Bittersweet weekend!!!

What a week I had! My mom McKayla and me left Wednesday morning and drove to West Haven, Ut where my aunt Michelle lives. The drive went pretty fast and it’s super nice to have three drivers to rotate! The next day my family and Michelle’s family went down to Lagoon (a huge amusement park) and met the Beck family there who also had Stephen! Stephen stayed down there the previous week. That day was SO HOT! But it was a lot of fun! I took my motion sickness pills and had my pressure point wristbands and I was ready to go! It was super fun to spend time with family there.

 

McKayla and Rachel headed to Lagoon!

IsaBelle and McKayla on the sky ride!

 

Me and Steve!

Some of the rides we went on!!!

MY FAVORITE!!!

Wicked

Blast off and Rocket!

Colossus!

That evening we all headed back to Michelle’s house and waited for the rest of the gang to show up! We were having a family reunion at her house. My mom is 1 out of 11 kids so there was going to be a full house that weekend! For the next two days we all spent time outside at a water park, played volleyball, ate lots of food, talked, played games, ate some more, played lacrosse, played on a huge bouncy waterslide in Michelle’s backyard, and had a great time. I was so exhausted after the first day that I was super tired and out of it the rest of the days! It was fun and nice to spend time with all my family. This was also the last time for two years to spend time with my cousins Tyson and Jaiden. So it was nice to make some more fun memories with them. 

Went to Logan Saturday and got to spend some time with my grandparents. My grandma is still struggling with cancer and isn’t improving, but she’s still hanging in there. My grandpa just got a pace maker put in his heart also. So it was nice to see them for a little. As a family (my dad came up) we went to the Logan fair and walked around for a bit and that was nice! I went to bed early that night and we woke up at 5:45 to get ready and leave to make it in time to Jaiden’s farewell all the way in Aberdeen, ID. Made it there early and all I can say is that his talk was soo good and I knew and felt that he was going to change many lives and be a great missionary! There was a luncheon afterwards and then most of the family left to go home. My dad and Stephen headed home right after and my mom took Shana back to Logan so she could then head to the airport with a friend to fly back to Dallas, and then my mom came back to Aberdeen were us girls stayed the night. That night was full of tired jokes, lots and lots of laughs, and some more time with my cousins. It was hard for me that night when I realized that I wouldn’t see Jaiden for quite a while. I am so proud of him that he is serving the lord and I know he was doing what he should do, it’s just hard for me to concept that I can’t call him or text him when I want to and that I won’t see him and mess around and do crazy stuff with him for two years. My best friend is leaving me for two years and its bitter sweet!

                                                      MY BEST FRIENDS!!

Me and Tyson! He's headed to California!

Jaiden and me!! He's headed to Africa!!

I did make Tyson and Jaiden a pick me up book. I am not a crafty person at all, but I decided to try and make something. I made a book and put some good quotes in it that I found from pinterest of course, and then I had all the family members write a message to the boys and then I put them in the book! It took me longer than I thought and after I was done I decided I never wanted to do anything crafty again! Haha at least for a while.

Well we made it home today and I got my long work schedule, paid for my tuition and am getting ready to head back to school in a week. A lot of emotions going through my mind and I’m both excited and dreading leaving. Its gonna be a long week! J