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WELCOME! This blog represents some of the activities or interactions with our amazing ARIZONA PHOENIX RETURNED MISSIONARIES 2011-2014 and some of our current family activities! Thank you, The Taylors

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

APRIL 2016 APM RELATED ACTIVITIES


 WE LOVE APRIL!
Conference brings us so many great friends and the REUNION was wonderful!

We were so happy to see the Gutierrez Family who came over for dinner one night...



...we host any senior couples who want to come for conference so we had Cherry's, Kathy Turville and Becky King over for LADIES NIGHT during Priesthood Session where we made these cute bags!


The ladies also helped my niece with her adorable foster twins!


Then it was out back for SMORES with President T at the helm!



It was pretty chilly, but they had got the heater up and running so we were fine!

Caleb Brown and Dylan Hyer are in this pic.


Great to have some RMs join us for this as well!

You can't see Brooke Murphy and Dahlin Lutz, but they are here too.



Robert Falconer and Josh Nuebert.  Robert drove all the way down from Alberta Canada to be here!















Pres T loves it when he gets RM visitors at his work.  Ethan Bruegger stopped in to go to lunch one day!










April brought a few weddings we were able to be a part of.




Me with Ty Pemberton and Rebecca.  President T had to hustle back to work after the sealing.



This is at Nolan and Faith Blackhurst reception...










And the happy couple!!











And it's shadowy, but we enjoyed so much being at Sarah Jenson and Logan's reception as well!



It was also great to run into Lexie and Shae Morgan, Jessica Turner and Emily Walker.


We saw Tisha Santana later as well, but did not get on it to get a photo, sorry!









APRIL APM DINNER GROUP:  Front:  Kelsie and Chad Alvey(his sister), Shannon Magee, Kellie and Tyler Starr(fiance's), back: Kalen Gapinshi, John Cook, Daniel and Rebecca Handley, Jake Goehring, Cody Silcock and Taylors.

























We had a second dinner group this month because Katelyn (Freeman) King was in town from back east so we got together a group from her time in the mission!

Taylors, Leah (Katelyn's sister), Brooke (Zollinger) Murphy, Jackson and Katelyn King, Amy (Hudson) and Kyle, Josh Nuebert and Pierce and Sierra Johnston.   SO GREAT to be with all of them!



And we still keep getting the best missionaries in our Italian branch at the MTC!
 Front:  Sisters Jarnagin, Tacchi, Fife, Smedley, LoRusso and Stevens.
Back, Sisters Perkins, Dustin & Crandell, Elders Boscan, Ridd, Alexander & Hansen, Sisters McKenzie, Anderson & McCormick.







We had visits this week from both Michelle Winchell Christensen with her husband Adam and baby Eli...(I will have to add that photo later) and later this week, we got to see her folks that we also served with in Phoenix!









We finished the month with the sealing of  Amanda Vallejo Mu'amoholevato to her hubby Valu in the Salt Lake temple.
Beautiful April day!!

And where we have one of our RMs getting married, there is a good chance we will see other mission friends like Sarah Neary today!



We love these people and shared such sweet experiences in our lives!

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

APRIL REUNION PROVO

PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINE FOR THE ALBUM OF PHOTOS FOR THIS EVENT...FEEL FREE TO SEND ME MORE TO ADD AS WELL!  THANK YOU! 

APRIL REUNION was a huge success thanks to so many great helpers!!


How could it not be with Sister  Turville to help set up... along with Andy Marble, Dahlin Lutz and Caleb Brown and of course, the Cherry's and President T!!


President had fun taking pictures in interesting ways...thanks for humoring him Colton! (and everyone else)
 Daniel Jones with the APM centerpieces.


Rebecca and Daniel Handley with the flag.


Carlos and Jane Arias...with baby on the way!!! YAY!


Nicole Barton modeling the large APM with us.

Jake Wade with his fiance Jenna down from Rexburg.


Jesus Castro, and Jake Goehring along with a new RM from after our time, Stephen Rackleff.
Welcome!

Large group of the guys...Dahlin Lutz, Daniel Shurtleff, Calvin MAdsen, Conner Albrecht, Daniel Jones, Tyler Petersen, Lance Cabral and John Cook. Back; Caleb Brown, Chad Alvey and Cody Silcock.



Me with Kathy Turville and Joseph Barley.





Group of gals: Shelby Hixson, Elizabeth Young, me, Sunny Louchez, Rebecca Wooden and President T...with miscellaneous photo-bombers.

 Shannon Magee, Michelle Meyer Hall, Corinne Coleman, Ann Hunt, Aryssa Hutchinson and President T.


Lance, Zach and John checking out the mission quilt.


A BIG HUG from Caleb for the Kings...our best APRIL FOOLS SURPRISE EVER!!!  They surprised us by showing up!


Juan Castanos, Alex Whipple, Andy Marble and Chad Alvey checking out the photo video from the past 6 months.



We had two of our older APs lead the Mission Fight Song and they didn't miss a beat!
THANKS ROBERT FALCONER AND BRAYDEN HENRIE!!


Two more cute RM's from after our time in the APM!  WELCOME!!


Karly Manwill with the Cherry's and the Kings.

IT WAS A GREAT REUNION!  Thanks for coming!  If you did not come this time, plan on the Friday before conference next fall...and message me for joining a dinner group or hike in the meantime!

WE LOVE YOU!

MARCH 2016/ REXBURG REUNION

We had such a fun and busy March!  Full of APM activities and visitors.

We were delighted to meet Rebecca, Ty Pemberton's fiance when they were in town for the Provo City Center Temple Open House.


And Ty just happened to be wearing the coolest tee shirt ever!!
CATCH THE WAVE!!


The Buechter family stopped by for dinner one Sunday, and we got our traditional pose of Wil kneeling to be even remotely the same height as me!


Here we are with his Dad, sister and her friend.
Wil finds his nametag on our tag frame.


And we had a visit from Nicole Okeson Elkins pre-baby.


We are just loving seeing our RMs start families of their own!  It is so rewarding to see the Gospel in action in your lives!!










Our March APM Dinner Group: On couch: Elizabeth Young, Sarah Neary and Amanda Vallejo.  Standing: Holly and Paul Wilson, Rachel and Alex Ure, Tyman Weiler, Katherine and Harrison Wardle, Carson Hatch and Alexa Walker.



We got our NATIVITY print back from the framers this month...LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!










We keep asking ourselves...should we keep going up to BYU-I to do a reunion?  Are there really that many RM's up there still?

And the answer is a resounding YES!
We still have close to 100 RMs in that area!!
We really have a fun weekend up there in Rexburg starting on Friday night where we have an Open House.

Here is Kyle Wilkinson, who visa-waited in our mission for a couple transfers.  Awesome to connect with him again!!


Taylor and Kristy Bird


Dane McFarland and his fiance Katie.



Here is Desirrae Barnett and Ezra
















Cody Hamilton


Meg Eisele and Jill Ratto


Louis Rusk,  Michael Kellett, Desirrae Barnett and Jill Ratto


Joseph Fife, Dallin Hernandez and Jeremy McMillan


Levi and Mackenzie Walpole


Nick Egan and Mark Nelson



Me with Kayla Probeyahn


Ben Fagersten


Austin Lane and fiance Kimberly


Louis and Joseph


Qwinton Brothers

Roger Pollard and fiance Ginny  (They have the best conversion story ever!  Ask them sometime!)

Nate Nelson and Alicia

Quincy and Ashley Wilson


Jonathan Lovstedt and friend (sorry, can't remember her name)


Zeb and McKayla Dye

Austin Smith, Jaxon and Taylor Wrigley


Jeremy McMillan

Matt Mason and Michael Kellett


Tyler and Amanda Johnson

Joseph Weeks and his Mom and sister.

Logan Longhurst and Lauretta, me and Jake Ogden


Andrew Parks and Nathan Handy


President T with Kailee and Douglas Hicks


Barry and Cristina Taylor

Aubree Fluckiger
 Nathan and I sporting the APM

Ryan Fluckiger and fiance Amandee Brown

Kurtus and Kari Beck


President T selfie with Chase Hochstein


Jessica and Michael Nield



We do a Saturday morning temple session:
Us, Chase Hochstein in front, Andre Gaspar, Louis Rusk, Tyler and Amanda Johnson, Roger Pollard, Rachel with Austin Smith, Joseph Fife, Nama and Courtney Kamissoko, Tosha Brown.



Us with Austin and Rachel



Andre Gaspar
President Taylor and Tosha Brown


Selfie with Roger Pollard


President doing the GQ thing with Joseph Fife


Very cool thing, Ty Pemberton and  his fiance Rebecca were at the Open House the night before and early at the temple for her endowments that morning we were there



We have a lunch get-together at PIZZA PIE CAFE where we met up with more RM's.

Here is Jill with Lindsey Schlund.










Jill and Hailey Beazer.

Also there were Jason and Kendra Martin, Levi and Felicia Barker and a bunch more who were with us at other events.


THANKS FOR A GREAT WEEKEND!  SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER!!