January 11, 2015 - Katie's homecoming talk and welcome home party

 Coon and Cox family

 Our next door neighbors, Luis and Sofia are the best! They speak Spanish in their family. Katie and Gabrielle went next door to their home and talked up a storm in Spanish.

 Sunshine, Emma, Brenda, Emily and Grant

 Juliet & Lee Dayley, Rick and Jennifer Shumway

 Katie and her little cousin Lylah Coon

 All 3 friends in high school. Now all three will be related. Katie and Jessie are going to be sister in laws, and Jessica is a cousin to Grant. All in the same family.

 Grant and Katie holding nephew Weston Boyd

Nina Goodwin our friend!

 Old Man Marv our favorite home teacher!

 Sweetest Megan Rowe

 Emily Mills friend from high school and BYU-1 roomie.

 Grandma Dayley and Aunt Catherine Coon

 Grant, Katie and Tyler Hillstead

Christmas morning January 3, 2015

 Our family postpone Christmas this year. We wanted our sweet Katie home from her mission. She came home January 2 and we woke up on January 3 and had our family Christmas. Hannah got this cute yellow beach cruiser bike with a basket!

 The girls wrote Katie Coon on their finger nails.

 Everyone was so excited to have her home.

 Christmas Eve Pj's.

 A sonicare tooth brush!!!!

 New overalls and a shirt from Uruguay.

 Glitter spray!

 Katie - 21

James - 18

Annie - 12

Hannah - almost 8! (one more week)

Gabrielle Cox and Katie Coon 

Companions in Melo Uruguay!

She is HOME.. our Katie is home!

January 2, 2015 is the BIG DAY we have all been waiting for. Katie's have 26.5 hours of travel to get home. She started in Montevideo and flew to Chili, from Chili she flew to Florida, from Florida she flew to Georgia, then Georgia to Phx Arizona! Of course she had lay overs in every airport. After a long trip home she made it!

 We had tons of family come to the airport. Katie's plane arrived at 3:40pm on Friday afternoon!

New Years Eve

 Happy New Years Eve...

Riding with the boys

 The Coon boys went riding in the desert. There was snow on the ground and all over the Superstition Mountains. They had a great day! They enjoyed the beautiful scenery and being together riding their bikes. I love that this family recreated together!

 Grant 47, James 18

James, Grant, Brig, Rob, Paul and Ryan Coon

all fathers with their sons!