How could I forget the thing that has our whole family buzzing? This summer (August) is the 50th Wedding anniversary of Devin's parents, so they are coming to Utah! We are so excited. Devin will only be here for a short time, and his focus will be with his family, but we are hoping to be able to "steal" him for at least one evening so we can have a Newell family something or other also.
Kathy and the girls are planning to come in late July and spend 3 weeks here with us. The girl cousins especially are all excited to see Lauren, Lisee and Aunt Kathy again. We have moved our family camp out 1 week later in July so Kath and the girls can go with us. The timing was just right--it was about the only week in July that every family had open and McKenna and Peyton start school the following Monday since they attend a year-round school.
I looked and looked and finally found a group camp site still available. It is labeled as a Tent camping area. Since it is fairly close to Steve's, he tried to drive up earlier this week to see if the parking area will accomodate Mel and Curt's RV, Doug and Brynn's tent trailer, and Josh and Jamie's trailer/RV. However, when he went up, he could only go part way up the road and then got stopped by 12 inches of snow on the road. So, he'll try again in a few weeks and see if the road is open. We are so excited that they are coming. (We'll be more excited when they have their plane reservations!)
When we applied for a Mission Call, we felt like we wouldn't be able to go to Florida this year. (I wanted to go in August when Lauren turns 12.) After we got our call, we found that, as we hoped, rules are looser for our type of mission. So we won't have any problems with baptisms, missions "farewells"; baby blessings; birthdays, etc. So we could have gone in Florida, but the economy is dissolving my IRA and making us nervous. So we were ELATED with the Florida Ladle's plan to come for the Sr. Ladle's festivities. We are hoping, hoping, hoping that we get to see Mike and Annette also, as they are as dear to us as the rest of our kids.
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We will see what we can do. We hope we can spend a week and we are hoping that Robby and Brittany can join us or we can run up and see them. If I don't have a job I have put Mike on notice that I will be flying out early and plan to spend lots of time with the kids! Don't know which one to hope for most?? :-) We love you as well and I know the kids would love to see the family as well!
ReplyDeleteThanks mom! How fun to have a blog post dedicated to your family! : ) Can't wait to see you guys also! Lauren is beside herself with anticipation of the family camp out. I think we will freeze our booties off, but it's all good! I'll do it for the fam!
ReplyDeleteLove you!