It's been awhile, and thank you for your guesses and support! As I'm sure you know, I will be serving in the Mexico, Mexico City East Mission for the next 2 yrs. starting Jan. 21! Here's a couple of pictures to show ya first hand. It's nice to know I've been born into such a wonderful family.

Ethan May be getting his mission call today so we wanted to get in on the lottery:

Cami ($1): Japan
Paul ($1): Asia (I guess Brianna and I are the only smart ones choosing WHOLE continents): but I guess if I had to narrow it down a little I would have to say Thailand.
Katelynn ($1): She says "Ai yi" which means "aunt" in Chinese so I guess she is saying China

-We will be using Paypal to pay for these guesses, or since Mark and Marianne have been so lucky to handle some things for us in the states you can just get it from them :)

Our guess for Ethan's mission call

Andrea: Dominican Republic
Kenny: Finland
William: Disneyland (California)
Jerome: Montana
Anne: Italy

William's Broken Arm

We finally had our first broken bone. William was helping Grandpa put up the Halloween decorations. They were moving some haybales with the truck to the front of the driveway. William said Grandpa was taking a short cut and the hay started to fall. William fell off onto his hands and knees. But the hay didn't stop falling and fell on top of William's right arm. Grandma was hoping it wasn't really broken, but the x-ray showed a clean, straight break that should heal quick. As soon as we walked into the hospital, William started crying about not getting shots. He had just gotten his kindergarten shots earlier in October. Every nurse and doctor he saw he asked if they were going to give him a shot. He finally got an IV so they could give him morphine before putting on the splint. It took 4 tries to get the IV in his arm because he wiggled too much. With a broken arm and an IV, he couldn't bend his arms and his nose kept itching, so we had to scratch it for him. But when he was done, he got a couple suckers and a trip to McDonalds.



William in the ER after getting his splint on.




Ready to go home with his sling!



Finally found a shirt to fit for church.

Where is Eman going?

Dan -($1) Florida, USA
Kelli - ($1) Russia
Allison ($1) Pacific Islands
Brianna($1) Africa

Ethan's Mission Call Lottery

Hey, Let's do the lottery on here, just so we can all coordinate and sees where Eph is going. Just post it in the comments or do a new post.

Taylor-($1) England
Wendy-($1)Mexico
Chloe-($1)Argentina
Sophie-($1)The Philippines

Emma & Mattie-($2) France
Sam- ($1) Vancouver Canada
Tom- ($1) Ontario Canada
Keriann- ($1) Everett Washington

Mark - ($1) Australia
Marianne - ($1) Atlanta GA
Holland - ($1) Brazil
Cate - ($1) Russia
Caleb - ($1) South Africa
Taylor - ($1) Viva Costa Rica


Anyone can participate.

Coming Home From School

As I learned this weekend, I find great joy when others are hurt because they find themselves in precarious situations. Like when Taylor fell down the spiral stairs with a cast on b/c he couldn't catch himself and when Robin tried to do a front flip and ended up landing on her face spread eagle b/c she backed out at the last minute. I laugh every time I think of those things.

So this afternoon I was taking a shower (finally) and I thought about Mattie coming home from school and I was laughing my head off (the girls have to walk about a half mile from the bus stop). So I had to take some pictures to share with you. For some of you this may be reminiscent of Ethan coming home from school.

Coming up the steps:

I love her face in this one.

AHHH Sweet Relief......

Tell me if you laughed as well.