SEPTEMBER 2016 APM ACTIVITIES/REUNIONS

 


HERE IS THE LINK FOR YOU TO LOOK AT AND USE ALL PHOTOS FROM THIS MONTH INCLUDING PHOENIX/ REXBURG/ PROVO REUNIONS!  ENJOY!!


WHAT A MONTH!  And it started in the best possible way...with a sealing!  Shelby Hixson Lane here with Heidi Harris and Sarah Wade and I.  Beautiful!!

We left the next day for the PHOENIX area.  We had planned to head down for the BYU/AZ football game, and of course, to see people that we love while we were there!


All our dear Mission Office and Presidency couples!

It is always so much fun to be together!  We really miss all these dear people so much!

Our son from Seattle flew down to meet us and we all went to some favorite places...



MESA TEMPLE

BAHAMA BUCKS SHAVE ICE over in Mesa, a favorite for after the temple.

And CHINO BANDIDOS!!!  One of our favorite hole-in-the-wall places to eat in N Phoenix!!

We met Jeff and Brooke Griffin there!

Checking out the new MISSION OFFICE in the Church complex there on Bell Rd.

And, a great time at the game in the CARDINAL STADIUM!

Here we met up with Michelle Meyer Hall and Tyler...

Zach Jensen and his Dad...

The Kings were with us at the game...

David Yoxtheimer met up with us...

...Alex Whipple

Karalee Glenn Darrow...

Mitch Petersen and Andrew Hall.
So fun to see so many great RM friends at the game!

The next day we stopped over at a hospital to visit BRYCE BENNETT who just had back surgery!

And Sunday night we had a mini-reunion at the TRANSFER BUILDING!

Logan Kirk was one of the first to arrive!

Aaron Johnson came up from Tucson to check in.

Got to see Devin & Ebony Grady and little Adrian and his twin brother!

Talon & Paxton Campbell...

Zach McCook and his Father...

Tyber Parsons...

And much of our office staff friends!

Karalee Glenn Darrow with her siblings and husband and kiddos!

Here is Eric and Chelsea Turner with the Williams.

And David Yoxtheimer and Zach Jensen with their Fathers.

We had a short but very sweet visit back in Phoenix including a visit at the Mission Home with the Griffins!  I should have snapped a photo!!!

We had a drive-by visit from Chris Kelley the day we got home!!  He was sporting a fun set of wheels!  Great to visit with him!

Got this random text and photo from the Mom of one of my pre-K students who sees Javi Castanos on a regular basis at BYU and somehow made the connection that we know him too!  Love it!

Sealing for Landon & Laura Bouwhuis up in SLC!!!  Made our day to be there with him!

And reception with Spencer Brame and Brittany!!

The Kings came up to Provo area a couple weeks into the month and joined us at the MTC for sacrament meeting which was a blast!  Had to get a traditional photo afterwards by the Samuel Smith statue.

And that day was our monthly APM DINNER with Christina Muhlestein and Dani Robinson...

Shelby Hixson Lane and husband Trevor, Elizabeth Young and Rebecca Wooden...



President and Sister T, Tosha Brown, Jesus Castro, Dani Robinson, Rebecca Wooden, Elizabeth Young, Matt Bryson, Carlos and Jane Arias with baby Leah, and the Kings

September 23-24 we headed up to REXBURG for our reunion up there!

Tory Bryant and Alex Cook helping out in the kitchen washing grapes for me...THANK YOU!

Tylo Dawson who we had not seen in forever!

Harrison and Jessica Beck...

Katrina Woo...

Rocking the short stuff with Nathan Davies and Wil Buechter!

Caden and Linsdey Schlund with baby Jet...

Michael & Tabitha Meredith ...

Rebecca Carter...

Becks and Ben Fagersten...

Oh, and we were there too, this is proof!

Wil, Joseph Fife, Rebecca, Jill and Desirrae in height order!

And our last guests who drove hours to make it were the Todd and Lizzie Choules family...now with baby #2!!!  SO GOOD TO SEE THEM!

Look at the photo link, there are lots of other photos with other people!

The next morning on the way to the temple we stopped to meet Nama and Courtney Kamissoko's new baby ALEXA...3 days old to be exact!
She is just beautiful!!!

The temple looked almost unreal this morning, the clouds were in prime form!

And lunch afterwards at PIZZA PIE.

Dustin and Jessica Martinsen and her sister...

Ray and Ryen Seaman Bassett...

Dylan Hyer and Jacob Keene had been down to the Tempe reunion the night before and back up on Saturday AM.

Austin Smith...

Clayton and Jamie Murdock...

Desirrae Barnett, me, Rebecca Carter and Katrina Woo...

One of our great visa waiting missionaries, Ben Crapo came to visit us and that made our day!

And we even got some of our Logan RMs to come up!  The two Chris's!
Chris Hunsaker and Chris Reid...

Joseph Fife and Logan Longhurst with his fiance Lauretta.
We had the best time...there are more photos of other RMS in the photos!

Love to see RMs when they stop by...and loved having Adams Dodd come say hello!

PROVO REUNION
was as usual a blast!

Could not have done it without the help of our great setter-upers!!
SPENCER CARDWELL...

STEVEN HUNSINGER...

CRYSTAL TURNER

JILL RATTO and her cousin...

And ANDY MARBLE and DANI ROBINSON


THANK YOU ALL  YOU GREAT HELPERS!!

You all have a place on our quilt and in our hearts!

Here are just a sampling of the photos from reunion.  You will need to use the link to really see who was there, if we got a photo!!

Devon Lynn from Canada...had not seen him in forever!!

The Arave's with Kathy Turville!!

Another from very very far, Denali Lathrop from Alaska!!! So good to see her!

John and Catie Paulsen with Mikey and Brooke Murphy

And yes, this is how we feel about reunion, right Amanda Vallejo M. (Nope, I;m not even going to attempt to spell your last name!)

Getting a little crazy with Trazer Sutcliffe at the end!

See you all again in APRIL 2017.  Then we will move to ANNUAL REUNIONS EACH APRIL!!

We love to do Sunday Night S'Mores after Priesthood and we had a couple RM's join us.
Caleb Brown, Maria Garcia and Rebecca Carter.

And...Conference Sunday with Rebecca and Natalie Dayton joining Kathy Turville in the Taylor hotel!

Great weekend with the best people in the world!!
WE LOVE YOU!  If  you did not sign up for dinner, message me, we will work you in!!

AUGUST 2016 APM Activities

We had a wonderful August with family and APM activities.
We went to several receptions or sealings including Greg and Tegan McCuch.
It was just as much fun seeing the other RMs that were rocking out there too!

Here we are with our group of APM related friends!!
Angel & Genavieve Munoz, Us, Jake Parry, Jesus Castro and Greg and Tegan McCuch.

We loved being at the sealing for Nathan and Brooke Wainwright in Salt Lake this month too!
We love meeting the families of our RMs at these events too!

President T had to hustle back over to work, so I stayed for the pics!

And as I was leaving, look who I bumped into!
Aaron Johnson from the APM headed to a friend's sealing!
COOL!

We went to a work party at the SL BEES game and look who we ran into!!
Cameron and Adrian Colovich had moved to Utah and we did not know it til now!

We were so happy to see them and made plans for dinner soon!

We got a call the next day from CRYSTAL TURNER AND SAUNDRA JONES who were in town together this same weekend!

You should have heard the squeals of delight when we invited them to come to sacrament meeting at the MTC with us!

And we could not resist the traditional missionary photo by the big map!!
Idaho and New Jersey here they come!

This month Clark Livingston also got sealed.  We loved meeting his family and seeing Conner Dickson there as well!

We were thrilled that Alisa Baumgartner Hansen would take time during her brief Utah trip to come have dinner with us so we could meet baby Lincoln!

He is a master at NOT SLEEPING!  But who can sleep when there is so much to learn all around you!  Yup, Harvard, here he comes!

He did love his bath though!  Some pretty serious smiles and kicks in the tub!!


And better yet, Sam Stanley came to take her up to SLC that night so it was a two-fer!!

Lincoln's first taste of watermelon...it was a keeper, just too big a bite!

And some serious horsing around before pics!

Oh how we love you all now and FOREVER!!

OUR APM DINNER GROUP this month was really packed with a variety of RM's from all parts of our mission service!

Here is Cameron and Adrianne Colovich with baby Kimber.  They found Daddy's quilt block way down on the bottom of the quilt!

And we had a couple more Toole natives today...Matt and Abra Trussell and Mason & Erika Halligan with baby Griffin.

Andrew Pehrson made dutch over peach cobbler that was to die for!!!  THANKS FOR SHARING!!  Yummy!





Here's the group: front: Nolan and Faith Blackhurst, Adrian and Cameron Colovich.
Back, Taylors, Jake Parry, Breyton Barber, Zach Jensen, Caleb Brown, Abra and Matt Trussell, Andrew and Alex Pehrson, Mason and Erica Halligan.

JULY 2016 APM Related Activities

 July has FLOWN past but the summer has been full of great activities involving APM missionaries!


We held our monthly APM dinner and had some great guests!

Nathan Wainwright shows his fiance Brooke his square on the mission quilt.

Front:  Garrison Nuttall, Cody Hamilton, Whitney Welch, Jessica Turner and Emily Walker.

Back: Taylors, Mitch Peterson, Joshua Holmes, Andy Marble, Daniel Jones, Alex Beck, Nathan Wainwright and Brooke.

We were SO EXCITED to have a visit from the Gorham clan this month!  Zach and Megan brought baby Madison to see us along with Zach's Mom and sister.  We had a great visit and it meant a lot that they would take the time to see us!

 We had a DOUBLE HEADER this day at the Logan Temple!
One sealing at 8:30 and another at 9:15!!  We were SO GLAD it worked out like a charm!

First was Dustin Martinsen and his bride Jessica.
We were joined by Conner Albrecht there as well.

And next was Nate Nelson and his bride Alicia.  We were joined by Brent Empey and Conner Albrecht.

And the miracle was Conner's Mom got a photo of all 4 APM returned missionaries together!!

Here is Nate and Alicia coming out of the temple.  Nothing like the joy of that presentation after the beautiful sealing!

Some of you may have run the TEMPLE 2 TEMPLE 5K from Provo Temple to Provo City Center Temple on July 25.

It is a family tradition to do this run/walk.

Great way to get our exercise for the day going from one temple to another!

We had some RM visitors this month as well including Amber Harding who looks cuter every time I see her!!

And we met some friends from Phoenix in the MTC like SISTER CHERRY the granddaughter of Jim and Dee Cherry from our office there!

And to our big surprise when we met our new Romanian missionaries the Elder Lemon looked a lot like our Tyler Lemon so we asked if they were related, you know, cousins or something...

...nope, brothers!  We were so excited!!  Great to have another Elder Lemon!!

I was able to make another sealing this week for Christian Blake and his bride Megan.  Loved being there to see her grandfather perform the sealing for them!

Tyler and Kelly Starr were sealed in California early in July and celebrated in Utah the last Saturday of July.  Great to see them and how happy they are!!

 Our newest missionaries at the MTC include front: Sisters Idiart and Anderson, Back: Elder Trottier, Sisters Lee and Dusenberry, Elder Lemon, Sister Gleason, Elders Perret and Jacobson (cousin to our own Clayton Murdock)

They are all headed to ROMANIA!!

And today we got a facebook call from ATAPANI MOALA!! Made our day!!

The cool thing was, he was calling this time with a REFERRAL from a former investigator who contacted him and wants missionaries again!
THE SEEDS ARE PLANTED!!