A few pictures before Nate left on his mission...

These were last two nights we had with Nate, I can't believe how fast time has already gone since Nate left! He gets to leave the MTC on the 13th and go out to EL Savador. We are very excited and he is also! So far Nate has loved being out and learning and now he is VERY excited to be leaving the MTC and getting out to the real world!

Saying his goodbyes to Jill and Lauren

All the Kids sure miss Uncle Nate

All the kids got to say goodbye to Nate on Sunday! They were very sad!
This is the night we set Nate apart as a Missionary, we all had dinner together and hung out like good old times!

Naughty Nate using a computer after he has been set apart! haha..

We were all hanging out watching the Olympics together

Well I guess not all of us were, Matt was nice enough to stay up with Nate so he didn't have to be alone



My Dad didn't want to stand outside with the rest of them and so he sat inside and worked on his computer at 11:30 at night.

It was such a fun night to go up with all my brothers and my Husband and just hang out all night. We didn't get home that night until about 1 am. My brothers just talked and talked and talked like they weren't going to see each other for a couple of years and they talked like they hadn't seen each other for a couple of years. It was so much fun, but at the same time I was so ready to go home and get to bed! Everytime I thought we were going to leave and go home my brothers would say okay lets go find Nate and they would move into another room and then talk for another hour. After that they would say again okay lets go, and you could probably guess what happend. They would go into another room together and just chat and chat! Even though I was very tired the next day, we had SO much fun just talking and talking! It was like old times when we were younger and would stay up all night talking to each other. I'm so very grateful for my brothers and my husband. I wouldn't be the same person without them! I love them all SO much! Even though being the only girl while growing up was very hard to be picked on all the time, I wouldn't change it. Families are wonderful!