A Quick Getaway

Padres!!!!

Padre at the Padres game, look at that smile!

Lucky boy, he won a hat an caught a ball


Hotel Del

Jake all dressed up at the Mormon Battalion

Cute Boys!

Maddi and Jake at the Whaley house

Point Loma lighthouse stairs


Point Loma

Maddi snapping pix

Majestic... ha ha

Point Loma Tide Pools

Pushing rocks into the ocean

Baseball on the beach, it's tradition

Mitch getting photo bombed by a cute girl on the beach

Diggin in the sand

Jake boogie boarding

Silly Thomas

Model shot

Maddi and Thor at the beach



Thumbs up to the beach!

Wait, did they charge us too much at In and Out in Barstow????

The Monday after Mitch got home we threw him in the car and headed to the beach. I knew that as soon as he got home that he would be whisked away by his cute friends and with the other kids going back to school in 2 weeks I wanted some time with the family. No distractions.It was awesome to have him confined to the car where we could hear his mission stories and just be together again. Now that we are home an school has started I am so thankful we got away. It was so fun and we are so lucky to have grandparents in St.George and San Diego that let us crash at their houses!Thank you thank you thank you!!
We had fun at the beach and Maddi took us to Old Town where we went to the Whaley house. It is suposed to be the most haunted in America. We didn't see any ghosts that day though. We went to the Mormon Battalion visitors center and Jake got to dress like a Battalion member. So fun! The best part was Grandma and Grandpa treated us to a Padres game and the Padres won! It was awesome! We went to Hodad's in downtown SD. I HIGHLY reccommend this if you are ever in San Diego. One new cool thing we did was go see the Hotel Del Coronado for the first time. It is a new goal of mine to stay there someday! It is beautiful!!Mitch said it was just a place for rich people to show off how much money they have. I don't care I still want to go there someday!
We ended up in St. George for a couple of days at the pool with Mema and Grandpa and even went out and played tennis, well Kevin played the rest of us just looked stupid. Ha ha

Elder Mitch returns!

The family back together again!!!

These pictures got mixed up... Mom got the first hug!!!



All the buddies with the last man to return from the mission field. Such awesome boys!!!

Thomas jumping for joy before going to the airport.

After two years that I never thought would end, we finally welcomed Elder Mitch back home! It was such a fun day. To see him finally come down that escalator was awesome!The airport was full of friends and family to welcome him home. He has changed a lot in some ways, he is so grown up and came home with a strong testimony and strong legs( he walks really fast!) he has a little spanish accent.In other ways he is still the same, still teasing his siblings and still so funny. The homecoming was great,Kevin's Mom was able to fly in to hear him speak in church ( after having to miss her original flight because she got sick) and it was fun to have her here for that. No pictures from that day though because I forgot to charge my camera.Ugh
The mission was an awesome experience for him and our family. It has been the best thing he could have ever done, but it is so fun to have him back and have the whole family in the house again, even if it is a little wild and crazy at times. It is the best thing ever. I don't even want to think of how little time there is before Thomas goes on a mission. Yikes!!

Happy Birthday to my 2nd baby

Where did the time go? I can't believe my two oldest are so old! Maddi celebrated her 19th birthday. Her actual birthday was the day of Mitch's homecoming so we decided to celebrate the week before. Maddi and I went on a girls day ( actualy 2 days because with her work we couldn't fit it in all in one day) I took her to get a manicure and pedicure and then went shoping one day. The next day we went to see a movie she wanted to see and lunch. Of course we topped it all off with her favorite thing, chocolate cake. Hard to believe she will be starting her 2nd year of college soon. Why does time move so fast!
Happy Birthday Mavis!!!

One Week

Elder Mitch will be home exactly one week from today. So exciting! It doesn't seem real yet. I thought it would be a little less stressful getting ready for him to come home, but I was wrong. So much to do so little time, so much going on. Only 7 more days! Wahoo!

Peruvian Festival

Jake wanted to stop at the Peruvian store and pick up some Inca Cola. It is gross and tastes like bubble gum. He loves it!

Thomas and his plate of picarones

The gross cookies

Last weekend was the Peru Festival. Thomas and Jacob were nice enough to come with me. We went to see if they were selling any Peruvian stuff we could get to put in Mitchell's room. I put most of his baseball stuff he had on his walls in Jakes room when he left so his walls are a bit bare. They didn't have any thing cool, just a lot of food. We got some cookies that were gross and tried a fried thing that looked like onion rings with no onion in the middle and a sweet syrup over the top. They were called picarones. Fun to try but I was not a fan. Thomas figured out we were probably the only ones there not speaking Spanish ( I should have made Kevin go) It was fun to go and Mitchell will love going next summer!

Scout Camp

Holding a Lord of the Rings replica sword

He LOVED shooting arrows!

He was a pretty good shot with the bb guns too

Eating lunch with a buddy

Jacob got to go to scout camp this week. Kevin got to go with him ( he was super excited about that ha ha ) Jacob had a great time shooting bb guns, bow and arrows and playing ultimate frisbee and getting dirty. He had a blast!

ONE!!!!!!

Sunshine T shirt and all the boys are awaiting his return.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the final rose...No I am not talking about the Bachelor. I have a sweet friend that after the first month Mitch was gone she brought me a rose, then 2 roses after 2 months, 3 after 3 and so on until 12 then she went backwards. This month she brought me one rose again, the final one! it was so sweet of her to do this, she never missed a month.




O.K here we go. Finally down to the last month, the last 4 weeks, the last 30 days!
It is so exciting to think that Elder Sheridan will be home in such a short time. I am counting down the days but also a little stressed over all the things that need to be done in the next month. I unpacked his boxes of clothes and treasures this week to start washing them and getting his room ready. I did cry a couple of times when I pulled a favorite t shirt out of the box, like his purple t shirt with the Kellogg's sunshine on it ha ha.
We are all SO excited to get him back home. His mission has been an awesome experience for him and has changed him so much. It has also been an awesome experience for our family. I am a little sad that the experience is coming to an end but as I read his letter this week about him eating sugarless oatmeal for lunch because that is all he had, I am ready to get him home and make him some of his favorite things, hug him and just be able to hear his laugh ( even though Thomas now sounds just like Mitchell).
So in just 30 short days the day I thought would take forever to get here will be here. Let the party begin!