Bye Bye Parker... Hello Henry!!

 Me, Lindsey, Chandler, and Jane eating after Parker's farewell. It was fun to have some of my friends come and support:)

 Parker and his crew of friends! Pretty hilarious!

 Linds, Chan, Park, and Me. We've had some good times:)

 The Double Header Missionary Farewell! I absolutely loved that their mission calls, farewells, setting apart blessings, and MTC entrance days were all the same! Best Friends!!

 My twin missionary Brothers! I love these two soooo much:)

 The lovely laundry bags I made for them! Hahaha

 Little Henry Kimball Alexander was born June 7, the day right before Parker left for the MTC. I know little Henry will be a wonderful blessing and comfort to take Parker's spot in my life for the next two years! :) Hahah he is adorable! Grandchild number 12!!!

 Cute Rach with her three kids: Brittana, Henry, and Charlotte.

 Mom and Brittana look sooo much alike!! Parker saying hi and goodbye to OH HENRY!

The Girls! :)

Little Charley LOVES her Uncle Parker! She will miss him so much! They had so much fun adventuring together out in our backyard! I love Charley's cute smile in this picture for her uncle park!

Piggy Back rides away from the hospital! Park and Chew.

Mom and B!

The last of the fab five! We hope scotty boy is married when park gets back! Hahaha! But i love this picture of all of us before we dropped Parker off at the MTC!

These girls seriously adore Parker!

Parker and Lukie Ben:)

A classy brunch at Denny's before the MTC.

The Fam! Minus John A (taking the picture) and Ray (in the hospital with Henry)!

The picture is priceless!! The four grandkids that live in Utah saying bye to Uncle Parker!

Love Lukie and B in front!

The Fab Five again after Breakfast! :)

Lemme tell ya, this kid is my best friend. It's been 4 and a half weeks since we dropped him off and it has been one of the hardest things for me but I know the mission is exactly where he needs to be and i am so excited for the people in Washington who will be soooo lucky to hear the gospel from such an amazing boy! Parker and I have already written several letters and i feel so blessed to get a letter from him every week.. well so far! I know we will stay just as close through writing and Parker said it himself in a letter that thinking of seeing me again brings tears to his eyes. I miss this kid but the lord is blessing me and all of us so much because of his service. Well Park...see ya in two!!

My single brothers!! Love them:)

Last Model Shoot... Hahahaha so classic.

The MTC dropoff!

It feels like just yesterday.. hahah

And he's off!!!

Lake Powell. This is the Life.

 Well there she is. Hahahah so funny! Very modest but i love our new little house boat! It was a blast! I will apologize now as these pictures are in a somewhat random order! So here's a few pictures of the houseboat and the ski boat Sunny D!

 Well there we go.. me reliving my childhood days on the knee board!

 Standing up on the knee board! My signature move!

 It was sooo funny watching parker try out the knee board! I was dying!

 Me and Dad!

 Body Surfing!

The Boys... just chillin on the boat! Rocking the hats and glasses.

Me and Carter:) I would give anything to go back to this moment! Haha

Getting ready to do some slot canyoning! Ryan, Alex, Me and Parker

We climbed into this big hole/ cave thing! I love all the red rock! I think it's beautiful!

Ryan. AKA the tourist.

Alex wakeboarding!

Me and Park on the boat:)

Mikey T! Reppin the tourist attire!

Scot and Park hitting up the double wakeskate! So hilarious!

The four missionary boys! We really were so lucky to be in the presence of so many worth young men! hahahaha But really it's so crazy that they all entered the MTC within a three weeks of each other!

Me and my brothers:)

Me wakeboarding! We had some great weather and great water!

Parker was shredding even goofy footed! He is so good at everything!!

It was so fun to have Ryan and Mikey come down for a few days!

Aaaaahuuummmmm? Scooby?

More adventuring!

Love this picture with the green plants and tall rocks!

Hahah we did some serious climbing and sweet slot canyoning! I loved it! I love how wiped out hawnder looks!

Parker's writing on the wall- Everett WA 2011- 2013 PJM

We LOVE Lake Powell!

Scotty Dough.. looking pretty niiiiiuuuce.

Surfing!

Parky Naa!

Alex's hair was out of control the whole trip! haha

Mom and Dad on the boat!

 

Playing games at night! I am holding this card that i happened to get every time and it cursed me to be scum!! It was a 7- my lucky number and a heavenly number, Xed out with marker and turned into a 6- the DEVIL'S number! It was freaky!

And this ladies and gentlemen is what we like to call the "Jersey Run"

Ryan...

 

Mikey T...

Scot..

Alex..

Me! Hahah.. yes i wore a life jacket under it!

Parker!

Oh my so it was pretty cold so the snuggies just kept showing up...

And again..

And again..

Me and Cart just chilling in our sweats! It really was such an amazing trip to go on with him before he left!

We had a sweet spot that had a place for a fire up on a little cliff above our beach! We made s'mores and roasted starburst!

We really did get plenty of great water to ski on! It was incredible! Here is Alex skiing! He did way good and it was his first time skiing!

Al's crazy hair after he would get out.. ha

Oh the snuggies were followed by sleeping bags! Gotta love those freezing cold early morning ski runs!

Love this shot of parker! Such good water! He just tore it up!

Mama Jyl still has it in her!

Dad wakeboarding!

Me skiing! Yes i was the last person to ski on the trip as i broke the boot off of it! Haha they never let me forget it!

Ryan wakeboarding!

Scot and Parker were whipping out some sweet tricks! It was awesome!

Mikey T doing his own version of surfing/wakeskating. It was pretty entertaining!

Dad surfing it up!! Yea Papa Georgio!


Mom and her classic arms! She was surfing up a storm!

Hahah so there's this thing called 'planking' where you try to randomly balance on one point of your body on something.. Ryan and Mikey tried it out on the boat... hahah.

 

Classic Powell Salute! What a fun trip!! I miss all those boys so much!

  

Well there's the man! Carty my good man! The sunset was beautiful and i love this picture so much! This kid will be an amazing missionary. I feel so blessed to have been able to miss the last week of school to spend a week at powell with him! Yeah it may have made it harder to spend so much time with him before he left, but it was soo worth it!  

 

Love this picture! Peace out Powell.. see ya in two!! :)