Visiting the Cemetary

As kids my mom always took us to the cemetary to leave flowers for her dad aka Grandpa Jerry who I never met. So it only felt right to take my kids when we were in Fullerton, CA.

My mom had a really neat experience with Logan when he was really little- she had a picture of Grandma Corky and Logan went up to it saying her name (and none of us had told him at that point) and said "I know her." And its cute because ever since then he talks about her as if he really knew her (she passed away of Ovarian Cancer when I was 17).

Its amazing what strong feelings come back when I think of my Grandma she was a fantastic hard working woman. And whenever she burnt or dropped something she would say the "s"word and to this day it still makes me laugh.

11 yr old Scouts

Paul and Shane are the Scout Leaders for the 11 year olds in our ward and they helped the boys pass off their Wild Life section by bringing them up to Big Dave's personal zoo!

Ryker & Logan joined in too.

Ace and Miss Billy meet the boys.

Afton is the cutest!

Grandpa Steve

Paul was in San Diego for business so the kids & I joined him and he went his way and I went mine (visting family throughout so cal).

I had not seen my dad for a few years so we were able to stop by Grandma Wandas and meet up. He had not seen Logan for about 3 years and had not met Porter.

Grandma Wanda, my dad, Aunt Connie & Uncle Scott were there to say hi along with Uncle Trent and Grandpa Terry who were not in the picture. I had a lot of great memories at their home with Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter egg hunts.

IHOP

Daddy was out of town so we decided to go to IHOP for Logan's 1st time. He had fun with all the different colored syrups but he did eventually eat the pancakes. It was funny because Logan ordered sausage and the waitress brought bacon and Logan quickly corrected her...i ordered sauage. I was a little embarassed that my 3 year old was correcting her but it was kind of funny.

I grew up going to IHOP all the time and as kids we were even in a commerical because my Uncle Scott's advertising company wrote them. We wore the goofy glasses with the big nose it was the time the rooty tooty fresh n fruity came out.

Matt's Farewell

It was way fun to have a luau for a farewell (easy party planning...tiki torches, roasting a pig (almost! I was so close!) leis, yummy fruit and flower attire. We used dried bamboo leaves to wrap inside and outside the invite-turned out good.

Matt is Emily's boyfriend who recently decided to go on a mission! We love him as much as we luv our Em. He heads out September 16th to the Honolulu Hawaii Mission-what a mission! We promised we would occupy Em's time with babysitting...yeah for us:)

We joined Matt as he received his endowments on Sept 3rd and it was so exciting to be there with his whole family-his closest cousin went through too! We are so thrilled for Matt-he is a fabulous kid and gave an amazing talk at his farewell...my favorite part...I'm in a band.

Sushi at Last!

Carrie & Helen took me out for some yummy sushi! We started with edamame then ordered 3 rolls and couldn't at all finish them. I choose Unagi...eel. Thanks for Lunch!

Day Trip to Heber

Load Up we're goin to Heber! The weather is always cooler, the kids love running wild and my favorite...no phone reception=my husband all to myself.

No worries he has his froggy.

T-Man and Shelf

Crazy Munchins

We made the kids a sandbox...pretty much just another spot they can get dirty.
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Company Party

The Company party is a hit in Heber-we stay at our family property of about 40 acres, it has camping sites, bbqs, tons of sitting areas, basketball, volleyball, swing set, 4wheeling trails and the best part a river runs through it.

Hay rides were a great way to keep kids occupied

Paul Kicking Back

2 engineers+crane owner+crane sales guy+electrician+1 extra able body= their crane design bombed!

Checking out the projects

This is Ruth, Em's mom! She is a life saver in the office and has to deal with all the payroll and billing! Porter loves her when I'm not in the same room.


Uncle Vern

Crane Competition

We had 5 teams compete to build a crane out certain materials in a short time frame. It was pretty fun to watch all the guys at work. They got different amounts of points for load capacity, radius etc.

2 Engineers, 2 Skylers & a crane owner & an electrician=too many chiefs

Their crane was a bust! But the losers got to driver a beater van and crash all the other cranes down!

Logan loves to throw sticks & rocks in the river-his favorite is to play pooh sticks on the bridge.

Porter is obsessed with 4 wheeling-he loves it!

The Mundays made their famous Tri-tip...thank you thank your thank you!

Porter & Kruz are 2 weeks apart!

Temple Dedication

My mom got tickets to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Dedication (of course...she gets tickets to everything!) and I was the lucky one who got to go with her-Skyler waited outside. We sat in one of the endowment rooms to watch it being broad casted from the Celestial room.

The talks were amazing and once the Dedicatory Prayer begun the Spirit was so strong. I'm so grateful I was able to be there! It was even President Monson's 82nd birthday.

After the service was over we waited in our room to leave, the Prophet and other speakers were leaving first. As I waited by the door a man popped his head in our room and I was so shocked it was President Monson the Prophet of the Lord right in front of me! I was giddy like a little kid-the usher asked the children to come up and none of them did so I went ahead and shook his hand and the only words I could think of was "Happy Birthday" I was still in shock. Dieter Uchdorf and a few others were also with him. He was the happiest cutest man ever! It will be a day I never forget.

I already love this Temple so much! I was able to volunteer as physical facilities and help restock bathrooms and keep everything clean inside and out during the Open House. I was able to clean and vacuum inside the Temple-3 days before the Temple dedication with a few friends. And our crane company was able to replace the Angel Moroni with a clean new one.

I am so encouraged to double my efforts in my Temple Attendance as the brethren have said-The Oquirrh Temple is such a blessing!

10 Year reunion

Elizabeth & I pose in front of the door just like in high school!

Craig Blois was one of buddies who I was glad showed up.

It is so funny because I was so excited to see Eliza even though we live 5 minutes away from each other. It always takes an event for us to get together.

Jill Vasant another one of my good buds I was thrilled to see. I didnt get many pictures because as you can imagine I was talking the whole night. It was like a weird dream to see everyone again.

Hey I won an award...being Married the Longest!