General Conference

With General Conference coming up the boys are home alone. Jess and Ruth headed East to Minnesota and the Mall of America Saturday and will turn the sights south toward St. Louis probably sometime Tuesday. Jessica is having the pleasure of staying the week with someone in the church. The boys are getting the opportunity to see what it is like being bachelors. They get to try their best to make macaroni and cheese different ways and eat some good ol' hamburgers.

News Update

Jared was spotted playing one-on-one basketball Tuesday night. Come to find out he was cleared by his doctor earlier that day. Jared is now able to play contact sports. His next goal? A slam dunk!

Youth Trip to Medora

Jared and Jonathan got back from a youth trip to Medora on Saturday night after the Huskies beat Idaho (what a delight). We went to Medora on Friday night and set up camp.

Our makeshift grill

Jim putting some food on the grill.Some of the youth groupThe youth went to the National Park and went on a four mile hike. Before they went on the hike they were able to climb a large hill.

This is the view of the hillThis is the view from the top of the hill. You can faintly see the truck and some of the youth.

They had to cross the Paddock River about eight times with a grand total of three people falling in, you had to jump across the river. After that we went up to Wind Canyon. This is a place where you can slide down these crevices which have sand in them, it was much fun. Then we drove to Dickinson got a bite to eat and headed home. Here are a few pics...

School

Tuesday we began school. Jessica has started 1st grade with Jonathan going into is sophomore year. Jessica has been doing well and Jonathan has been able to jump out to three days ahead. Tomorrow Jared will end his second week of college. He is going to the doctor right now to find out if his knee is healthy enough to play sports on.