Missionary Returns, Jacob's Family Returns from Disneyland, Beach Day

Oh happy day when we got this elder back in the mission. He went home to heal up a knee injury.

Now our two knee-injured elders are back in the mission and we are so happy they made it back and are ready and eager to get back to work.

We attended a district meeting in the Carlsbad zone.

I thought this was such a cute bulletin board in the Felicita stake building.

I had the missionaries in one of the Escondido districts stand in front of it after their meeting as they were passing out birthday cookies to celebrate one of the sisters' birthday.

Jacob's family had been at Disneyland for several days and when they were back with us again, Glen got busy making French toast for them.

We had an Outback experience with them as well.

They wanted to have a beach day, so we spent a few hours there with them. They enjoyed the sand and the water.

 

One of us appears to have enjoyed the sand as well.

The girls ran to scare the birds.

The birds ended up scaring them.

This cute little Emma just loves to read books. I loved seeing her curled up with a book each night.

Church day and we got the girls posing in the front yard in front of the palm trees.

All lined up in birth order...youngest to oldest: Claire, Logan, Luke, Emma and Natalie.

And then Jacob and Laurie joined them. Such a sweet, cute family. We loved having them come visit so much!!

After Sunday dinner, I got to play my new favorite game with the grandchildren. Surprisingly, Claire and Logan were as good at it as the rest of us.

One last pose with the grandchildren before they piled in the van and headed off to the LAX airport to take their flight home to Omaha.

Great trip. Fun time. We are so thankful they made the effort to come see us in California!!