Girls Trip...(Plus a few boys!)

This last weekend my sister, Jeni, and I flew to Spokane Washington to visit my other sister, Debi, and my brother Jami and their families! It was a really fun trip! We did a lot of shopping, went to my favorite place in the whole world, (Manito Gardens) and just visited. This was the first time in 5 years that all of my siblings have been together. My brother, as you will see in the pictures, is not big into taking pictures. But, I was able to talk him into a few! On Saturday morning we all went to a farm and picked apples from apple orchards. It was so fun! I kept thinking how much Emma and Derrick would have loved doing that. On Saturday night all the girls went to the Relief Society Broadcast. It was so nice to be able to go with my family. I was wishing my mom was there with us! The broadcast was really good and inspired me to work on several things in my life including becoming more organized and prepared. My sister is the Relief Society President and gave me the best handout. It is a sheet that tells you how to build up your food storage for a whole year on only $5 a week. It actually breaks it down and tells you what to buy each week. It does not seem so overwhelming when it is broken down like that. Now my organizing comes in. I need to find a place to put our food storage! But, back to the visit. It was a great trip and I'm thankful to Jon for giving it to me as a birthday present and watching the kids so I could go. Jon said the kids were great all weekend and I was so happy to come home to a nice clean house and dinner on the table! I have a great husband! I loved seeing all my nieces and nephews...I miss them all so much! On a quick side note...the craziest thing happened at the broadcast. After it was over a girl came up to me and said, "Did you go to Kino?" She knew my name and I knew she looked so familiar, but could not place a name. Turns out it was a friend of mine from Jr. High and she knew my sister Jeni because she had a sister that was her age. What a small world! We exchanged blog addresses so we can keep in touch. It was good to see you Meghann!

Jeni, me , Jami, and Debi

Me & Jeni at Manito Gardens

Dylan, me, Madi

Debi, Jeni, me

My nieces & nephews at the apple orchards

The girls before the broadcast

The girls at Manito

Manito Gardens

Dylan and me in his "hideout" under a huge tree!