Chicago!

The Sears (Willis) Tower...tallest building in America!

We had a great visit to Chicago and were able to see the sights as well as visit a lot of Brenda's siblings.

Buckingham fountain at night...cool picture, hugh...

Tallest Building in the U.S....and you are stepping out onto a glass ledge at about 1300 feet above the street below!

View from the top of the Sears/Willis Tower

Nate's Mission Call

Here's a video of us opening the letter- Nate apologizes for stuttering during the whole thing.
For those of you who realize that the place we opened it is too pretty to be in Rexburg, you're right. We actually had to go up an hour to Harriman State Park to open it because Matt is at a violin camp up there. Enjoy.

Tallies for the mission guesses

Just for fun, we tallied up the guesses to see what was most guessed-

Surprisingly, Canada was the most guessed, with 4 votes.
Next up were Mexico and Ecuador, which got 3 votes each.
Africa, Chile, Italy, Australia, Florida spanish speaking, and Tennessee both got two votes each.
But none of those guesses were actually right...

Hiking R Mountain

On July 3rd we hiked up R Mountain. Not a huge hike, but we started small. We only had to kill one Rattle Snake! Frodo also hiked with us and did a good job keeping up. This is Nate on top of the world. Oh, you can also see Rexburg in the background on one of the pictures.

Even more guesses

Here are some more guesses just coming in- we've heard that most calls around here come on Thursday, just as a heads-up.

Heather Nygaard says somewhere in Asia
Jackie Nygaard says Mexico
Kaleb Nygaard says Louisiana
Josh Nygaard says Russia
Celeste Walker says Tennessee
Candace Walker says Canada
Bryce Walker says Africa
Jedd Walker says Chile
Natalie Walker says Italy
Elise Walker says Michigan
Michelle Mejia says Chile or Puerto Rico
Reid Robison says France
Sandra Wesemann says Australia
Lucy Wesemann says China
Eliza says Boston
Kevin Cluff says Canada

Matt's awesome 16th birthday party

For Matt's 16th birthday, he had a big boy/girl party with 15+ people there. It was pretty awesome, but boy were they noisy. Matt also got a barbie in one of his presents, curtesy of dad. boy/girl birthday

Some New Guesses

John Schipper- Ecuador
Eric Cluff- Uruguay
James Feldermann- Siberia
Alexa Cluff- Canada French speaking
Sarah White- Africa
Loretta Tomshack- Los Angeles Spanish speaking
Grandma Cluff- Ecuador or Thailand
Grandpa Cluff- Florida Spanish speaking
Kevin Gardner- Australia
Matt- Poland or the Czech Republic
Scott- Argentina
Laurie Cluff- India
Brenda- Korea or Salt Lake City Mandarin speaking

And just so you all know, Nate's call was sent Monday morning! Only time will tell when the letter will actually come.