Family Birthday Card

We love you so much and hope you have a fantastic birthday!

**It's also Joe's Birthday today too!

Happy Birthday to the missionary man!***

Orange Dot Day

Don't we look EXCITED??!!!

Future Missionaries!


Last Wednesday finally arrived and my little brother Joe entered the MTC to start his mission. He is on his way to Veracruz Mexico but for the next 8 weeks he will be down in Provo learning spanish and how to teach the gospel. I think they lock him in a room full of monkeys once a day too to get used to the jungle :)! JUST KIDDING :) Me and the 4 kids got to escort him and I am sure he will remember it always. It was cold and rainy, Brooke wailed through most of it and kept pointing at Joe and calling him Daddy. We got a lot of looks but I think it was more because of all the little kids and hopefully not because they thought I was Joe's mom :)

Watch Out Mexico! Here He Comes!

Missions, Mexico, Mormon Temples, Monkeys

My big little brother Joe

Back on June 22nd, (which is my sister, Gena's, birthday also), my little brother Joe got the call. The MISSION CALL! He is going to Veracruz, Mexico. Go here to see what adventure lies ahead for him. He enter the MTC mid-October. This means I am the only one out of 6 kids that didn't go on a mish and do not (or will not after Joe gets home) speak Spanish fluently. I guess I can't call it "the mish" since I don't have the experience :) Jim was really hoping he would be the 1st one to go stateside but to no avail. :) Anywho, this last Saturday we went to this temple with him. It was a great thing for the Goodman Family to have almost all of us in the temple together. Jim was out of town (for a story soon to be blogged about), and my brother Ross and his wife Amanda weren't there, (they live in UT and couldn't come out) but the rest of us were there and some very nice VT 's of my sister were watching the 12 grandchildren :) Afterwards I tried to get some pics but it was about 100 degrees outside so no one wanted to take pictures. Oh well a pretty great day anyway :) Yeah Joe! Good Luck down there where they eat monkeys! OK maybe just in the rainforest... at least that is what I read online...

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