Pennsylvania Trip

We are in Pennsylvania to visit Kyle's oldest sister Taralie for 10 days before school starts. I have never met their kids before and have only seen his sister and and her husband a few times so it is fun being able to hang out with them. Kyle's parents came a few days before us. We drove through Amish country and saw them on their horses and buggies. I'm kind of jealous of their simple lifestyle, but at the same time couldn't imagine living the way they do.

All of us

Milking a cow (harder than it looks)

Janzie and Jacie



Jamin hugging his friend

Jaylie and Jamin

We went to D.C. and saw a few monuments and museums. We got there kind of late so almost everything was closed and driving around was a nightmare.

The Smithsonian Natural History Museum

I am so glad dinosaurs don't exist anymore. They were so HUGE!

Janzie and Jacie! Love these girls!

The Washington Monument with Jaylie, Jamin, Janzie and Jacie.

The Capital Building with Jaylie and Janzie (excuse my hair...the wind was blowing)


The Washington Monument again from the other side with Jaylie and Jamin. They are redoing the reflection pool so it wasn't there which was sad but oh well what can you do.

The Lincoln Memorial. I don't know why Kyle thinks he can make these kind of faces in our pictures, but that's why I love him!

On the way back to Pennsylvania we stopped at the D.C. Temple which was AMAZING. So pretty!!

Back in 2 (continued)

I feel like I was just posting pictures from when we dropped Derek off at the MTC and now it's Mike's turn. I miss him so much already and it's only been a few days. Hopefully the time goes by fast just like it has with Derek who has already been out for a year.







After we dropped Mike off I stayed with my mom and we took my grandma to the zoo. We also took my cute little cousins who LOVED looking at all the animals (and the cotton candy).

Michael's Farewell

Today was Michael's farewell. We are taking him to the MTC on Wednesday. I didn't take any pictures, but Kyle took these of my dad on his phone. My dad went to change after church and came out with orange shorts and a royal blue shirt (Florida Gator colors) after many laughs and teasing from everyone he went back into the room and changed into an orange shirt. After we teased him some more he went and got his "hat that matched." No joke he thought he looked cool. Then to make it worse we found a picture of him and 3 of his friends all wearing these ridiculous outfits while golfing.
Come on dad.......Really?!?!

Last Hoorah

Well my first year of teaching is over. The year went by really fast! I get to do it all over again in 3rd grade next year which is already stressing me out, but i'm trying to put it in the back of my mind and just enjoy these next few months I have off. I have big plans to get a lot of projects finished so hopefully the months don't go by too fast. Michael is getting ready to leave in a few weeks so for his birthday we all went down to Mesquite and ate at Katherine's and then went bowling. It got a little competitive especially when my dad starting putting money on the line. It was fun to reminisce about all the fun times my family used to have bowling all night. From 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. every weekend you could find us at the Virgin River bowling alley.

He wouldn't smile so I had to help him out a little bit


Winning Team!


Pops (professional bowler got 7 strikes in a row!!!)


Nikki and Chad


Mike and Kylee (we will be kidnapping her and locking her in our house for two years until Michael gets back)

Michael's Mission Call

Mike opened his mission call back in January (or maybe February) so many of you already know the news, but here is a post for those of you who don't know yet.

Buenos Aires Argentina South. He leaves June 15th....not sure why he decided to use a gigantic knife to open it, but whatever.

Working Hard

Derek spreading the gospel to Everyone and Everything!

Happenings....

October sure did fly by pretty quick. A couple of weeks before Halloween, Kyle's sister Jamie had a murder mystery party. It was pretty fun getting dressed up and trying to figure out who was the murderer.





A couple days before Halloween we went to Thriller at Tuachan. It was awesome!



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Kyle's sister in law, well i guess my sister in law too, went through the temple a few nights ago and her and Kyle's brother are getting sealed tomorrow. Here's some pics of the fam.