Hopefully Not Our Last Dinner at the Meldrum's

Left to Right: Papa Laws (a.k.a. Duane Laws- he ans his wife Jo Ann were our kids grandparents there in Michigan and they often had our kids over to play and to go to the park, Tyce Larsen - Patty's grandson and Jamie and Kaylene's son, Patty and Dave Meldrum - one of our Saviors in Michigan and our dear, dear friends! Noah and then Matt

Papa Laws! - Our kids still talk about you! 
Thank you for being so wonderful to us!
Noah misses playing catch on your stairs!

Ellie and Owen Larsen getting ready to eat!
Everyone LOVES Patty's cooking!



Kaylene Larson and Rowena

A lovely candid by the BBQ -
 someone has to keep Kaylene and
her turkey burgers in line :) 

Hey Dave, Have you gotten a DVR yet?!
 Who got kicked off onThe Amazing Race?!
-- our running questions with them :)

Who's Up for Boggle?!  One of Patty and I's favorite past time :)

Matt crashed on the floor -- he was obviously VERY comfortable at the Meldrum's :)





The Last Herring/Wagaman Game Night In Michigan

Matt, Liz, John, Jacob, Me . . . and of course Adam (Elder Herring) and Josh were there in Spirit. We had some mean game nights! Dang I miss you guys!!!!

Farewell Medical BBQ at Tolbert's in Michigan

Random picture to start out with but none the less Tawna Tolbert and Heidi Herd are dishing away!

Noah and Ellie (both mine - well atleast they are both considered mine when they are behaving well :) and then Lincoln Tolbert

Here we have Oliver and Ivy Chu (I absolutely LOVE Ivy's smile because she was so slow to warm up to you and then she flashes this smile at the camera:) and there is also Tolbert

Rowena pretty much slept through the entire BBQ - nice natural mohawk going on there

Mandie Chu testing out the waters and apparently Ivy is voting "no" on her mommy having another baby . . .

I got her to atleast look at me though :)

This is a beautiful picture because it captures a sweet moment of Ellie being a devoted sister. All the other kids were playing on the tramp there by the house and I couldn't figure out where our kids were in the mix until I spotted them alone at the swing set. I asked Ellie why they weren't over there she said"oh, well Noah just wanted to swing so I thought I'd push him" like it was no big deal that she was missing all the fun to stay and push her brother on the swing. I am so lucky to have Ellie.

Crack the Egg in the making . . .

Try not to notice Oliver freaking out in the background :) He wasn't so sure about it all

Classic :)

Man have we grown as a group in 5 years! Ellie use to be the ONLY baby in the bunch!

Goodbyes are hard . . . (Yijia and kids)

Matt and Scott Herd