Utah-Idaho trip

Dave and I left with Andrea on Dec 12 to see family and attend the graduation of Kara and Luke. After a smooth flight we rented a car and drove to Logan to see my Dad and his wife, Susan. They had just returned from a 5-week trip to Thailand the day before, and so were still recovering from their trip. (They had gone for the wedding of Susan's Thai brother's daughter, but unfortunately Susan became ill and spent 4 days in the hospital--missing the whole wedding and guests. Then her son Chris, 25, who was with them, had to have his appendix out there!) They had some exotic gifts for us from Thailand, and we spent the night with them.



The next morning we drove up to Rexburg--with some snowy roads. We met Kara and went to her school where she just student taught second grade. I was asked to read one of my books to the various second grade classes. I had fun doing it and seeing how they had enjoyed Kara.























That night our whole family had dinner

--(except Julia and Daniel who had to stay in Maryland. They did a great job of getting themselves to seminary and school each morning, their Music concert which we had to miss, and church.) My mom and Craig had driven up from California and met us there. Immediately afterwards James and Erika ran off to finish a couple more finals before midnight. We stayed with Kara and Luke in their roomy 2-bedroom apartment.

Friday was the graduation luncheon and ceremonies (noted on a separate post.)
After the ceremonies our family and Luke's parents, sister, nephews and grandma had subs and cake at their place.

On Saturday we helped James and Erika pack up.
We took some extra things to my Uncle Monte's in Idaho Falls and had a nice visit there with Monte, Violet and my mom and Craig who stayed with them. Later that night we exchanged Christmas gifts with Kara and Luke.

We got James and Erika on the shuttle at 6:15 am on Sunday (with 15 pieces of luggage) and then left for Salt Lake. We met them at the airport and checked on our combined 15 pieces of check-in luggage--and 10 pieces of carry on-- in 3 shifts. Big thanks to Brother Mumford, our home teacher, who took and picked us up from the airport in our van.