Funnies from our house!

My four year old started preschool this year and lately has been very interested in how to spell things. Yesterday he was sitting at the kitchen table and he was asking me how to spell simple words, like Mom, Dad, cat, his first and last name. Then he said, "Mom, how do you spell credit?". I said, " Why do you want to learn how to spell credit?" And he replied, "Because you have so many credit cards". Oh boy, they do observe everything.

Children

Yesterday at church was our 'Primary Children's Sacrament Presentation'. It is absolutely the best sacrament meeting of the whole year. Why, because the children are so real, sweet, innocent, vulnerable, trusting, full of faith, so close to heaven, their words and singing are full of beautiful messages. So, for Family Home Evening last night we discussed this verse:
1 Corinthians 13:11
" When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things"
We talked about how much influence that little children have and the sweet spirits that they are, and how we as adults can become more, and learn from them.

Family Campout

We had an awesome family campout these last two days at Shaver Lake. The kids had a blast! I know they enjoyed because in every one of their prayers they would say, "Please bless us so we can have some more camp outs in the future". Everyone was given a camp name, these pictures will describe their names.
Jacob, above was named 'Rubix', because he played with his Rubix cube the whole time.

Abigail was 'Frog Princess' because she caught these little frogs

Tyler, in the middle with the green shirt was named 'Pyro' because he was obsessed with starting and playing with the campfire.

Aaron was named 'Rocky' because he would climb and climb and climb these rocks.

I was named 'Dutch' because I made this awesome dessert in the Dutch Oven, the recipe was titled "Chocolate Lover's Delight"

Jay Dee was named 'Air Bear' because he said he slept well on his new air mattress I hooked up for him and he SNORED like a big bear.

Good time had by all!

Hello!

Has it really been over two months since I have posted something. WOW, where does the time go? We keep so busy, I guess I forgot about my blog for awhile. Well, it has indeed been and exciting and eventful couple of months. The most exciting part of the summer was our cruise to Alaska, it was awesome! We celebrated my 40th birthday and we were gone for seven days by ourselves. It was a dream vacation. We had the time of our lives and saw some beautiful country, ate some delicous food and slept whenever we felt liked it. The above picture is just one of about 1000 I took on our trip. I do have a small trigger problem with my Nikon D80.

The next photo is of our family, with Jay's mother and sister, my grandma was also with us, she is taking the picture. We had some fun times, which included birthday parties, backyard barbecues and family reunions. We are in front of the Oquirrh Temple in South Jordan, Utah.

This next photo is of our second son, Tyler. I thought I downloaded a picture of our oldest son, Jacob, who turned 13 on August 4th. I am to tired to fix it. Tyler's photo will have to do for now.

I turned 40 on July 24th, it was wonderful to be with family on my birthday, we celebrated at my parent's house with lots of family, food and birthday cake!

Happy Fourth and Happy Birthday!

I love, love, love the fourth of July, absolutely my favorite holiday. I love it even more because it is my husband's birthday tommorow. We crashed his lunch hour yesterday and celebrated with the other dr's and their office staff. Above is Dr. Beddoe and Dr. Castillo. He works with these two fabulous men!

These are the gifts he received from his MA Vanessa, and the office staff.

The kids and I celebrating with the Dr., ie. my main man!

When my two oldest boys walked in the room they immediately silly stringed their Dad, it was awesome!

The beautiful cake we brought in for the party, so yummy!

Happy Birthday Jay Dee, WE LOVE YOU!

Monday at the Zoo!

And, YES I did take the above photo at the zoo today!

I am thankful for:

1. Good times today with the kids and friends, the Fresno Chaffee Zoo and 'In and Out', can't get better than that!

2. My testimony of the gospel.

3. Awesome family and awesome friends!

4. My health and strength

5. My minivan!

I'm entering a giveaway

So, I'm entering a really cool giveaway at this site

www.bluelilly.squarespace.com

She's an amazing photographer with lots of talent, I have met her and she is a delight!

Please, Wendy pick me for your giveaway!