Routson Family Pictures

For mothers day this year we decided to get my mom some professional pictures taken of the fam.  The boys were gone the whole summer so we had to wait for them to get back, and then we had to squeeze them into the short window that Curtis is here before he leaves for BYU Hawaii.

PS.  It's kind of weird having my side of the family all busy and grown up/adultish.  With Shawn's family everyone is grown up and busy so we are used to having to plan accordingly.  Scheduling pictures was a pain in the butt.  In the past we just had to schedule around work.  Now we have to plan around if someone is going to be in the state, working, school, golf, soccer etc.  I do not like it.  I hope its a little while before my brothers get married and start getting even busier.

 My cute parents.

Love my mom so much!

 The stool was my mom's idea.  I think it turned out cute (:

 There was a lot of laughing.

and more laughing.  In this picture Shawn is laughing hysterically at something Curtis did. 

Shawn: Where is Curtis?  He needs to make me laugh or I can't smile. 

.pause for 2 seconds. 

in the background a shoe goes flying into the corner and hits a door. 

Shawn laughs so hard.

Spencer:  So you just laugh at anything Curtis says or does?

yah. Pretty much he does.

 

Everyone always picks on me!!!

Where have I been the last month?

Let me tell you through a picture update. . . I promise to bore you all later with the details.

1. Nauvoo with my amazing family.

2. Then to Chicago to visit my husband.


3. Then I came home and decided to be domestic...or in other words: procrastinated studying.
4. Then after I got a D on my first Head and Neck test Chandra and I decided to get our butts into gear and study. (Chandra's doodles below....chandra + angela = chang). Luckily the studying paid off and I got an A on my midterm which helped my overall grade tremendously.

5. Then I had to say goodbye to my besty Brooke. She moved to Texas...and I don't want to talk about it.
6. Then came Easter... which randomly brought us new callings in our ward. I may or may not have cried in the bishop's office.
7. And now it's the end of April...which apparently brings us snow here in salt lake city. I am dreaming of a warm vacation. Shawn just promised me he would take me to Costa Rica when I'm done with hygiene school...in 20 months...which seems more like 20 years.

And this picture was taken from a window in my school...which totally looks look a jail right? That's exactly what it feels like lately...
8. And here is a random picture that was sent to me today from my dear friend Suzy. She is busy packing to move to her new house and found it in an old drawer. She took this probably like 5 years ago at the good ol' Home Depot.
And that's what I've been up to lately...

Curtis' Homecoming

Curtis got home March 16. We were nervous about him getting home because he had to fly from Busan to Tokyo...at the time Tokyo's airport was kind of crazy because of the earthquake and the radiation issues. The church ended up flying him straight from Busan. yay!

He came in around 4 pm. We all made some fun signs...I'm not sure if mine really says "welcome home" but Curtis understood it.

Mark, Kevin, Dad, Mom, Me, Shawn, Spencer, Grampa

The boys broke the rules and met him upstairs before he came down to the rest of us.

So cute

Shawn filmed the occasion.

Can you believe it has been 3 years and 3 months since we were all together? Way too long!

Korean $

After the airport we went to Tucanos.

Bryce, Curtis, Kevin, Spencer.

My grampa & me
Shawn and my Dad.
A poor waiter dropped a whole tray of waters down Shawn's back! Poor Shawn. But it was the waiters first day so we felt so bad for him. We did get a free meal out of it so Shawn didn't mind!
Mom & Curtis
No more counting down!
As soon as we walked into my parents house Curtis asked if he could lay on the carpet. I guess they don't have carpet in Korea.

After Curtis was officially released some of his friends came over for a bit.
Bryson, Kevin, Cam with girlfriend, curtis, Karly, AJ, Bryce, Kiley, and Josh.

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Homecoming Talk
Sunday March 20th

Curtis gave a great talk. He really has grown up so much. He loved his mission and learned so much from it. It has been so fun to hear stories. Spencer also spoke right before Curtis so it was extra special. Um, except for when Spencer said "its fun to have everyone home again...except for angela". Little punk!

Ashley and I had to pose for a couple of pictures before everyone rushed in for the Open House. It was crazy. My dad counted over 90 people at the house...and there were a bunch of families that couldn't even make it after the talk.

Sister Asay and other Korean missionaries

Devin & his girl

Lynette & Andy.
They are so cute, I love them!
I'm sure she is going to hate that I posted that pic. Sorry!

Bryce and his girl friend Kiley

Allison, Dallin, Justin, Sharolyn.

Westra kids

Curtis & Todd

Tiffany & Kevin

Chris, Kyla & Amber

Allison and my Mom.
It was so nice to have Allison here. She was a huge help to my mom!

Spencer and one of his best friends Aaron

Most of the friends that were at his homecoming.
Kevin.Tiffany.Josh.AJ.Bryson.Brad.?.JJ (gf), Bryce.Kiley.?.Cam.

I love my grandparents!

Carly, Jeff, Curtis & Taylor

I love that my brothers have such good friends that like to hang out with all of us...or at least they pretend to! They always make fun of me for blogging...yet they all read my blog so!?!

Curtis brought this awesome little storybook home from Korea called "Who Pooped on my Head?". It was a big hit! Its pretty disgusting!

Shawn was such a trooper the whole weekend. I'm lucky to have him (:

Allison, Taylor, Katherine, Carly.

Curtis & Me

Dallin, Brendon, Grampa, Mark, Jeff & Trevor.

My shoes were killing my feet by the end of the day. Charity tried them on and we were all surprised by how well she could walk in these 5 inch heels!

Todd, Kevin & Tiffany.

Curtis showing the kids a Korean game.

I guess everyone in Korea always makes the peace sign for pictures...so they thought we had to do it too...

I love my brothers! It's so good to have them all home! Now Spencer will be leaving in just two years :( I'm just not going to think about it for a while.

My whole family!