"I Got Called on a Mission!"

My brother Jake, just received his Mission call to.... Chicago, Illinois. He will be speaking Spanish! We are all really excited for him. He is just moving a little closer to US!! Yea! We are already trying to think of reasons that we need to go there, just so that by some slim chance we can see him. We are really sad that he is leaving before we get to see him again. He leaves for the MTC in November, and we won't be home until December. We thought for sure he wouldn't leave before Christmas but we were wrong! We sure are proud of you Jake! We love you so much, good luck getting ready.

A Little About Our Family

I was tagged by Catlin so here it goes...

Eight habits/facts about our family:

1. Marcus has to eat right when he wakes up, if I try and do anything else he really gets mad, he just has to have his bowl of rice krispies and raspberry jam!

2. I can't stand feet! I don't know why, but if anyone puts their feet by me, I cringe.

3. If Marcus takes a toy away from Tyson, he will really scream, if anyone else does he doesn't get too mad.

4. Brian hates it when people sit at a booth and they are both on the same side with nobody else on the other side of them.

5. Marcus has a habit of closing doors, if we are all ready to go downstairs he looks around, sees his bedroom door open, and then goes back to his bedroom and closes the door. It really is pretty cute!

6. It drives me crazy when people have their turning signal on and they are not turning!

7. Tyson will scream every time I take him out of the bath...he really loves his baths.

8. Brian will often enjoy a good bowl of cold cereal in the middle of the night.

I tag anyone who looks at this!

"I'm a Big Boy Now!"

This past weekend our neighbors gave us a toddler bed, I don't know how we got so blessed! Well, so far it has been wonderful! The first night he just kept waking up, I don't think he knew where he was, but since then he has been doing great! We are so proud of Marcus! Well see how he continues to do. Hopefully he will stay in bed, we'll see!

"It's Raining It's Pouring..."

We haven't lived in Minnesota very long, but I think that it is safe to say that you never know what you are going to get! We were planning on good weather tonight, but instead we got a down poor (that river is usually our sidewalk). It was a little after Brian had gotten home from getting Grandpa, and we started to get lighting and a whole lot of rain. We were sure glad that we could stay in for the rest of the night! Brian and Grandpa ended up getting a lot of work done and I thought it was pretty fun to see father and son on their laptops.

Grandpa's Here!

Grandpa came to visit! Marcus has been looking forward to Grandpa coming for a while now, (okay we all have), and now he finally made it! We went to his hotel this morning and Marcus had a lot of fun being with Grandpa. Grandma sent Marcus and Tyson this really fun book with all of his Aunts and Uncles who love him very much. He still knows them all really well. We went back to the hotel after Grandpa was done with all of his meetings, and went to the pool. Marcus was really excited to get into his boat and splash around with his favorite blue goggles. Tyson was sure glad to be with his Grandpa!

YOU DID IT!

Congratulations Jill! Today my sister, Jill ran in the Top of Utah Marathon! That is something I have always dreamed of doing…running a marathon. I still hope to accomplish this task sometime in my life; I’ll just have to get in a little better shape! Jill has always been really adventurous, she is always up to something fun, she just wants to get up and get going. She found out about the marathon a little late but really wanted to run in it, so she just got up and got going. Well I sure love you Jill, you will always be my hero and you don’t have to keep running marathons, you were my hero way before that!

Fun at Grandma's!

These pictures are from before we even moved, but my sister just sent them to me and I think they are great! Marcus and Tyson have always loved going to Grandma's house and this really captures how they feel! Nothing can beat Grandma's! Thanks for sending them Lora!