Richardson Report

To start, Josh and I drove to Idaho and helped the girls move out of their apartments; Hannah and Keaton to Rexburg and Brynne to come home to prep for her mission. it was so nice to see them again after four long months!! Day 1:  Hopped a shuttle to the SLC airport from Pocatello and flew to Rochester NY, rented a car and drove to Palmyra.  Stay at the Best Western - it's about the only place in town worth staying. Day 2:  Drove out to the Peter Whitmer Farm.  Had a fantastic tour there with a great missionary. Peter Whitmer farm kitchen - so cute! As we were leaving Brynne got a text that her mission call was available to be read online.  Drove the 40 minutes back to Palmyra and went straight to the Joseph Smith Farm.   This is where Brynne opened her mission call.  It was so exciting to be in the Sacred Grove where it ALL began for this dispensation. However - it definitely made the rest of the day a blur for us.  Brynne was fielding tons

Hannah and Keaton gathered us all together in Idaho the first day we got there and presented us each with a little note.  Logan's was the best.... And showed us this cute picture of the little bean joining their family in January We are excited!!

Can it really have been three months since I updated this blog?  I'm ashamed.  But also so busy. We are knee-deep into summer now and it feels so overwhelming to update.  I've been piecing this together for a few days to get the highlights. After our spring trip to the church history sites we dug in for the last two months of school. Logan did great in pole vaulting.  He ended up with a PR of 12'6".  He can jump higher we think, so next year should be fun.  He bombed miserable at his district meet because a bad fall at practice the day before really shook him up psychologically.  But after the district meet he was able to get back over that bar and end on a high note - at least for him.  It was fun to watch him to vault and develop a new skill.  He was just verging on varsity level jumping - which as his coach explained - any other school in Oregon he would have been varsity but we have such a stellar group of vaulters he got bumped down.  An average high school