Goodbye Mesquite for a long, long time!!

Carlie's first time going down the waterslide by herself

Cayden's first time going down a waterslide by himself

Carlie and Cayden with some of the cousins at the pool

Josh won this toy at the arcade and gave it to Carlie, what a nice cousin!!

This was Cayden's favorite car at the car show, Daddy better start saving up!!:)

All of the cousins (except we missed little Kooper who didn't come)
Lance always has to get a Pina Colada (virgin of course):)

Cayden and Zach

For a lot of years Lance's family would plan a trip every year around the 4th of July to Mesquite, Nevada. We have not gone for the last few years so this year they decided it was time to have a family vacation again. Most of the trip I do not want to remember!!! To sum it up Carlie was sick before we left, we thought she was better so we went a day later than planned. We got down there and she ended up being sick almost the entire trip! We get ready to get in the car to come home (a day earlier than planned) and Cayden starts puking everywhere!!! Just our luck!! Luckily we think the heat just bothered him (we are not quite used to the temperature being over 100 degrees yet)!!! So to focus on the one day of fun that we had, we mastered the waterslide! My kids have never liked waterslides!! I think it helped that they could sit on our laps. By the end of the day they were going down by themselves and loving it (as long as someone was waiting at the bottom to catch them)!!:) The kids did have a lot of fun playing at the pool with there cousins!

Happy Father's Day!

Dance Recital Spring 2009

Thanks Shauna for curling Carlie's hair!


Carlie with her friend Kaya

Carlie had her dance recital tonight. She did such a great job!! It is always fun to watch her get up there because she gets so into it!! She gets so nervous before the recital but once she gets up there you would never know it! Cayden loves going too, he is always paying full attention and you can even sometimes catch him dancing to the music:) I am glad he likes the recitals because I am sure there will be many more in the years to come:)

I Love to See the Temple..........

About 2 hours after we went through the temple open house, we had a horrible storm and the Angel Moroni was struck by lightening!! This picture was taken after it was struck by lightening. The face and down the front of the statue is black now!!


We got to go to the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple open house today. It was a special experience to be able to take Carlie and Cayden and show them what the temple is like. Carlie was so serious through the whole tour and you could tell she was just trying to absorb everything in. I hope they will remember how special today was and how special it is to be able to go to the temple one day. I had the opportunity to help at the open house last Thursday and that was a neat opportunity. It is wonderful that we have so many temples so close to us and to live within walking distance of this one! We are so lucky and I hope we can remember that and take advantage of how lucky we are to be able to go to the temple whenever we want to:)

The Last Days of Kindergarten...........

Carlie and some of her good friends in her school class.

Kindergarten program

Cayden posing in front of Carlie's artwork hung in the hallway.

Carlie's classroom after her program.

Carlie had to make sure I took her picture with the giraffes! It is her favorite animal!

Carlie with some of her friends. She was not this happy during the fieldtrip she is just good at putting on a happy face for pictures!!:)

This is what is looked like most of the fieldtrip!!

Kindergarten is is now over but it has been a busy week. Carlie had her end of year program last Friday where they had a fashion show recognizing each child and sang some fun songs they had learned. They then went to the zoo on Wednesday. Carlie had been so excited for this day to come. The weather ended up being horrible (which wasn't surprising after it had already rained every day that week). I think it rained (actually not just rained, it poured) the majority of the field trip, good thing I brought an umbrella!!! Everyone was dripping wet when it was time to get back on the bus!! Carlie did love riding the bus however and I think that was the highlight of the trip because she kept asking when we could go home and made me promise that we will go back to the zoo when it is not raining (which right now that is hard to know when that will happen)!! Carlie has had a fun year going to Kindergarten and had a really nice teacher:) She is excited to go to first grade all day and get to eat lunch at school this fall!!

Brotherly Love!!!

The Price of Children......

I found this on a friends blog and loved it, thanks Jodi.........


The Price of Children

The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140.00 for a middle income family. Talk about price shock! That doesn't even touch college tuition. But $160,140.00 isn't so bad if you break it down.It translates into:

$8,896.66 a year,

$741.38 a month,

$171.08 a week.

A mere $24.24 a day!Just over a dollar an hour. Still, you might think the best financial advice is; don't have children if you want to be 'rich.' Actually, it is just the opposite.. What do you get for your $160,140.00?
Naming rights. First, middle, and last!
Glimpses of God every day.
Giggles under the covers every night.
More love than your heart can hold.
Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.
Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies.
A hand to hold usually covered with jelly or chocolate.
A partner for blowing bubbles and flying kites.
Someone to laugh yourself silly with, no matter what the boss said or how your stocks performed that day.

For $160,140.00, you never have to grow up. You get to:
finger-paint,
carve pumpkins,
play hide-and-seek,
catch lightning bugs,
never stop believing in Santa Claus.

You have an excuse to:
keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh,
watch Saturday morning cartoons,
go to Disney movies, andwish on stars.
You get to frame rainbows, hearts, and flowers under refrigerator magnets and collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas,
hand prints set in clay for Mother's Day, and cards with backward letters for Father's Day.

For a mere $24.24 a day, there is no greater bang for your buck.You get to be a hero just for:
retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof,
taking the training wheels off a bike,
removing a splinter,
filling a wading pool,
coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs, and coaching a baseball team that never wins but always gets treated to ice cream regardless.

You get a front row seat in history to witness the:
First step,
First word,
First bra,
First date,
First time behind the wheel.

You get to be immortal. You get another branch added to your family tree, and if you're lucky, a long list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren and great grandchildren. You get an education in psychology, nursing, criminal justice, communications, and human sexuality that no college can match.In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there under God. You have all the power to heal a boo-boo, scare away the monsters under the bed, patch a broken heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever, and love them without limits, so one day they will, like you, love without counting the cost. That is quite a deal for the price!!!!!!!

See Heather I can Blog!!! Happy Birthday!!!!