Happy 4th Birthday Colton!

Colton had a great birthday yesterday. We went out to eat at a steak restaurant because he just loves steak with A1 sauce (actually he loves A1 on just about everything!). We had cake and ice cream and opened presents. Aunt Nicole was here along with the rest of our family. He happily received money, dinosaurs, a spiderman toy, new baseball mitt, hot wheels play set, and his much requested "Better, Batter Baseball".

Happy 4th Birthday Colton!

Soccer Camp

Here is Savannah with her British coaches: Coach Rich, Coach Matt, Coach Nathan, Coach Dan

Savannah just wrapped up a British soccer camp this past Friday. She had a blast and learned a lot. On the last night they were each supposed to represent the country they had been given for the week. We made her a shirt for Brazil and even had a big soccer ball on the back which had "I love soccer" in Portuguese. During the night they gave them all a little soccer quiz and based on this, how they represented their country, teamwork, enthusiasm, and effort they awarded the "World Cup" to one player. Savannah won! The look on her face was priceless. She was the youngest in the whole group! We were very proud of her and she was thrilled.

Celebration

Since my mom is never able to be around when each of the kids have a birthday, she decided to give them all a group birthday party for the year. We tried to go swimming, but it was a wee bit chilly. We still enjoyed playing with friends and cousins down in Kentucky and having a big cake!

Here is Chance with his friend, Boone and cousin, Trey hamming it up for the camera.

Here is Savannah and her cousins, Jaylee and Kennedy after a quick dip in the pool.

Colton's ready for some cake.

Since it was the week of Savannah's birthday, we took her and my sister-in-law, Kristy's, neice to Libby Lu's for a makeover. They had a blast and looked beautiful. Here's some pictures, aren't they beautiful!

Addison Singing

Here is Addison singing her ABC song to Aunt Erika. She enjoyed the attention and loves to watch the video on the camera over and over again!

Week of Fun!

We just spent the past week having loads of fun with my brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Jeremy and Erika. The highlight of the week was the trip to Kirtland, Ohio to see the temple and the church history sights there. It was such a spiritually uplifting experience which has strengthened my testimony of the church. Here we are after our tour of the temple.

After we toured the temple we went to the church history sites, saw two movies at the visitor's center (one of which was Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration - my favorite of all time), and received an in depth tour from the missionaries there. It was truly amazing to be in the same places where Joseph Smith lived and received many revelations for the church. It was awesome to be in the same places where many heavenly messengers appeared to him, including Jesus! Words just can't explain the experience!

Here we are in front of the Newell K. Whitney store. All of the these buildings are original. It's amazing how well they were kept.

Here is the School of Prophets were all of the apostles met and had many visions and visits from Jesus and others. This is where Joseph would take the revelations he had received to present to the apostles. Chance and Savannah are sitting where the first apostles did.

This is the room where Joseph received many revelations, translated the Book of Moses, and worked on the translations of the Bible.

This was Joseph and Emma's room and their kitchen. This is where they had the twins that they later lost. I have a ton of other pictures that could go on for days!

We also went to the Air Force Museum:

We went to Young's Jersey Dairy where we played miniature golf, fed the goats, had a wagon ride through some of the farm, and had a small little train ride. Chance was at Webelo's camp so he missed out on this little excursion :)

We had a wonderful visit with Uncle Jeremy and Aunt Erika!