Rachel In Action

A fun video of Rachel sent to us by Sis. Cowgur!
We love our missionary =)
Enjoy!

The Best Things in Life Aren't Hard to Find

To my dear family!
Let's not be boring any more! Let's keep posting on this blog, as it's such a digi-tastic way to stay in touch with what we're all doing in our constituent states/states of mind =)

Ideas:

• Laralee/Terry: What about ya'll's new house?! Would you post pics? We'd all love to see it = )
• LeAnne: GRADUATION and pics of your new dorm. What are you taking this coming semester, who are you rooming with etc.!
• Micah: GRADUATION and you're new apartment in Idaho! What do you think? How are you feeling about going off to college (du du dunnnnnn!)
• Jackie: Well, we all know you're always doing a million things so what's the latest?! One more year of high school then...??
• Grams and Bompa: Latest on the cruising situation. What are the summer plans?
• Mom: Any new dead people developments? What about posting pics of Rachel before she entered the MTC? Posting pictures of the new car/writing about our "Highway to Hell" road trip which lasted WAY too long!

Let's just recognize the fact that I am a complete hypocrite sitting here calling ya'll to repentance when I haven't contributed much! But I will! I have had to start a blog for my advance writing class this spring (would LOVE it if you read a post or two and told me what you thought!!!) and record the process of my writing and through doing that I have found value in the everyday events which shape us to becoming who we are and the opinions we value. This is especially important in the community of the family, as it is an audience which takes most interest in those experiences which slowly mold our square pegs of existence into the round hole of our societal roles (using the analogy not in reference to a "worldly" way of living but rather how we come to find our own in society).

So my dear family, LET'S BLOG! Doesn't have to be long, just a quickie update every week or so. This digital platform is such a perfect stage to keep our family together and up-to-date in each other's lives that its stagnant status has been a sad thing to behold!

In closing, I feel it appropriate to quote Hamlet in what I hope becomes our new family motto:
"Words, words, words."