Caleb is home!

Caleb got home from his mission a couple of days after Christmas. He was home for a week and then went out to school at BYU Idaho. We have been dying to see him! It worked for us to go visit him last weekend. It is only a four hour drive, so that was nice.  We picked Caitlyn up from Mel's Saturday morning and drove out to Rexburg.  We stopped for lunch at Jack in the Box. 

We picked Caleb up and then went to a trampoline park.  I took this picture after they jumped, Hallee was mad about something so she did not want to smile.

The trampoline park was really small and there was a ton of little kids.  They were still able to have fun though.  The boys had fun playing dodge ball.

Hallee joined them for dodge ball.

Hallee and Cailtyn had fun jumping together. 

It was so great to see Caleb.  He is as handsome and sweet as ever.  He is such a great guy.

After the trampoline park we dropped Caleb off at his apartment so he could shower and finish up some homework that was due. While we were waiting for Caleb we went and checked into our hotel and played a game.  We got a suite so we had plenty of space, which was really nice.

Hallee and Wyatt loved these chairs.

They had wheels on the bottom and Hallee and Wyatt would scoot all over the room.

When Caleb was ready we picked him up and went to Café Rio for dinner. 

After dinner Caitlyn, Caleb and I went shopping at Walmart. We dropped Keith and the other kids off at the hotel.  Caitlyn had to have this "fries before guys" Valentine to share with her cousins.  I told Caleb that we wanted to treat him to a shopping trip at Walmart so he could stock up and get anything he needed for his apartment.  He was so excited and so appreciative.  He kept asking if it was okay if he got certain brands.  He would only get one of each thing, so I started throwing in extras of everything. While we were driving home he thanked me and said, "You don't know what this means to a poor college student."  I told him I did and that is why we wanted to do it.

After we went shopping we stopped at Caleb's apartment and unloaded the groceries and then we went back to our hotel.

Caleb brought his laptop and showed us pictures from his mission.  It was so fun to see all of the pictures and hear the stories that went along with them.  He was in a tough mission.  He slept in a hammock, washed his clothes in a bucket and had bugs in his food a lot.  I admire him so much, I'm sure there were many times he wanted to just go home.

We had to get a picture with Keith in it.  I'm so glad that Keith loves my family and enjoys spending time with them.

It was 11 PM by the time we finished looking at pictures.  Caleb wanted me to cut his hair, so we did that before we took him back to his hotel.

I had to get a picture of Wyatt and Caleb, they have always been buddies.  I'm so glad we had this time with Caleb.  It was so great to have him all to ourselves! He texted me yesterday to thank me again and told me how much he is loving his oven mitts and strainer! I love that such simple things make him so happy. 

We drove home on Sunday.  We stopped at my parents for a birthday dinner for Ataiya, Rockwell and grandma.