May 08

Dear Friends and Family,

As most of you already know we are moving to Utah and trying to sell our home in Greenleaf so the Greenleaf Post name needed to change. I'm thinking of "The Packer Times". I know that there are other "Packers" reading this - so I hope they are OK with me using that name. If not - let me know.

OK, here is the latest and greatest on our house. We haven't sold it yet but we have had a few showings finally. We are offering a commission to anyone who helps us sell it. You can forward people to our website www.21048tucker.info or www.400000horse.com BUT have them contact us vs. the Realtor. If we sell it ourselves I can sell it for less and offer a commission of $5k to whomever helps us sell it. If it goes through the Realtor they get all that $. So, if you know anyone who would love a great property for a great deal in Greenleaf - send them our way!

I'm still loving my job here at ZAGG (www.zagg.com). I am very busy, which is a tender mercy because I don't get so lonely. I'm going on 3 months of living down here during the week and coming home on the weekends. So, for all you dads who get to come home each night... cherish your time with your kids and give them lots and lots of hugs. It is a blessing to be together as a family and I hope I never take that for granted!

Lareen and the kids are doing well. Lareen is also staying extremely busy which helps in many ways except for sleep. She now has to run Logan to Seminary at 6am (formerly my job) come back to the house (a 30 minute round trip) get our kids ready and then most of the time she brings them to school and runs her errands, shops and works out at the gym on that trip so that (hopefully) she isn't running to town much again. We are really loving these gas prices - NOT! Fortunately, everyone is doing well in school and their activities - but the activities have been cut. Emma and Jarom both gave up their sports for this spring to hep with our sanity with only Lareen at home. Jarom with Baseball and Emma with Soccer - I was supposed to be her coach :-(

Lareen has really been getting a lot of great stuff done on the home and on Saturdays when I come home I try to help get stuff done as well. Funny, now that we are moving we are getting tons of stuff done that we should have done long ago. Oh well. The house does look great right now so we are trying to do all we can to help the Lord bless us. We are praying and know that there are many others praying to that our home will sell so - if we are to act in faith - we'd better do all we can to help in that process.

This past weekend we went to Idaho Falls (I drove the motorhome up from Utah and Lareen and the kids drove the van over from Boise) and we stayed outside of my parents assisted living center. It was good to see so many family. My niece was married Friday and had her reception that night so we were able to see my brother's family from Kirtland Ohio that we don't get to see as much. It was also great to be there with my Mom for mother's day. On Saturday we just went and did our own thing so that we could spend some quality time as our own family unit and "fill our buckets" with each other's love. It was nice to just have a nice relaxing day together. We needed that.

We sold our motorhome to ZAGG and have it wrapped in signage. So it is now the ZAGGbus! The great part about that is that we can still use it for our Church History tour this summer but ZAGG will pay for the gas since we will be advertising for them all along the way as a giant rolling billboard. We will also incorporate a few marketing activities along the way to help accelerate the marketing push. It was our maiden voyage to drive it up to IF and back and it does garner attention. I'll show photos after the unveiling.

Thank you for your prayers and friendship.

Love,

Brian, Lareen, Logan, Jarom, Hannah & Emma Packer