Trip Home

We made the drive from Arizona to Washington and stopped to see children and grand-children along the way.  But we ran into snow everywhere.

Snow snow snow - in Utah, Idaho, and even Washington.  This is Nathanael at our first stop in Utah, clearing the snow off our car for us.  

 Jacob and Jonathan.  We got to spend several days with Nathanael and his family.

 We got a stuffed dinosaur for Jonathan for his second birthday.

 We had a lot of fun playing with the kids and got to attend one of Hannah's dance lessons.

We also got to visit Amery and see the new home that she just bought.  Jacob and Hannah came with us.

Agnes and Asher.   Our second stop was Idaho where we got to spend several days visiting with Joshua and his family, and got more snow.

 We watched the children for a few days while Joshua and Rebecca were off on a trip to Washington DC.  Everything went fine.  The only problem was Elliott being sick.  He spent most of the time sleeping and laying on the couch.  Poor little guy.

Asher and Jonathan both just love playing with balls.   We got Asher the same stuffed dinosaur for his second birthday.

 Julia putting on a magic show.

 Elliott and Christian playing with little people and a castle.

 We went to church with each family in Idaho and Utah and Washington respectively.  Notice the matching ties.

 We got to Spokane and there was snow there too.  We even went sledding at night with James and Ashton.

 They really like the snow.

 We did find one warm place to go, Tianna took us to an Arboretum.

 James with his good friend Connor.

 We saw some incredible orchids.

 And we watched Ashton play on his Ward team in a basketball game at the church.  He's good at the three point line.

 On the way home we also stopped in Las Vegas and stayed at the Luxor pyramid.

 We saw a show and two exhibits and walked around the Strip and also Downtown looking at the sights and had a buffet breakfast.  It was a nice stop.

 This is our hotel room, right in the pyramid.  You can see the wall on one side is slanted.

 We got home and even had snow here.  We got back in time to celebrate Spencer's sixth birthday.

 And Mallory's eleventh birthday.  They grow up so fast.

We also saw Talitha and Caleb when we got home.  It's good to be back.

Within a short period of time we saw 6 of our children and 17 grand-children. (Jacob, Hannah, Jonathan, Amery, Julia, Ethan, Christian, Elliott, Agnes, Asher, James, Ashton, Evan, Dallen, Andrew, Mallory, Spencer).