So long...Yet so much fun

I am still here in Texas. I promise I will post pics when I get home to my own computer. We have had so much fun here. Mom and dad have taken us everywhere. We have enjoyed the family. It is way too hot to ever what to live here and we miss Arik so so so very much. While here, my brother took out his endowments. It is one of the coolest things I have done here. Then one day, mom, Brandee and I went to the temple. Another day, we did family sealings. And one day, Garrett and I drove to Houston to go to the temple and then made it back to San Antonio and went to the temple and did baptisms for the dead with my cousins, Jacob and Ryan (who just turned 12 a couple months ago), this was thier first time in the temple.

It has been awesome!! On Wednesday we head to California for 6 days. My great grandma turns 100!! We are going to party. I have many pics and I will update all that when we get home.

My hubby, I get to see you a week from Tuesday!!! Love you.

Finally made it

We left our home Friday morning at 11:30 am. We got to the Salt Lake Airport at 2:15 pm. Our flight was supposed to leave at 4:30 pm. Arik got a special pass so that he could go through security and sit with us until we left. (What a blessing!) As we walked passed the big board that tells departure times I noticed that ours now read 5:00 pm. 30 minutes late not bad. Then at 5 they told us that Denver had a ground stoppage meaning no one was flying into or out of Denver. (That is where our layover was.) They said we were going to try again at 5:30 pm. At 5:45 pm they told us that we were for sure leaving at 6:30 but that all connecting flights had been cancelled. (Great!) So, I went and waited in line to change my plans and was then told that my connecting flight was still okay and that all others were cancelled. Our flight didn't leave until 7:10 and our flight to San Antonio left at 8:20 so we would have to run to our gate and pray that they would wait for us. We finally took off. As we landed in Denver the pilot told (the 16 of us flying to SA) that the plane we wanted would be at the exact gate that we landed at. I was so grateful. We boarded and landed in SA at 12:30 in the morning (11:30 time in Idaho). We are having fun so far and love it.

Craziness...the time has finally come

Okay, there has been so much happening and I can't keep up with it all. After a crazy month that seemed to fly. Where did June go? Yesterday, we were able to spend a great few hours with our friends from North Carolina. Thanks, Tufts for making the time to see us before we take off on our trip to see family. We had a lot of fun with them and hope that someday soon they will live closer to us again.

On March 9, I bought tickets to Texas for...TODAY!!!! We are so excited. Brookelyn has been talking about it for months and now we finally get to go. In a couple of hours we will head to Salt Lake and then wait two hours and then fly with a layover in denver to Texas. At 9:30 our time we will see my parents. A whole month of hot hot hot!!!!!


I will update with fun pics and stuff throughout my trip. We are SO EXCITED!!!!!!

4 is the new 20

On the 1st my oldest turned 4!!! Holy Cow where does the time go? I love her to death and am so grateful that she is part of our family. We just would not be the same without her. She thinks she is twenty and not four.

So what can this four year old do:

1. Can count to 20

2. Knows all her letters

3. Can write her own name

4. can pray all by herself.

5. Is trying to teach herself to read.

On Saturday we had a birthday party for her. All her friends were invited, near and far. We had a princess party. We played many games and had tons of fun. We had a castle pinata. To hit it the kids rode in a wheel barrow decorated as a horse (thanks Brandee) and then Arik pushed them towards the "castle". They each got a hit and then the candy went flying. They also playd musical chairs (listening to Disney music) and kiss the frog. (pics below) Here is the kiss the frog. Again thanks Brandee. She is so talented and much more creative than me. Thanks for helping. The kids were blindfolded and were each given a set of lips and then tried to find the frogs lips. It was funny and some of the kids got pretty close.

Here they all are standing in line for the game. They were awesome.

My two girlies watching tv together. Right in the middle of all the fighting and yelling, they are the greatest friends. I sure love them.


Happy (belated) Brithday Brookelyn! We love you so much and are so proud of you.