Welcome Home Jacob!!

It has been five weeks since we moved without Adrienne and Jacob. I have missed my big kids so much!!  Jacob has been staying with Megan and her family. I knew he was in wonderful hands and he really wanted to stay for one last week of Scout Camp.  I am so glad he was able to go, it sounds like they had a great time!  We looked into flying him here, but that was too expensive.  We checked out the bus schedule, but that was a little spendy and we would have to book it out almost a month.  I did not want to wait that long for him to get here!  Finally we were able to line up a ride with Tom Watson who was coming to Rexburg to pick up his daughter Kaitlyn.

He was supposed to arrive on Thursday the 19th and we were so excited to see him!  He called the day before to request he stay a little longer!  What??  Did he know what we went through to get his transportation here??  Then he explained that he had befriended an investigator at church and this young man, who had gone to camp with him had decided to be baptized on Saturday and not only THAT, but he wanted Jacob to baptize him.  What an awesome experience that would be for Jacob, who has been out with the missionaries a lot and is looking forward to his mission in just one year!  We could not say no!  It so turned out that Beth and my Mom were going to Salt Lake this weekend, leaving Sunday morning. So Jacob was able to perform the baptism and then Sunday morning he left for Idaho.

On Monday we drove three hours to Twin Falls and met them at beautiful Shoshone Falls Park.  The kids had fun seeing their cousins and it was great to see Jacob!  Joseph went to run through some sprinklers and slit onto the walkway tearing up both his knees. Poor guy, it really hurt him and it bled a lot too!  We got it cleaned up and bandaged and then we headed home with Jacob.  We stopped in Idaho Falls at one of our new favorite places, Dickies BBQ.  They have free ice cream so the kids started in immediately while we waited for our Polish Sausage, Pulled Pork, Shredded Beef Brisket and rolls, cole slaw, tanglers(onion rings only not in ring form) and fries.  After we ate they filled up on more ice cream and we headed for Rexburg.  We drove Jacob by the Temple and the University Campus then got to the house.  The kids were so excited to show him around. We saved his room for last, we had made him a Senior Year Poster for Graduation and it was waiting on his bed. He LOVED it and spent the rest of the evening unpacking and arranging his room.  He likes it here and is glad to be with us.  It is so good to have him here!  It is fun to watch him interact with the kiddos, they adore having him home!

Beautiful Shoshone Falls!