CHRISTIAN
In August Christian was ordained an Elder along with 4 others in his priests quorum. All these boys are moving on to bigger and better challenges. Brady, Ben, Loren, Kyle and Christian.
Christian has moved into the Helaman dorms and is in BYU heaven. Seriously, I have never seen him so happy and excited about life. He loves the guys in his dorm, the sporting events, the cute girls, the happy atmosphere and hopefully his classes. We visited him for Labor day weekend and asked him if he needed anything from home that he had forgotten...he said, "Yes! I would love my tennis racquet, a volleyball and a football." We hope he remembers to study.
EMILY
In August Emily performed in "Broadway Revue". She sang "Vanilla Ice Cream" and in the finale she played Mary Poppins and sang "Supercalifragilistic" She was adorable.
On August 18th Emily entered the Missionary Training Center where she is preparing to serve an 18 month mission on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Her best buddy from childhood, Morgan, will also be going on a mission: leaving in October for Ecuador. We love these girls and will miss them! Can't wait to hear all about their uplifting adventures. If you want to follow Emily's mission letters, just click on her picture to the right and it will go to her mission blog.
50
In July, we celebrated Mike's 50th Birthday! Wow, what a wonderful milestone. Mike is such a wonderful husband and father and we love him so much! Looking forward to 50 more wonderful years.
BETHANY and SEAN
After a wonderful whirlwind wedding, our newlyweds are getting settled into their first apartment. They had an amazing honeymoon in Costa Rica and then went to Texas to pick up beautiful furniture provided by Sean's mom. We are excited to see what the future holds for this new family.
Hello! It's David and Maria's daughter. I got your blog url off of your Christmas letter that I read at my parents' house last year. Congratulations to your family on all the milestones taking place right now.
ReplyDeleteFunny thing - I can tell by the apartment number on Bethany and Sean's door that they are in our old ward that Steven and I lived in when we were first married! We were in apartment 234, which is the same building but other stairwell. It was a great ward. It was the first home our son knew, so it holds a special place in my heart (he just turned 1 last week). We were there until last November, so there might still be a few families that we knew. I laughed out loud when I saw that. :) What are the chances, eh?
Major milestones in your life. Fun to read and see pictures of everyone. So glad you have a blog!
ReplyDeleteSo fun to read your comments and see all the fun and busy things going on. Love you!!
ReplyDeleteThose are BIG milestones. You have such an amazing family Marie!
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