I WON!

On Sunday I posted about a giveaway at the FHE blog I have a link to on here. Well, I won the picture of the temple!! You can check it out on the side of my blog. YEAH!

FHE & Temple Pic Giveaway

If any of you wonderful people out there are looking for FHE lessons, there is a great link down the side of this here blog that has great ideas and lesson plans. Believe me, with my boys, I need all the help I can get :)
On the website they are having a giveaway. The prize is a beautiful 8x10 picture of the St. George Temple. The drawing ends tomorrow (July 20th) night so make sure you go follow the instructions.

2 Posts In One :)

I Hope They Call Me On A Mission!

One of the great things about living outside of Utah is that we get the opportunity to help feed the missionaries at Zone Conference. It is such a rewarding experience for the Relief Society sisters. I took Tanner with me today and he really enjoyed it. There is a tradition at Zone Conference...all the missionaries stand and sing Called To Serve to the sisters who worked in the kitchen. It is an amazing experience. Tanner's favorite Primary song just happens to be Called To Serve. He listens to it at least 10 times a day (no joke). He was so excited when the Sisters and Elders sang to him. He also got to shake hands with the mission president. I had talked to him on the way to the church about what the mission president does and when he met President & Sister McConkie (Bruce R. McConkie's son) he looked at him and said, "so your the man in charge here?" President McConkie thought it was very funny :)

I took this picture while we were there and I am going to hang it on his wall.

(There were about 50 missionaries there so these are just a few)

Our Little Muffin Is Growing Up!

Our sweet little Zachary is 4 months old today! He is such a cute little man. He doesn't have his 4 month check up until Monday so I do not have any new stats right now but here is a cute picture

I took today.

The Stone's & Stone Mountain

Wow! I cannot believe it has been over two weeks since I posted last. I didn't realize that I have been so busy. Between swimming lessons, church callings & vacation, we have not been home.
We took a small vacation over the weekend, we spent the 4th of July at Stone Mountain, just outside of Atlanta. We had a lot of fun and made a few great family memories.



The park was very busy on the 4th because Stone Mountain does an amazing laser and fireworks show. Our plan was to be there all day and into the night so that we could watch the fireworks. At about 3:30 we had had enough of the heat. The crowds didn't even bother us that much. The heat was horrible! We decided to just go back to our hotel and swim in the pool since the boys LOVE swimming. Once we were back at the hotel it felt more like vacation..lol.

We found a new favorite restaurant..the only problem is that it is over two hours from our house :(


The first day we were gone we went to the Atlanta Temple. We knew that it would be closed for renovations but we still wanted the boys to see it. The gates were open so we got to walk around the outside.

I believe that the most fun was spent in our hotel room. The boys had a riot wrestling on the floor and Gavin spent so much time in front of the mirror talking to himself..lol




We were only gone for 3 days but it was fun and much needed. Now we are looking forward to Christmas when we go away as a family and enjoy another new destination :)

Here are a few extra pictures that I thought I should include..

Zach's new favorite place to sleep in on Grandma's bed

While we were in Stone Mountain Tanner was getting tired of all the walking. Grandma was fine with this..lol..she just doesn't look like it :)

Love Them!!

A few weeks ago, before Grandma's birthday party, a sweet sister in our ward came over and did a photo shoot with Grandma, the boys, and all of them together. I have had these for a while but I am just now finding a few minutes to share them with you. There are quite a lot of them so I am putting only a few that I really like on here.

Photo Update

We have been so busy the last few weeks and the next few are not going to be any less busy so here is a quick photo update.
These first few pictures are little man smiling..or attempting to :)

We have had some crazy thunderstorms the last few weeks. It got very scary at times.

On Thursday the storm was so bad that we gathered the whole family in the center of the house. There was hail and wind and I was very scared. All of the sudden we heard the loudest sound..it was like freight train hitting a wall...when the storm was over, we looked outside and saw many of our neighbors outside looking at something...here it is..

It is now 5 days later and the tree is still in the middle of the road. Taking a detour is getting really old very quickly

Tanner started swimming lessons today. He had fun for a while and then got intimidated by all the other kids...we are working on that :)

For FHE tonight we played a very fun Book of Mormon Memory game that our friends gave us for Christmas. It is great to listen as Tanner explains who all the people are and what they did.

After the game we made dirt dessert. It was a big hit. Tanner wanted to eat all the gummy worms and leave everyone with just dirt...that's Tanner for ya ;)

Happy Father's Day Daddy!!

Another year has come and gone,

It's Father's Day again.

We love our daddy very much,

He is our greatest friend.

Our daddy likes to play with us

And takes us lots of places,

He always tells us funny stories

And makes up silly faces.

Daddy works while we're asleep

And spends his day in bed,

We make sure we are nice and loud

So he'll get up and play instead.

Daddy, we know you love us lots,

and we sure do love you back.

We couldn't have asked for a funner dad!

Love, Tanner, Monkey & Zach