We are loving our new house. More space to mess up! Our address is the same:PO Box 753, Vidor, TX 77670. John's cousin Sheila and Jim her husband came for a visit. It was nice to see them. We are doing the usual...working, painting and refinishing cabinets. We are going to doctors,walking, going to tennis matches and football games. Cat is doing really well at tennis! She loves walking in the woods, shopping, reading, being with or talking to friends and riding a four wheeler. She is a delight to have around!
We love reading about all our new missionaries in the family! Our prayers and thoughts are with the Thomas Duran faimily!
MARSHALL NOOSE:
We are doing great. John is happy to be working for a company called Cedar Crestone. It is the same kind of consulting work as he was previously doing and includes the mandatory 4-day travel week. He was called to be the Choir Director in our Ward and is really enjoying that. He has built up a good size choir and is planning lots of very nice music for the holidays in the next 2 months.
I am still working at the Therapist's office and have added additional office staff allowing me more flexibility in my schedule. I was recently called to be Young Women's president. I love serving in the church and am happy to serve wherever I am called. It's nice to be able to work with the girls. We are planning our YW in Excellence program, which is the evening when the girls show their parents what they have accomplished during the year. (It's like Back to School Night.)
We recently had our local family over for the traditional "Mutilating Gourds" party. (That's what Ryan named our pumpkin carving event.) I was impressed with everyone's artistic abilities. We had pumpkins that looked like Elmo, Tinkerbell, Monsters Inc., and others had very scary faces. They were great.
We are looking forward to the Very Busy Holidays. Hope to see you all at the BCB or at the TURKEY BOWL. The TURKEY BOWL will be on Thanksgiving day at 9:00 a.m. at the church on Armstrong just south of Shaw. Hope to see you there! And be sure to plan on coming back to our house for cinnamon rolls and whatever else people bring to snack on. The trophy is dusted off and ready to hand to a losing Boggs Dog!
Suzanne
WARD WIDE WEB
JEREMY has been working hard as the scoutmaster in our ward. He takes the boys on an outing every month and takes great care in planning mutual/scout nights to get the boys to progress as fast as possible towards that Eagle Scout award.
JENNIFER started work in the preschool on-site at the kids' elementary school. She is an aide in the special ed class. It has been fun to work in a super structured classroom with lots of energetic students!
TREVOR finished off his water polo season with a 4 game tournament. He is looking forward to winter polo and swimming in the spring. He has grown so much physically and in his knowledge of the game. He's almost as tall as Jennifer these days!
LOGAN finished off his football season and is happy to have his afternoons open again. He had a great time playing varsity and winning all but one game.
LIZZIE is our shining star! She is in the school production of the all new children's musical - The Grunch. This is her first show and Lizzie is LOVING it! She sings all the words to every song all day and all night.
JACKSON is our soccer animal! He is tearing it up on the field this season. He's had a chance to play all positions but goalie. He is still looking forward to making his first goal - he has 2 games left to accomplish this task.
Daily
Duran
Clare
is dancing and singing all the time. She loves to sing when Amy is whistling or
singing too. She has some pretty good dance moves that we can’t figure out
where she learned them. Her vocabulary is ever increasing. She can say Bella,
pumpkin, and mine very well. For Halloween she was Cinderella and loved to
flaunt in her dress when everyone would ooh and ah.
Bella
is going to Joy School two times a week with three other classmates. She is
learning shapes, colors, how to write letters and read her name. She really got
into the Halloween spirit this year; one day when we were all in the car she
was scaring everyone with her loud “Boo!” Realizing she wanted to be scared she
said, “mom, Boo me.” She was Belle from Beauty and the Beast for Halloween and
got too much candy.
Amy
does Joy School one week out of four. She had fun putting on the Joy School
Halloween party. She decorated the house and made crafts for the kids to put
together. She made mummy hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls for lunch. She had
her primary program in October. It was a very good program with really good
singing. She is still running several days a week.
Thomas
had his last chemo treatment last week and is slowly coming around. After the second
round of the whole treatment he has been much more exhausted. He starts off most days okay feeling well, but will be out of energy before lunch or little later
depending on what he has been up to. In three weeks he starts the 5 year
monitoring process with a CAT scan, labs, and a doctor visit. All should look
well and life will resume as close to normal sometime between Thanksgiving and
Christmas.
We
have been having quite the experience. We have been receiving so much support
in so many ways from family and friends. We are thankful for everyone and hope
to be on the other side of supporting when you all need it too.
