So first and foremost… My brother Trevor got home from his mission on Wednesday October 1, 2008! That was such a good day! I am not going to lie, his mission seemed like it lasted for 7 years rather than just 2. We had balloons and a sign for him at the airport and we had family and friends there with us to pick him up! It was so good to see him coming down the escalator!!! We knew from the pictures that he sent home that he had lost weight, but he looked so skinny haha! But it was so good to finally hug him and see him! He was able to meet Dan for the first time, which was weird to think that he missed my wedding AND he had never met my husband…but they instantly clicked and they get along great! When we left the airport to go home, Whitney, Dan, and I left a little bit earlier than everyone else and hurried home to put all the balloons in our front yard. My mom had blown up tonz of yellow balloons and we put them all over the front yard with a sign saying welcome home so when he drove up, he would see it. Then our family came back over to the house and we picked up chin wah (Trevor’s favorite Chinese restaurant) had dinner with everyone and just talked about mission experiences. He was supposed to be released at 7 but the stake president was driving home from being out of town, so he called and pushed it back to 8, and then called a little later and pushed it back to 9 haha, so that was funny! So at 9 he finally got released! It was such a great day! That weekend was conference weekend and so it was fun to have all the boys go to priesthood and then meet up with them for dinner on Saturday and then Sunday we spent the whole day at my parent’s house watching conference! Monday night Dan and I went over there again because for family night Trevor was going to make us these Mexican Hamburgers that him and his companions would make all the time on their mission, and they were so good!!! If anyone wants to know how to make it, just ask – it is interesting, but worth trying!
Other than that, things are going great for Dan and I! I got a promotion at work and have been extra busy but was so excited to finally get promoted because I was doing that job anyway! It’s always nice to know that you are valued at your work – I have had several people in my office in different departments try and get me to come work for them lol – so that has been a self esteem booster. J But Dan is doing great in school – one more semester and then he will be at the U and then off to law school he goes. I don’t know if I have mentioned this in any postings, but a while ago Dan realized that the career path he was on was not what he wanted to do for the rest of his life, so he did some soul searching and looked into some different things, and made the decision that he wants to be a lawyer and he has been so happy and excited about it since he made that decision, which makes me really excited! He is going to get his Bachelor’s degree in Economics which he is doing great in right now. He is going to be a real estate lawyer so he got his real estate license and is working in that area right now with my cousin to get some experience doing that and learn all about it before he goes to law school which I think is so smart! And that has been fun for me because he is currently in the process of selling 3 houses, all of which are over $800,000 - one is even over a million... so when he does open houses I love to go and look through them!!! They are all so gorgeous! But on the lawyer side of it, he has also had the opportunity to go to court with a real estate lawyer on one of the big cases that included Suncrest and some things that are going on with that area, it was good for him to see exactly what he would be doing and it just re-confirmed to him that it is really what he wants to do! So GO DAN!!! I’m proud of him for being courageous enough to change his career path and really find something that he is excited about and feels good about doing. The business he was in before had a lot of really sketchy things going on and a lot of dishonest people and didn’t want to be a part of it – so I admire him for stepping away from that and finding something where he feels like he can be of help to people and give people a voice that may not be heard in other circumstances!
Well that will be all for now! We have some fun things planned this weekend, including Trevor’s homecoming finally! And then next weekend, on Saturday, we leave to Florida! So I’ll do another post before we go and then I’ll post Florida pictures when we get back!!!
