Elder Skippy Loves North Carolina! (and Nascar)

Elder Skippy and the Mission President Hobbs


Backwoods flower pot

Just your normal street sign


Elder Skippy and Sister Hobbs

Our little missionary is doing great! He is working

hard in Waynesville, North Carolina and

loving it! He had some really great experiences

this past week in tracting out and teaching

investigator families. He has seen the fruit

of hard work and obedience. This Tuesday he

is 1/4 of the way done with his mission - he

doesn't like to hear that - he says it is going

WAY too fast! Keep up the good work - we

are SO proud of you!

My Crazy Boys!

I have had this picture as my background at my DQ

computer and everyone who sees it just loves it!

I thought I wanted to share. Last time we took

family pictures when Sean got home in Sept. the boys

decided to try this shot - no planning just everyone

jump at the same time and it is amazing that it worked!

They all did something creative and Rick managed to

catch it! Just wanted to give a shout out to my

wonderful sons - they are all so amazing in so many

ways and I love them so much!

Light Family Reunion

Donna, brothers and families

Gayle & Ed Mooney - hosts of the event

Aunt Barbara, Me, Aunt Anita

Keith Dawson and I

Donna, her brother Brian, Me

This past weekend I went to Elk Grove California

for a Light family reunion. These are members

of the biological family that I recently came into.

My biological grandmother was one of eight

children of which three are living. These "Grand

Pooh-bahs" had a family reunion and I was

lucky enough to attend compliments of Donna.

Here are a few of the pictures. I was finally able

to meet one of my Dad's football buddies from the

1949 team at University of Pacific - Keith Dawson.

Keith was married to my biological great aunt whose

name was Frances. Fran sang at my adoptive

parents wedding in 1951 six years before I was born!

Talk about a small world!

It was a whirlwind trip - I left Show Low on Friday at

1 in the afternoon, drove three hours, flew two hours,

spent the night at Neils, attended the reunion, flew

two hours, drove three hours and got home on

Sunday morning at 1 am. Whew! I am tired!

Elder Skippy Current Post!

Preparation Day Clothes

Sam - a guy they taught at Books a Million

Beautiful North Carolina!

Six Pack of Awesomeness (according to Elder

Skippy)

These are some recent pics of our missionary!

The last picture with the soda pop is a drink

that is from that area called "cheerwine" you can

google it and read about it. He is apparently

in love with it!

He is working hard and just doing a great job

and we love him!

Elder Skippy Retro Post

On the new motorcyle!


Is this pirate cake not the coolest thing ever?

Mom and her baby!

Skip and his boys (he is like 16 - check out

the beard!)

October 2008 Conference Trip

I just felt like I wanted to put a little post up about

my baby Elder Skippy. I don't have any new pictures

from his mission (but uh Misty does and she will

email them later) so I decided to pull a few out of the

archives for a retro post! I love this boy! I love all

of my boys! I am so blessed to have the five

most wonderful sons in the world! You all make me

proud!

Colby feeds the ducks!

As part of our fun few days with Colby we took him

to Rainbow lake to feed the ducks. We ended up having

to pretend we were guests at the Lake of the Woods

because there were no ducks on the other side, but

he absolutely loved it! I didn't bring nearly enough

bread! He could have done it for hours!

Colby comes to Visit!

Papa takes off


Colby and Papa "ducking" under the wing

A little windy!

Fawnbrook Northern Railroad

Colby loves the train - everytime we drive

by he wants to go!

We are having a ball watching Colby for part

of B and Jenn's vacation. We picked him up in

Payson yesterday and had a fun day. We ate

lunch at our favorite DQ then to see the movie

"UP" - then rode the train at the Fawnbrook

Northern Railroad. After shopping at Safeway

we came home and made dinner. Colby went

right to bed when asked and was perfect for us!

Today we went to church, he is a sunbeam but

chose to stay in nursery with Grammi - he was

a bit afraid I was leaving him there - it took

awhile for him to understand that I was the

teacher! Then Papa had a flight this afternoon

so we went out and checked out the planes and

helped him get the airplane out. Colby loved

it all and especially watching Papa take off!

Sedona Motorcycle Trip

Biker chick complete with chaps!

On the Mogollon Rim

The Red Rocks of Beautiful Sedona!

Last Wed and Thursday Chris and I took a motorcycle

ride to Sedona. We started with lunch in Heber

(you get hungry fast :)) and then through Strawberry

and Pine to Camp Verde, Cottonwood and finally

Sedona. We stayed at the Poco Diabo Resort that

I snagged on Priceline for a mere $77! We had a

two person jacuzzi in the room! Perfect after 305

miles on the bike. We ate at a great Mexican

restaurant that night and then went to the late

movie. I nearly froze to death on the way home

from the movie. The next morning after a nice

walk, we took a swim, more hot tub and then

off for the day. We had a lovely lunch at the

Wildflower Bread place in Sedona and then checked

out a few shops for a hat for Chris. We are both

not too into shopping so it didn't last long. After

some expensive chocolate we hit the road. We

went back through Oak Creek Canyon into

Flagstaff. This is old stomping grounds for us as

we frequently went on this road to Sedona while

we were in college at NAU. This was the days

when there was virtually nothing in Sedona and all

of the outdoor water spots were free! We then

went from Flagstaff to Happy Jack, back through

Strawberry and Pine into Payson and home. All in

all we rode 690 miles in two days! We are prepping

for our ride to Ouray Colorado in three weeks!

We downloaded an audiobook by one of my favorite

authors onto the ipod, had a splitter and listened

away! Beautiful scenery, and special time with

my sweetheart - what could be better?

Leslie's Recital

Bucky helps Papa mow the lawn one-handed!


On Memorial Day Leslie performed a recital
similar to her Senior Recital for her friends and
family here that were not able to go to Utah.
As usual she was stunning! She is so talented
and we love to hear her sing.