August 9, 2006
Dear Family and Friends,
Ryan is at Brother Bott’s Sharing the Gospel class. He has really loved his class and comes home happy and inspired to be a better person. It’s hard to believe that one week from tomorrow Ryan will be taking his American Heritage final and then we will leave Provo to drive home to Denver for a few days.
We’ve had a great time getting together with friends and family during the last week. On Saturday, Ryan, Dan Leslie and I drove to Park City for the Rugby Clinic. Ryan was able to get into a rugby chair and do some skill drills with about thirty other rugby players. He also wanted to scrimmage but isn’t medically cleared to have physical contact until a year post injury. He’s going to have a hard time waiting until December! The Utah Rugby Team (Scorpions) begin practicing on Thursday nights and Saturday mornings in the next couple of weeks. Ryan is eager to practice with them. Handcyclying, now rugby, next he’ll probably want to downhill ski which also looks like a lot of fun.
On Sunday we were able to be with Jacob and Alisha’s family where they blessed Mason. Julie and Jim’s family also drove to American Fork from Idaho for the blessing. Jacob gave Mason a beautiful blessing and we had lunch at a nearby park. It’s great having Alisha’s family so close!
After going to Mason’s blessing, we went to Marv Call’s home after her grandson, Tyson, (Ryan and Beth’s baby) was blessed. It was great to see all of the Call boys, Lyndon flew in from California and Casey flew in from Philadelphia to surprise Ryan and Beth. Calls lived close to us in Chicago and then Denver.
Monday we were back to school and also went to Neuroworx. Hayley and Ryan were in town for Ryan’s family reunion. Hayley came to Neuroworx to see the facility and watch Ryan work out. It’s been great to see her so often this summer. She is also counting down the days until she graduates with her Bachelors of Science in Nursing on August 25th.
Today Ryan was able to finish registering for fall classes, buy his books, and work with the Accessibility Center to have his texts put onto a CD. I think he feels more confident every day about being in the dorms this fall. Tomorrow we are going to check out Budge Hall, Room 2002, his new home for fall. We also went to the Library Accessibility Center to check it out. We met Alisha, Riley and Mason at California Pizza Kitchen for lunch. We are missing Callum, Izzy, Tate and Sydney so it’s great to have Alisha’s kids to love on! They are so darn sweet and Riley loves to take rides in the wheelchair with Ryan.
Our BIG news for the day is that Ryan’s van should be in Denver when we get there Thursday night! His Toyota Sienna is being shipped from the factory in Indiana where they do the conversion package. The van will need minor adjustments from the dealership in Denver before Ryan can drive it. He also needs to drive a few hours with Shad at Craig Hospital and take a driving test with the state of Colorado before its official. Barry has worked really hard to get the van in Colorado so Ryan can do everything he needs to do before driving back in his van to BYU.
Barry continues to work with the insurance company, architect and prospective builder. We’ve had some bumps along the way and I’m sad to say our remodeling project has yet to begin.
We are both excited to be home a couple of days before Tyler, Rebecca and baby Sydney return to Virginia. It will also be good to celebrate Kaitlyn’s 16th Birthday with her friends and family.
We hope you are all having a great summer!
With our love, Bridgette, Barry, Ryan and Kaitlyn
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