Table for Eight

I am SO excited: today is my first day back at BYU after a very very long break. (My last class was in April--before the Survivor Caramoan finale!) I love BYU. Absolutely everything about it.  So I'm really happy to have school begin today. I hope wherever you are today, it's a great day. Much love. Sidenote: This is an "old" photo taken last year on my first day of Fall semester at BYU. Elder Meehan took it. And, we heard from Elder Meehan late yesterday--so I thought I should repost it. (Psst: All's well in Indiana. He's doing great. Yayhoo!)

Bam, Papaya, Lu, and Janae's kiddos at the park. Labor Day weekend was soooooooooooooooooo nice! We didn't do anything spectacular, but we did get to check out a new park by our home and have a fun BBQ Monday night (cooked entirely by Dave--yayhoo!). (The only downside to the holiday is that we didn't get any mail delivery--so no update from Elder Meehan. Drats.) I hope you had a great holiday weekend.  And Happy Labor Day--today--to my Canadian friends. Jr and Papaya having a pull-up contest. The girls on a spinning thingy. This park is incredible. The equipment, the layout, the landscaping and rockscaping, the brook running through it--are all incredible! This brook flows into a nearby lake. Dave and Bam. Zu, Lu, Jr, Papaya, and Janae's kiddos.   There's a drill and conveyor belt in the sand area. Along with volleyball courts. Our weather has been between 85-95 this week. The clouds were bea...