Our Trip in Pictures

Paris, Venice, Croatia, Turkey, Greece, Southern France, Spain...

Ya, it was a trip of a lifetime.

Your Missionary Has Arrived

Dear Phelps Family,

We are so excited to have Elder Phelps with us.  He has arrived safely and we are so impressed with him already.  Wow! What a great young man.  He will be working in Lyon until taking care of legality things and getting his orientation.  Then he will travel to Vitrolles where his new companions will be Elder Stanford and Elder Dover.... their address is:

Les Missionnaires/Elders

Elder Phelps

40 Chemin des Pinchinades

Les Pennes

F-13170 Mirabeau

FRANCE

I have included a few pictures for you to enjoy.  He will have a busy week but the Mission is very happy to have him here safe and ready to serve...

Thank You,

Sister Jeppson

France Lyon Mission Secretary

Sweet Fruit

Love my job

I started a new job on the 1st of May and... 

I LOVE IT! 

I am seriously like a kid in a candy shop when it comes to my job.  I can't believe I am getting paid to have so much fun and the people I work with are absolutely amazing. 

I work for Downtown Ogden Inc. so I get to be apart of the Art and Events in Ogden City.  I am personally in charge of the Farmer's Market this summer but I also help plan other events/festivals and be involved with the public art in the community.

Could I ask for a better job?  Nope, I am working in a dream job.

I am a lucky girl.    

  

Hard Choice

I think I am going to have to go with playing quidditch... 

Emmaline Lucille Tobler

Phillip and Amy (our best friends) had their baby girl on Tuesday.  She came a little early but we don't mind because we have all been dying to meet her.  Welcome to the world Emmaline. You are blessed with great parents. 

 I am so glad I get to be apart of this little girl's life!

Elder Phelps

My little brother has been in the MTC for almost a month now and I didn't expect all the emotions I would be feeling while he's gone.  

I miss him really bad.  Our family is not the same without him here!  

I thought I would love seeing pictures of him while he is out serving the Lord but it only makes me cry right now.  (Hopefully that all change in the coming months.)  

  

I wish he was here but I know he is where he is supposed to be.

I love you Elder Phelps.   

*If you would like to read about his missionary adventures, I am updating his blog with the e-mails he sends home http://taphelps-cestmavie.blogspot.com

Family

I have family here on earth

 they are so good to me

 I want to share my life with them

 through all eternity.

 Families can be together forever

 through Heavenly Father's plan. 

 I always want to be with my own family

and the Lord has shown me how I can.

The Lord, has shown me how I can.  

Fifteen

fif·teen  

/fifˈtēn

A number equivalent to the product of three and five; one more than fourteen, or five more than ten; 15.

Yeah, that is how much weight I have lost since January 8^th.  It is not a big number but it’s a number.  And it’s a number that I have lost, not gained. 

The Big Apple

I want to move to New York City.  

The big apple.  The city that never sleeps.  The melting pot.  The metropolis. 

Each time I have visited this city, I have become absolutely enchanted. 

It truly speaks to me. 

Would I want to live there permanently?  Heaven’s no. 

But… do I dream of living there for a few years?  Yes. Definitely.   

Don’t get me wrong, I love Utah.  It is a wonderful place to live and raise a family.  However, I have lived here my whole life and I am kinda itchin’ for a change. 

A change of pace, lifestyle, and surroundings.

I think skyscrapers and studio apartments would do that for me, don’t you think?

While I was at work this week I looked up some apartments and job opportunities in Manhattan.  Because, believe it or not, if Ryan gets accepted to NYU, it might be our home for three years. 

Who knows though... 

Plans can change all the time.  

But a girl can dream, can’t she?