Saying goodbye to Grant

We went to Portland today to see Uncle Grant off at the airport. He headed off to Salt Lake so he can report to the Mission Training Center tomorrow. He's going to serve a mission for two years in the Dominican Republic. It was hard to watch him go, but I know he's going to have such a great time while he's there. I know the time is going to fly by and he'll be home before we know it. We are excited to see how he changes over the next two years and to hear his stories about his time in the DR. Dusty has some of the greatest stories from his mission and I'm glad Grant will have the same opportunity. We got to spend some time with Grant over Thanksgiving and a few moments with him today. I guess that was meant to be because he flew from Redding to Portland then to Salt Lake City, usually they fly from Redding to San Fancisco then to Salt Lake. We liked having those extra few minutes to see him. Here are some of the highlights...

Uncle Grant and Isabella at his Alumni/Student soccer game on Thanksgiving day.

Playing games with the family. Notice Kurt is in there too, hopefully he's going to fill some of the void left by Grant. I'm sure he'll be over eating my parents food often enough.

They were both out... well sort of. It was funny Isabella fell asleep about 10 seconds after Grant sat down.

Saying goodbye to Uncle Grant. We waited until he went through security so we could see him one last time walking down to his gate.

I can't wait to see the "after" pictures to see how much we've all changed.