Saying goodbye for 18 months

Last Sunday we headed over to Dad and Diane's stake center and watched as their Stake President set them apart as missionaries.  We have quite the group!  And we are missing 2 families.  I'm so glad my kids were able to witness them being set apart.  Afterwards, we all headed to Amy's house for some root beer floats.

 Here is Dad and Diane with their Stake President.  He was kind enough to let us take his picture.  I think he knew what he was getting when we asked him to take our family picture and was handed 6 cameras.

 The next morning we all met at Kneaders for a going away breakfast.  The kids ate so good, and didn't make a mess.  I was so glad.

 The kids had so much fun sitting at their own table.

 

 Little Brynlee even woke up for me to take a picture.  She is so sweet.  You would never know she is there, she is so quiet.  Such a good baby!

 We are outside the MTC.  They took down the MTC sign that they had outside of the gates.  It was so cold and sunny. 

 

It is always bittersweet to see them go.  Eric told me on the way to the MTC that he is happy and sad.  He is getting so grown up.  As we were leaving the MTC Aubrey told me that she will be back, and she will be the one serving the mission.  Dad and Diane will be at the MTC until this Friday.  They got temporarily re-assigned to the St. George temple until April.  At that time, they are hoping their visas will be issued.  If they aren't by that time, there is a possibility of a new mission.  We are hoping that they will be able to get their visas.  They have both worked so hard at learning Portuguese.  Dad was so excited too when he opened up their mission call and they were going to Brazil.  

New Years Eve

 We headed out to my co-workers house for New Years Eve.  Here is Zac's newly clean shaven look.  Barb and Brian came over to baby-sit for us.  She made the fatal error of letting the kids stay up late.  I don't think that will happen again.

 Jennifer kept on trying to photo bomb our picture.  So I got down to take a picture of her.  Aubrey then photo bombed us.

 So we took a picture of the girls before we left.  For the record, Lily does not have a black eye.  It is makeup.  Aubrey and Jennifer love using Lily as their model for applying makeup.

 Me and my co-workers.  They are so much fun.  Zac was finally able to hang out with them and their husbands.  It was a great night!

Magnum P.B.

I don't know how we were able to do it...but all the Powell/Breitling kids are going to run the Top of Zion Relay race in June.  It's a 12 person relay race that covers 195 miles.  It starts in Capitol Reef and ends in Zion National Park.  The only way Zac agreed to run this race was if he could grow a Magnum P.I. mustache.  All of the guys seemed to like that idea, so we named our team Magnum P.B. (for Powell/Breitling).  Zac started growing his 'stache the next day.  He hasn't trimmed it up at all, and it was starting to look "angry."  He was meeting some of my co-workers, so I asked him if he could tame the beast some before the night.  While I was at work Zac had some fun.