Brotherly love

Nothing much has changed around here.The brothers still wrestle and big big brother still wins.

New cars

The boys were both able to get their own cars this summer. So now our driveway is a car circus. We have to play musical cars each night to let the person who leaves first in the morning be in the back.Good thing we have 2 driveways. The funniest thing is that they both bought stick shift cars and Thomas learned first so he took it upon himself to teach Mitch.They are both doing great now!

Back to School

Holy cow, 5th grade!!!

Someone felt bad he wasn't invited to be in the back to school photo shoot.If you look close at the pix of Jacob you can see his face peeking through the window.

Stud!

Some girl came and decorated Thomas' car the first morning of school

Yuck, I hate back to school, that is all I have to say!

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!