Going Home!!!

I never imagined how excited I would be to go home for a visit. June 8th I got to go for the first time since we moved out here. When Mom left she took Mirra and Mason with her so the trip was me and Merrik on one flight and Jacob came on another flight. He didn't decide he was going to take the time for the trip until later. The first thing we did when we got there was go and Visit Hayley and the kids.

The kids always love playing there and we got to introduce them to Merrik.

The next few days were full of lots of family and fun. All of my brothers and sisters got together at Uncle Franks for a reunion planned by Lora. We went and saw the hot air balloons go up, ate at the fire station,some went to seven peaks, and lots of playing.

Lora made us all tea shirts with our family motto on them "walk on" we even got a family picture taken which is really hard to do.

We had so much fun that it was hard to have everyone leave. Jacob had to leave that Sunday and missed his flight. He got to stay one more day... Me and the kids stayed for 2 more weeks. it went way too fast though. There were so many things to do while we were there and I didn't get all of it done. I got to go to dinner with friends and see a couple of friends but there were so many others that I didn't get time with. We did get to spend time with the family though and play a lot with baby Dean. He is so cute. Mason loved him almost as much as he loves Merrik.

The hardest part was saying good bye. Mirra cried and cried. The best part was that Dad took the evening off from work. He usually has to work a lot of hours at work that week for mission presidents conference but took the night off to spend time with us. It was so nice. We didn't do much but it was good to spend time with them. Heidi and Mathew came over really late as well to say good bye and Becca was around for the evening too.