Update - Spring to September

Hello - this is your good old buddy Ryan here giving another update to the Pilkington crazy life. This blog was intended to give info out to relatives far and wide... friends and even those strangers that pass on the web. I am not sure if any one other than me and my wife read this but I hope that as Facebook goes and getting the word out that this has an update should bring you in for a moment. Some folks always ask how are things? What's new? Well go to the blog or Facebook and you will most generally get your facts right fromt he horses mouth - Me. Yes things change day to day and such, but I like to write the highlights of life and even the downside to it as well.  This has been a roller coaster of a year that I am going to summarize is just a few lines here and there. I want to thank all the support and love we do get and you know who you are.. and I want to put a shout out to the ones we rarely talk to any more and hope that you know we love you and wish the best for you.

Let me go back as far as I remember...

Well, we got a Beagle right before spring and into the spring she got hit by a car as she ran into the road and it was one of the worst things of my life to say - put her down..

We enjoyed spending time for Easter with Bob and Marie and family, a bit cold but worth it.

Movies were exciting - The Avengers, Batman, Battleship, Snow White & Huntsman, Brave and a few I cant remember, some at the movie house, and some at the Drive in! I would love it to have one big family drive in next summer.

Getting Bella our new Mutt that I know call M's for (m&m's) Mischief and Mayhem... She is a lot of work and a bundle of energy, much like a child... she has her sweet and snuggle side too.

Spending time at the dog park(s) - We like to go for a small ride we go across from liberty park at the nearest dog park, it has the wood chips so it is not as fun, but bella gets her work out sniffing butts anyways. The other park is really nice! and is gorgeous!! in fact it is the picture at the top.. I took this past summer. We go with our friend Geniel, she is a lady with some mental disabilities but blesses us each time!! Those are nice drives to get out of the house and get a soda pop and relax on the grass.. Bella seems to be more playful and runs and runs...

We have spent time with each of our family, to the nice times/dinners with the Hanna's, the nice diners at my sisters, taking Alan out to get haircuts and dinner. Spending time with Lynn or my dad AKA POPS. And to Baptism - we do enjoy those times dearly.

I had the chance to walk for my Bachelors Degree in SLC with Pops and family, and it was amazing to feel a since of accomplishment. I worked a few months for a print shop and have been fumbling finding that right line of employment. Linda has done well at Wells Fargo - and we are grateful for it!

I am still working on my shirt business and my hopes now is to have it running by March of 2013 and be on the road selling at points of purchase spots along the Wasatch next summer, Expos, fairs, and roadside areas. I am excited to share my artwork, passion with others and then be able to earn a living with it would and will be a dream.

The church callings have been good, Linda is now a advisor to the YW - she had the chance to go to Girls Camp for 4 days and rough it... behind Park City some where. I am still in Primary and work with a soon to be missionary - any day - and he and I are a hoot. I swear we are long lost brothers from other mothers.. I also do the Ward Newsletter and the Facebook page for it.. I am on my second edition and things are going great.

We lost a grandfather Mac Noyes and I had the opportunity to grow in so many ways that several weeks. His passing was one of sweetness and peacefulness I have ever experienced. I am grateful for that experience and know that my mother is only inches away from me in times of pain.

We are looking to the future with optimism and expect the road to be paved with many boulders as well. We plan on getting out of our Apartment and moving into a home by Next March and then focus on families and friends! Line upon Line...

The future of winter looms over our head, the coldness begins, and the trial of long winters presses upon many people that depend on warm days not cold days. That is why we have the best holidays are that time of year, to get our spirits up and feeling good in the long dreary winters.

I leave you now and hope all is well, Linda and I always are up to something and spending time with her each day is a true blessing in my life. I hope that she always remembers that!!! Peace out!