Welcome Home Sister Morwood!

Welcome Home Sister Morwood! Cassie has spent the last 18 months serving the Lord in the Pennsylvania Philadelphia Mission.  She was a great missionary and served faithfully.  We are all so excited to have her home though especially her family.  We were able to travel down to St. George to see her at the airport and welcome her home.

As you can see, we were all so happy to see her.  Cassie was a little shell shocked though and broke into tears of joy to be home as well as sad tears for leaving the wonderful people in her mission.  When I asked her how she was doing and if she was happy to be home, she told me that it was really a bittersweet moment.

Everyone else was very happy she was home, but we all understood how she could feel that way.  Charlotte got to meet Cassie for the first time and seemed to like her too.

While we were down in St. George, we enjoyed the warm weather.  It was great to finally get outside and enjoy the sunshine.

While there, we got to meet our newest nephew and cousin.  Justin and Summer brought up their new baby, Mason, for everyone to meet.  He is so cute and small.  I wanted to take him home with me but for some reason Summer wouldn't part with him.

While at Cassie's homecoming talk in church, we got to hold Mason even more.

Charlotte and Logan loved holding him.  Charlotte loved the baby and was constantly giving him hugs and pointing at him saying "Baby!"  It was so cute.

Cassie gave a great homecoming talk and we loved hearing all of her mission stories.  She had some great experiences as well as some trying ones.  You could tell that she loved her mission.

Some other "fun" things that happened this week was this:

KABOOM!

I was upstairs and all of a sudden, I heard this loud crashing noise and rumble.  I thought it was an earthquake but when I went downstairs, this is what I found...  Our can dispenser totally broke and all of our canned food came crashing to the ground.  I couldn't believe it and simply walked back up stairs and told Russell he had a new project to work on this week.  It was a mess but I was so glad it was only the canned food and not the glass jars especially since we had just bottled all of that meat a couple weeks ago.

And here is Russell's completed project.  This time he used 4 inch screws to hold the dispenser together rather than nails like the original owner had in there.  This should hold much better than before.

While driving to St. George this week, our van hit 100,000 miles...

I hate to think we have put over 52,000 miles on this van since we bought it and that it is getting older but its not bad for a 10 year old car.  Now we need to take it in for the routine repairs and it should hopefully last us another 100,000.    Good job van!