2017 Primary Programs

Primary Programs are one of my favorite Sacrament meetings of the year, especially when its with our granddaughters!

Josh's Girls

Jamie's girls

Krista's Girls

Natural History Museum

Another one of our Salt Lake Connect Passes was to the Natural History Museum

Jamie and Emily were busy, and couldn't come, so we invited dad to come.

There were lots of cool things to see and we all had a great time

There were archaeologists there to teach us a little about how they CAREFULLY dig for bones.

Time Out For Women

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to go to TOFW in St. George with some of my most favorite ladies.  Just as I was finishing packing to go, Lani reminded me that we needed a notebook to take with us.  I couldn't find a cute one, so I covered a composition notebook that I had, with scrapbook paper.  It turned out so cute, that I did a Walmart run at 11:00 pm and bought one for all the girls, and covered theirs.  So fun to get to our conference, and find they matched the bags they gave us perfectly!!!

The theme was Arise, we had lots of good speakers.  The first was Mary Cook a former YW General President.  She spoke about what happens "When Life Takes a Detour"  She said the best things we can do are to be Obedient, give Service, be willing to Sacrifice, remember to Fast and Pray.  Then Brad Wilcox spoke on Grace. He taught us that Grace gives us strength to make us strong and can be seen even when tender mercies can't.  Grace is the power the atonement makes available to us.

Nathan Pacheco was the musical entertainment for the evening and he was amazing.  We loved hearing him sing!  Saturday morning we heard from Jenny Reeder on Going Out to the Miracles.  We learned that miracles are intended to be proof of Christ's activity in our lives.  She shared stories of pioneer women as well as personal stories.  She taught us to look for the miracles in our lives.  Wendy Ulrich spoke on Gaining Confidence.  We need to beware of the temptation to retreat from a good thing.  She asked us to all think about the question, what am I supposed to do to make a difference, and then to have the confidence to do it!  Hillary Weeks was the musical entertainment for Saturday.  She has a beautiful voice and her music has incredible messages.  Probably my favorite speakers were the "Sistas in Zion" Tamu Smith and Zandra Vranes. They taught us that no matter what color we are, where we live, what we do, we are Sistas in the gospel.  They were so much fun as they gave their message.  On Sunday, we went to church together, then went back to the condo, ate lunch and headed for home.  The boys did great tending the kids and all of us came home to clean houses.  What great guys we have.

Everyone brought treats, so we had a great time feeding our tummies as well as our spirits!

Thanks girls for making this such a fun weekend!

Fall Break with the LIttles

We  were at Classic Fun Center with the Big girls for a sleepover, and had their moms pick them up and bring the Little Girls for a sleepover.

They had lots of fun there too!

On our way home they wanted to go to McDonalds for dinner.  The first one we stopped at were out of the Ponies they wanted in their happy meal so we had to go to another one.

The next morning they made some fun bracelets too.

Then after a trip to Walmart to get breakfast stuff, they helped make breakfast.  Blueberry muffins, Yummy!

and of course Bacon!

These 3 ate all the bacon except for the 3 pieces Mike and I were able to salvage.

We stopped by to visit my friend Joyce at the rehab center and delivered some muffins to her.

Then we met Jamie and Emily and traded Kelsi for Oliver.  (They were off to Lagoon)

Gabbie and Sophie played with him at the park until Opi took them both home.

Oliver LOVES cars, and really likes the race track and cars.

It was such a fun Fall Break to get to spend time with our Arizona grandkids as well as our Utah ones.

Fall Break with the Bigs

At the zoo, we traded the Middles for the Bigs, and they had a sleepover.  

After dinner we to the Emoji movie.

One of my neighbors gave me a bunch of really cool beads.  

The big girls had fun making some really fun bracelets out of them.

We made one for my friend Joyce who is in a rehab center and took it over to her.

 Then we were off to Classic Fun Center.  We had 3 hours passes that they could do any of the activities that they wanted to do.

After the bounce houses, laser tag, jungle gym and I can't remember what else, they played the arcade games for a while.

They are such cute girls and had lots of fun and earned a bunch of tickets.

Fall Break with the Middles

It's Fall Break and we invited the Middles for a sleepover on Wednesday night.  We stopped on our way home from picking them up and went to see the Emoji movie.  (They all wore their cozy PJ's that I bought for them a few weeks ago)

They made some fun sand jars.

We went over to Grandpa Birks' house and helped him rake leaves

They love playing on his jungle gym.

Next stop was the fun center to ride bumper cars.

Then some glow in the dark miniature golf.

After some arcade games we stopped by the cemetery on our way to the zoo.

It was a perfect fall day to visit the animals

Fun to have this big crowd there with us!

Another trip to Arizona

We have learned that it is AWESOME to fly to Arizona instead of driving. Allegiant air flies out of Provo or Ogden, and lands about 10 minutes from Jordan's home.

Here we are waiting at the tiny little airport, we LOVE flying out of the small airports, it;s so easy!

We brought a little race car for Logan that he and Opi put together

Parker LOVES to play the piano.  They have a fancy one with all kinds of fun songs and rhythms on it, so it's really fun for him to play.

Logan had fun pretending this was a soccer game, the players on the carpet and audience in the stands.  He spent a long time getting it all set up.

When he turned his head, Hurricane Parker destroyed it in a second!

Parker want to be just like Logan.

He tries to climb the pyramid.

Stand on the logs, and do whatever Logan does!

One of Logan's favorite things at our house is this glow in the dark race track.  He requested that we bring it for him to play with.

Even thought it was October, it was still about 98 degrees, so we went to the park early in the morning and played in the shade.

Such sweet brothers!

Jamie and Jordan took a quick trip to San Diego and we got to have the boys all to ourselves.

We got together with Bonnie and a few of her adorable grandkids.

It's so fun for Logan to have cousins so close by.

They have  a lot of fun together!

There is a tiny pond that we had to watch Parker like a hawk, he really wanted to go in, but had fun throwing rocks into it.

Logan and Audrey

Logan has just started playing soccer and it was fun to go to his soccer game.

Jordan has been busy making this cute entry table, and Jamie does the cutest decorations.

He also made these awesome bookcases.

There is one on either side of their couch.

Before we knew it, it was time to say goodbye.

We stopped at Chick fil A for lunch before heading to the airport.

We loved getting to spend time with these cute boys and their parents.