5.01.16

Heaven, I've been in heaven. All we have done is hold and take care of Hazel. 

She makes cute faces in her sleep. And she likes to sleep with her arm up by her face.  

And we got to go through a session in Provo city temple. That was pretty cool. It was so busy. We got there @915 and we barely missed the 10 session, we sat in the chapel until the 11 session. But, it was worth it. It was beautiful!  Funny story.. All the workers are new there.. They gave several of…

So many wedding. It was fun to see.
We leave Tuesday for home.
Love you!
Sis Shoop
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4.10.16

I'm so sad spring break is over! We didn't do too much, but it was relaxing! Poor Keagan was sick most of break. One day we went out to my dads in Elma. Since we were almost half way there and it was sunny and beautiful (in the 80s that day!!!) we decided to go to the beach. We only stayed for a little bit, but it was worth it! It was beautiful! I could of stayed a lot longer!


Friday night, Keagan had a party to go to in yelm. Ray and I took him out there, but didn't want to drive back, so we made a date out of it. Problem is, there really isn't too much to do there! Ray loves baseball, so we found a baseball park, ate our subway sandwiches, and listened to the Mariners game. Later we walked around Walmart..watched the sunset from the parking lot

And played with the filters on snapchat. Thanks to Melissa for teaching me how! Haha There is a face swap on there that Ray and I did. We were laughing so much. Poor Ray, the only angle that would capture it made him look completely bald.. Yikes.
The other scary one.. Me with the facial hair.. It made me look like my brother.. I guess that makes sense..

My brother a few years ago.

The other thing I have been doing this week is going through old pictures and home movies. I could do that all the time! My family tease me that I take too many pictures, but I'm glad I do!!
It was so good to see Katie today! And hear her speak!

Sacrament and all of church was amazing today. I really felt like all of it was focused on the Savior. (Like it should be!) but the lessons were really geared towards that and that spirit was strong today!

To top off tonight, we had Jesse Williamson come over! Love that kid!!! It was so fun to hear him speak (with a smidge of his accent still) and hear about his mission and the customs from Guatemala And to look at some ward pictures of activities when he was a youth! So fun!

Love you all!!
Sis Shoop

4.03.16

I love General conference weekend! So many uplifting thoughts and talks; New temples, hearing from our prophet! And Elder Hollands amazing talk to close it! I'm also grateful for modern technology so we can quickly read and listen to them again. I may or may if not fell asleep during a couple...

I also love our family tradition of cinnamon rolls one day and quiche the other day. We were also blessed to have elders come both morning sessions.


Elder Doing lost a game.. So this was his consequence..haha
We also had some visitors in between conference on Saturday. One of our rms.. Tyler Harward and his parents dropped by. I love my Rms!

Friday, Ray had the day off and it was sunny , so I convinced him to go up north 2 hours to mount Vernon to the tulip farms. They were beautiful!


It was so nice outside. Because it was sunny and Friday's are usually bad traffic days.. I convinced him to ride the ferry home from Edmonds to Kingston and drive the long way home. I think it may of been quicker and it was gorgeous! Mountains one one side and water on the other!


And I love riding the ferry! This one especially brings fond memories of going to my grandmas house when I was little.
And next week is spring break!!

Love you all!
Sis Shoop

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3.27.16

Happy Easter! Just like Christmas.. Fun traditions and such great meaning. I have loved watching a lot of the Mormon/Lds videos.
Another great week! I was lucky enough this week to have Adam Cichoski and Stewart Kearney come visit and stay with us for a couple of nights. They came to see one of their mission companions get married and came a couple of days extra to see their mission. What fun it was to visit and laugh with these two! It was Kearney's first time back to visit. He's been home for @1.5 years. Love my rms!!


Loved every second of it..pillow fights and all!!

Keagan had a flashlight Easter egg hunt party, Saturday night. It was so fun to hear their laughter through the house and backyard!


Can you see some of the eggs? But they did it in the dark! Fun!


Can you see their flashlights?


This is what happens when Keagan plays with my phone! Hahahaha

I got to sub in primary today. It was great! And even better, I got to hold Sis. Kelleys baby girl to get my grandma practice in! I loved every second of that, too!


This is what I do a lot of.. Talking to Melissa and or face timing her! I love modern technology! I can see Hazel move in Melissa's tummy! So awesome!! I'm getting super excited to be a grandma! Not too much longer!
I love you all and am so grateful for you all. Have a great week!!!

Love,
Sis Shoop
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3.20.16

This week has been full of construction. I feel like a little girl because I love watching it. They ripped the other side of the street - the pavement to put the new water lines down. And then they came and dug up that side of the street to put the lines down. We have had several days of our street closed only to local traffic and big construction vehicles back and forth all day. One day we turned the couch around and watched. Haha


(I was grateful that the port-a-pottie wasn't in front of my house! Haha)

St. Patrick's day is one of my favorite preschool holidays. We build leprechaun traps and the kids are so excited. They are whispering to each other to be quiet so the leprechaun comes! Haha


Today I had a ward conference at the same time as our ward, but I really wanted to hear Jesse speak, so I left our sacrament meeting as soon as Jesse said Amen. He, of course did a great job. He is still forgetting some English words. And I love listening to his accent. But most importantly, his testimony is strong and he's grown a lot. I'm so proud of him! One quick cute story about Jesse... He was introducing himself to an investigator and went to tell him who he was and went to point to his name badge... And then was like, oh yah.. I'm not a missionary anymore.

Bro Shoop got released from ym president and will get a new calling next week. Bro. Grubbs is the new ym president. Also, 4th ward got a new bishop, bishop Hakes was released and bishop Andrews called.

My parents came over tonight and we played card games. It was a lot of fun, but now it's late.

Love you all lots! You're always in our prayers! Keep up the good works!
Sis Shoop


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3.13.16

The highlight of the week was seeing Jesse come home and seeing Kimmie!

Kimmie came home Tuesday. And I've been dying to see her and hug her all week! Today I got to see her and hear her talk. So awesome. She was amazing and I wasn't surprised one bit!! I can't wait to visit with her more!
Something kimmie said in her talk that I just loved, "My mission didn't change me. The Atonement of Jesus Christ did." It was a great talk and sacrament meeting. And I wasn't even distracted when a toddler sitting next to us spilled their water and it got my bench so wet, it was dripping down at the end! Haha. I put my purse behind me so I didn't get wet and someone brought us paper towels!

(I stold this one from Facebook for you guys)

Jesse came home Thursday evening. And I was lucky enough to go to the airport to see him come home. Keagan came with me. Bro Shoop had to work. Traffic was extra bad on the way up. Luckily, I left early because I got there with only a few minutes to spare. It was such a great experience. I thought for sure I was going to happy cry. But I didn't. I don't know if it was because I was so rushed, worried about if I would make it on time or that the williamsons didn't cry either. They were just soooo happy to see each other. I felt privileged to be there! He looked to happy! And tan! And he was fun to listen to. And fun to hear him try to remember the English words for things. Keagan and I got to go out to eat afterwards with them and I loved visiting with him!


They were looking to see if Jesse grew on his mission!

Our car has had some slight mechanical issues lately, but have all been covered under warranty. When we take our car in to be fixed under warranty, they give us a free rental car. This weekend we took it in and got a Cadillac Escalade for our free rental car! I don't know much about cars.. But it's super fancy! All kinds of buttons and gadgets.. Heated steering wheel and seats..etc.. We looked up a year older and it was going for $54,000!!! Crazy! I would never have that expensive of a car, but it has been fun driving it for a couple of days! We feel really blessed that everything is covered under warranty and to have a free rental car!


There is a youth fireside tonight where kimmie and Jesse are speaking. I think I'm going to sneak in!

It has been rainy and windy lately here! I went to Lacey 3rd ward for ward conference and the power went out a few times in the chapel for a few seconds before church started! I'm glad it didn't go out!

I love you all and I'm grateful for your service and your testimonies. It strengthens mine. I know the Church is true and I'm grateful for it and bonds we make through it!

Have a good week!
Love,
Sis Shoop

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