Let's Make Some Puppets!

Amberly and Trent love to do crafts. Last summer I went out and bought oodles of crafts from my favorite store (Hobby Lobby, which by the way a new one is being built less than a mile from our home! YEA!! (Darin is not excited.) ). We found some leftovers from last summers stash so it was time to pull them out and have some fun. Trent had to make the Knight in shinning Armor and the Unicorn while Amberly made the Princess and the Fairy. It was a lot of fun. I'm now looking forward to their puppet shows.

Dog Sitting

The past several days Trent and Amberly have been enjoying dog sitting for some friends of ours. We have watched him before so that first day we showed up "Oliver" just went spastic he was so excited! He's the cutest little dog and playing with him has been very enjoyable. His favorite thing to do is to run around the yard with the ball in his mouth being chased.

Father's Day Cont..

It was really nice just being able to share a quiet Sunday together as a family. We began the day by going to church. At the end of church all of the men met in the kitchen area to enjoy "Pies for Pops". What a yummy way to end church!! We ended the day by taking a few pictures. Elizabeth and I worked on the poster card for Darin. It was fun coming up with cute sayings to go with the candy bars. (After 16 years of Father's Days I'm really needing some fresh new fun ideas for the day! Elizabeth says I just need to start over and redo some of the same things we've done in the past. So.. we did a candy card!)

Happy Father's Day!

Today was Father's Day and I just wanted to take a moment and honor the Father's in my life.

First, I want to honor my amazing husband Darin. I am so grateful that I not only have a wonderful husband but that my children have a wonderful father. We are greatly blessed to have him in our lives. I'm also grateful for Darin's Dad and the relationship that Darin has with him. I'm grateful that He lives closer to us now so that Granpa Bruce and Grandma Sharon can be more a part of our lives. And Finally I want to honor my Dad. I feel that Mother's Day and Father's Day is kind of bitter sweet without my parents alive anymore. I'm so grateful this day for my Dad and for all he did for me. I don't think we always had the greatest of relationships, but I always knew he was there for me and I always knew that if I ever needed anything he was there to help me. My children loved his visits. Especially Eyn considering they would always go exploring somewhere and stop by the store for a soda pop and a candy bar. I loved to watch him with my children. I know that he is still cheering us all on. I know that he is applauding loudly as Elizabeth competes in a competition. I know he is running right along with Eyn down the basketball court encouraging him on. I know that he is watching my children grow and helping them in ways that he never could while he was on this earth. I also know and am so grateful for the knowledge I have that someday we will all be reunited together as a family and what a wonderful reunion that will be.
How grateful I am for these wonderful men in my life!!

This is one of my favorite pictures! I love the smile on my Dad's face!

Trent's Trip to Fox News

Last Wednesday Trent joined the Bear Cub Scouts and went to the Fox News Station to be guests on the afternoon Web cast. (Trent became an official Webelo last month but the Bears invited him to join them on this outing) They were working on their Weather Belt loop. He came home wanting to be a meteorologist more than ever! He has always loved the weather and seeing it up close and learning even more was great for him. The Fox meteorologist is a member of our Stake here and got special permission for them to be there.
(Trent is the first one from the left on the back row.)

My Favorite Picture from our Wildflower Trip

These are my favorite people and I just love this picture! I felt like I found the perfect place and everyone just got into the perfect position! I only wish they understood just how incredible they all are and how important they are to me.

What goes up, must come down.

It's a bird, it's a plane, No! It's a rock thrown high in the air by Eyn with hopes of it falling in the pond right beside them and not on their heads!

In Search of Wildflowers

A few weeks ago we traveled the countryside in search of the beautiful Texas Wildflowers. We were unable to find them, but came across the Rose Emporium which is a beautiful setting to enjoy. We had a fabulous time playing among the flowers taking pictures. We ended up being the only people there for quite awhile and it was great! The weather was wonderful and everyone was in a happy mood.

This is our Beautiful Elizabeth in her new letter jacket. She just completed her Junior year at Seven Lakes High School. She had a fabulous year in choir. She made all District Choir and got 1's on her Solo which made her eligible to go to State. Her choir was selected as the 2009 TMEA Performance Choir and will sing at the 2009 Texas Music Educators Association Convention in San Antonio. That's equivalent to a football team making All-State. She is looking forward to her Senior year being busy Singing.

I think I can honestly say that Eyn does not like to pose for pictures. But, he put up with it and was a good sport. I think he had the most fun throwing rocks into the small ponds and trying to scare me by throwing small pebbles on the "outhouse" when I was in it.

I do believe that Trent enjoys posing for pictures. He likes to pose in different positions like in GQ. He loved throwing rocks with Eyn and being chased by Amberly all around the flowers.

My sweet adorable Amberly who had to be bribed by Elizabeth to smile. All she wanted to do was run around and play. She was so happy and loved just having fun.

I love this picture!! We found this cute table and they just sat down at it and so I had to get a picture! They were joking around with the teacup plants, but I thought it was great! I actually think Eyn is the one who started pretending to drink it!

The Beginning

It's time to get connected to the outside world! I hope that by doing this new blog that I am able to reconnect with a lot of family and friends. This is kinda scary but hopefully it will be great!