"Summering"

It all started with a promise made 4 1/2 years ago. When we became engaged I asked two things of Travis. 1) He would get me a baby dog and 2) He would take me to Europe. Fast forward til March of this year...

We received an invitation from some of our favorite people, the Flowers.

Laura, Brice, Megan, and Jackson

are in our ward because Laura is going to law school here. She is doing a summer internship in France where she served her mission and invited us to spend some time over there with them.

Things began to snowball from there. Travis is making good on his promise. Our travels will take us to:

Ireland, the UK, Italy, France, Spain, and the Netherlands.

We've are blessed to be able to stay with friends in the UK, France, and the Netherlands. We'll be staying in hostels or sleeping in parks the rest of the time. I am so excited to sit at the beach in the south of France and run with the bulls in Pamplona! We'll be gone for a whole month. Does it get better? I feel like a person who is rich enough to verb the word summer as in, "we are summering in Europe."

In order to be able to make this adventure a reality these gracious people, aka Mom and Dad are letting us move back in for a few months so we're not paying bills when we're gone. They just look like good people don't they?

And once we're back even bigger things are happening.
Travis will be performing his first wedding for none other than Anders and Nikki, also known as my brother and his girlfriend. Anders will be joining the Coast Guard soon and they're finally making things official. Brocky is excited. Everyone will be coming into town so it will be fun. Everyone including Brie and Russell. I'm pretty sure they are family.

So last part of this plan includes becoming home owners. When we get back from Europe we are beginning our search for a place to call our own. I guess we can admit we'll be here for at least 4 more years. Maybe more if we end up getting our Doctorate's out here. We'll see.

So that's our life right now. I'm really excited to be us. Thank You to all those people who have helped make this happen. We heart you!