We had the opportunity to go on a special tour of the Oquirrh Mountain Temple before the actual open house starts. It is a beautiful Temple and I encourage everyone to get tickets to visit this Temple. Make sure you take the time to appreciate every little detail. Even though it's not dedicated there is a special spirit there that everyone can feel. My kids have loved the opportunity to go to the open houses it has taught them many things about what we believe, they talk about it for days after. My girls thought that the Temples were where the princesses live, I told them that it's where the princesses get married. They were excited to think that one day they can be that princess that gets married there. I'm so excited that I can share these special experiences with my children.

Happy Birthday Jace!

Today my baby turned 5. I can't believe that he is going to be starting Kindergarten, he's still my little baby. He is so excited to be 5, he keeps asking "Am I really 5 now?". For his birthday he got a new Spider Man bike, and money, which he has already spent. He bought a book about spiders and a Spider Man heliocopter.

Lost without a camera...

So the other day my camera stopped working. I hadn't had it very long, so I was really upset that it broke. I was so lost without it, I kept complaining to James and he kept telling me that we didn't have the money for one right now. So I just did my best with the cell phone. Let me tell you a cell phone doesn't even come close to a real camera. After having to use the cell phone at the assembly today and James saw the quality of the pictures, he finally gave in and let me go buy a new camera. He realized that my camera is as important to me as his camcorder is to him. He couldn't live without it. So now I'm back in the picture taking game, watch out world. Thank you so much James you're the best and I love you!!!!

Reading Contest

Our district had a reading contest. Ken Garff and Wal-mart were sponsors and donated great prizes, like 4 new bikes and lots of books. Our school kids read over 2 million minutes!!!! My kids have been off track, so we went back for the assembly. For every hundred thousand minutes that were read the teachers and staff had to do some crazy stunt. The first grade teachers had to ride around the school on tricycles, the third grade teachers were duct taped to the wall, sixth grade teachers had to kiss a pig (but because of swine flu the kissed a goat instead, just as funny!), the Principal and the literacy teacher were dunked in a dunk tank. It was so much fun! I didn't have a camera so I had to use my cell phone, so forgive me for the poor quality of the pictures.


Sixth grade teachers kissing the goat. Most actually kissed it on the face!



Third grade teachers duct taped to the wall. They didn't stick very well.


Mr. Giles in the dunk tank.


Mrs. Fay in the dunk tank.


The kids having a good time watching their teachers acting crazy!

Silly things that kids say...

Today we went to visit Uncle Buzzy, and Jean of course was taking a million pictures. So Kyzleigh finally said "Grandma why do you take so many pictures?" "Well, you guys grow up so fast and I don't get to see you very often, I just want to take lots of pictures of you!" Kyzleigh's response "Grandma when are you going to die?" I guess she thought that if grandma was taking so many pictures that she was going to die soon. Silly girl!