6 Deans + a Dog

Rachel hit her halfway mark this past week!  9 months, 39 weeks, 274 days, 394,560 minutes, and 23,673,600 seconds down! Woot, Woot!! Nine months down and nine months to go.  Boy I miss her but we are loving her adventure and watching her grow and change and touch lives of the sweet people in Calgary.  Way to go Hermana Dean!! You will be home before we know it!  Love you :)

We had a fun spring break getaway with the Nelson Clan to Moab!  We left Friday morning and got home Sunday Evening. There were 25 people in our crew.  Amy rented 2 three bedroom condos.  It was great fun!  We explored Goblin Valley on Friday, Saturday we spent the day in Arches (Mike and Steve actually spent the day dealing with our broken down van) stupid cars :( . Mike and Steve hooked up with us at the Sandhill outside Arches. We had an egg hunt at the condos Saturday evening, ate a spaghetti dinner and hung out and played games.  Sunday we went to church in the morning, hiked through some rivers to a waterfall and ate lunch in Moab and then headed back home to SLC.  Since our car was broken down Mike and I road home with Chambers, Jake road home with Brett and his family and Will and Sadie road home with my parents.  It was a fun getaway and spending time with my family.  As always we missed our missionaries!!

Wow!  I am now 44 years old!! I mean that is creeping up on 50 and is super weird to me. I still feel so young, CRAZY!  I had a great birthday this year.  I got my 2015 blog book woot, woot.  It is always a good feeling having another year printed in a book that we can all enjoy.  I got the sweetest card from Rachel and lots of goodies, texts, emails, phone calls from my family and friends throughout the day.  I definitely felt the love!  We went to dinner the night before with our kids to Smash Burger and then to see Batman vs Superman, the day of my birthday I went with Mike to breakfast and got pedicures and then that evening we went to Cowboy Grub for dinner.  Thanks family and friends for making this "old lady" feel the love!  Bring on the next 44 years... :)