Travis Leaves (and Caleb too)

Very Early on Tuesday September 9th Corey left with Travis and Caleb to drive to Utah.  He was going to be dropping Travis off at the MTC and then driving to Idaho to drop Caleb off in Rexburg for school at BYU-Idaho.

They drove to Cortez Colorado for the first night and then left really early the next day to drive to Provo so Travis could make his drop-off time.  They still made time for lunch with Westley at In-N-Out.  They were in Utah on Wednesday and Thursday and then on Friday, Corey drove Caleb up to Idaho with Westley along for the ride.  They even ran into Andrew Whetten from the ward at the bookstore.  After leaving Caleb in Rexburg, Corey stayed the night at Aunt Amy's in North Salt Lake and left from Salt Lake really early on Saturday to come home.  

 

Homecoming/Farewell and Setting Apart

 

Caleb has his homecoming talk and Travis had his farewell talk on the same Sunday.  Caleb's return date of August 29th and Travis' report date of September 3rd kind of made that  happen.  Westley and Alejandra were there for it and so were Jamie and Nana.  It was such a beautiful Sunday.  Eliza and Annmarie sand a beautiful duet called "He Will Heal You".  We had an open house later in the day and then President Shumard came and set Travis apart as a missionary.  

Caleb Comes Home!

Westley and Alejandra flew into town and were able to be with us when Caleb came home from Ohio. He flew into Dallas Love Field. We had let all the kids miss school. We picked him up and then went home, where President Shumard released him from his mission. Then we went to In-N-Out for lunch. Notice the picture of all four kids who worked at that In-N-Out. Westley and Caleb worked together, Westley and Travis worked together, Caleb, Travis and Eliza worked together and Eliza and Travis worked together. It's so great having everyone home!

 

Surprise Surgery

The end of April came with preparations for the upcoming wedding.  Westley and Alejandra came into town and things got busy.  An added event was that Caleb ended up in the hospital with appendicitis and needed his appendix out.  He went in for surgery the morning of the 28th, the week of Westley's wedding.  The mission president and senior missionaries have taken great care of him though.

Happy 20th Birthday Caleb!

I sent Caleb some Domino's Pizza and some cupcakes for his birthday.  He did not get pictures of the cupcakes, but obligingly sent me the picture of him and his companion eating the pizza for dinner.  It's nice having missionaries serve in the states so I can do things like this.

Off to the Provo MTC

Caleb flew up to Utah on the 29th. My cousin Andy Farnsworth's son,Caleb Farnsworth, got  his mission call shortly after Caleb and he is going to Salem Oregon.  His MTC report date was the same day, so Andy and Lori (and Caleb) met Caleb at the airport and kept him at their house from Tuesday into Wednesday and then drove him to the MTC.  He was able to also meet up with John and Allison and see them before reporting.  I thought that was pretty neat.  And, Ben Goode, from our ward, is in the MTC also, and Caleb bumped into him.  Another fun fact is that Caleb Farnsworth's MTC companion was on the same flight as Caleb so that is the picture with Caleb Farnsworth and the other fellow at the airport.  And of course, Andy's family treated Caleb to one more meal at In-N-Out before he is deprived for two years.