Well a lot has happened since our last post. My sister returned from Thailand safely so we were happy about that. But that also meant it was time for us to leave. We have made a lot of great friends in Florida and will miss them very much. Before we left we celebrated Allies 2nd birthday. Boy how time flies. So here are a couple of pictures of the birthday girl.




























I know everyone is confused as to our plans, we are a little too, but our original plan of returning to McCall, ID didn't work out. Which we are really sad because we love McCall and are going to still try and go back sometime. We are currently in St. Charles, MO (St. Louis). Brent got a summer job here and we are giving it a try to see how it goes. We are getting settled in and I am getting to be a professional packer and unpacker. On the way up we were able to drive threw the coast of Mississippi where I served and LDS mission. I haven't been back and the devastation of Katrina is still very evident. It was very sad to see the once beautiful coastline look like a ghost town.

This was a ship that was left by Hurricane Camille years ago. It had been turned into a tourist shop, but now is very much destroyed. It was good to still see it there. It was one of the only landmarks that I still recognized.



This was at a rest stop on the way to St. Charles, Brent just had to play around with the camera. Dallan thought it was awesome!

















So we will keep you posted on our plans. We should be here in St. Charles, MO until the end of August and then the "plan" (always up to change) is to get Brent back into school.

So we have been in Florida for almost 4 months now and the weather is great! We have had a lot of fun times going to the beach and playing around. When we first got here both the kids were very scared of the waves at the beach. They hadn't seen waves that big before. Last time we went to the beach Dallan ran right in and we had to remind him to stay close to mom and dad. The fear is gone. Allie is still a little nervous but does much better.

































We also went to Shark Valley entrance to the Everglades. They have a path that you can walk, bike, or ride a tram. It is about 15 miles round trip. We just walked a couple of miles in and then turned around. But we saw so many alligators. We even saw baby gators, and one small gator trying to eat a frog. Dallan thought that was awesome. I didn't think it was too fun to watch. We saw a deer as well and were a little nervous that we might see a gator have dinner. I was relieved and Brent was a little disappointed that the deer returned safely to the brush without disturbing the gators.

Hello All

Okay so we are trying to go high tech and join the blog world. I hope this works! This will be great to share our continuously changing lives with everyone we care about. So here we go!