Photo Friday

Hyrum helped me out this week with my photos.  Since he takes more than 50% of the photos anymore it is about time he shot a few that could be used.

Hyrum's first picture that was clear.  

Hyrum's second photo.  Way to go Hyrum!

I put Simon in real clothes for the first time.  I can't believe how quickly he is growing!

A little blurry, but I just love those smiles.  

And to no ones surprise Hyrum is right by Simon's side.  

I Know you are proud of me!

Photo Friday

The girls fighting over my water. Water + ice + squeezed limes causes a
frenzy at our house.

Marquie's baby shower!

Our 24th of July party last night!

Family Photo

So here is a teaser for you!

Youth Conference

Seems that the annual Youth Conference of the Winchester Stake always pulls me in.  Whoops, that may be because I am the bishop.  None-the-less, it is a time that I cherish and appreciate with the youth.  Sadly, this year we had only six AP/YW join with us but we had a great time.  Our youth conference focused on Service and serve we did.  We rehabilitated a good portion of the Strasburg City Park.  Still working on pictures for that. 

However, Friday night we had a wonderful dance with a photo gallery.  So following on the baby shower blog, I will add my picture to that.  Seven of our eight bishops and we were missing the two branch presidents (They have no youth).  Now, I would love to add a picture of the bishops dancing to Hawaii 5-0 but it was spontaneous and the pictures taken, well, not worth posting.  However, the experience was incredible.  The music started and the bishops, without jackets, so in our white shirts, came from behind the DJ, lined up and started dancing.  The entire hall stopped and circled around us.  About halfway through we invited all to dance with us.  The importance of this was that the youth surrounded their leaders and then joined with them.  I was the initiator of this litter show, doing it because I felt so prompted.  In testimony the following day a testimony was borne of the significance of the dance and the circling around the bishops.  I gained a greater understanding of the powerful role and influence of a bishop. 

Why am I on the piano bench?  Well there is a story related to that. 

Baby Shower from my point of view

Well, here a couple of photos Michelle sent from the baby shower last night.  Sure looks like they had a great time!

Photo Friday!

This is what I'm doing today!  And a lot of sitting around. For free. But hopefully paid things come of this! -- Marquie 

Patrick is so great to let me borrow his iPod for the day. Thanks :)

Photo Friday

Well, I missed last week, so you get two weeks worth of pictures.  I can't believe it has been two weeks since the family reunion already.  Time sure does go way too fast!

Simon is 2 months old.  And he is sticking his tongue out at you.  :)

He thought it was funny to stick his tongue out at you.  He is smiling and trying to laugh.  It is SO CUTE!

Jacob having a blast at Day Camp!

Joshua has become quite the marksman hitting several bulls eyes.  Day camp is awesome!

Jacob and Hyrum were having lots of fun with church stickers.   Better on their faces than on my furniture.  :)

A poor brown chicken is all alone, but she has a roost now.  Michael is very proud of her roost.

We went to an activity at the library about rocket science by an actual rocket scientist.  It was awesome!  Even Hyrum got into it.

Blow air into the launcher.

Putting the rocket on the launcher.

Smashing the bottle to launch the rocket.

Watching the rocket explode into the air!

A great time was had by all.  It has been a fun week even without daddy, but he is back and that is always better.

Photo Friday

Pizza picnic at a park!

Our drunkard.

During Ava's Sweat Test at Primary Children's.

Ahhhhhhhhh!

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Ava being cool on our "fun day" activity of picnic at a park.

Jaime trying to make us laugh while Marquie and Patrick were over.

What the kids did to their room while I chatted with Marquie and Patrick.
I made them clean up every single toy before bed.

Me trying to be as fun as Dad for one night.

Dido.

Family Reunion from Mom's Camera

Here are some photos of the reunion from my camera--I know lots of them are blurry.  But they are still fun photos.  Not fun like Jodi's and Liz's and Dad's where you can actually use them again because they are so crisp and focused.  Nonetheless, here they are!

Adult? Dinner

Happy Grandma!

Finally made friends

Baby duty

What parents do while kids are sleeping!

Family Reunion

Well, I don't know about y'all, but I loved that reunion. Here are some of the photos I took.

Eating oranges together, getting to know each other.

One of the many times Vida fell asleep during devotional.

Jaime making Ava laugh.

Lovin' on the baby!

Cousins are great!

Love you guys!

More reunion photos

I didn't take a lot of photos, but here is what I did get.

Replacing our kitchen sink.  THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!!

Fun Nauvoo pics!  It was nice just to take the kids and let them play!

I think that I learned that the events that worked best for the kids worked best for the adults.  Happy children leads to happy parents.  :)

A little Discovery Depot action . . . they entertain children of all ages!

Thank you all for coming and making this a FABULOUS reunion.  I am already looking forward to 2016!