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!!