bailey and Brocky had a great time trying to find a bunny that was in the yard during a family cook out. They're totally dating.

We went to New York City for Memorial Day and played on the subway. Good Times.

This is Travis' Mom haggling over a purse. When she actually got the price she wanted she walked away. It was a piece of crap anyways.

Next we spent some quality time with thousands of our closest friends in Central Park. I have never seen so many people there at one time.

We decided to skip the Empire State Building and be different and go up 30 Rock. This is the end result. You would think we had to walk up.

We ended the night with by walking around Times Square. Always interesting when it's late. But it was good trip. We did Boston the next day, but I'll save that for another post.

Hope everyone had a good Memorial Day and is getting ready for summer!