It's Back to School!

Summer ended way to soon but on its heals is my favorite time of year and its a good thing or else I would be a sad girl!  Always mixed emotions running in the family...Mom, sad...Ridge, sad....Ke'Nia, Happy...Jaden, ?

Ke'Nia and I hosted a little back to school fashion show for our Mini Me dinner club.  It was way fun and turned out so cute!  As usual I am not so good at the pictures :(  Our colors were orange, green and yellow and our food matched perfectly!  Skewers of grapes, cantalope and pineapple, carrots and celery, cucumber sandwiches, layered jell-o in orange, green, and yellow, lemonade with orange, lime and lemon slices, key lime trifle and meatballs.  We made paper shoes with candy for the moms and paper purses with treats for the girls, along with business cards letting everyone know that they were fashion models and top designers.  The girls modeled a couple of school outfits and designed their own dresses.  We printed paper dolls for favors and enjoyed a wonderful evening just being girls!

A vacation in the middle of a Mission?? kinda :)

Wow!  What a coaster ride we have been on!  Our Missionary is returning home on Saturday the 27th.  Lots of prayers went out to him, in the hopes that he would be okay to stay and serve.  It looks as though that is not what is to be at this time ...so with excitement growing, we will be at the airport on Saturday at noon to welcome back probably the best Missionary Peru has ever known!  So many different emotions are bottled up inside me and I am just hoping that he is okay with what has to be.  Surgery is scheduled for Tuesday on his shoulder and hopefully as soon as we know more about his ankle we can take care of that really soon.  A little trip to Hawaii as a family with all of us present, is looking even better than ever.  A nice place to recover from surgery I'm thinking :)  When we get back it's on to therapy and hopefully a full medical release to allow him to go back to the people of Peru.  His mission president left President Mower with some very kind words stating that he was one of the hardest working missionaries he has ever had and that Elder Martin would definitely be in his company if he were to make a trek across the plains.  He wants Dakotah back and from what we hear that is rarely done or requested.  Usually missionaries get reassigned to the states after surgeries but the Mission President would like him back in the Lima West Peru mission.
So it's 1:00 in the morning and all this is leaving me sleepless.   His request...5 layer beefy burrito from Taco Bell!  I think I can most definitely handle that :) 
Now if I can just forget for that I'm going to have to say goodbye again I'll be ok.