Cousins and Big Trucks.

When we were up in Utah we tried to go and see things on an extremely TIGHT budget. We stayed with my brother John and had a great time. Savannah became the 'chicken whisperer' and LOVED to collect the eggs, talk to and hold the chickens. Here are just a few pictures of cousins and we also took my two nephews Kade & Boston up to Kennecott Copper Mine to look at the big trucks and look down in the largest open pit mine in the world. The kids had fun learning about all the things that we use in our home that come out of that mine.


Charlotte the photographer
Uncle John, Aunt Mel, Ashley & Grandma


Charlie getting ready to go.


Aunt Mel and Boston


Chad and Charlotte mowing the lawn. Charlie fell asleep while mowing. Aw... the days of mowing a 1/2 acre.


Charlotte & Boston. They got along SO well together.


Next to the Huge truck tires at Kennecott.





For us Arizonians it sure was chilly up there.

Challenger Space Center

Once a month the Challenger Space Center pulls out some of their HUGE telescopes for everyone to look it. It was lots of fun. We went with some new friends the Warmoths. We had a great time. We could see all sorts of plants and saw the bright star in the sky that we learned was Venus. Lacey told her oldest daughter, Halle (who is 12) that (meaning Venus) is where women are from. Halle said 'Really?' Lacey, 'yeah and men are from Mars.' Halle had a total shocked look on her face. Then Lacey told her she was teasing. I can't wait til my girls get older that I can tease them like that.


Savannah looking through the big telescope.








A future here????



Charlotte grabbed the telescope the first time and the guy had to realign it.



Pretty impressive of the moon for my little camera huh?

Just Keep Swimming ....

We are full blown into our week of swim lessons. Julianne is an amazing teacher, as usual!!

Charlotte is a little fish. She is so fun to watch swim. She is finally not whimpering and kick..kick's her little legs to get to the side. Even being dropped off the diving board she takes the longer route to get to the side instead of just turning quick to the side.







Savannah is having all her previous lessons come back to her memory. She is swimming all over the pool and is working on her diving.

There are some videos of the girls on facebook. For the life of me I can't get video's to load on blogger.

Sedona

This past week I was able to go to Sedona Tuesday - Friday with the Young Women in the ward. They were challenged at the beginning of the school year to read the Book of Mormon during the year. As a reward to those who finished we took them up to Sedona. A wonderful sister in the ward donated 5 2-room condo's from their timeshare at the Wyndham Resort!! It was WONDERFUL! On the way up there I had the laurels in my van. As they were channel surfing for some music I told them of the cd's I had in the changer. One of them was Les Miserables. One of the girls had read the book but not seen the play and none of the others had read/seen it. So the two of us got to give them a little synopsis of what was going on. It brought back memories from my first youth conference trip when we were listening to Les Mis on our way to Flaming Gorge and it was my first time hearing the play and my leader was telling us about it.

I had such a great time getting to know the girls a little better, and also some of our leaders as well. We had such great entertainment from the 'Ric' since the Bishop was unable to make it up the first night. But they came as Hoss and Slim. We did a cowboy dinner and they came with stories and songs and a great spiritual testimony meeting afterwards. We had fun on our little excursions and playing at the resort, plus the weather was gorgeous. I'm glad I had the opportunity to come and enjoy this time with the girls. I love my calling and all of the girls are amazing and have such a strong testimony making it all worth while.

Chad was wonderful and stayed behind as 'Mr. Mom' and entertained the girls. I don't think they went to bed until 11:30p every night but the house was clean and the girls were happy when I came home so I'm not complaining.

Savannah's art work today

Savannah's art. Mom & Savannah in the middle. Daddy on the right in the sun. Then there is Charlotte in the rain. At least she drew her an umbrella. Ya think she loves her sister?....

Chad and I just started chuckling when she showed it to us. She is so funny.

Seussical Jr - The Musical - All about Savannah

Savannah was in her first ever school play. She was so excited and after months AND MONTHS ... of practice the show finally came. She did such a good job and we are SO proud of her. I asked her if there is another play next year if she wanted to do it and she said, "Maybe they will do the Magic School Bus and I can be Miss Frizzle." Needless to say she wants to do another one. She did get pretty tired through all the rehearsals but the end result was worth it to her. I was there almost all day Thursday and half the day on Friday doing hair. It was fun though. Here are a few pictures.


Mom and Dad and our little star. Her Music teacher Ms Nowak



Snuck one in of Charlie. This is how I did the fish's hair on the second night.








Savannah and a few of the other fish





Happy 6th Birthday! Didn't get too many pictures. We did a Wizard of Oz party. We borrowed a projector from a friend and watched it in the backyard. Glad all the popcorn was in my backyard for the birds and dog to clean up than in my house.




Savannah, Layla & Cole




Alexis and Savannah


Savannah and Pierce Savannah & Charlie


The last week of Savannah being a Kindergartner

New Family Pictures - Sorry Picture OVERLOAD!

This was the last 'Are we done yet?' pic.

Thanks again Cassidy you are amazing! You captured so many that show really how we are in life. Your the best!