The Joys of Being Home

Being home brings with it all the fun quirks and randomness that you forgot about shortly after leaving home. Why? Maybe because those things where not quirky and random-since they are all you knew growing up and you supposed them to me normal. Now that you have moved away and then returned you realized that waking up with your entire family kneeling around your twin size bed with your father saying. "Fold your arms Melissa, we need to say family prayer!" isn't exactly normal. Among other abnormalities that belong in family life was my mothers recent purchase at her school's silent auction. She bid on three gift certificates to get family western photos as Lagoon. Much to our surprise her bid won! So, last Saturday the family and Mike jumped into the Suburban and took family Westerns. 

One of my mothers proudest moments was when she saw her boys in a bath tub with bullets across their chests, her BYU graduate wrapped up in an American flag, and her baby holding a bottle of Jack Daniels. What a moment to record in our family history! Honestly she was SO embarrassed she turned around and got involved with the other family taking pictures in cowboy outfits.