What We Did...or Be Careful if We have your house key...

So Kris and Elisa were married and took off on a big trip to Paris and Rome...and guess what?

We ended up with the key to their apartment.

So on our second trip to the SLC Valley we went over and did a little decorating for them topped off with a "welcome home love your Apo Family" sign just so they would know we love them and we were thinking of them.

The boys loved it...especially the writing with washable marker on the mirrors....E wrote: "this is ethan. i love you." K drew pictures.

100+ balloons and 12 rolls of streamers and you get a beautiful apartment.

We decorated every room including balloons in the shower...the boys second favorite thing in the apartment decorating plan.

A Happy Suprise for Kris and Elisa....we hope!

Another Weekend Trip

We headed back to Salt Lake this past Friday to join our Walker family in a well-wishing farewell for Karen and Will (Chad's Mom and her husband) as they get ready to leave for Rome, Italy on an 18 month mission for our church.

We had a short fun visit with everyone and the boys even got to sing in church with all their Walker/Sommerfeldt Cousins. I think there might have been over 20 there to sing out of 39. It was wonderful. Karen and Will gave wonderful talks. Their assigned topic seemed to be faith but it weaved nicely into more personal stories about their childhood and their own parents. Those are the kind of sacrament meetings I enjoy, ones filled with personal experiences and stories as opposed to those filled with quotes from other church people and peppered with to many stories that are not personal to the speaker.

Here is one of the pictures i took of a few walker grandchildren practicing the night before. I told Chad it was sad we couldn't take a picture during sacrament meeting of all the cousins singing b/c it is likely we won't have many of those times with our new Sommerfeldt family and walker family all together (especially the grandchildren.)

We are headed out for the next few days

And this is where are are going.....

to brave the cold weather (it is warming up here we are at 65 again) and to attend the wedding of my brother Kris to Elisa!!

Happy Wedding!!

A Weekend Trip

This past weekend we headed to Salt Lake City. Our Apo family was meeting up there at Kris' home for the weekend. My parents had never been to visit him there and also

had never been to general Conference so they got to do both of those things.

And since Blaine's Family and we are in Vegas we all drove up for the weekend.

We got to spend some great time together and everyone got to know Kris' fiance, Elisa.

We are so excited for their January wedding in the SLC temple.

Here are a few pictures of the boys and cousins at the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point.

We also got o visit with our Walker family...Chad's mom and her husband also live in Draper now so we got to stay with them at their house and spend some time visiting before they head off on their mission for our church.