Getting Our Missionary Ready...

I am really glad that we have a couple more weeks to spend with Brad before he leaves. This month has already flown by! There is a lot of preparation to do to get a missionary ready...
I took Brad to Mr. Mac to shop for suits....



amid the thousands of styles, colors, etc. we found some we liked...

On June 20th we took Brad to the Ogden Temple to take out his endowements. We first met up with family at the Olive Garden's for lunch...

Here Brad is wearing his new suit...




Then we went to the temple for the 6:20 session...

It was nice to have family join us on this special day...

The weather wasn't great and it was getting dark, but if you look close, Brad is on the right hand side...

I am going to have to photo shop this picture!
But we had a wonderful day. I am still shopping for all the stuff he needs, but am almost to the end of the list.
PS. Brad will give his farewell address on July 26th

White Water Rafting

Over the weekend we went up to Idaho for some white water rafting on the Salmon River! We met my parents and 2 brothers at the camp that my parents stay at all summer long, then headed to the White Otter Rafting Co. in Sunbeam. Here we are all geared up and ready to go.
There were 9 of us; my mom and dad, Brett (my older brother), Scott (younger brother) and my family except Nash (he was with the scouts on a high adventure white water rafting on the Payette River North East of where we were)

Scott and Austin were really concentrating on getting through the rapids!



We went through two Class 4 rapids (the "Shotgun" and the "Dam") and a couple of Class 3 rapids(the "Narrows"and "Piece of Cake"). This was a shot of us going through "The Dam" a class 4 rapid...

This picture was taken a ways away, so it doesn't do it justice, as far as how big the rapids were. Later in the day we watched a raft go through and tip end on end knocking all its' passengers out except one, even the guide fell out!



We were blessed because it had been raining the whole way there and was still cloudy but once we got on the river the sun came out and stayed until we were all done and headed back to camp! We had a great time and would love to go again!