Catch Up

Now that I've caught up on the laundry(not that I am ever caught up, but at least on top of it), yard mowed, visiting teaching done and the house vacuumed I can catch up on what's been going on. Last Monday, the 20th, Matthew, Brittney, Mike J and I set off in two vehicles and started our trek toward Utah. The first day we did a 18 hour drive from hell to Denver, not that Texas is hell, even though some would debate that, but that 18 hours in the car was hell!! That night Brittney and I stayed with my niece Jyl and Matthew and Mike J stayed with my nephew Nathan. The next morning/afternoon we went to lunch at Chipotle and then we headed to my parents house and visited with them all afternoon and evening. We went to dinner with my parents also. Brittney and I went to stay the night at my sister Becky's house and Matthew and Mike went back to Nathan's house. We had a nice visit with my sister and kept her way too late since she had to be at work early in the morning, but I'm so glad we got to visit and thankful she let us stay the night. Wednesday we headed back south and met up with Matthew at my niece Kami's hair salon, where she cut Brittney, Matthew's and my hair and most of all we got to see her baby Elle, who we have only seen in picture. She is cute in pictures, but really, really cute in person. Jyl and her daughter Emersyn also met us there. After hair cuts we went to lunch. After lunch we headed back to my parents house only to get caught in a shut down interstate due to a wreck. It took us over an hour to go 4 1/2 miles. I can run faster than that! after visiting with my parents, we headed back south again and Britt and I stayed with Jyl and the boys with Nathan. Let me apologize to Mike's mom for anything he may have been exposed to at my nephew's house, Nathan is quite the character, but we love him!!!  Thursday morning we headed off to Provo/BYU. The kids were suppose to be able to get into their apartments that night, but the day before we got an email, that they couldn't move in until Friday, way to mess us up!! Dale's Aunt Carolyn was kind enough to put us all up Thursday night even though she only planned on me. Carolyn is a saint!!! Friday morning we got them moved into their apartments and did some shopping and more shopping for their apartments. That night Brittney and I went to watch the Spanish Fork HS football game. Dale's cousin Kirk is the coach and yes they got a win. Saturday we went grocery shopping for the kids.Saturday night we went to Brick Oven for dinner, a tradition when I go out there. Sunday morning the kids picked me up at 5:45 am and took me to the airport. I got into Houston mid afternoon and since then I have been doing the things I first mentioned at the beginning of this post and getting Jacob and Makenzie off to school.

The Smith parking lot also known as our driveway. We are down to 3cars now.

5am and ready to go

Brittney is sad that this tree limb is gone, she used to use it to climb the tree

Matthew, Dad, Marti, Mom and Brittney 

Funny face! I love my parents!!!

Elle and Kami

Kami, Brittney, Elle and Emersyn

Emersyn, Matthew, Brittney, Kami and Jyl

Brittney, Matthew and Mike Johnson

Three BYU Cougars

I love this campus, just wish it wasn't so far away!
When are they building a BYU Texas??