Drum roll please... and he is going to...

My family had a very big weekend. My baby brother turned his mission papers in two weeks ago. A week ago Sunday, David called and told us the bishop told him that his mission call had left Church Head quarters that Friday. So we thought that he would get it on Monday. I waited till 11:30 and called my mom to see if the mail had come yet. Nope I called again at 12:30, 2:30, finally at 4 she called and said no letter today. Tuesday, same thing, no letter. Wednesday, no letter again. How can this be? They live 20 minutes from church head quarters. David could have driven up there and gotten it a lot faster. So we thought, ok maybe next Wednesday. Well on Thursday my mom called and said he got it! Carl and I were planning on going up to be there when he opened it. We were also planning on going up there again the same weekend to help get things finished for my other brother's wedding this coming weekend. So when we found out he got it on Thur day we were thinking that we were going to have to drive up Thursday night, come home Friday morning at 5am to make it back for work, and then go back up Friday night to help with wedding preparations. David, decided that would be way too much driving for us, so he said he would wait to open it on Friday night when we got there. Amazing!

Friday we got there and then we had to wait for everybody else to get there. So to make a long story short he opened it, and he is going to....... Brazil, Portuguese speaking. Sorry I can't remember the name of the mission, but I do know that it is on the coast of Brazil and that it gets 15" of rain in July.

We also got to go through the Draper Temple with David for his first time that Saturday. He wanted to be able to be at the Sealing of our other brother this coming weekend. So ya, big weekend for us. David had a lot to take in in less that 24 hours, and as always he took it in stride and did a great job!

I am so proud of you bud! You are going to make one amazing missionary!

Ok... I might be spoiled!

Some people have said this about me before, but I might have to agree with them after this month. I actually got to go to Disneyland twice in April. I know, please don't hate me! My Aunt and uncle asked My sister, Misty, if she would go with them to Disneyland to help with the kids. My aunt asked Misty if she thought I could go and Misty said she would asked. She asked me , and thanks to my wonderful boss, Kim, I was able to take a whole week off work and go back down to California! The one bad thing about this trip was that Carl stayed home and I went with out him. :( It was a whole 8 days away form each other. I don't think we will do that again. But he was supportive and let me go, thanks Hon!
This trip we stayed in Newport Beach at a resort right across the street from the Ocean. The view was amazing. We went to Disneyland for 4 days, the beach one day (it was a lot warmer this time), and LA another day, ate, swam, and relaxed. It was so much fun to be with my sister just being able to hang out. Thanks Mist for asking and thinks Mary and Andrew for letting me come with you guys! Also another good thing about this trip is that they have a 6 month baby and I held him every second i got the chance. I am not kidding I had major withdrawals when I got home! :) Here are a few pics of the trip. Misty has a lot more than i do, so hope you like what I have.





I would post some pictures of the cute kids, but I am not sure if my aunt and uncle would be ok with it, so you just get me and my sis.

Here are a few pictures of me at the beach, notice the difference between these pictures and the ones below from 3 weeks before?


That's right my skin actually got to see the sun this time! The weather was awesome! The water was still freezing, but I was brave and got in the water this time. After acclimating myself to the water it was fine. I even went boogie boarding!

Our hotel was only 5 minuets from the Newport Beach temple, so we went and saw it. It was beautiful!


This is a view from our balcony at the hotel. The beach was right there! It was so beautiful.

Thanks for letting me tell you about my vacations this month, I promise I usually go nowhere! :)

Disneyland for Easter

Ok I am way behind, as usual on my blog. But I finaly have something fun to write about. : )

Carl and I went on vacation with his whole family. We went to visit his sister and her family for Easter break. Carl's mom took us all to Disneyland for 2 days. We had a blast! Thanks mom. We got to stay with Carl's sister Renee and her Husband Gary and their kids. Thanks guys for lettings us crash at your house! We also went to the beach (but it was freezing) and celebrated Easter. We had a great trip. I wish that I knew how to get the pictures flipped the right way. : )











As you can tell by my pictures the weather was not to warm when we went to the beach! I stayed wrapped up in my hoodie and the towels and blankets we brought. I didn't even get close to the water. However, my husband is a lot braver than me and he actually got in and went swimming! Crazy! Oh well it was still fun and as always the ocean was beautiful.