Mission Call

Well its official. My parents are gone on their mission. They have left for Provo already. They don't officially report to the MTC until June 29th but their mission president strongly recommended that they go learn the language. So that is what they are doing now.


There is a little bit of a story behind them choosing to go on a mission. Dad, I hope you don't mind that I copied your story from your blog.

"It all started in late January, I awoke on a Saturday morning with a very strong feeling or thought that "if I loose my job (due to the economy) that Janice and I should serve a mission!" It was very strong and distinct feeling that I could not ignore. I told Janice about the thought and asked her opinion and whether we could do it financially (she handles the money). She was supportive and said we could do it depending on where we were called to go. We then spoke with our Stake President and Bishop and they were both very supportive of the idea. That next week I approached my boss and the owner of the company I worked for and asked them if there was a possibility that I would be laid off. They indicated that they were frantically bidding on projects but that I should start looking for a new job because the construction market was slowing way down. I told them the Janice and I were going to take the next 2 years and serve a mission for our church and asked them if they had a opening when we came back if they would hire me again. They indicated that they would. We proceeded with filling out and submitting our mission papers on March 6th. We received the call to go on April 4th. The wait to get the call was an emotional up and down as we would go to the mail box expecting it to be there and it wasn't. Then doing it again and again. I was laid off from work on March 20th and have been using the time to prepare to go to Uruguay for 23 months. Christina announced 2 days after we had submitted our papers that she is going to have another baby (due in October). She made sure that our papers were in so we would not back out. That has been hard on Janice to know that her baby is going to be having a baby and she will not be there to help."

Here are some pictures from when they got their mission call.

Their mission call finally came. I too started to get impatient for their call to come. It was between conference sessions on April 4th. My parents were watching conference at the church, so I knew they would not be home. I had to go drop something off to Brian's parents house. As I was driving home, I notice that the mail man had just drove down my parents street. So the nosey person that I am, I followed the mail man. I peeked in the mail box and there it was. I called Jesica and told her to come over immediately after the last session. We called Mitch on Skype. All of us kids were ready when my parents drove home to find that their call had finally come.

Here my dad goes.

They are going to Montevideo, Uruguay. As you can tell my mom had mixed emotions.
She finally warmed up to the idea of Uruguay.
Here is Mitch, Cassie and Hallie very excited about their call.
Jesica and Jeff were thrilled too. Brian and I were excited to but I was taking the pictures, so just imagine us smiling.
Mom and Dad, We are so excited for you. You will be amazing missionaries. We will miss you so much. Thank you for always being such a good example. Love you lots.

Easter Fun

Logan had a blast doing his easter egg hunt. We had to keep encouraging him to go find more eggs once he found out there was candy inside. Once he found an egg he would just sit down, open the egg and eat the candy. We finally told him he couldn't have any more candy until he found all the eggs. So he started to run to find all the eggs. He had a great time.

Logan Update

So it has been a while since I have updated our blog. Here are a few pictures of what Logan has been up to.

Logan loves his firetruck bed. He is always playing in his bed, or jumping off his bed. Keep reading to find out what happened when he did one to many jumps. Here Logan convince Daddy to come join him. They were singing songs together.

One of the first movies we took Logan to go see in the movie theater was "Bolt". Ever since then he is obsessed with bolt. He is constantly asking me if he can watch Bolt. In this picture he decided that he needed to make a bed for Penny (One of the main characters from Bolt). He told me that Penny was going to come out of the show and sleep at Logans house so he needed to make a bed for her. He really likes Penny and Bolt. To prove how much he likes them he now says that his blankets (which he is so possessive of. He won't even share with me) are now Penny's blankets. I think our little guy might just have his first crush.
In the next couple pictures, Logan has figured out that he could see the picture show up on the back of the camera, so we had to test it out. We got a couple cute shots from it though.



Logan was helping me make some soup one night. I went to go throw something away and when I turned back around he decided that he was going to take over. I guess we may have a little chef on our hands.

Logan refused to take a nap this day. This is about 5pm that night and he was out cold. I even ran the vacuum right in front of him and he didn't even flinch. And he always wakes up to the vacuum.
Like father like son...
To finish off what Logan has been up to... This is what happened when he jumped off his bed. His wild ways have finally caught up to him. Logan ended up fracturing his leg. I first thought he rolled his ankle, but after a couple of days of swelling and limping I thought I had better take him in to the doctor. Sure enough, it was more than just a rolled ankle. He has to keep the cast on for 3 weeks. Of course this hasn't slowed him down at all. He is still trying to jump off stuff and running around the house. He is such a busy kid.