Sunday, September 3, 2006
I teach today in YW – combined meeting. Manda and Camryn are in
Later – Zac and CJ invited us over for dinner, deer roast, cheesy potatoes, jello, corn, - it was great !!!
Monday – September 4, 2006 – Labor Day – Vacation – No Work
We are all home today, Roger, Me, Landon – no work. Manda and Camryn will be picked up from the
airport at 1:55, and then all of us (including Zac, CJ and Treyson) will be
eating up at LuAnn's at 4pm yahoo!!
Yesterday, my lesson in Young Women’s went very well. The Spirit was felt, and I think the girls
grasped the message – Let Virture Garnish Thy Thoughts Unceasingly !! You are what you think !! You can’t watch a ½ hour of “Friends” and
then go and read your scriptures and expect the spirit to be with you. I cut up some of my CD’s which weren’t good, told the story of the Dad, Daughter,
Brownies, and Dog Poop. I love those
girls and leaders. I hope they know it
!!
This week will go fast – I can’t believe the Landon will be
leaving – what we have worked and hoped for and strived for – college
baseball!!! And it’s finally here (5
more days). Rog and Landon just got back
from hitting baseballs – gotta go.
September 9, 2006 - Milestone Day
We drove over 700 miles today, to deliver Landon to Ontario Oregon, home of the Treasure Valley Community College Chukars, where he will attend college and play baseball for the next 9 months……………..believe it or not I did not cry ! I’m proud of him, and hope and pray that he will live up to his potential, both as an athlete, and young man, and a valiant son of God.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Landon called this morning – as he was walking to church !! He said he went to be last night about 7:30, thinking he would wake up in a couple of hours, and he didn’t wake up until 8 this morning !!! He said the dorms leave a lot to be desired – no drinking fountain !! He’s going to Walmart to get a case of water, and also MOSQUITO REPELLENT !! He said it was BAD outside last night – he couldn’t even count the number of mosquitoes on his legs. He met a few of the Sophomore players, and went to their apartment for a little while. He said the food at the cafeteria was good………He didn’t have breakfast this morning (no time) and will have to skip out on church early so that he can eat lunch between 12 and 1. Hopefully Chase Dixon, and some of the others he met in July will get there today. I’m going to send him an email, so that he will not be lonely. Hopefully he can figure out how to get hooked up to the internet tonight.
Monday, September 11, 2006
5 year anniversary of my
Manda and Camryn are STAYING IN UTAH !!! I am soooooooooooooooo happy. Prayers ARE ANSWERED !!. They will probably be in an apartment of their own in a couple of months.
Landon called tonight. They had a 4 hour team meeting today. They are very strict – no long hair or facial hair. White shirts with ties with going on the bus to games, no ball caps in the cafeteria or classes. Jonathan KELLER is from Eugene Oregon – he’s Catholic. This will be a good diversity for Landon. He has met the other catchers. One who has his girlfriend with him, *Kyle Kelly and who Landon doesn’t care for and thinks is lazy and has a poor work ethic *Lane Latin. One who the coach had previously mentioned, who will struggle in ability, and another who is pretty good – just like Landon. He says he is covered with mosquito bites (Landon). He sounded tired. They had the team meeting (4 hours) ate at noon, and worked on the field all after noon.
Tonight Manda broke the news to Jim that they are staying in Morgan. It didn’t go very well………….Looks like it’s going to be a rough couple ??? of days, weeks, months……..who knows when it will end – probably in another 16 years when Camryn turns 18. Manda is pretty discouraged.
Dear Landon – September 12, 2006 email to Landon
I love you !! and
miss you !! I hope all is going well at
college, I'm sure it is, because you adapt very well to different situations,
and always have such a great outlook on life !!
I know if you stay close to Heavenly Father through prayer, that He will help you through the rough times. Also, if you keep busy with Institute activities (Monday night home evening) that will help also. I hope all is going well. Take Care
Love MOM
Teresa Rhodes wrote me, asking how Landon was doing at College on 9/12/06 – this is my reply.
Well,
he hasn’t actually started college classes – they are NEXT week. But BB
practice HAS started, WITH a 4 hour team meeting yesterday, where they learned
they needed to be clean shaven, short hair no ball caps in the cafeteria or
classes, and in white shirt and tie when boarding all game buses for travel.
Also – they are on CHUKAR time, which is 15 minutes earlier than what
they are told to be there – so if it’s 6:00 A.M. practice time, they are to be
there at 5:45. It is a pretty strict program, and Landon will like that a lot,
because he often thought that Morgan coaches (all sports) were too lenient and
lax, and that the teams could have been better, had they been harder on the
kids.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
I called Aunt Barbara today, and her little home across the street from mom and dad may be opening up for rent. Manda can have it, if it does become available. $500/month. That would be sooooooooooo good. Zac is to school tonight, and CJ and Treyson are not home. He is getting his OWN van to drive for Durrant/Slate plumbing, and will be taking the Journeyman test soon. CJ told Manda they are serious about adding on to their home. Camryn played with her bubbles tonight outside. I blew them – she had a hard time blowing them, but of course I’m a pro J. Landon called tonight and said they were going ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL day long. He sounded tired – but happy. I hope he is wise enough to get enough sleep, and not stay up till all hours. He said he is getting enough to eat. All is well.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Email from Erika
Did Landon get off to
Love Ya, Erika
My Reply
Just got back from TVCC for the second time !! Took
Landon up last Saturday (9th) and he's been up there all week. They had
an alumni game yesterday, and we went up to that. That is where a bunch
of "OLD" players from previous TVCC teams come back to play the
current team. There is a blue and orange team (current players) - Landon
in on the blue team, which is basically the "varsity" team. He
looks to be the best catcher they have, and we hope he will be the starting
catcher. (Finished letter on Monday) He started classes
today. Roger heard from him mid-day, just before baseball practice.
Haven't heard from him tonight - I hope he's a FHE at institute. He says
that he has really had his eyes opened.............language, morals, etc.
etc. Hopefully he can live in the world, but not OF the world. It
is truly a
Gwen
Mom email to Landon
I love you - just testing out your email
Landon’s reply
hi mom... i love you too... i miss you guys... i miss camryn
so much.. well ill see her this weekend
for sure!!!! later... oh ya by the way im on the internet
Email Gwen sent to Liz Wiscombe
I
was wondering if you could get a message to Julia, who in turn could get it to
Craig.
Landon’s
email address is richriot_21@hotmail.com,
and he would like to correspond with the Bishop via email while he’s at college
in
Landon
is doing great – he started classes yesterday, and has been practicing baseball
with the team for a week. They had an Alumni game on Saturday (16th)
And Landon was on the “varsity” team, and we are confident that he will be the
starting catcher – at least that’s what his dad says J He had a bunch of good blocks at the
plate, and got a guy out, and went 2 for 3, with a double that was 6’ from
being a homerun. Anyway, enough of my braggingJ - I hope you guys did great in CA – I
haven’t heard, and I’m writing this at 4:19 pm on Tues.
See
ya Gwen
Reply from Liz Wiscombe
Gwen,
I am so glad that Landon is doing so good and having a great
time. Keep me up on all of the baseball news from
Thanks for the news, Liz
Email from Landon
hi mom. hi dad. hi manda. hi camryn. i love you guys... im
finally being able
to get on the internet.. well im doing great... nothing new
just tons of
baseball. i miss you guys so much.... how is everything i
will be home this
weekend so ya.. oh and parents..... im driving home this
weekend.... its too
much money for me to fly so ya.. ill drive no worries...
love ya.. talk to
ya later b y
Reply to Landon from Manda
it is really good to hear from you!!! hope all is well and
that you are having a good time but also taking care of business ya know. call
me if you ever need anything... luv amanda and camryn
Landon
I am reading your letter and I am slow at writing back, We miss you too but it is ok if we talk to you every day. We would like it if you would fly home instead of drive but it will all depend on what time you finish your practice sat.
Love you
>Dad
Reply from Landon
ya well it could be finished early cuz all of the sophomores
have a showcase
that they are going to so it will just be the freshman. blue
against orange.
i could be done as early as noon. or as late as four so ya i
don’t know...
well its like 200 dollars. i thought it was 100 dollars. It will
save so much
money if I just drive. and i will be safe. oh ya the high
school showcase
that it says on my schedule is actually a tournament where
we play some high
ranked high school teams i think,..... i will have more info
later.. love ya
bye.
Email from Gwen to Landon
Got your emails - that's great !! I'm glad you are on the internet.
I hear it has been raining up there !! I hope it hasn't interfered with your
practices too much. I hope you can make
it to institute, and I was wondering if you get emails from them, letting you
know what is going on? I get them, and
so I'll forward it on to you - sounds like fun. I love you, and look forward to
seeing you this weekend - I've bought the tickets, and so USE THEM !! You need to practice doing the Boise Airport
this week, so when you come home in the future it will be OLD HAT :)
I love you so much, you are such a joy to me and your dad.
LOVE MOM
Email written to Landon from Mark 9/20/06
Landon:
Just got your email from your mom...sounds like you're doing
great and that you're playing a lot of baseball. Hopefully Devin and
Dallin will turn out just like you and become awesome baseball players!
Thanks for inviting Jaden to go up to
It's a big world out there and you're finding out that there
is more out there than
See ya.
Mark
Email written to Landon from Gwen – 9/20/06
Hey
– guess what ? I just booked you a flight home for Thanksgiving !!
You will come home Thanksgiving morning, and go back last Sunday
night Yahoo!!! – watch for an email thing about this, and don’t delete it
!!
Also, I just remembered, with the NEW regulations for flying you can’t carry-on any luggage with anything liquid in it. I don’t think you’ll be bringing enough home (this weekend) to even check a bag (for this weekend) – unless you need bring Sunday stuff to wear?!?!? Shoes?!?!? Anyway, if you think you can get by without checking a bag , and would only have a carry on bag – you need to remember, they won’t let you have lotion, toothpaste, shampoo, or EVEN THE CONSECRATED OIL on your key ring (better leave that in your car at the airport). We can supply you with all of those things here are home for the weekend, or if you need to CHECK the bag (not carry it on) – then you can put all of your liquid stuff in there……………….. make sense?? I just didn’t want you to get up to the security, and have them make you throw away your little vial of oil – so leave it in your car.
LOVE MOM
Another email from Gwen
Landon I need you to go to the
Form
1 – Opt out of insurance form – sign that you HAVE insurance (personal
insurance) and that you want to OPT OUT of TVCC insurance FOR THE WHOLE YEAR
Form 2 – Sign an Authorization of Release form, that will allow ME to CALL TVCC, and speak to them about your financial account – right now, I tried to call and ask a few questions, and they wouldn’t even talk to me !!
Please get that done as soon as possible - Thanks dear !!
LOVE MOM
Reply from Landon
wow.....wooooo momma... that's alot of emails to reply to, i cant even remember all of them.. ok ill do that stuff for the student services tomorrow..(thurs).... tell liz and her family hi for me and im doing great... you can fill her in.. i cant really write right now but everything you said in all of your emails sounded great haha... everything ahha... well talk to ya later.. sorry its short... bye
ill call ya tonight
(HE NEVER DID CALL)
Dear Landon,
I miss you, too! That's pretty weird, since we don't see you much! I think it is just knowing you are officially away at school, all grown up....and I can see my own kids at that point in their lives in a few years! The time really does fly!
I hope you have having fun - good, clean fun! What I
remember from my college days was that is was really intense, but really
fun! I had the most fun at the institute; especially after I got involved
and met a lot of people.
Thank you for always being such a good example to me and my
family, especially the kids!
We love you!
Love Always,
Erika, (Aaron, Tiana, Lance, Brian, and
P.S. I wish you could have been at
Email from Landon to Erika
hey i know i wish i could have been there to.... i bet it was great.... baseball is going great. i haven't gotten into to much trouble aha.. just
kidding no trouble here... but school is flying by. the first week i was here
i didn't have school just baseball and it went by so slow. now that school
has started its flying by. your so right when you say time flys... i love
you guys and i will see you at thanksgiving. i already have my flight booked
so see you then love you guys and thanks for everything... landon rich
Email from Grandma Rich to Landon 9-22-06
Landon, I was glad to hear from you. It was good
to talk to you on the phone the other night. I keep in touch thru your
dad. He tells me when you talk to him. We love you and miss you but
we know you are going to be ok. I hope we can get up to some of your
games. It will be good to see you this weekend. All the family ask
about you. Layne was wondering about you the other night. Kelly
& family are leaving for
Email from Gwen to Landon – Friday, September 22, 2006
Hey -
Rough practice last night??
Man....... I'm glad they let you EAT at least. I guess it will just make you tougher, and
weed out the ones who can't compete.
Hey, if you can't make your flight, we can just roll-over the money to
purchase another flight, so no big deal.
I know this is all confusing, but I'll try to explain as simple as
possible.
On the email from southwest for this weekend (make sure you don't get it confused with the one for Thanksgiving)
Click on the "LINK" in the email that southwest
sent you, or go to www.southwest.com and
click on TRAVEL CENTER (at the top of the page) and then go down to Check In
Online/Print Boarding Pass and type your confirmation number 5IJCIZ
(from your email) and your name, and you need to be able to be hooked up
to a printer, so you can print out your boarding pass - you can't do this more
than 24 hours BEFORE your flight departs, so you would have to do it later
Friday night after baseball practice, or Saturday morning before practice. Important - IF YOU CAN"T DO THIS - DON't
Worry - you can check in at the airport.
Also, you can do this (print boarding pass) even if you don't know for sure if you will be flying (because of practice times)
What I was thinking is this - if you are ALL READY to go, and have everything loaded in your car, you could do practice, and if the time was getting short, you could TRY to make your flight...........and if not, then just come on home via car.
Your flight leaves
But - you absolutely don't need to be there 1 hour early, and you could probably make it to the airport in LESS than one hour (Don't drive like a maniac).
Important things to remember
NO LIQUID on
your take-on bag
Checking a bag
(not your take-on) will take more time
If you can
print your boarding pass out at school, then you just go straight to the
security checkpoint at the airport
If
not, you'll have to check in at the southwest desk at the airport
You need your
picture ID - Driver's license and your confirmation number 5IJCIZ if you are
checking in at the southwest desk
LOVE MOM and DAD
Email from Joni to Landon
PS - Chans got a nice 5 point elk on Tuesday. He was pretty pumped. They had a good time hunting. Later
Monday, September 25, 2006
Landon came home this past weekend. It was good to see
him. Josh Wilson’s farewell was
good. He leaves tomorrow for
Email from mom to Landon on Monday Night (but he won’t read it till tomorrow)
How was your day yesterday?
Did you get a chance to go to Family Home Evening? I hope you will take advantage of all the
institute has to offer. Remember to take
time to feel the spirit. I love you very
much, LOVE MOM
Email from mom to Landon
I was wondering if you would mind if I sent an email every day, with a little "thought" that might help you out spiritually. Please let me know if you would like this.LOVE MOM
Reply from Landon
ya i would love it.... thanks..... love you
9/29/06
Gwen and Landon were writing back and forth via email the
following:
I'm just sitting here At work, looking at your picture on your website - I bring it up several times a day, just to see your smiling face. I love you so much, and sometimes I miss you more than I should :-(....anyway, just wanted you to know I'm thinking of you and looking forward to seeing you tomorrow - in
ya kinda haha.. cool well good.. sounds good...
I guess this is ALMOST like instant messaging huh? I just remembered that you might be "ONLINE" now.... Brother Tibbitts was just in, and I got his email, It is russtibbitts@gmail.com, so give him a note !! LOVE MOM
hello haha your weird haha just playin well thank you.. im just getting ready for class... well have a good day and drive safe. ill talk to ya later tonight.. oh ya.. DONT FORGET TO BRING MY SPARE KEY haha thanks.
