I stopped and took this picture as we were walking to the Church History Museum. Today while we were watching conference and they were showing pictures outside of the Conference Center Conner says "we saw that temple". I guess I need to teach him how blessed we are to actually live a half hour from where General Conference is.

I took the kids to the Church History Museum before school started. I haven't been there in a long time. They enjoyed walking through it with me. This picture is a transcript of the Book of Mormon. I am not sure if it is an actual page that one of the transcribers wrote or a copy, but it is still cool.

Joseph and Hyrum's death masks.

I just liked this picture. This is in the children's center insinde of the Church History museum. This section was Lehi's dream. The boys had fun dressing up.

Kadi with her ever ready grin. She lvoes to smile.

My only nephew, Benjamin. Isn't he adorable?

Conner taking pictures on the way to the Hogle Zoo.

I had to get a picture of this one. This was on my brother's birthday. My mom got him a present and put it in a very "masculine" wrapper.

I am trying to get into the girl thing with bows and flowers on Kadi's head. My friend makes these and I think they are just too cute. Kadi is just a cutie.

Here is Kadi holding her bottle all by herself for the first time. She still doesn't hold it very well. I think she would rather have someone else hold it. She knows she is the princess.

Here is Porter helping Lance make brownies. Licking the mixers is helping, right?

Conner lost his first tooth in July. He was so excited when it was close to coming out that he wouldn't leave us alone. Finally Lance just pulled it. Conner was surprised that it didn't hurt when he pulled it out.

My dad's family had our family reunion in the middle of July. Here is my Aunt Jeannine carrying my cousin Karl's son, William (left), my aunt Nadine with Kadi (middle) and my cousin Jolene with her new son Tanner (right).

Here is Porter trying to climb the climbing rocks that were at the park where we had our weenie roast. Pretty good for a 2 year old.

Conner did pretty good.

Here is my cousin's daughter Kylee pushing Porter. My kids had so much fun playing with Emilee's kids.

We all "camped" out in one of my Grandpa's bedrooms.

Cute Porter. Those baby blues will get you every time.

Lance loves to get his back rubbed. The boys love rubbing it. Perfect pair.

Grandma and Kadi

We went fishing up in Logan on the morning of the 4th of July. Here is grandpa helping the boys get their lines ready.

Conner the fisherman.

Grandpa and Kadi

Waiting for the fireworks to start at Laytong Park.

Twilight

I just finished Breaking Dawn (the 4th book in the Twilight series) last night. I had a really hard time getting to read the first book in this series because I am just not a vampire fan. I had heard so much about it, but was fighting it every step of the way. Then my best friend started reading them and told me I had to read them. I finally gave in and was hooked. The funny thing about it is that a lot of people comment that they fall in love with Edward after they have read the books. Lance kept teasing me while I was reading and would say "ooooh Edward" whenever he passed by me. Then when the last book came out he had a friend from work that had read it and told him about the whole book, so Lance knew what happened in it before I did. He would ask me if I wanted to hear what happens. I would say no, of course, but he kept on asking just in case. I loved the last book. It really tied up everything. If anyone is having second thoughts about reading these books I recommend them. They are really good. Two thumbs up!!!