Festival of Colors

Every spring in Spanish Fork, Utah, there is a festival of colors at the Hindu temple.  I have always wanted to go and throw chalk at everyone else while getting covered myself.  After how many years in Provo I finally made it! Here is the official evidence.

Nashville Tennessee Mission Reunion

We went to Derric's mission reunion and I got to meet a lot of the people he served with.  And of course Derric, who said he didn't even care about going, was so excited and running and hugging and laughing with just about everyone we saw.  I learned some more stories about him and it was so fun getting to meet the people from the stories I had already heard.  Here's a few highlights, though as his personal paparazzi I took many many more pictures.

Justin and Alex Moses! some of our favorite people

paparazzi moment!

Derric's mission president - President Hutchings

and Sister Hutchings

Adrianne's Mission Call!

Derric's sister, Adrianne, just got her mission call!  

we all jumped for joy... luckily Derric is strong enough to catch us

I'm so excited for her!  Florida Fort Lauderdale is really great!  We looked up the top sixteen reasons to live there, and apparantly they are as culturally diverse as New York, and have a boat parade! woohoo!

She is going to be a super sister missionary, I'm already so excited for her that I googled the weather conditions (average inches of rain by month and average highs and lows of each month) so that I can help her pick out clothes.  And I even bought the Preach My Gospel DVDs (the district 1 & 2)  just to have for myself and watch with her!  

It's got me thinking about my mission and how much I miss it.  Anaheim has a special place in my heart.  I was just talking with Julie about the time that I was tackled by a homeless man.  Oh the memories.