The trip home. . .

Our year in Ireland is up and time to move home. It flew by too quickly. It was a great memorable year with trips through Europe, the birth of Austin, the death of Pat's dad, living in a foreign (but not that foreign) country, serving in a branch, our kitchen flooding and on and on. I'm so glad we took this opportunity - great times.
On the trip home in August we stopped off in Boston for a week to visit my parents. While visiting with them we drove to some church history sites (none of which we had visited before) as well as Niagra Falls. Thanks Mom and Dad for a great week.


The Joseph Smith farmhouse - where it all began.

A picture of us in the Sacred Grove. All I can say is. . . it's true!

The Bray Branch

We loved the branch we attended. About 50-60 came out each week. We loved each person and each experience we shared with them. For our last Sunday everyone stayed around after and sang the hymn "God be with you 'til we meet again' and took a branch photo. This is about 3/4 of the branch. We miss them so much already. . .
This is basically the whole church building. What you see through the window is where we have sacrament meeting. We then divide it into 3 small sections for primary, priesthood, and Relief Society.

This is the entrance from street.

Austin is crawling!

Austin starting crawing in July. He is just such a great baby. (if only he'd sleep through the night. . . )

Edinburgh, Scotland

Katie came to visit the first week of August. IT WAS SO FUN! We flew over to Scotland for the day, it is beautiful. Some people thought we were crazy for flying there in the morning and then back that night, but it actually worked out really good for us.

At the Festival

There was a summer festival held last week in a small town called Bray. The kids went on a number of rides and had a great time. Mom and Dad went on a high-flying, intense, crazy, scary one. I screamed the whole time, I can’t believe Pat talked me into it.

Happy Birthday Logan!!

Our boy is growing up. He is doing so well. Logan just celebrated his 5th birthday. He got to eat dinner at McDonald’s and got to Ice Age 3 in 3D with Mom. He opened presents and blew out candles. Logan says he had lots of fun on his birthday.

Wicklow Mtns - Ireland

We visited an old (700 AD) monastery (Glendalough) up in the mountains – beautiful setting. We also visited Powerscourt Estate and Gardens. You hear how green Ireland is, but it really is, and it’s beautiful. Pat's mom and sister came to visit, it was wonderful showing them around and letting them watch the kids for us.