What's going on

Well, nothing really new is going on here. We are finishing up another semester at BYU. Who knows how many more I'm gonna need before I graduate. Julia's taking classes just for fun, and because it's about the same money for her to go to school and get health insurance through the school as it is for me to go and get insurance for both of us. Julia had her second appointment with her doctor last Friday, so I went with her. It was cool to see the baby in the ultrasound. He's gonna be a football player and make tons of money.

I'm flying to Boise this weekend to help my brother finish his ceiling. Over Thanksgiving, I helped him install a bunch of lights and, in the process, fell through his ceiling twice. They were planning on redoing the whole ceiling anyway, so it wasn't that big of a deal. We are getting excited to go to Montreal for Christmas this year. I enjoy going there, even though it's a little hectic. For Christmas, we are working on my in-laws basement to make it more liveable. It'll be a lot of work, but a lot of fun. Other than that, not much else going on. Hopefully something exciting will happen in the near future, so next time I will have something better to write about.

Back into the routine

It has been really fun coming back to Utah. I had such a wonderful time with my family touring and celebrating graduation. It was great to see Mom and Dad, Anne la banane, Jared and Kristina and my 5 month old nephew William, who was 4 months at the time. We went to Nauvoo first and camped in my parents new tent, the weather was so nice we barely needed a blanket. We toured the temple visitors center and did a quick drive by of all the buildings we had previously visited 6 years ago. Then we headed out toward Martin's Cove to pull a handcart. The weather was hurricane like and so we stayed in hotel that evening, oh how fun! When we arrived in Martin's Cove we had the opportunity to stay at a campground again, the wind blew really hard and mom took some really funny video, it is great, when Mom starts laughing, she cannot stop!!! That morning Lynda was supposed to call us with her mission call but unfortunately we had no reception. She did record it and put it on Utube if you would like to go see it. So a wonderful missionary lent us his phone to call Montreal, but we were too late and had to wait anxiously for the evening. We pulled a handcart for about half an hour. Jared and I at the helm, Kristina and William in the cart and Mom and Dad tumbling after. To Dad and Mom's disappointment we did not have enough time to walk and see the new monument that had been placed to honour the three young men who helped the handcart companies across the river, but once we returned to the visitor's center, it came to us that we could ask to be driven there. That was a humbling and grand experience. We were fortunate to stop at a little cottage where a woman told her story of the amazing trek. We are so blessed, that was a very spiritual experience for all of us. Then we set off to join Anne in Utah. Yeah! Mom and Dad had plenty of time to go to the Family History Center and took time to weed our poor lawn and flower beds...they are amazing! Graduation was a surreal experience and I realized I was not ready to leave BYU quite yet.

Now we are back. I have painted a couple more rooms and am loving my classes. Geology is bringing us on many hikes to hidden places in the Wasatch mountains. This week I went swimming in a crater in 97 degree water! Lynda, my other sister was able to come along for the ride but unfortunately was not able to swim because she was set apart as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Oh, yes, and where did she go? Japan, Sapporo mission, the furthest north island in Japan, brrr. Justin and I had the marvelous opportunity so see her off in the MTC yesterday, Wednesday Sept 26, also my mother in laws birthday. Oh so neat and she was asked to say the closing prayer for the meeting. We will truly miss her.

And that is another day in the life of the Butlers two.

A new day...

Justin and I have combatted the flu, thank goodness we were not sick for the Six Flags adventure Tuesday! It was a blast! We went on so many roller coasters and then enjoyed the water park, the rides and water slides were so neat! And so I open our first blog...