Dallen enjoyed sitting on Santa's lap. True believers are great this time of year.

Matt and Marie Maughan, Craig and Becca Maughan, Tyler & Megan Wyatt and Scott & Kristie Rushforth

Merry Christmas 2008!

This is the Christmas tree we chose this year. It's a beauty!

This is all of us now. Great trip and a great place to visit. Can't wait to see where we go next year.

Storybook Island was a great place for all of us.

Dinosaur Park was fun. There is Annie, Carin, Jessica, Evan, Dallen, Trevor, Cam, Steve, and Stuart

Trevor and Cameron reenacting a "Titanic" scene. This play ground was such fun for everyone. This was in Rapid City, SD

A chair big enough for all us Young's, except Trevor was on the phone with a girl at the time. Can you imagine that?

Summer 2008

We started the summer with a road trip to South Dakota. We had a fabulous trip. Stuart and Elva and Annie and Carin went with us. The trip was long but fun. We stopped at Independence Rock and the Martin Harris Home. Trevor was pretty sick during the trip up there but still tried to have fun. We made it into Rapid City, SD around dinner time and go to our hotel. Boy hotels are nicer than a tent. Did I mention that it was raining! The only bad thing was that the pool was outside but the kids didn't care. 60 degrees didn't even bother them. Brrr. The next day we drove to try and see something but the storm was pretty bad and we didn't see much that was higher than the trees.(i.e. Mount Rushmore). We did see tons of animals, like bison, antelopes, praire dogs (there were millions of this little critters), big horn sheep. The animals were right by the side of the road and very fun to watch.
During the trip we finally saw Mount Rushmore, what a spectacular thing to see. It was a beautiful day and the sky was blue. What a great day that was. We tried to see Crazy horse but the storm was too low and the price was outrageous. Not worth it really. We went to this park called Story Book Island. Cool place. The kids loved it as well as us adults. Every story book creature you could think of had a place here. After hearing and learning about so much history it was fun for the kids just to play. We also went to Dinosaur Park, which is just a little place with great big cement dinosaurs to play and climb on. We visited the wind caves but showed up too late to go inside them. But it looked cool. If you're ever thinking of a incredible place to visit go the South Dakota it's really awesome.

Annie and Jessica had the most fun on these horses. They were the entertainment for the day.

Mount Rushmore is truly fascinating!

Dallen, Evan, Jessica, Cameron and Trevor at Mount Rushmore.

Here is Trevor, Cameron, Jessica, Evan, Carin and Annie and Dallen in front. They were standing on ICE. This "cool" cave was near the wildlife loop that we drove through during a very rainy day in South Dakota.

Jessica and Cameron went on a mini trek this summer. They traveled fro 4 days with our Stake. They slept on the ground with no pads or anything, no tents, just tarps! They were pretty tired and smelly when they got home but they had a deeper appreciation for the pioneers and for all those people who don't have much. Great experience.

This is Elder Trevor Young and some of his companions in the MTC.

This is all of us at the Mission Training Center in Provo, Utah. Trevor only spent 3 weeks here learning to be a mission. Then he was off to Tempe, Arizona.

Elder Young in Arizona

Trevor was called to serve in the Arizona, Tempe Mission. He left on June 25, 2008. Here is Elder Young at the Arizona Temple. September 2008 He will serve there until June 25, 2010.