Fwd: Banana pancakes 31 March 2008

Dear family,
It was good to hear you got home safely from Utah. I´m just chillen here in argentina. I had my first official splash this week. Hey Dad is that what you called it back in your day when all the elders in a district got together in one area and just worked in that area for  the day. It was pretty fun. I got paired off with a Zone leader, so it was cool to see him work and make some contacts. But ya six guys in one appartment means a bunch of goofing off . Zach I think would have approved that we had a airsoft gun.

Oh if you are sending me a package please make sure it is under two klios. I have not received the young womens package yet. But ya the farmers are protesting against the goverment. so that means road blocks so it takes forever to get stuff. But don´t worry we are all safe just with out meat. Send Candy and black socks.

Essentialy all is going in our part of the vineyard. I am so excited for conference, and yes we get to here it in english which is really good. I am so pumped for priesthood because we are going to have another set of elders staying with us for the weekend so we will eat junk food.
I have really felt my spanish has grown over that last couple of weeks. Especialy this week I am really starting to understand people and how it all works out.

We got bikes this week which should really help us out in the work.

Love you all,
Elder blaszczyk

PS Mom and Dad,
Sweet the house might be done by the time i get home. Okay that was bad joke. It was goo d to hear that you guys had a good time. Your classes sound really cool Mom. Your going to be an advertising machine when I get back.
Okay really important i had a thought this week about my tax return. Could you take my tax return and put it in an Ing(the guy with the orange comerical) high intrest saving account. So I could have something when I get back.

PS Justine and Madison,
First off Madie What the heck was with this weeks email. Was it about young womens conference. That meeting is so k-pa. I love to hear the leaders of the church speak. Oh and did mom take you out for cheese cake after. You guys need a tradtion or something.
That's sad to hear about your Camera Justine. How is the count down coming for the next twilight book.

PS Zach,
How was rugby ? and working with little kids? So what happened on the trip mom did not tell me? For myself no new real adventures. Como fur su preparar por Grad? Teine su corbata?

Here's a link on the farmer's strike in Argentina

I want candy - 24 March 2008

Dear family,

Ya this week was super long. Elder toone was sick for two days this week and still recovering for like three. So that basically killed our week number wise. Vansea, The lady we placed the date with, we found out this week is not married to her spouse even though she said she was. So ya that always is fun. But we still have hope. We also found two really good people this week so we are excited about that.

But Pday last week after email Elder toone and I went and played some serious basketball with our zone leaders and some members and one guy we just invited to come from off the street. It was pretty fun.

I also broke my watch this week while wrestling elder toone so that is always fun.

For easter in argentina, the catholic church dose a bunch of stuff. Like last night they had a rock concert outside the Cathederal. And they don't eat meat Friday for some reason. But like all thing argentina they pretty much just chill. Oh it still like 30 degrees out so they have baraques.

The Spanish thing is coming along nicely. I am understanding and being able to express my self more each day. But it is still a struggle sometimes.

Well love you all and be safe driving home this week
Elder Ross Blaszczyk

PS Zach,
Okay you need to post some pictures of your legs man. Also of your gradate. But you beat logan that is good. Oh and nice choice of song for youe grad date video I finally found a computer with speakers.

PS MOM and Dad,
That is so fun that you guys went to Utah for the week end. I can understand why your comp dad thrugh the tennisball at the wall now because I was at that point this week. You can only do so much studying.

PS Madison and Justine,
How is Easter break? How is the choclate? Um ya Keep smiling and being happy. Send me an email this week its hard to write you stuff when I don´t know what is going on.

Elder Ross - 17 March 2008

This week's picture is of Linda's Uncle Marvin, her sister Carol and Ross when he first entered the MTC.
Dear family, and blog people,
This week was a lot of travel. We had our zone conference this week in Cordoba. So ya
A whole day killed there. The conference was really good. Just we need to talk more so I am going to work on that.Also Jordan is in my zone so that cool. Then I had my interview with President Olsen the next day. Which means another morning not working but it was really good. We talked about the need to be humble and asking people for help which I do everyday. Then Elder Toone had to go do a baptismal interview on saturday, in a town about an hour away so ya the bus. It is always fun to go the interviews because I get to talk with other missionaries.
Oh I placed a baptismal date this week. It was with this lady named Vanesa she is 25 and has 3 kids, one of them is eight so we hope to get her too. Some other Elders had found her before Elder Toone came and white washed but Elder Toone and his companion were unable to find her. So we found her just a couple of weeks ago. She also came to church this week so that was good. She is way k-pa. Her husband is not ready though but we are going to work with him. It´s hard though because he works away from home all week and is only home on Sundays.
Also we had out time change yesterday. We went back an hour because it is getting to be winter. But with that we have different work hours. Now its 6:30-10:30 with prosletying 10:30-9:30 but the Argentina people are really night people. They like to stay up late. So a lot of our teaching appointments were from 8-10 before the change all well just got to adjust.
That all the exciting new for this week,
Te Amo,
Elder Ross Blaszczyk

PS Dad and Mom,
Okay the picture with Jordan is from when I first arrived. I don´t really see him that much because our zone is spread over a very large area like 5 citys. But I totally love the blog. Just keep up dating it. Oh could you please send me a family photo either through the mail or internet just by it´s self so I can show it to people. The house looks really good to with the tile all done for the back splash and all. I am now 144 Kg so keep going parents.

PS Zach
You are a creative genies with the grad date video. It was funny with out sound. The response was also funny. Still need picture of grad date. The spanish is coming along ever so gradually. But it is coming. Man your almost a life guard that is so wicked.

PS Madison.
Your project is so cool. I could not view the video though so that made me sad. Keep writing ,smiling and laughing. Drama would be a cool option to take. Something I have learned on the mission we grow the most when we go out of our comfort zone.

PS Justine,
How is life? What are you reading right now? How is art coming dad says you are drawing a lion. Post art work on blog please if you have time.

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Renovation Update

(I really don't like the way blogger displays pictures, thank heaven for the HTML edit features)
The pictures are as follows . Zach helping with tearing down the dining room wall, The new door installed, several pictures of the living room. I built the archway wall between the living room and the front entrance. Several pictures of the kitchen including the famous fridge and freezer. We installed the double doors leading to the backyard from the kitchen)











Lorraine mentioned in her post that she would like to see some pictures of the renovations. Other than the shudder down my back whenever I think of the renos, its interesting at how much our family experiences have changed as the renos progressed. I have been collecting photos over the last few weeks and to to think that we tore down the first wall the Canadian thanksgiving before Jeff went on his mission and that he is now back is totally depressing. Oh well, at least hopefully the results will be worth it. I have been called into a bishopric and released, have one son graduate with the other graduating this year, have one daughter go from grade school to almost finishing junior high, have sent one son on a mission, and the other is getting ready to leave, have no children in Primary anymore and had a dog invade our home only to leave because he couldn't stand the mess. An interesting journey.

As for the renovations, the house is a typical Canadian 70's multi level home about 1100 square feet. The main floor is around 600 sq ft. The front door opened directly into the living room. The living room and dining room were connected in an L shape. The kitchen was a small box with a door leading to the back hallway that lead outside and downstairs. We demoed the wall between the dining room and kitchen, the back hallway and the front closet. We added a wall between the living room and the old dining room, the wall between the front entrance and the living room and expanded the doorway between the front entrance and the kitchen. I added archways from the front entrance to the living room and the kitchen. In the kitchen we reoriented the sink from the back of the house into the old dining room. We removed the old dining room window and replaced it with a standard window. Removed the window in the back of the house (the old kitchen) and replaced it and the back door with the Double doors. I had to rebuild the double door frame as the frame was for a 6" framed house and ours is only 4" as well we wanted it to swing out rather than in. We installed hardwood in the living room and front entrance, installed new lighting everywhere. In the kitchen we are going to do tile. We did a blacksplash around the sink, shelves and behind the cooktop area. I built all the kitchen cabinets and still need to make the fronts. The cabinets have been built around the appliances
we have purchased through the years. The oven and dishwasher were special purchases through ebay. The boys and I went down to California to pick them up (with the trip it was still cheaper than buying them in Canada). We built a pantry and installed a hood. As well I am also building an island in the kitchen.

So I have been the brunt of many a joke in the family, the last being that I would have the house finished before Ross left on his mission. This time I am actually hopeful that the renos will be complete by the summer. I guess time will tell.

Lorraine hope the information was sufficient, its been fun to see my skills inprove but am looking forward to it being finished. Linda is as well, she already has another list ready to go.

Ancient Greece Day

Today was my Ancient Greece day, for grade 6. And I made a video for it! I have to say I'm pretty proud of this video. I spent 2 weeks getting the music, pictures on it. It took me about 2 months to get the info. So I really hope you like it!!
My class also did three plays. My class was put into three groups, in my group I was a sister and Apollo-god of the sun. My teacher wanted us to make up a fake myth. I did mine on why the sea is blue.
We also had to dress up as some one from Ancient Greece, I dressed up as Athena-the goddess of wisdom and of the moon, sister of Apollo.

Why The Sea Is Blue
Zeus stared out of the window. Hades and his son, Ares were trying to compromise on how many wars should take place every year, Hestia was helping Aphrodite with her long blonde hair. Apollo and Athena were playing sweet music on their lyre and flute, Hermes was doing summer-salts, and Demeter was talking to Artemis about the seasons.
They all were so happy. Zeus sighed, he wondered if he could ever be that happy.
“Hey! How's my big brother!”Poseidon laughed.
“I swear you keep forgetting we're twins!”Zeus smiled.
“Want to come to the beach with me? I could use the company.”Posiedon came and stood beside his brother.
Zeus shook his head. “I can't I have an important meeting with the mortals in half an hour.”
“That's in half an hour.”

“So what do you think? Should I let the girls go to school?”Zeus tilted his head toward his brother.
“I think you should do what ever you want. You make good choices, like when you gave me the sea, I've almost never been happier.”Poseidon laughed, but he didn't seem to be happy like he had been at Mt. Olympus.
It was always like this, all the other gods would look at him like he was going to hit them with lightning bolts or something.
“Oh... My...Goodness! Zeus I think I found your soul mate!”Poseidon gripped his brothers shoulder.
“Ow! Let go! What are you talking about.”
“Look, over there by the rocks! Isn't she beautiful!”Poseidon smiled, “Go on, go talk to her!”
A young beautiful girl was sitting on the rocks, she was collecting oysters.
“No! You go talk to her, I have to get going, I'm going to be late for my meeting.”Zeus walked off.
Poseidon shrugged. He walked up to her.
“Mind if I sit down?”
“No. Not at all.”She replayed.
“Hi... I'm Poseidon. I like your owl necklace.”Poseidon stretched out his hand. The girl took it and shook it.
“I'm Hera.”The girl smiled. Poseidon nearly fell into the water, her smile was like the joyful memories of spring finally coming after a long harsh winter, like butterflies flying around you in the warm windy air on a summer evening.
“So...um...want help?”Poseidon bent over and stared helping.

“Zeus, Hades! You should have seen her smile! Oh man, she is so smart! She thinks that war is really over rated, and she likes bees and spiders. Can you believe that! A girl who likes spiders! Spiders!”Posiedon fell into a big arm chair beside his brothers.
“Wow, was she really that pretty? Wow. I'v never seen you this excited about any thing.” Hades in his entire life, had never seen Poseidon smile so much about one thing, it normally took hours just to get him to smile. but when he did smile or laugh it was hollow, with no feeling or happiness.
Zeus drummed his fingers on the arm of his chair.
“Would you shut up already, you're giving me a head ache!”He roared.
Poseidon and Hades spun their heads in the direction of their brother.
“Zeus, we need to talk!”Hades pushed his brother through the door, Hades had to be one of the bravest people on Mt. Olympus in order to push Zeus like that, that was a death wish!
“Who do you think you are?”Zeus thunder. His voice shook the floor.
Hades stood up straight. "I am Hades! God of the Underworld! And the eldest brother of Zeus the god of all gods and Poseidon, the god of the sea! I speak for him now. You have no right to be angry with Poseidon, the god of the sea.”
Zeus just;stood there. His brother had finally taken the oldest brother role seriously. Hades had always acted like the youngest of the three.
“Hades, answer me with truth. Why does he deserve happiness, and I do not!?”


Three Months Later...
Poseidon and Hera were always together. There wasn't a single day that pass when the two were not together. Poseidon even let Hera come to Mt. Olympus, every one enjoyed her good sense of humour and talent to make even the most depressed person laugh a wholesome laugh. Even Hades enjoyed talking to Hera. Zeus had found out why. But the happiest person of all was Poseidon, He laughed like he hadn't laughed for tens of thousand of years (which he had).
“So, when are you going ask the big question?”Aphrodite asked one night.
“Hey! I'm not going to. But just out curiosity when should I ask, I mean not that I'm going to or any thing.”Poseidon looked around at the group of gods, who all wanted to know the same thing as Aphrodite.
“Well, first you need to know if she loves you to. We already know that.”Hestia pointed out.
“Tip, don't do the same thing I did. Just grabbing the girl and running away, never works!”Hades added.
“Oh I know when and where!”Aphrodite yelped. “Go do some thing she really likes to do, but make sure it's a clam and romantic thing, and make sure it on a full moon night. Ahh. I can hear the bells already.”
“Guys, I think she zoned out...again”Hermes shook Aphrodite. “We should be more worried about when Ares is going to ask Aphrodite the big question!” The gods laughed at the joke.
“No one is going to be asking Hera anything. There's only one person who I give permission, and that person is ME!”
“Oh...Hey...Big...Brother.”Mumbled Poseidon.
“You don't even know her though!”Screamed Athena and Apollo.
“Yeah! You don't even know her!”Echoed Herems, Hades, and Aphrodite who had just zoned back in.
“Silence! I'm top god, I'm top dog! You can't tell me what to do!”Boomed Zeus.
Hera walked up the steps, she knew that this was going to happen, she didn't know why but she knew none the less.
“Please stop. If I don't have a choice to any one else, than can you two go against each other. A challenge. To see who is smarter?”Hera bent her head down, so she wouldn't see Poseidon's betrayal.
The twin brothers nodded.
The next morning Hera stood on the courtyard's soft grass, but to her it felt like she was standing on broken glass.
“All right. Well I thought about what challenge I should give you. The challenge is who can make the sea disappear!”
Zeus gave a mocking laugh. “I am the great Zeus, the god of all gods! You fool even Poseidon can't do that. But I can.”
“Wise choice, Hera.”Poseidon nodded, turned around and walked into the temple. Little did anyone know that Poseidon was smiling. He knew that Hera believed that he could some how make it at lest look like the sea disappeared.
After Poseidon disappeared Hermes pulled Hera aside.
“What do you think your going!? I thought you loved Poseidon? Don't you know that Zeus is powerful? He could not only make the sea disappear but the sky!”
“Have you seen him do it?”Hera looked Herems in the eye.
Herems seemed shocked. “N-no, but... What are saying?”
“Poseidon said to me once that the sea has a mind of it's own. You can not command it, you may only lightly suggest it's movement. Poseidon is the god of the sea, after all.”Hera smiled. But Hermes was sure she was about to cry.
“I hope he can. I believe in him.”
Poseidon walked down the halls, he wasn't sure how he was going to make the sea disappear, but he was sure that he was going to make it happen! He just had to. He had already planed how he was going to ask her. Poseidon stopped, he loved Hera, and she loved him. He was going to make the sea disappear.
Zeus walked down to the shoreline of the sea. He was going to make the sea disappear. But he didn't even know why. Athena and the other gods were right. He didn't know her. He thought about it for a long time. The answer was one he was proud of. He was a lonely person, he wanted someone to talk to. Why should Poseidon be happy, why should his brother be happier than him. If he couldn't be happy than no one could. Zeus let out a low growl.
“So... How do I make the sea disappear?”
Poseidon knew that he must make the sea disappear when Zeus was at the sea, so he would believe him.
“Ok. Sea pleaseee help me, just this once.”Poseidon begged.
“I call forth the sea, and the waves, for I, the god of you callth of your help. I, the god of you need to make your existence hidden.”Poseidon was amazed that he still remembered that poem.
The moment he called for the sea's help, the sea at first turned black then a blood red, then... nothing. Poseidon was staring at what seemed to be a really deep hole, he couldn't even see the bottom. He did it! Poseidon had mad the sea disappear! Poseidon ran up to the temple.
“Hera! Hera! Hera I did it!!”Poseidon didn't even see Hera walking around the corner, until they banged into each other.
“Hera I did!”Poseidon wrapped Hera in his arms.
“See, I knew you could do it!”Hera laughed.
“What!? Poseidon you made the see disappear!? Yes!”Herems yelled, who had run down from his room to see what all the commotion was about. “I need to go tell everyone.”True to his word he flu off, in 5 seconds everyone at Mt. Olympus knew.
“Oh yea!”Aphrodite clapped her hands. “I hope I'm a bride's maid!”
“Wait, you actually want to be a bride's MAID!?”Hades teased. Aphrodite made a face.
Hestia ran to were Poseidon and Hera were still sitting on the floor.
“Congraulations!”Hestia helped Hera and Poseidon up.
“POSEIDON!!!”The temples front doors flew off their hinges. “HOW DARE YOU!!”
“Hera go with Hestia and hid. Please”Poseidon let go of Hera's hand. Hera nodded.
“Please don't get hurt.”Hera whispered. Hestia lead Hera up a stair case.
“Zeus, calm down. I beat you fair and square. We both agreed to the challenge. I hoped you understand that.”Poseidon clenched his hand, to his surprise he felt some thing in his hand. He opened his fist, there in the palm of his hand was Hera's necklace of the owl. The sight of it gave him strength.
Zeus seemed not to hear his brother's words. He raised his arms and in a split second Poseidon was flying through the air. Poseidon crashed into a pillar, not that it stopped him. When he regained focus he notice a burn mark on his arm. Poseidon looked up into his brother's cold eyes. Zeus had made a whip out of fire.
The other gods had come to see what was happening.
“Poor Poseidon. I wish we could help.”Ares shook his head. His father some times had a really short temper.
“Apollo what should we do?”Athena, who was in tears, leaned on his shoulder.
“I wish I knew.”Apollo turned away.
“What's going on?”Hera asked. Even though Hestia had pushed her into a room.
Hades and Apollo tried to turn her around and walk away from the fight, but Hera wasn't someone to be pushed so easily.
“Wha...Ahhh!”If it weren't for Apollo she would have fallen off the balcony. “Why won't someone stop Zeus!”Hera was in tears, right along with Athena.
“We do, we really do, but Zeus will hurt us, and what use will that do?”Aphrodite replayed.
But Hera was already down the stairs. She stood in front of Poseidon.
“Please... stop.”Hera could barely make the words come out. “Don't hurt him. I wasn't going to marry him any way. Why would I want to marry the god of the sea, when I could marry the god of all gods?”
Poseidon just; stared up at Hera. Then in a flash he was up on his feet, not very steady, and ran. He didn't look back.
Poseidon kept running until he retched the sea. He walked into it an stood there. When he had stood there for 5 days and 5 nights he started to weep. Hera was gone. He now knew that Hera was not coming, not going to be his bride, and not going to help him with watching over the sea. He cried for a thousand years. Now all gods hardly cry. But when they do, their tears are not like a mortal man's. Their are sapphire. And because he could never get over the lose of the one thing that made him happy, the sea would always remain blue.
That is why the sea is blue.

Epilogue:
Hera never wanted to marry Zeus. Why would she? He was mean and scary. And poseidon would never talk to her again, Hera no longer had her talent to make even the most happiest person laugh. How could she, when she herself was not happy?

The Grad Response

So basically this is how the response went down. First she filled up the backseat of the civic with a whole bunch of balloons. But inside a balloon was a clue! I personally thought that there would be more but there was only one so whatever I go to school the next day and clues keep popping up in my locker! Sweet, but unfortunately I left the other piece at home thinking that that's where I would get the other pieces too. This was not so. So last period of the day I have seminary and lo and behold the last piece of the clue was hidden in my scrips. Carefully I followed the instructions after class and there was a green bucket behind the sem building filled with gravel. I thought to myself, "Is this actually meant for me?" And as I examined further there were hidden words on the back of the larger rocks. By now some of my friends from sem had come around back and were helping me to sift out the rocks and start piecing together the message. In the end it took 5 of us like 10 minutes to figure it out, but we got it! And this is pretty much the whole story. So yes, she did say yes.

Elder Ross - 10 March 2008

(Pictures this week, Asuado, Ross' cousin Jordan, Ross, His comp Elder Toone and the Olsen's, His group from the MTC arriving in Cordoba)

Dear family, loved ones, and others

Ya the weeks just seem to fly by. Wait this was a short week oh well.
Oh something exciting happened yesterday, after waking up and heading for church we noticed something was wrong with our mailbox. Like the little door was missing and there was ashes every where. Elder Toone and I figured that someone must of stuck a firecracker in our mailbox. It is kind of bad since it is the whole apartment complexes mailbox. Hopefully our power bill was not in there.

Oh For the young women do not fedex. use canadian post I will not receive it if you fedex, UPS me stuff it will get stuck in buenos aries which is out of my mission so I will not receive it.
Okay mail rant is over.
Well exciting news I hit 4 months this week. So the spanish is still not there quite yet. But this transfer I have made the goal to try and be really out going and just talk like crazy with members and everyone. So just keep praying for me because I am praying for you all.
Oh and a weather report it is starting to turn to fall here. So the days are getting shorter and well it´s not really that much colder high 20 usually.
Thats all for now folks, Turn in next week for more exciting adventures of,
Elder Ross Blaszczyk

PS Justine,
That is cool that your friends like the Twilight series. Just make sure you get the books back. You are going to have to tell me how it is but don´t tell me the ending for the nex book. Is your friend taking the missionary lessons yet. If so ask Mom and Dad to have them at our house or you be there when he receives them.
Te amo

PS Madison,
Be bold and just show your shining personality and you should not be a loner. Heck thats my job. Just kidding but seriously if people don´t say hi to you say hi to them first and just start talking to people. You are such a cool person. Just keep a positive outlook and everything will work out. One more thing don´t worry to much about school, as in the people, it all works out. But ya home-ec is such a K-pa class.
Madison es k-pa.

PS Zach,
What to say, Man did the girl give you a yes or not and if so how? Gosh I hate being on the other side of the globe sometimes. But ya I love being missionary. How is the stake missionary prep course. My advise and you can tell them this is from me. You just have to survive the MTC. Once you get to the mission field its so awesome because your in the work. Ya and seriously I do not know where my slingshot is. Oh and please do not get a concussion this year in rugby.
Love your Brother.

PS Mom and Dad,
Can I please have the blog link, because i am allowed to look at it. Okay so ya send me pictures now of how the house looks I am really want to know. That is exciting to hear the Funeral went well. Dad did you have to wipe out our white bible for the dedication because it talks about it in there. I got a letter from bishop on Friday so that is exciting to hear you got 4 baptisims planed. We are hoping for three this transfer. Man nursery sounds like a lot of fun.
Love you all

PS Aunt Val,
I got your card last Friday and thought I would just write you and say thanks. It really brightened my day. That is good to hear everyone is doing well. Oh I got to ask is there any marriage prospects on the horizon for the Girls.
Love ya
Ross

Elder Ross Letter - 5 Mar 2008

christopher blaszczyk	Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:39 AM
Dear Well everybody who reads my familys blog, This week was transfers so, sorry for not writing on Monday. I am still in Villa Maria and my compaion is still Elder Toone. We are excited though for this transfer. We have found a new little neighborhood that has some real potenial. We are teaching one lady right now in that area who is really progressing. All of our recent Baptiazies are doing really well. All the men have recived the aronic preisthood. Still working on geting them callings. Our branch president got realeased this past week. So we have a new one to work with which shouuld be intresting. I am hoping the old branch president is called to be the ward mission leader. The spanish is coming along ever so gradually. Like yesterday we were at a members house having dinner and the zone leader and Elder tonne were like say Gracias Hermana por la porquesia. The whole family started laughing . After they were like you just said Thank you sister for this piece of trash. Ya that was pretty funny. Oh School started this week in argentina so all the kids are runing around in their white uniforms while the older kids wear school shirts. Ya they have school at weird times here. Like for four hour each grade. Ya this past week has been pretty tame otherwise. So love you all Elder Ross Blaszczyk PS Zach, God job man on geting a date. That is so funny with the adress being wrong. Don´t do anything stupid to get this girls picture. You are in the grad fashion show! And you did not tell me! Man you thought you new a guy. But that sounds like so much fun, send me pictures. I am starting to learn hoiw to juggle the soccer ball but right now I am not very good. PS Mom and Dad, I can not believe Courtney got engaged! That is so crazy, But I should not be really surpried though she was going to byu. Man that is so exciting for her and she is the first one too. Ya I sent her and email congragulating her so if this is some kind of joke please tell me. Okay my rant is over and I´m good. Can you tell grandma Blaszczyk i got her letter last Friday. I also got your letter from january 20 it was cool to get the pictures. I would like it if you sent a writien letter about once a month with printed off color pictures. That is sad to hear about Bro. Sabian, but I am glad sister Sabian will be able togo live with her grand kids Oh and the girls failed to write me again so next week ya I really want an email. Oh it is okay to allow member to email me. I have to respond by snail mail though. I love you. PS Madison and Justine How is it going? I got your letter Madison, they all sound like cool shows. How is school going? I miss both your smiling faces so much. Keep doing good.

Grad Invite

One of Ross' biggest questions in each of his e-mails to his brother Zach has been who he is going to invite to grad this year and how he is going to do it. Well the how part is now complete. He's created a video and put it on youtube. He will then drop off some "grad tickets" with the URL to the video. Hopefully he'll hear back soon so he can report to his brother.  (Lorraine if you look closely you'll catch a glimpse of some of the renovations - the hardwood floor is in the living room, and the cooktop of course is the kitchen. I'll post some pictures soon)