Gilbert Temple Open-house

Random Conversations #123

Eliza:  Mom can you put some aspirin  on my scratch?
Me:  You be Neosporin?
Eliza: Tomato patato

Elder Matthews

His wisdom teeth are out!

He has had a physical!

He filled out all the paper work!

He has had an interview with the Bishop!

He has had an interview with the Stake President!

His papers are in!

Now………..

…..we are waiting to find out where he will go!

I am so excited for him!

Price's final basketball season

We are about to have the last basketball game of Price's senior year.  

I'm kind of sad not to watch this boy play basketball any more.  

It has been a major part of our lives for most of his life.

But then again in high school, so has golf, cross country, swim team, and track...

….Let's bring on volleyball season!

One thing Price does not do is sit around and do nothing.

It's Official!

Sydney got her driver's permit!!!

On the way home from church yesterday there were 5 cars with permitted drivers at the wheel.  

It was shall we say, a little scary, but we all made it home safely!

Random Conversations #122

Getting ready for school we were listening to Pandora and the song by Rascal Flats "Take me There" came on

Eliza:  That's creepy!
Me:  What?
Eliza:  This song, "I want to know everything about you, go down every road you've been..."
Me:  He's in love with her.
Eliza:  That makes more sense.

Random Conversations #121

Putting Eliza to bed tonight she kept bringing up new things to talk about to prolong the inevitable...

Eliza:  I wonder what the Tooth Fairy looks like.
Me:  I hear she is really beautiful!  ;)

Eliza:  Mom, who were Adam and Eve's parents?
Me:  Heavenly Father and Mother

Eliza:  Do you think Adam and Eve had belly buttons?
Me:  That one, I do not know.

Eliza:  Hey Mom, which way are babies supposed to come out head first or feet first?
Me:  Head first.  Good night Liza.

Random Conversations #120

Eliza:  Mom, will you please remember to call the tooth fairy and remind her to come?
Me:  Sure!
Eliza:  How do you even do that?
Me:  When you are a mom you'll know.
Eliza:  I don't even care how you do it ...... she's the only fairy I believe in.

Mackey's Grill

Labor Day

For Labor Day we took a little trip up to the Payson area to go to Tonto Natural Bridge, 

one of my favorite childhood Arizona destinations.  

My brother Taylor, his son Steele and Price's friend, Whitney came with us.

We hiked and jumped from bolder to bolder.  It is really fun!  All of our kids are capable of getting themselves where we are going without much help.  I have to admit, I do enjoy that!

Carlsbad Caverns

I'm not feeling particularly wordy right now, so I'm going to let these pictures speak for themselves and take one step closer to being caught up with my blog.

San Antonio

On our way home from the cruise we took a few pit stops to make the 20 hour drive more bearable. 

 Our first stop was in San Antontio.  

Love that city!  

It was beautiful, The River Walk was breathtaking!

Random Conversations #119

Marley:  Mom, you know what I don't like about the desert?
Me:  What??
Marley:  You can just look out at it from the window and know that it is hot.  That is also what I hate about our backyard.
Me:  ???
Marley:  Our backyard doesn't look like a desert so you look out at it and it looks like it would be nice. But it's not, it's hot.  Our backyard lies!!!

Fortune Cookie

Look what I got in my fortune cookie tonight! 

I am excited to see what tomorrow brings!!

Wake boarding

When we had a bunch of little kids, I was so excited for the day when they would all be able to ride a bike.  Then we could all go on a bike ride together.  In my head, that is when we would finally make it.  

Turns out I wasn't quite right about that.  We finally made it when all of our kids learned to wake board.  :)

This is Eliza's first summer as a wake boarder.  She got right up her first try!

Lane, venturing out of the wake!

Marley, never afraid and going at it with all she's got!

Sydney,  getting really good at jumping!

Price, he's just really fun to watch!

First Day of School

Kids grow up.  It's a fact.  No matter how much I would like to slow them down, they keep growing. 

 It is sad and amazingly awesome at the same time...

Sydney will be a Sophomore this year and Price a Senior

Eliza the 2nd grader

Lane 6th grade

Marley 8th grade

San Francisco

Rob and I spent the weekend in San Francisco with Susie (Rob's sister) and her husband Jon.

We walked farther than I had in a really long time.

We rode bikes farther than I had in a really long time.

We laughed harder than I had in a really long time.

This is on our bike ride from San Francisco, across the Golden Gate Bridge, to Salsilito where we rode the ferry back.
 

Ghirardelli Square sundaes!!!

The Angel Moroni

We are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

We are Mormons. 

We love it and everything about it.

Our lives are better because of our church.

A temple is being built just 5 miles from our home,

and we are sooooo excited!!!!

I have been hiking 1-2 times a week with some friends near the temple so we have watched it coming to shape.  It takes my breath away!

The day they put the Angel Moroni on top of our temple we took some of the young women from our ward to see it.

I feel very blessed!