The Last of the Last. Sunday was a very busy night.

David and Becky Fife, their children Suzanne, Jackson, Katie, Emily, Ben and Mollie. David was our Bishop, Becky was Judi's Visiting Teacher and Stan was their Home Teacher. They can do it all.

President Mont Ringer and his wife Melinda. President Kurt Teshima and his wife Gaylene. Stan served with President Teshima for 8 years in the past stake presidency. Stan met Mont Ringer the first day we moved to Las Vegas back in 1989. These are great people. We are very blessed to have crossed paths with them.

Dix and Kaleen Jarman with their twins boys, Riley and Cooper. The Jarman's have been our friends from day one in Las Vegas. Dix was our boys' Young Men leader. He is also Stan's business partner and will help with many things while we are gone. THANK YOU!!

President Brent Phillips, Las Vegas South Stake. He called Stan to be a counselor in the bishopric 20 years ago this past week. It changed his life. Brent is a dear friend and one of great friends that came out of the Fort Apache ward.

Bill and Roselle Palmer. Syd and Susan James. These were great counselors to Stan when he served as Bishop. They not only worked hard but had tons of fun. Good years...

The goodbyes to the great people of Sunburst Shutters Corporate. John Barnes (marketing) Helen Mayan (keeps SSLV in line), Tracy Petitt (who really watches out for us) Kathy Aceveda, Kurt Taylor (CFO). These are just great people to work with.

Stake Social for Larkins and Nielsons 6/12/10

Bishop Paul and Maureen Clayton.

President Jeff Parker, Scott Bennett and our grandson, Dax.

Tom and Linda Ross, Vince and Nancy Landvatter and Jackie Cannon- cousins. Thank you for traveling to see us.

Nola Harber, Kimber Hughes (our neice) and Aunt Lisa (Parker)

Bishop Chris Hilbus and his wife Gwen.

Our stake president and his wife. President Kurt K. Teshima and Gaylene.

A couple of guys in for a free party.

The Tanner family- Leesee, President Tanner (first temple president of the Las Vegas temple) Karen (who always takes care of us) and Vivie Biddle.

The Raul Fernandez family

Bishop David and Becky Fife.

Our Stake Patriarch, Bruce Bennion and his wife, Peggy.

Pam Littlejohn and David and Lynn Mundt

Annette and Andrew Larsen

A HUGE thank you to the members of the Lakes Stake for a wonderful evening... especially the Stake Presidency for all the work in doing this.

MOVING DAY- REALITY CHECK- We are really going!

The truck showed up and it seemed like an awfully big truck for carrying just three crates. Are you sure all of our things can be crammed into three crates?

We started at 10am, the movers said they would be here at 8am. Was this how the day was going to go???

"Hey why does this guy have so many white shirts and suits?"

"Now look, no messing around- that goes for everyone!"

 This is one of the rooms. To the right is our 3 year supply of "zip lock bags"

Everything had to itemized. Even though we boxed it, they needed to repack it and write down what they saw.

These guys were really great to work with. The three of them were helpful and fast.

This is the group we really wanted to take. As we packed, the grandchildren swam and played.

Our dear friend, Chonie Marshall came and brought a much needed "Slurpee". She and Judi supervised and finally it was completed.

We finished by 4pm and we did get everything into our "handcarts". During the weeks prior we became friends with all the DI workers and have lots of donations slips. It's now nice to have the last 7 days in our home without piles and boxes everywhere. Hopefully in 4 weeks we will meet up with these 3 crates again.

After the "Farewell" on June 13, 2010

Fred & Julie Ashby, great friends from Mesa, AZ. who came to hear us. They returned home last year after serving as the Mission President in the Uruguay Montevideo mission.

The Pickett's, Willie and Mick with their daughter Shoni Hales and granddaugher, Marlee. All family members from Mesa.

Family Photo May 2010

We all went to Red Rock Canyon for one last family photo. The next time this will happen is the latter part of 2013. It will be interesting to see how much the children change and grow. We hope the older members of the family don't change too much or "grow" too much.

All of the grandchildren with Grandma and Grandpa. Bottom row- Riley, Chloe (both Devin's girls) Parker, Lexie (both Darik's) Halle (Willis' daughter) Ty (Darik's) and Dax (Devin's little boy). Grandpa is holding Brock (Darik's) and Grandma has Zach (Willis').

Our last night out with the Larkins. We served together in the Lakes Stake Presidency for 9 1/2 years. Todd and Laura Larkin have been called to be the Mission Presidents in the Washington Seattle Mission. The next time we have dinner with them might be on June 24 in the MTC cafeteria. Then on the 28th we head to Poland and they are off to Washington. Their son, Jordan, just received his call to Japan and reports to the MTC on June 30.