Home

We got to go home this past weekend and had so much fun. It's funny how we still call it home and we haven't lived there for 10 years. It still feels like home though. As soon as I take that Price/Manti exit and the overpass takes me into Spanish Fork, I feel different. Always excited to see my family, younger because I just get to chill, happy because I can get a Johnny's coke if I want to and drive up the canyon or down the river bottoms if I want to. Mostly glad I get to sit on my mom's couch and talk and talk to my parents and brothers and sisters. As a bonus my kids get to be ignored and spend hours playing with their cousins in the basement or outside and they LOVE it! I think they forget Cory and I are there. What do they need us for when they have Aunt Lisa to take them anywhere they want to go?

We went home for my niece Hailee's baptism.

She and her mom Melanie looked so beautiful.

It was a great baptism and makes me so excited for Emmett's next month. I hope they both took in everything that was said. Both of Hailee's grandma's gave great talks. Whenever I go to baptisms I think a lot about the gift of the Holy Ghost. I think it takes a lifetime to learn everything about that wonderful gift and how to listen so we can hear it. I know I am still trying.

Hailee's little brother Cash and my brother Ryan looked great too.

I love little boys in ties.

And Ryan did a great job on the baptism and confirmation.

We also went home for a surprise party for my dad's 60th Birthday. My sister Lisa planned the whole thing and it was so fun! He was actually suprised! I thought after we (all 6 of my brothers and sisters and families) left him and my mom in the living room and told him we were headed out early to the restaurant that he was going to catch on that something was going on, but he didn't.

My Dad teaching Emmett one of his favorite things to do.

I thought it was funny that at the party there were so many people we hadn't seen in a while but yet we (my brothers and sisters) all still squished together on the same table and talked and laughed the whole night. This picture was taken at the baptism but it was pretty much the same that night. I wish I would have gotten a picture of everyone! At least of my dad since it was his birthday party! But I never seem to get out my camera at the right time, that's just how I am.I really do wish I lived closer so I could spend more time with them. You know, just drop in on Sunday or go see Simon's baseball games or go for a walk with my sister's and sister in laws. It's hard living away sometimes. It even feels like my brother John and Heather live there since they are always there when we are.
I guess in a way everyone wants to be home.
It's a comfort thing I guess.
I'm glad I live close enough to go home.