Missouri Trip...

February 27, 2013...John and I went back home and had an amazing trip to Missouri!  We

hung out with Chatham and Donna, Mom and Dad, Helena and Bobby and Wyndam’s whole family.  We even got to hang out with Grandpa and Teresa!  I LOVED being home.  It snowed 10 inches one day and then 4 days later it snowed 12 inches.  I can’t believe how much snow they got out there.  We got snowed in two of the days and John and I played Mom and Dad in Rook the whole time!  We played sooooo many games.  It was so much fun!  I REALLY LOVED spending so much quality time with Mom and Dad.  I don’t usually get

that much time with them, so I am so glad that I got to be with them.  We ate lots of ice cream and made apple crisp.  Dad made some delicious food.  He had most everything planned out before we got there.  One of the days that it snowed in, he made a yummy quiche for us and then as we were playing games and got hungry, he made us some macaroni and cheese.  He just kept feeding us the yummy food that he always makes.  He made us steaks in the middle of the night practically.  It was supposed to snow a lot one night, so we decided to go over to Wyndam and Melinda's.  Well, we had prepared steaks and they were

thawing out while we were gone visiting.  We didn't end up getting home until 11:30pm.  It was snowing and I really just wanted my steak.  I was so hungry!  Well...Dad put his coat and hat on and headed outside.  He went to the pool room, started the grill, and made me, John, himself and Mom some delicious steaks.  What other Dad would do that for his daughter?  Well...mine does!   We spent a lot of time with everyone while I was home.  We had a dance party at Wyndam and Melinda's.  Those kids were so funny, and just attached themselves to John.  They all liked him and kept asking me when we were getting married.  (They had met John when they came out to Utah several months before.)  We went to dinner with Grandpa and Teresa.  We invited them over for dinner with just us and Mom and Dad another night.  That was really good

to just spend time with them as well.  Another thing we did that was soooo much fun, and completely hilarious, was the "Harlem Shake!"  You will need to google this to get the proper understanding of what this means.  Chatham got all of us to participate and had us dress up and do the Harlem Shake.  It was sooooo funny!  He is making a video, and we can't wait to see the actual finished product!  Helena (John's sister) lives out there with her husband, Bobby and two kids.  They invited us over to spend the night.  We went over one night and invited Chatham and Donna to come eat dinner and play games.  We had some yummy food and then just laughed all night long playing really fun games.  It was really good to just spend time with Chatham, and we

all laughed so hard.  After Chatham and Donna left, we watched a 3-D movie and ate popcorn with Helena and Bobby!  They were so happy that we came.  The next day we went rollerskating with my family and Helena came with one of her boys!  We just skated around and had ourselves a good ole' time!  I just felt like the whole trip was wonderful, because we met in Missouri!  It was nice to go back and have you reintroduced to my parents and enjoy Missouri together again.  One of the things that I did while home was look through some of the letters I had downstairs in the basement.  I knew that John and I wrote back and forth, but he thought maybe we hadn’t written that much.  I really knew I wouldn’t have thrown them away, it was just a matter of finding

them.  I went downstairs and found a box labeled “letters” and brought that upstairs.  I forgot to sort through it until the night before we left.  I opened the lid, took out the memory book on top and the first stack of letters that had a rubber band around them were my letters from John.  There were 43 of them that he wrote me from the time I went to Ricks College through his mission.  I was sooooo excited.  I read 18 of the letters that night and just giggled to myself the whole time.  He was so cute, and every single letter he told me he loved me.  He was dating Jessica at the time, and we were only friends and I knew that.  In one of

the letters he said, “If Jessica and I don’t get married (yeah right) you and I will get married.”  I laughed so hard when I read that.  On the airplane, we read through a bunch of the letters.  It was so much fun to go through those letters together.  We just had such a fun trip, and can't wait to go back!  My parents really enjoyed hanging out with us and getting reintroduced to John!