Goodbye Ivan!

Well, Ivan has gone home and we are all a little exhausted! After we went to the Roy Aquatic Center on Thursday Ivan left with the girls in our ward and was gone until 3 AM. We didn't mind though because I had my cooking group that night and we just had leftovers for dinner.

On Friday I took Ivan to the dinosaur park in Ogden and Tim was afraid of all of the dinosaurs, it was pretty boring but kind of funny watching Tim. That night my parents took us to dinner at Garcia's and then he went out with his new friends.

On Saturday Justin took Ivan to hike Mt. Olympus with my brother, his wife and my sister. Then we all went swimming at my grandma's house and then to dinner at Mueller park with Justin's family since his sister Shannon and family are in town. Then we went to the Ogden Rodeo...what a crazy busy day! On Sunday we went to church and then took him to the airport and he was off!

This week I am going to catch up on everything and relax at home!

Sooo busy!

With Ivan here, we have been extremely busy with many activities. Here is a list of the stuff we have done (or others have done) with Ivan:

* Temple Square
* Mount Timpanogas cave
* Classic Fun Center in Sandy
* Be School
* Eat at Hire's Big H
* Young Men's (gun safety class and ice blocking)
* Lagoon
* Uinta's to fish and hike
* Hiking
* Potato Gunning
* Clinton Fireworks
* Hang out with the girl's in our ward several evenings
* Hill Aerospace Museum
* Mall
* Cherry Hill mini golf
* Clark Planetarium IMAX movie
* Walk around the Gateway

Today we are headed to the Roy Aquatic Center to swim and then Justin is going to take him to the Ogden Nature Center. He is also going to go to the midnight showing of the new batman movie with some girls in our ward. It truly has been a whirlwind but lots of fun. Here are some pictures!

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French Foreign Exchange Student

Today we are getting a 17 year old French foreign exchange student for two weeks. His name is Ivan Chwetzoff and he lives near Paris. Actually, Justin just barely picked him up from the airport and I am looking forward to meeting him. I was planning to pick him up but then we realized we had the time wrong for his flight and his flight was landing at the moment we looked it up so my husband rushed out of work to go meet him and luckily got there just in time. I actually put my kids in the car to go as well but Allison was bawling five minutes into the drive so I turned around and went home.

He is here on a individualized program and gets to do whatever we want. He does not have any scheduled plans with a tour group so it will be busy and fun. We are planning several activities to do in the next two weeks! I will post more when I meet him!