Justin's Farewell Weekend

What a great weekend we had!!! Justin reports Wedendsday (11/12) to serve a mission, and this weekend we held several send-off activities. Grandma Nancy flew in Friday and stayed the weekend with us. My sisters Kristin and Barbara also made it in to town. Two of my cousins from Boise joined in the fun, and three of Michelle's cousins from the Boise area also came.

Yesterday (Saturday) morning Nancy, Michelle, Justin and I went to the temple together - that was cool. Last night we had an open house at our place - our house was packed! This morning Justin gave a talk at our church services (picture of those who came posted herein). And tonight we had a ton of family over for dinner, plus Andrew, plus Bailey and her family (whom are all like family, anyway!). I think we had 30 people over for dinner tonight - all sort of impromptu.

Then tonight, Justin was set apart as a full-time missionary. We had to push out the walls in our family room to accommodate everybody - it was really very special!!!

We thank all of the family members and friends, members of our faith or not, who joined us this weekend. All of the support shown to Justin really made for a very special time for all of us!!!

Photos (31 in all) from the weekend posted, of course. Here on Flickr, or here on Facebook.