10.1.18

A little late. We were enjoying life to much to write earlier. 

We had an awesome weekend! We took off to Long Beach Washington on Thursday afternoon. We got there just after the sun set. It was still beautiful! We had a 2 bedroom condo about a block from the beach, but it was up on hill and overlooked the ocean. We had an awesome deck view. I sat there a lot enjoying the tranquility- sound and smell of the beach! We were also lucky enough to have beautiful weather the majority of the time we were there! It was in the high 70s and sunny! Sometimes you don’t even get that in the summer!

 Friday morning we headed over to Long Beach, the cute little beach town and had so much fun! It was almost magical and had so much fun enjoying our time with Keagan. 
He loves the arcade, we spent a couple hours in there. It was pretty fun! We went into all the cute little shops, had ice cream, played mini golf, and Ray and Keagan went on the go carts. 

We went onto the beach a few times, but it was hot (we’re wimps) and we had forgot our chairs. We went back to the condo for a short nap and woke up to fog! We couldn’t see the beach anymore!

We had a great time! I can’t wait to go back! 
On the way back, we stopped and saw my dad and Keagan said goodbye. 

Yesterday we had an open house for him. It was so nice to have so many people come over and support us. I have too many pictures to post. The nicest surprise was seeing Greta Harris (Lapossa) come. We had no idea she was coming. She lives up in Mulkiteo now (at least 2 hours north). She was Keagan’s primary teacher for a couple of years and they were super close. That was really sweet. 
Beth and Merrill George came from Portland and Logan Woodbury came from Bremerton. And of course, our bonus son- Adam Cichoski came over from Moses Lake. It was great to have a lot of youth there and people we love from the ward. 

I haven’t cried as much as I thought I would. I’m happy that he is worthy and willing to go. I will for sure miss him! Mostly I’m sad about the end of an era at the Shoop family. Our youngest child to leave the house. 

Tonight, I’m sure will be a different story. He gets set apart at 8 pm. Tomorrow we take him up to the airport and it leaves at 1. Melissa will pick him up and take him to the mtc Wednesday where he reports at 1. Pretty exciting! 

Many more emotions to come next week! And I’m so happy General conference is next week! What a great time for all of us to hear our Savior’s voice through his prophets!
Love you all, 
Sister Shoop



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