Nathan's email

Here is Nathan's email. He is doing great and so far likes his new area.
As to the floor here....................a whole different story. I will blog on that tomorrow.

Hey Mom,
Hey so While i was Emailing the first time the computer went crazy and i lost everything... so if possible could you forward this to Dad, Jaron, Chris, Tim... and whoever else you want... I'm just going to write a longer one and just try to answer every ones questions... so yeah.. here we go.
So I am now in Pori, Its a pretty cool place, its a lot smaller than Turku, so there are a lot less people running around. So its cool but at the same time not... haha... But it is nice that we get a car, And I'm learning how to drive a stick shift, so that is pretty cool.I would have to say that i am getting quite good at it thus far. I had a really hard time starting at first but I'm getting used to it now 8D so its good. We bought me a new bike when we got to Pori and I'm going to be getting it today... they guy just had to fix it up a little before i could get it... but it'll be nice because it will only be about €20, so if this one gets stolen to quite as big of a loss... plus most missionaries get bikes from this kind of places for €20 and they all work fine for there missions... they just didn't have any places like that in Turku so i had to get a more expensive one... but i think this one will be good. It will be nice to get back onto a bike...
Okay so the comp went crazy again... and but luckily i saved this one... but i don't know whats up... and I only have 4 minutes left... (you have to reserve time) and everything is going crazy... we're going to try moving computers... but I'm going to send this one before anything else happens... but if i can get on another one ill send another email with more info and stuff... but I love and miss you all...
Vanhin Peck

The La Sals

Last Friday week we left to go to the La Sals to the Hawks' cabin for a few days. It was so fun seeing them and it was also nice to leave the Internet and cell phones behind......no service there :)
This is a pic. of Steve standing by a pine tree that grew out of the rock. Weird but very interesting. Jaylyn saw it several times before so we had to stop and see if it really did.....and it did.
Steve and Jaylyn Hawks. We were all amazed at the tree!!

The girls (me, Jaylyn, Emily and Jenna) went for a walk down a dirt road that forked a couple of times. The guys said they would pick us up in the car at the end of the road but we didn't think they'd know what direction we'd gone so we made a couple of arrows out of pine cones. Come to find out....they never noticed them. Oh well.
Steve needed a "specimen" of the tree branch for a book he's writing. Jaron and Steve lifted Emily up to grab one. One of her more graceful moments :)
One the way home we stopped at Arches National Park. A very beautiful area!!!

Thank you Steve and Jaylyn for letting us come down and invade your cabin. We all had a blast!!!!

Tired!

I don't know what it is with getting older but it's just so hard to fall asleep. Last night was one of those nights that I didn't get to sleep til 3am. Ouch!! Then woke up at 7:30am. I probably shouldn't be writing a blog in my condition.
I wanted to put up this picture of Maddox feeding me gold fish. He likes to feed people and will be so nice as to take it out of his mouth and put it in yours if he feels you need it. I do love watching him.

Timothy and Kingston in the bathtub

I had to put these picture of Timothy and Kingston on our blog. Kingston reminds me so much of Timothy when he was this age.
Boys will always be boys.....no matter how old they get :)


Thanks for the pics. Jess!!!

Nathan's email

Hey Pops,

Well I hope you had a good birthday, It sounds like you all did a ton of fun stuff, that zipline dealy you did looked really fun!!! So yeah things here are going pretty good, I am getting transferred tomorrow and I'm going up to Pori, which is pretty exciting, Pori has been having a lot of luck lately so it will be cool to get there. Im excited about it. but its pretty weird though they don't normally transfer people on there first transfer cycled. so it was really a surprise.. So other than that things are going pretty well.... on Saturday however, when Elder Bailey and I went to go get on our bike and go do stuff, my Bike was gone :( so pretty much someone stole my bike, which really sucks but there isn't much i can do about it now, soo... i just have to live with it, luckily Pori is a car city so i wont really need a bike as much, but i guess we'll see what happens... welp i do believe that's everything, I love and miss you, Take care!!

Vanhin Peck

Hey mommers

hey so things here are going alright I guess... some crazy stuff has been happening... well First off... I am getting transferred to Pori on Tuesday... so that's interesting... So ill have a 3 hour trip there, cuz i think I'm going to go to Tampere first and then to Pori... but I guess we shall see... And I haven't been able to find a camera yet the only one i found was €180 and it didn't use the same card as my other one.. so that was kinda useless.... so im going to keep looking but... Iguess we we'll see what I can find... So things mission wise here are going pretty good... We have a couple of investigators that could be really good, Its too bad that I got to leave... but oh well... Pori is apparently having some good stuff so that's rather exciting.. So I guess I'll share the bad news now................... <- lots of dots for emphasis so on Saturday when Me and elder Bailey went out side to get on our bikes to leave, My bike was gone.... So pretty much my bike was stolen :( yeah.. it was locked and everything so... I don't know... there's not much I can do now... but luckily Pori has a car, so I wont need a bike as much... but still am bummed about it... oh well... welp that's about everything... oh and the letter from this week will bee later cuz i don't really have time to write this today because of packing and stuff but I'm going to write tomorrow on the train. so yeah... welp I love and miss you take care.

Vanhin Peck

Happy Birthday Steve....For Reals

Today is the day......THE birthday but we kept it low key. Cards, gifts and hanging out. Darrell, Dyann, Christopher, Lesa and Maddox all came over for Steve's birthday dinner....lamb, steak, potatoes and fresh green beans.
Instead of a cake we had fresh strawberry short cake. OMG...it was so good!!! And Steve blew out all 3 of his candles!!
I think Steve had a great birthday. He loved all the cards and notes he received. Til next year..... :)

Day 2 of Steve's b-day

Today we thought it would be "fun" to hike up to Baldy. You know, for Steve's birthday and doing fun stuff together. One thing I did learn is.....I'm a horrible uphill hiker at the age of 48. I didn't complain though. You can ask Steve or any of the kids....not a complaining word out of my mouth. But you can tell by the look on my face how I was feeling.
We hiked 2.5 miles up, up, up!!
We only got to the top of the dry canyon loop and it took us almost 3 hours to get there.
Steve surprised me with a can of diet coke when we got there. A very pleasant surprise and I did share.
As you can tell everyone was pretty wasted except for Jaron. He could have made it up to Baldy easily!!

After enjoying the peace we headed back down. I only slipped and fell twice and it's a good thing I have lots of padding :) We also saw a rattle snake on the way back too. Exhaustion has hit and no one is moving. I know I don't want to hike Baldy for my birthday :)