Jacob's Baptism

On Saturday, November 8, 2008, our son, Jacob, got baptized by his Dad. It was such a wonderful service. The talks were great, the spirit was very strong, and so many friends and family came to support Jacob. It was such a fantastic day! The "boys" went on their have-to-go-golfing-every-time-we-get-together golf trip and Taco Bell Celebration Lunch!! After the baptism, we met at the park up the road from our house and had a picnic... So much fun! Thank you to everyone who helped by bringing food (Mom, Andy and Rachel, Charlie and Opal, Colt and Emilee), helping to get everything ready (a special thanks to Em for volunteering to get all teary-eyed on me by chopping onions!), sewing on buttons at the last minute (Thanks, Mom!!), babysitting for us the night before so Rulin and I could go to Time Out for Couples and feeding everyone yummy Papa Murphy's Pizza (John and Kadee), and everyone for taking time out to come and be with our family for this special occasion! We love all of you!

Desert Camping

We had the chance this past Friday and Saturday to go camping! Uncle James came up from Tucson and brought his guns, Rulin loaded up the quads and our guns, and we headed out! We found a place by Sycamore Creek... The desert was not our first pick for our outing. However, cost of gas and time restrictions prevented us from going further north into the beautiful pines. Although it wasn't our "ideal" spot, it was fantastic!! The desert (with my phobia of poisonous creepy-crawlies) proved to be an absolutely wonderful place to be! The weather was PERFECT!! 71 degrees was the low overnight and into the high 80's during the day with a perfectly wonderful breeze blowing all day long! The guys had fun shooting the milk jug and soda bottle targets that we brought and we all enjoyed riding the quads through the dry creek bed and up the desert hills. (If you get a chance, ask Jacob or Rulin what it feels like to roll a four-wheeler -- they are both lucky they weren't hurt worse) Kenzee and I had fun watching ants!! Kenzee dropped some Goldfish on the ground, so we smashed them up into smaller pieces for the ants and watched them pack the pieces off to their ant hill. It was hours of entertainment, plus we felt good about ourselves for helping the ants get their winter food supply!!! My only regret: I managed to go off WITHOUT my camera!! How did THAT happen?? So, we have no pictures to share, and only our own memories to recall our fun adventure!!

D-backs fun/Summer is nearing an end...

What a crazy summer this has been! To start, I have to put on here that Taylor got to be on the "Jumbotron" at the Diamondbacks game last night!!! It was soooooo AWESOME!!!!! One of the ladies pulled her aside as we walked in the door, and asked her and I if she wanted to be part of their mid-inning entertainment!!!! She got to stand on the D-backs dug-out, watch a video of Baxter the Bobcat shopping at Fry's and then she had to answer a question. They asked her what was the 2nd thing that Baxter put on the conveyer belt... she answered correctly with "Water" and won a $25 gift card to Fry's! It was soooo fun!!!!!
I can't believe that in just two and a half weeks the kids will be back in school!! Taylor will start Junior High... and then the next day, turn 12 and be in Young Womens... I'm not ready for all of this! Bryce is starting 5th grade and Jacob is going into 2nd grade... Kenzee will not know what to do with all of her "people" gone all day again!! Well, after almost 2 years of being the Enrichment Leader in my ward, I have been released and called to be the Wolf/Bear Den Leader... I'm excited to be able to work with Jacob when he turns 8 in October! Bryce will be in Webelos on Friday, so I won't get to be with him at all... which we're both sad about. Wish me luck as school starts again and the many little changes that I hate so much continue to bombard me from every angle...