WELCOME HOME UNCLE CASEY!!!!

He is finally home. It seems like this past week took forever to get over. He flew into Utah yesterday at 1:59. This was a pretty exciting day for all of us. After the plain landed it took him about a half hour to get to us. It seemed like 12 hours. Everytime my mom would would see someone in a white shirt or a suit coat she would get all excited and say out loud OH! It was really fun to watch my parents they were both so so excited. He looks really good. Everyone keeps telling him he looks skinny. He seems really shy. But like always he had a big smile on his face. The kids love him. I am sure he wants a little space. Madison doesn't want to leave his side. She did Mini Cheer last night at the football game and she couldn't wait until he got there to watch her. As far as Andrew he is not sure who Casey is and Casey is not sure who Andrew is. They will have plenty of time to get to know each other. We missed him allot while he was gone, but we know he was doing the Lord Work. We are so proud of him ,and so excited he is home!!!!!
I didn't get very good pictures. I Will have to get some better ones from my sisters.

First day of Kindergarten!!

I can't believe that Madison is in Kindergarten. It makes me feel old. Madison was so excited for today. She started asking 7 days ago(about every hour) how many more days until school starts. It is finally here! We went to back to school night last night and talked to her teacher. Her teacher is Mrs. Lepien. Madison thinks she is really cool. Brett's mom also came by last night and gave her a pillow case so she could get a good nights rest and a book called "The night before Kindergarten". That got her really excited. She went to bed early. (those of you that know her that never happens) then she woke up at 1:30 and asked if it was time to go. I told her no and to go back to bed. She started back to her bed and turned back around and asked if it was still OK if she wore her butterfly shirt. She had no problem getting up this morning at 6 am. Thank goodness school started at 8:00. She was not nervous at all. She told me she would be fine and she would see me after school. When I went to pick her up the first thing she said was KINDERGARTEN IS SO FUN!! She has lots of Friends in her class. I am sure this will be a great year for her.

Brett was telling Madison last night when we were at back to school night that both her mom and dad went to that same school and room when we were her age. She thought that it was so cool. She has been really interested in what Brett was telling her so today she asked me what we looked like when we were in kindergarten. So I went to Brett's mom's house and My mom's house and pulled out the old Pictures. It was quite funny to see her reaction when she saw my picture. She looked at it and said WOW! with big eyes and then laughed. With Brett's picture she said he looks really young.:) I thought I would give you all a laugh and post the pictures. Enjoy!!

Every year Brett's work takes us to the Zoo. We have dinner and then we can hang out until we want to go home. It is something Madi looks forward to all year. The first picture is of Madison with the spider monkey's. When we go to the Zoo that is the first place she wants to go. Brett always is telling her she better watch out or he will come after her like a spider monkey. Well the first time we took her to the zoo we were walking by the monkeys and she said look dad a spider monkey. We laughed at her thinking she didn't know what a spider monkey was, but sure enough the sign next to the fence said spider monkey's. Kids are smarter than we think. The other pictures are of the rest of our time at the zoo.