Goodbye to Laura and Ethan!

My sister Laura and her husband Ethan are leaving us! They've been living here in Boise since Christmas, when Ethan finished his bachelor's degree in history at BYU in Utah. They're leaving this week to drive to Milwaukee for the summer, where Ethan will sell security systems door-to-door and Laura will continue teaching herself computer programming. Then in the fall they're off to live in Boston while Ethan works on his masters degree at Northeastern University. Since they're taking off this week to drive to Milwaukee, this last weekend we partied with them as much as we could. Perhaps a little too much partying for poor Laura--I caught her taking a break between all the sun and the packing and the people.



Saturday Laura and Ethan had a yard sale at the Bach parents' house during the day to sell off all their extra stuff. That evening we hung out with the Bach family and some friends.

Phil and Courtney Norris, to whom we're almost practically related in some strange, unspecified way (Phil is my brother Mason's best friend and Ammon and Mason's former roommate), were there with their 18 month old, Aiden. And Angela, a friend Mason recently made at work, came over with her 16 month old little girl Danielle.

We made homemade pizzas, talked, played games and had strawberry shortcakes for dessert.

My brother Todd is in town visiting from Washington D.C. and he stopped by to say hi.

Corban tried to give Aiden a hug at one point and this was the result:

After most people had gone home, Corban and Grandpa Bach watched the beginning of Star Wars: Episode One.

Sunday was the first Sunday in May, the usual day for our monthly Peterson family dinner, so it was the perfect time to get together with that family and say goodbye to Laura and Ethan. All together we had my Peterson parents, us, Laura and Ethan, and my brothers Ammon and Mason there for dinner.

The sister missionaries stopped by just as we were finishing eating and stayed for of couple hours. They were a blast! We sang, we laughed, we cried, we teased and we talked.

Corban fell asleep on the couch for awhile.

My parents fed Keitra and Corban stuffed his face full of spaghetti.

My mom even tried Keitra's baby food! By her face, you can tell she didn't take to mashed avocado and banana in rice cereal very well!