We leave on Thursday, October 3rd to return to our mission in New Jersey. When we count our missions at the end of our life - our 80 day mission in Illinois with the Wagstaff family, will be among them.
Here are some highlights from those 80 days.
A visit to the Chicago Temple with Ross and Sara.
Playing...playing...playing...
Trip to Amish Country in the town of Arthur
Messy house
Reading...reading...reading...
Clean house
Date with Grandma to McDonald's
Peter's blessing day with 2 extended Wagstaff families coming for the special day
Our wonderful get-away to the Nauvoo Temple!
Grandparent's Day at Moroni and Joseph's school.
Joseph doing the hokey-pokey :)
Their delight in receiving small Lego's from a family friend.
A huge highlight was our trip to Kingston, Washington.
Jeff enjoyed backpacking with David and Cody, Nathaniel and Joshua and Sara.
Jeff enjoyed backpacking with David and Cody, Nathaniel and Joshua and Sara.
Love to see these two cousins being best friends.
It was wonderful to spend over a week with our family in Kingston!
Five awesome grandsons!
The main reason for our trip to Washington was so that Jeff could assist with the tree removal project in preparation for building our little cottage next summer.
This is the "before" photo.
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| Chain saw stuck in log. |
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| Jonas and Abi |
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| Joseph - Logan - Moroni |
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| Jesse - good helper. |
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| Kaitlyn - good helper. |
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| Joseph - good helper. |
This is the "after" photo
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| If you look hard you can see Jeff and Nathaniel in that mess. |
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| Logan had just done something to Kaitlyn and she retaliated by biting Logan and then running for it. Everyone else is oblivious to what happened, except Grandma who caught it on camera. |
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| Logan posing in front of the long trench that will hold the electrical wire and phone wire, hidden under the new road. |
My biggest highlight was our girl's retreat
(so glad that Jenine and Twyla could join us).
And - having our children together if only for a day.
Another highlight -
Lunch at Regina's with my past stake YW presidency.
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| Tristalene, Shari and Regina. |
Love my "sistas" and little Peter, too.
My last evening in Kingston, making homemade corn tortillas with Cody and Abi.
Back home with the Wagstaff family.
I'll miss these cute kids, but I'll really suffer from baby Peter withdrawals :(
little babies are like a drug....I hope you can fill your life with lots of wonderful missionary work to distract you from your withdrawals.
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