Disneyland with Grandmas!

In June we went to Disneyland with both grandmas and it was a lot of fun! The girls really loved being there with both of them. They both have passes now so we hope to do this more in the future!

Emma and Maddie - Best friends!!

I really love my girls! They are so cute when they play together! Emma always tells Maddie "Come on, Maddie" and she just follows. Too cute!!

Annual visit with the Cliff Family!

Jacob has some good friends from the mission that come down once a year to vacation in Palm Springs and we always get to go visit them. We love the Cliff family!!! We had fun swimming, riding in golf carts, talking, and feeding the ducks. Emma and Maddie really loved playing with them and we enjoyed it too!

Good little mommy!

Here is Emma....what a good little mommy she will make one day!!

A trip to Sizzler!

This is too funny not to mention. So Mike, Deborah, Jacob and I decided to have a date night together and go to dinner and a movie. We stopped at Sizzler to eat thinking that it might be good. I really wanted the all you can eat shrimp so I asked Jacob to get the steak with the shrimp and then I would get the salad bar also. Mike decided he wanted a steak too but he just got a regular steak with potatoes. When they finally came out with the food, I almost fell off the chair laughing. Poor Jacob....all he wanted was a steak. They both sucked anyways so I guess it didn't really matter. I don't think we will be going to Sizzler again any time soon.....

Emma's New Bike!

Emma got a new bike!! She looks so adorable on it even though she doesn't know how to ride it yet. We try to show her how to push the pedals but she hasn't quite gotten it yet. We will keep working on it!

Youth Conference 2010

Another great year of Youth Conference has come and gone! We absolutely loved it again! The theme this year was A.R.M.Y - A Righteous Mormon Youth and we really focused on the battles that we all fight everyday. A few highlights of the week:
1. We had TEN girls with us this year - thats right....I said ten. And we loved them all! They were such a fun group of girls and we miss their sweet spirits in our home!!
2. We were paired up with the Morris Family and had so much fun getting to know them even better. I love Shannon's ability to talk to anyone and Joel's laid back personality.
3. We had an actual battle that consisted of a large game of capture the flag (300 youth!!) with actual swords. Ok....so they were made of foam and tape but they hurt if you got hit with them. It was a lot of fun to see all of the strategy that went into it and just seeing the pure nature of war with 300 youth running around with swords.
4. Brother Decker once again spoke this year and he never disappoints. His talks are some of the best I have ever heard!! One thing that really hit Jacob and I was when he talked about the world today and how we can no longer just defend ourselves against evil. It is now time that we have to actually pick up a "sword" and fight. So inspiring!!
5. Sword fighting at home - The girls constantly tried to ambush Jacob with their swords thinking that a group ambush would work but he got them everytime. So hilarious!!
6. Hayley Stayner was a girl in our group who has an amazing talent of singing and song writing. She brought her guitar and graced us with some of her songs. I write this in my blog to have proof that she sang to us in our home before she was famous.

This week we feel like we have been so uplifted and we feel renewed and ready to keep fighting the battle. The Stake presidency fireside was amazing and the testimony meeting was the best we have seen. It was amazing to see the youth get up and bear their testimonies, with each one actually keeping it centered on Christ. We are so appreciative of the opportunity that we have had to do youth conference again. We kept getting thanked for doing it this year and for taking so many girls but we are the ones who are thankful. What more can you ask for than to spend 3 days with 300 youth who are ready to fight on the Lord's side?? Youth conference 2011....here we come!!