I love my family...

Not only did I get to see Craig when we went home to Washington, but we got to see almost all of my mom's side of the family, and some of Jaron's family. We don't have too many pictures, but I was so happy seeing all my cousins and aunts and uncles again. And we had a lot of family friends come for the weekend as well. It was so much fun! I don't have any pictures from Sunday when everyone was there, but these are from Saturday night.

Craig and Papa.

Craig, Papa, Shirley, Aunt Steph, Uncle Fred, Me

Rick, Lisa, Jaron, and Abel & Marsha Garcia.

All the teenagers.

Hopefully I'll have more pictures to post from Sunday.

Return With Honor

My little brother is finally home! Craig has been serving a 2 year mission, for our church, in Paraguay. We are so excited to have him home again. It was fun seeing how much he's grown up and matured while he's been gone, and we loved listening to his stories.

Here is Craig at the MTC two years ago.

I have so many pictures of us waiting at the airport for Craig...but I thought this one was funny. I don't think we were making these weird faces on purpose either. For some reason it took FOREVER for Craig's plane to land. Jaron and Dad finally started walking around and ended up finding Craig first, mom was not happy to miss the first hug! Jenn and I had to go to the bathroom, but we were afraid we'd miss Craig...finally we RAN to find one.

Yes, we were in a hurry...but we took the time to stop and take a picture.

Mom finally gets her hug, and it lasted about 20 min. We had to pry her off so we could welcome him home too!

My turn!

I thought this we a funny picture too...Craig was asking about cell phones and we all took ours out to show him.

As soon as we got home from the airport and had some food, we went home and had 2nd Christmas! We left the tree up and saved all our presents for Craig, so he got to have Christmas with the family....sort of. He also had lots of fun stuff for us as well.

Here I am trying the Matte' (no idea how to spell that) that all the missionaries come home talking about from South America. No offense, but I was not a fan. It was a fun trip, and I was so glad to see my brother. We love you Craig!