Adulting!

Our 5 older kids are adulting.  

Ayzha just moved into an apartment with a friend.  She is working 2 jobs, coaching high school volleyball, and going to UVU.  

Alyssa is still at SUU working on getting her CFI (certified flight instructor).  She has flown through the aviation program and is set to graduate next spring.  She is going to apply at SUU to become an instructor and is also planning to teach Q to fly so he can get his private pilot license when he is 16.  

Holly moved to Maine and is living on a street with her birth dad, Luke, and their family.  Each family has their own house.  She bought her fist place, a trailer and seems to be doing well!  She is going to remodel it and has a frog.  

Tiago is back and busy.  He got a job carpet cleaning and started school at UVU.  He plans to go into finance. He is also back in the dating scene, which I think he is really enjoying.  

Reyn has started her new adventure at BYU!  She loves the social aspect, but the classes are tough.  I hope she has a wonderful freshman experience before leaving on her mission.  

I'm so proud of each one of them!  They are each on their own journey and it is fun to see how they are navigating life!  

Tiago's Homecoming

We drove up to Orem for Tiago's mission homecoming and it turned out to be the Fuller show.  Reyn went up to announce her mission call at the beginning.  Ayzha spoke first, which was an added bonus.  She blew me away, I was very impressed with her talk. Then it was Tiago's turn and he did fantastic! 

Shhh...  Don't tell anyone I took pictures.

Loved having almost all of us together!
Wish Holly could have been with us.  

Our New Life

It has been one month and I have absolutely loved living in St. George. I love the heat!  It has been fun to go to the pool almost every day to get some exercise and soak up a little sun!  It has been so nice to have a Costco 5 minutes away and can get pretty much anywhere we need to go in 20 minutes.  I have loved seeing Alyssa more often.  She has come down to visit a few times and even painted my toenails once. Everyone has been so kind and welcoming and It's fun to be in a new ward.  I have enjoyed buying new furniture for our home. Why didn't we do this sooner?  

Qyntn seems to be adjusting well.  He has made a lot of friends at school.  He is already playing club volleyball and has been invited to play on the Dixie 8th grade basketball team.  He loves going to Sand Hollow to cliff jump  He also got braces! I think this has been good for him too.  

First Day of School

Sand Hollow

Braces!

One sad part is that Tito has disappeared.  He did great for the first 2 weeks and then poof, he was gone.  We think somebody may have taken him. We still leave the garage door cracked with food and water, just in case he comes back.  We miss our sweet boy!

Oh Canada

 Reyn is going to Toronto, Canada on her mission!  She leaves in January.

Our Next Adventure

We moved to Saint George! 

There is a lagoon in our community!  I love it!

Saying Goodbye

Saying goodbye is the pits.  Q had his last basketball game this week.  He had his last party with his friends, and last day at the temple with the stripling athletes.  I really love all these boys.  Q has been blessed to have such awesome friends, we will miss them.  

His last basketball game with the Lightning.
They shot pretty good,    
moved the ball well and won!

One last party! 

I love to hear them sing in the car. 

Last temple trip with these friends.
They have gone once a month for 31 months in a row
and performed baptisms for over 1,000 souls.

One More Year

 Ben turned 49!  He's got one more year until he is officially unc.  

we started out the day at the flow rider

Hit Jack in the Box before we went 
to see the new Spider Man movie.

gifts and a "cake" in the evening

it was a great day!

Welcome Home Elder Fuller!

Fuller Family Reunion

Ben took some of the kids up to the Tetons for a Fuller Family Reunion.  I stayed home to get the house clean and work.  

swiggers

Pioneer Day

This year pioneer day was super low key for us.  Ben and I worked all day, but we did get a chance to blow a bunch of stuff up at the end of the day.  Q pretty much ran the show this year.  Some of our neighbors came out to enjoy the show.  

World Cup was a good fountain

The sky put on an amazing show too. 

good old poop snakes

Zero Gravity

Qyntn and I had the opportunity to fly with Alyssa for the first time.  I'm not gonna lie, I was a bit nervous and worried about motion sickness.  My friend gave me some ginger to suck on and a peppermint patch and I think they helped.  The only parts that really made me nauseous were the banking turns.  Our favorite part was going zero gravity, it's the coolest sensation!  And Alyssa let Q fly the plane, which was amazing and scary.  

Alyssa's so cool!  She's a pilot and drives a motorcycle.  

Another Curve Ball

After months of thinking about where we wanted to move, we narrowed it down to 2 places, Ceour d' Alene, Idaho and St. George, UT.  We eventually picked Ceour d'Alene, ID.  

While Q was at FSY, Ben and I hopped on an airplane to fly up and pick a home. Once we arrived, we went directly to the church, hoping to get some good info about the youth programs, seminary, schools, and places to live.  We visited 2 different church buildings.  At the second one, the 1st counselor in the Stake Presidency brought up something that we had not considered.  If Q was going to do club ball, he would probably have practices and games on Sunday.  That hit me like a ton of bricks.  I didn't realize how blessed we have been to live in a state where practices are never on Sunday, and Sunday games are rare. 

I didn't sleep well that night and felt uneasy. The next day we went out to look for a home.  Ben wanted to find a place on the east side of the city, where it's more pretty and there are more trees.  But, the sports clubs that Q would play for were 30+ minutes west in Spokane Valley. We looked at some places between the two, but Ben didn't like that those homes were on the prairie with almost no trees.  If we lived where Ben wanted to be, it felt that we would be making our lives more difficult. 

The process for visiting properties was also not going as smoothly as we had anticipated.  Almost every property management company we contacted said we had to fill out an application and pay the application fee before they would let us tour the property.  It seemed very backward.  We wanted to "test drive the car," before we filled out an application.  Nothing seemed to be clicking, and I felt strongly that it was not the best place for Qyntn's high school years.  The next day, we caught a flight home a day early.  

Two days later, we drove down to St. George.  We viewed a handful of properties, and within 4 hours, we found one that felt right. Everything fell into place easily and we didn't have to jump through any hoops.  Instead of feeling uneasy, I feel peace.  

We will have access to a lagoon
in the neighborhood where we want to live.

Q's First FSY

Q went with his friend Caden to FSY at BYU.  They are both 13, so they were some of the young ones.  The first day he said it was horrid.  The second day he asked me to check him out and that the food was buns and he was starving.  We made him stay.  By the end of the week he still said it was awful, but he said there were lots of cute girls in his group, he made a lot of friends, and HE BORE HIS TESTIMONY (for the first time ever without my help.)  I'm proud of him for sticking it out, and sharing his testimony.  He's a really good kid.  

I took the boys to the creamery
before I dropped them off.

all the boys