Outings Before her mission!!

She made a countdown chain in the hallway by her bedroom,

as she was counting down the days!!

She really made good use of the time she had before she left!!

Here is what she did....

She planned outings with every single one of her family members before she left!

Lunch at Del Taco!!

Baptisms for the dead with Caden!

Orange Leaf Outing with Hunter!! 

 

Hangin' out in the hammocks with Bree!!

To the Woods Cross Football game!!

Shopping outing with Jarrett!!

(There were some scary looking people shopping in this store!!)

There was some reading and wrestling on the couch, too!

Pedicures and lots of fun shopping and lunches with Mom!!

Many running outings with Dad--

ending with a run to Elephant Rock!!

To the Ogden Temple Open House!

 

Hangin' with her little Jogi!!

Jarrett had written "Mishon Jenesas!" on his bedroom calendar for Oct. 7 when she was to leave on her mission!

Jennesa was sooo touched by this she took a picture of it!

They sure do love her!

              

She attended every Wood's Cross High School Cross Country meet before she left!  She was their biggest fan and loved watching Spencer, Caden, and her many teammates compete!

 Family hike and camping day.....

  ...with snowcones after!

During the summer, she worked at the snowcone shack

and the Bangerter farms harvesting produce!

Here are some fun farm photos!!

What a hard worker she is!!

The yummy "hand-stains" from the leather gloves!!

The arm rashes she would get

...especially when picking zucchini squash!

Baptisms for the dead all together!

Going to stay with Erin in the BYU dorms!!  So much fun!!

She also went and hung out with her cousin, Megan at BYU!

Sleepover outing with Aunt Sally! (My sister!)

To the movies and shopping!  Sooo much fun!

To the Parachute concert with Jacob, Kyle and Megan!!

She also went up and stayed in the dorms

at Utah State with Megan!

Visiting and playing with the Spackmans!

Saying goodbye to Elder Spackman!

General Conference at the Hardy Family Cabin!!

Missionary Pictures!!

We went up to the Beautiful Bountiful Temple for
her missionary photo shoot!!

A beautiful girl with beautiful flower background!

She is super excited to be a missionary!!!

(If you come over to our house right now, you'll recognize this picture as the life size cut-out of Jennesa in the entry way!  It makes us smile every time we see her!)

"It will sure be neat when I can actually read this book!!"

(In Spanish!!)

 

 Best photo bomb ever! :-)

     

 We borrowed our cousin, Jaclyn's missionary nametag!  (She had just returned from serving in Guatemala!)  We kept laughing, because we stuck it on with tape and it kept falling off during the photo shoot!

 

It was fun to get to wear some of the missionary clothes we had been shopping for!!

      Mom got to jump into a couple of them, too!     

                                                                                 

"Peru, here I come!!"

Is she ready for PERU, or what?!!

(Here she is with Peruvian flag, her Peruvian headband, llama,

and bag she got when she went to Peru!!)

It's such a joy to be Jennesa's Mom!

Going to the Temple in Bountiful, Utah!--Aug. 2, 2014

It was a beautiful day!

Going into the Bountiful Temple!

One of our first tender mercies was that our good friend, Shannon Wright, greeted us and got to be "Jennesa's Angel".  She was the temple worker assigned to help Jennesa the entire time! :-)  She is so filled with LOVE, that it set the tone for an entire day filled with the spirit of the Lord! Sis. Garff did an amazing job training her and Jennesa said she was really touched when she said, "Not only do you need to be here, but the Savior needs you to be here!"  She felt  loved in a very personal way from the Lord!

 That's one excited Dad!

What a blessing it is to be her Mom!  It was such a joy to get to be her escort and to see her embrace the temple with excitement and peace!  She is so prepared!

 We sure do love this girl and are so blessed for the amazing opportunities we are having with her!

 There were many friends, family and loved ones who came with us for the endowment to support Jennesa!  However, when we came out, the only one left to get a picture with was her cousin, Jaclyn!

 A couple more pictures in front of the temple!

When we came out of the temple to take pictures, we were excited to see one of Jennesa's Cross Country Coaches, Coach "Hoody" just after he was married!  It was so fun to see them!

 We had to get a silly one!

On the way home, Jennesa said she was just so grateful to be a member of this church and to have temples!  We all went out to lunch afterwards to celebrate!