An exciting thing happened this past week with my family:

  My brother came home from Chile! We decided to drive up to Utah so that we could see him and be there for his "Homecoming" meeting.  We drove all day on Friday and then we were there on Saturday and Sunday and drive back all day Monday.  The drive was not exactly a party, but we had such a great time with family that it was worth it! We mostly just spent every second hanging out with family.  We had so much to talk about and catch up on that we didn't even have much time for our usual game playing.  We were able to see a lot of people and have some really great talks with Justin. 

We were able to take a new family picture:

 And we were able to spend some great time with my bestest friend Leah and her fiance (my cousin) Cade.  It is going to be a pretty great thing to have your best friend become a part of your family. I'm so excited!

We were also able to spend a few hours with Mike's family.  It just so happened that they were having a small family get together on Sunday night so we were able to see a lot of his siblings!  We wish we could have spent more time with them, but we enjoyed the time we got to spend with them.

It was an AWESOME weekend!