rice hat

One of the reasons we made the quick and wonderful trip to California was to retrieve some boxes of stuff. Yes stuff, and mostly Chris's stuff, but there was one small box of Josh's stuff.

And in the small box of stuff were things from his mission like the rice hat above.

It was fun to sit outside on our front porch and rummage through his high school formal dance pictures, a notebook full of stories he made up as a young boy.  Sandi always told him that he was a story teller.  She bought him a notebook for him to record those stories, and he did. A short story about Tropical Paradise. I guess Josh has always had a thing for Hawaii. We found pictures of his freshman year in Hawaii.  Jill and Micah you still look the same so young! We found wood carvings from his mission to the Philippines and the pictured above rice hat, which Chamberlain has been wearing ever since. He calls it his golf hat and he is going to wear it this summer to play golf. 

He has also wore it all around town and to and from our walks to campus. 

Its become a regular part of his wardrobe this week. 

I love it.

I am totally comfortable with him wearing it everywhere, and I do mean EVERYWHERE.

It makes me giggle every time he flashes me that handsome smile of his.

He thinks its awesome. 

I think that he is great.

Dear Missionary Josh,

Thanks for bringing home this awesome rice hat.

Little did you know that your son would think this hat is the coolest thing on earth and sport it around town with such pride. 

I love it.

I also love that you served a mission.

Thanks for setting that example for our kids. 

~Ash