Political Question

The other day I was thinking about the candidates running nationally and locally. I was wondering about how Heavenly Father inspires us and how we recieve answers. If we as members of the church, study out the candidates for election and come up with the person we think will do the best job, and then we pray about that decision. Will Heavenly Father inspire everyone with the same answer, or will our agency and the studying that we have done affect the answer we recieve? What do you think?Please feel free to comment because I would like to know your thoughts about this.

Primary Party

So,our ward had a Boxcar Drive Inn Movie for their primary activity. My kids had a blast making their boxcars. They enjoyed eating their hotdog and watching a movie. It was fun for them. They have even enjoyed their boxcars at home.

Zoo Trip

So today was Joshua's kindergarten class field trip. We went to the Hogle Zoo. He had a lot of fun. I took Wyatt and Abigail with me. Wyatt was an angel baby at the zoo. Abigail loved the elephants. When we were there at the elephants, they started snorting at each other. It was cool. I had never heard them snort before. Joshua loved the tigers. They were really good looking tigers. And of course we had to have our pictures taken by the ape. Joshua is so excited he is almost as big as the orangatang.





It was a fun day at the zoo.

Yesterday Keri Poulsen and I got together and bottled 28 pints of tomatoes. We still have a gazillion tomatoes coming off of our plants. If anyone wants any, let me know. We also have pears and peaches starting to get ripe. I love this time of year when everything is ready to eat, and you get so much produce from your garden and neighbors pass their extra on and you share your extra.

Well, that is all that is up with us.

Stake Conference

Well, this weekend was Stake Conference. We were privilaged to have Presidet Eyring come and speak to us. Saturday night was the adult session and the Stake Center was packed. Pres. Eyring spoke on temple attendance. It was very good. Today it was sort of like a zoo at the Stake Center. John went an hour early to get seats and we were on the second to back row of the gym. They had overflow rooms all over the stake center. People were sitting on the floor and in the halls. There were so many people there. Pres. Erying spoke about the trials that come in our lives, and just because we are doing what the Lord asks, doesn't mean that we will have trials. And just because we turn our backs on God doesn't mean that everything is going to go bad for us. But, we need to let our trials bring us closer to God and not turn our backs on him. He gave a good talk. It was neat for my children to get to see him, (sort of, we were so far back).

But boy were my kids naughty!!!! They were just horrible for Stake Conference today. They were all so tired this morning and they just had a rough time. I thought by the time we left I was going to leave my children at the church!!!! But I guess it is good to go and teach them that going to church is good.

Joshua's Birthday

Today was Joshua's birthday. John had to go to Bear Lake to work today, so we had Joshua open the presents from us last night. He got a radio and a Star Wars CD. He really liked it.



Then this morning he opened his presents from his Grandma. He had a friend come and play after school and this evening we watched the BEE movie and had his favorite orange chicken stir fry for dinner. He had a good birthday.



Yesterday, we went to the Utah State Fair. We went to the Ice Cream day. It iswhere you can have all you can eat ice cream. There are so many flavors to choose from. My favorite is BYU Creamery's Peanut butter cup, and John's favorite is BYU's marionberry.

I forgot my camera so I have no pictures.

Jacob's Baptism/Wyatt's Blessing

Well, this weekend was very busy. On Saturday, Jacob got baptized. It was a really neat day. He was very excited. We had lots of family here to attend. Grandma Muir, Sharolee, Grandma and Granpa Atkinson, Paul & Kim and family, Greg & Megan and Family, Jeff Olson and kids, Andrea & kids, Serena, Summer, Mason and Alora Gordon, The Hutcheon family, and the Laws family. Thank you all for your support!! This really meant a lot to Jacob to have so many friends and family there.





After the Baptism, we went to the park for lunch. After that the Atkinson's were having their reunion. That evening we all went to dinner at the Mayan restaurant. Over-priced food for the flavor, but the kids had a great time watching the divers dive into the pool.



Today, was Wyatt's blessing. During the blessing he started to cry, so John gave a short blessing. It was good. Guest who came were the same as yesterday, including Matt & Kelly and their family and Jason and Katie and their family. It was good to have you all there. Thank you so much for your support.

It is so good to have Jacob baptized. He is already acting differently. He wants to do what is right and so far he has done everything I have asked him to do. He is a very good boy.

I am glad the weekend is over and I can now relax! - - - Maybe, because Joshua's birthday is coming up on Tuesday, so not much relaxing for me.

More Fun and Another First Day of School

On Sunday, Andrea, Travis, McKayla, Kaden, and Serena came over for dinner. We had Chimichangas, and they were delicious. Well, Kaden and Wyatt of course were the main entertainment. We sat and watched them for a good long while. Here are pictures of the cute little buggers.



Here are all the kids hording over the two little babies.



Abigail had her first day of preschool today. Cool! Now I am officially the car-pool lady. I have Joshua and Jacob who go to school in the morning and then Abigail leaves an hour later and then Joshua comes home at 11:18 and Abigail at 11:45 and Jacob at 3:30. Cool. I get to leave my house so many times a day! But luckily I have some great ladies in our ward that I am car-pooling with so I don't have to leave quit so often. It is kind of sad that all my children are growing up.