Next Sunday.....

Next Sunday THIS cute missionary will be speaking in his home ward at church! It will be a 9:00am if you can come...

I am having a hard believing that he is really coming home on Wednesday. I beginning to have a hard time coming up with words that can describe my feelings. All I know is that it is a good thing that I have lots to do to keep myself busy!!

Getting an Education?

So.....

Jacquie came home this week! She just finished her first term of college at BYU. She lived with Marissa for the summer. Marissa has a great job on campus, so she has just been living and working in Provo.

Living with your sister as an adult (with no parents around) consists of good times and bad times. Yes, I've been texted or messaged when there have been disagreements. But, for the most part these two girls have had a great time together. No surprise because they always have fun when they are together. I'm pretty sure that they can make each other laugh like no other. I'm also pretty sure that they can make me laugh like no other.

I hope this makes you laugh too!!! :) I couldn't get it to upload on blogger, so you'll have to click on this link-- it will be worth it (and it's less than 2 minutes!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU6bTzfJ_iw

It brings me great comfort to know that they spend their time so wisely....

The days are dragging by....

1 week friends!

That is 7 days, 168 hours, 10,800 minutes, 604,800 seconds!!

How can I make the days go by faster???

Junior Miss a.k.a. Distinguished Young Women 2010

We had a fun week!! Last Sunday we were able to pick up our niece/cousin Paige for church. Paige was in Bakersfield for 2011 Distinguished Young Woman competition for the state of California!! This program was formerly known as America's Junior Miss. Paige was the winner last year for the state of California!!

Here's Andrea and me looking all pretty :)

Looks like Andrea and Riley found some new friends at The Crystal Palace. I think the lady in led is a little sketch... do you see how she is pulling up her dress to show her knees??? scandalous!

Anyway. Paige was awesome. It was fun to watch her. And we loved spending a little time with Uncle Paul and Aunt Susan too!

50 cents

So.

My little punk son, Riley, owed me $12.50. That's twelve dollars and FIFTY CENTS.

He's owed me this for a couple of days.

This morning he brought me the money. Here's what it looked like....

Ya.

See the problem???

I said, "Are you kidding me?"

and "What kind of nonsense is THIS?"

and "Who does this?"

He replied...

"Well mom. All you have to do is take that to the bank and they'll give you a full dollar for it."

"Who is this kid?" and "Where did he come from?" I thought. And thought.

13 DAYS!!

Only 13 days folks!!

That is less than 2 weeks and I can hardly stand it!! I've never been so excited to get up in the morning because it means we are one day closer to seeing Kevin. I'm just trying to keep myself super busy. (I wish it was a little harder to make up lists of things to do... I have SO much to do and SO little time to do it!!) I was also super excited to change the calendars to August.

Aren't you super excited too????

Young Men's Camp

Riley also just returned from a week in the mountains. He is a member of the teachers' quorum. They camped from Saturday to Saturday. They left from the main camp to hike Mount Langley (elevation 14,027 feet!) in the middle of the week. They even held church in the mountains-- thus the white shirts and ties!!
I know these boys had lots of fun :)

Here they are with their fearless leaders ready to embark on their 3 day journey to conquer Mt Langley! Good times!

Riley was also fortunate to do some repelling while at the main camp. He LOVED it!! He returned tired, smelly, and coughing! (Nothing some antibiotics won't fix though!) A big thank you to all the great leaders who took them on a great adventure. They are ready to take on Mt. Whitney now :)