Memorial Day Weekend

The Stoker family took off on a road trip adventure over Memorial Day week/weekend to New Mexico and Arizona. It was a great, much needed break after two long years of getting Seth through school. Although the trip did have it's stressors, considering we were first headed to investigate Rio Rancho, NM-our new home-to-be! Seth accepted a job with EQC technologies on Friday, May 21st and 5 days later we were headed down to Rio Rancho to meet his boss-to be for the first time! It seems a little crazy and scary, but after spending the weekend talking, thinking, and praying about it, we knew it was the right thing to do! We are really excited to open this new chapter of our lives and we can't wait to see what Rio Rancho has in store for us. I didn't take any pictures on our visit to Rio Rancho, but we were really only there for a day. I did, however, take this cute video of Jackson dancing at Johnny Rockets in Rio Rancho. This video was taken when the employees of Johnny Rockets had to go out in the middle of the restaurant and perform a choreographed dance! I felt really bad for the employess, but I thought Jackson was pretty cute trying to dance along!

While in Rio Rancho, we tried to look around for housing a little, but it ended up being really stressful, so we just decided to move on with our trip and trust that everything would work out :) Seth plans to start his new job on June 8th, so he will be returning to Rio Rancho then and Jackson will finish up business in Provo. From Rio Rancho, we headed to Mesa for a mini family reunion to welcome my baby brother Brian home from his mission!


Here we are waiting at the airport for Elder Brian to land!

Coming off the plane!

The Woodbury kids all together for the first time in 2 years!

Brian served in the Seoul West, Korea mission-the same city as Seth! It was fun for them to be able to speak in Korean to each other, to share stories about the people, and to stop by the Korean market in Mesa and bring home some goodies to cook us all lunch!

Brian brought the girls these beautiful fans from Korea!

Can't tell they are brothers, can you? It was actually pretty funny because Jackson had the hardest time telling them a part! One or the other of my brothers have been on a mission for Jackson's entire life!

We went swimming on Memorial Day and it actually wasn't too hot in AZ to swim! We had a lot of fun playing games and watching Jackson boss everyone around. He ordered everyone to form this "choo choo train" in the water and lucky for him, all aunts, uncles, and grandparents are willing to beckon to his every call-it will be interesting to see what happens when his has a little competition for attention come November!

The big kids even formed a "choo choo train" of their own down the slide!

Of course, we had to take our missionary boy out to his first taste of 5 guys-so yummy!

It was a great trip and a nice chance to relax before starting in on a hectic next couple of months! We have a lot to look forward to, and it certainly won't be easy, but we are so excited to move on to a new stage of our lives!

And welcome home Brian! It was so great to be there when you got home and it will be great to have you around again!