Sleep-In

So what do you do when you want to do something daring and exciting but it has to be legal? You have a sleep-in at Wal-Mart.  I made Audrey come at 11:30pm but these girls sure had fun being silly for a few hours.  The manager walked by and told them it was OK as long as the pillows stayed in their plastic sleeves. You may want to buy pillows elsewhere.  Nice manager wouldn't you say?

Youth Conference

For Youth Conference this year the kids were divided up into tribes and Audrey will have to tell you the rest of the fun stuff they did.  They have the tribal banners standing outside our Stake Center for a week and they are so fun to drive past.  I had to take a picture in case anyone wants to copy this fun idea. Audrey was in the tribe of Naphtali.  I took a close-up of Joseph since most of us are really from that tribe.

Family Video at Ned's Funeral

Chillin'

So after a hard day of playing we came in to watch a movie and next think I knew, Kate had assumed the position in the zero-gravity chair and was nibbling on mints. She looked so adorable I had to take one last picture :)

Summer Fun at Grandma's

We started to hatch ducks in my 2nd grade classroom. They hatched two days after school got out. Four hatched and three survived. Kate thought that was great fun. She was laughing and quacking up a storm with the scared ducks. Her hands fit perfectly around their little necks too! I love pictures like this that show pure joy on a child's face! After all the duck excitement we played on Grandma's waterslide. Kate was fearless this year going down. I caught Jared playing outdoorsman. You've gotta love the look of "getting caught" on his face.

The Gila Family Temple

After Uncle Ned's funeral, Karen and I hung out with Harmon's and visited The Gila Valley temple before heading home. Guess who we saw as we were leaving the temple? Von Richardson formerly of Animas, (Charles and Ilene's son) and his wife. Small World!

Robin's Visit

My sister Robin was able to come up to Salt Lake for my niece Kaila Graves's wedding. We were trying to get the beautiful flowers on temple square. We also took our picture as immigrants in the JSB Family History Center. Obviously, the trip across the ocean wasn't too hard on Robin. Way too chipper! If you want to see pictures of Kaila's wedding and the totally awesome cake we made out of sheets of chocolate you have to go to Karen's blog.