Oh Canada !!!

This weekend we had the opputunity to go down to Langley, B.C to go to the new LDS temple open house. It is a beautiful temple and was fun to go on a tour with my parents, good friends the Perkins family and especially my husband and children. The spirit was so strong and definatley another witness to me that the temple truly is a house of the Lord. Never do I feel so close to the Lord than when I am in the temple. I love stepping in and the instant peace that I feel as I leave all my worldy cares at the front door. I go to the temple when I am pondering important questions and concerns. I love it there. It is my favorite date to go on with Eric. I can tell that both Tommy and Blake felt the spirit as well as they talked about it quite a bit on the way home. (Brody on the other hand, well we had to keep him quiet, so he didn't take away from the spirit, but he did really good for an 18 month old.)



>Here are some of our pictures of the temple:

On our way to Canada we stopped at the Tulip festival in Mt. Vernon. I thought maybe stopping at a Tulip festival with 3 boys might be a waste of time, but that actually were amazed and talked about it quite a bit. Here are some of the beautiful shots we got.

We also went to a really fun place called Watermania. I didn't get a ton of pictures because I was having to much fun on all the waterslides. My dad was nice enough to snap a few for me though:

We had a lot of fun! So much fun that one the way home my kids were pretty exhausted as you can see-

I don't know how kids sleep like this without a kink in there neck! I would be hurting for days.

Friends Yard Work Party

Digging up all the old grass

Shoveling lots and lots of dirt!

The Camelot Crew taking a break from all the hard work and posing for another picture.

A before Shot

After Shot

Last Saturday was such a beautiful sunny day. One of my friends had a great idea about starting a yard work exchange. We started this last weekend at our friends the Richards house. We helped them get there back yard ready to be hydroseeded. We started around 10am and finished around 6pm. We worked hard but had a ton of fun!!

Tommy said, mom, I am doing all this work and I am not getting paid. But that okay it is fun, it is a lot of fun!

Before Tommy started Camelot I thought about choicing him into Merridith Hill. I am so glad that I didn't. We have made some of the best friends ever1

Sleepover with the Johnsons

This last weekend some good friends of ours went away for the weekend and we had the oppurtunity to have there kids for the night. My kids were so excited!!! It was so much fun! Her kids were amazing, I was worried about how her little one Ammon (1 year and a half old) would do without his mom for the night, but he loved every minute of it, just like the rest of them. Here are some cute pictures from the sleepover.

Tommy's 1st Pinewood Derby

Tommy has loved every minute of being in scouts. I hope his excitement lasts. Anyways, Saturday was his first Pinewood Derby race. Tommy had a lot of fun building his car with Papa, and decorating it with Dad. He especially loved race day. It was a lot of fun watching these boys race. Tommmy had such a great attitude. HE only came in 10th place but he was jumping up and down every race. His car seemed to come in 2nd most every time he raced which made him really happy.

Pictures that make me smile....

Okay, so as you have noticed, I too have got lost into the facebook world. I am repenting and going to start to try to do better at my blogging. I really want to blog on a weekly basis so I can keep track of all these precious memories that make me smile. I don't scrapbook, so my blog has become my family journal and scrapbook. Anyways... I was going through pictures and here are a few that I came through that make me smile.