Here is Curtis in his Navy summer whites
(cracker jack uniform) in front of their apartments.

Here is Katy dancing with a new friend at Youth Conference.
They built birdhouses for a service projects, the 2 boys from our branch built 3 bird houses and the 3 girls from our branch rebuilt their 1 birdhouse 3 times!!LOL
They took tour buses to Independence, Richmond, Far West and Liberty.
Katy had a great time and had no panic attacks.

This is Micheal (Mia's brother) we tend these two about once a week.
We enjoy it but they are a handful at times.
Here Michael is tickling Stefanie's feet.

Here is Curtis and Nikki with their pets preparing to leave for VA in January.
Trooper made it to V.A. but the fish
was forgotten in the car over night and became a fish pop!!
The kids hit the big snow storm on their way up and had to pull over and spend
the night .

This is Destiny helping tend Mia.
Destiny was able to keep Mia entertained and was able to
get her to sleep.

These are our wonderful missionaries who taught Stefanie the discussions, and this is our even more wonderful Stefanie who asked us what she needed to do to be baptized.

This is our Bearded Dragon Lizard named Puffer
who just licked the tank trying to get Katy's
Beta Fish named Ichigo, KATY SAYS:
"FISH ARE FRIENDS NOT FOOD"

The Japanese fan, that the McMurrys were so kind to give me,
was on the other wall, but looks wonderful here.

We hadn't found a place for the beautiful Japanese wooden panels, but with a suggestion from Destiny, Gmom and Pop did.

Dyer family pictures on the stairs down into the den. Gmom was so good at making things look really nice. Pop was so kind to do the measuring and placing of the pictures.
Thank you both!!!

We haven't posted in forever!!! I have had 3 computer crashes this summer and posting has not been a priority until now. So here goes:
Curtis and Nikki are living in Alexandria, VA. and Curtis commutes to Bolin, Airbase in D.C. everyday for work. His day starts between 3am and 5am and he gets off work between 5pm and 7pm most days. But he still spends at least 2 or more hours every evening with the help of Nikki to prepare his uniforms for the next day. They are planning on driving down to see us around Thanksgiving. Bryan is planning to have Curtis's truck running by then so they can take it back with them.
Doug and Stefanie have moved to a nice apartment in Grant City. It has 2 bedrooms and is moderately sized. They live about 2 miles from the factory that Doug and Bryan work at. Stefanie has been called as a councilor in the Young Women Program in our branch. Doug is working with Bryan on programming the machine that uses router bits to cut out gun stocks.
Katy has had her drivers license for about 2 weeks now and got a job this Tuesday (July 22nd) at The Corner Deli on the Albany square. She will be working between 2 and 3 hours per day, from 11am to about 1:30 pm. She has been a great help to me. She drives Destiny to the pool and runs errands for me. She also helps me around the house and helps when we tend two little ones named Michael and Mia.
Destiny is doing great. She played softball again this summer and did well. She also took swim lessons two weeks ago. She passed level 4 and will be in Junior life guard training next summer.
Bryan and I are team teaching the youth class 2nd hour. Bryan is still putting in many hours at work. They have just purchased a robot that once it is programmed it will sand the gun stocks. Tomorrow they will get a second C&C Router and will begin setting it up.
I am still the councilor over education in R.S. I am making a dress for Destiny this week. I have been on an organizing spree for the past month or more. I have organized the school file cabinet, my sewing box, the screws, nails, and other whatknots that were in the junk drawer and utility room and the extra bedroom that is now a storage / toy room. The best part is that Gmom and Pop came up about a week ago and I asked Gmom to help me rehang a group of family pictures and she ended up redecorating ALL my walls in the den and livingroom and put up a few more also.
It looks GREAT!!!!
The girls and I have started back 2 subjects per day for school and will jump into the whole thing at the beginning of August.