Home Again

We are home from our trip - it was wonderful!
Two weeks of clean sheets every night, no cooking, and spending time with David,
Kim and Alan were the best travel companions, even when Kim cam down with a cold.

Thanksgiving and Christmas seemed so far away in the beautiful tropical weather.
It was so strange to see Christmas trees and light up being put up in the city squares of San Juan,PR.

My favorite places were Huatulco, Mexico, Costa Rica, Aruba and San Juan. I loved having a balcony in our stateroom. And watching the ship come and go from the ports.

The Panama Canal was very interesting. I had forgotton how many locks we would go through, and that there is a huge man-made lake in the middle of the canals.

I have too many memories to write here, but here are a few of the pictures we took along the way.

Grandpa and Addie watch as the kids ice skate in Sun Valley.

We went on many walks from our condo to the Sun Valley Inn. Addie had to hold her flowers as w went down the hill.

Ice Skating in the middle of the summer! The weather was great, not too hot this day. The ice skating rink was out side.
Matts gave Dad a good workout at the tennis court. But Dad was tough player.

Wow! what a spring and summer we have had this year. I told you about our trip to Jonathan's Mission. That seems like years have gone by since then, but in reality it has only been months.

Jonathan is back in summer school and he is busier than he wants to be with all of the homework, but he is doing great.

Matts has not been home much, and he would like to spend more time with his friends, but he has one more week away before he can stay home. Next week he will be in Provo for EFY. But before he is away for a week, he gets to ride on the float our stake made for the 24th of July Parade. He is not thrilled to be on the float, but it will be an experience he'll remember the rest of his life.

We had 2 wonderful weeks with Katie and Addie,( Reed has with us the whole week in Sun Valley.) I have missed hearing Addie's voice early in the morning. I went through withdrawls the last few days. We get to see them today! Yea!!

Studio 5 Family Tree Magnet Board

Studio 5 Family Tree Magnet Board

Hi, I can not get the picture to come up for the Family Tree, so if you log onto the Studio 5 website, you can see it. It is a magnetic board that you glue the paper (you choose what you like) and then a tree with pictures of your family members pictures are made out of glass "marbles" and magnets. It is cute and easy.

I will get the papers, magnetic boards, etc. if you are interested. Let me know by next Wednesday.

Trip Pictures

Jonathan with his Mission President and Sister Seal in front of the Mission Home. The President and His wife come home next week.

We had a fun time visiting them and we were lucky enough to be there when another Missionary and his family happened to come by! The other missionary is from Rupert, ID and they know our cousins very well.

This is along the river in Tulsa. There is a walk way and sculptures of animals along the way. This also the Route 66 sign.

Jonathan visiting a new member's shop for unusual animals.

Visiting Will Rogers' Museum - "I never meet a man I did not like."

" Little House on the Prairie" house.

Oklahoma City Memorial for the bombing of the Federal Building.

Matts and Jonathan checking out the "Snooer Schooner" on the campus of the University of Oklahoma.

June 20th

Hi, I wrote a whole page full of details about our trip to visit the Tulsa, Oklahoma Mission, and hit the wrong button, and lost everything!

I'll start again - the pictures I posted before where of Jonathan coming home and Kellie's Wedding. Since then we went on a wonderful trip to Jonathan's mission. We flew into Oklahoma City and began our 1500 mile drive around the 4 corners of Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas.

Jonathan was able to see some of his favorite members, go out with the Missionaries, have dinner with 2 families, pray at a baptism of a family he helped convert, went to Church in Fayetteville, AK and more.

When you see the kids ask them about our dinner in Springfield, MO. We went to dinner at Lambert's, and they throw rolls at the tables while you eat dinner.

Sarah was a good sport, she ended up sleeping on sofabeds or roll out beds in most of the hotels we stayed in - Jonathan did end up sleeping on the floor one night. But all in all we had a wonderful time.

See you later, Laurie

P.S. If I can find the pictures, I'll post them later.

Welcome Home Jonathan!

On the Temple Grounds, waiting for Kellie !

Kellie's dinner at the Johnson's home.

At the Temple Grounds again.