Months Have Gone By without a word.....

There has been a lot of life happening some worth mentioning and others not.  So the things worth mentioning are as follows.....

  Thad graduated this year from BYU and is now working in Philadelphia and living somewhere near there.  They bought a home and recently moved into it. Congratulations!!!  

Melissa graduated from High School this last May. 

Congratulations to her too!!!!  

Melissa and her friends

Melissa and her friends that she graduated from school with.

 I drove back east with Emma and picked up Bekki to bring home.   We went to the East Coast and back in 6 days.  I had never been there.  It was fun to see so many sights so very quickly. 

The water is warmer than the West Coast.

 We stopped in Pennsylvania and visited Thad and Andrea.  It was very green.

Addie and Brooklyn had fun playing with the dogs.  Bekki's dogs.

It was a long 3 day drive home.....ughhh

We went target shooting and learned how to aim and fire.   Some hit the target and others didn't.  But we did look GOOD!!!

 We survived the summer heat because we had a nice swimming pool. The main swimmers were Lydia, Evelyn and myself.  It was very refreshing after a days work. 

Ruth, Emma, Mason, and those who live at home were able to go camping before school began.  We went to 3 different campsites.  1 in Idaho and 1 in Oregon and 1 in Washington.  We stayed at the beach and had a blast!

While we were in Portland we were able to catch a ride on the train that Ryanna's Husband Tim drives.  Mason who loves trains was in heaven.  He even got to drive the train.  

This was a great summer and now it is time to go back to school. Lydia and Evelyn are ready to go .  Their first day back was August 22.   Lydia is in 10th and Evelyn is in 7th.  Her first year in Junior High.  

And just for information- We took Melissa to BYUI last Thursday and she started her first day of college today  September 10.

So far she is doing great.   Has made a lot of friends and we don't hear much from her.  No news is good news they say.