gila valley temple

We were able to go do the open house at the Gila valley temple. It was quite a pretty temple. It looked like an arizona temple. It was built in and around the farming communities there. In fact right behind the temple was a hay barn and guy plowing his field. Me and anthony were commenting on that. It was a small temple but quite pretty. My kids were amazed at how big the chandelier was in the celestial room. It was quite large, but beautiful. We were able to go with my mom and dad and Jodi. We droved up saw it and came back home. It was a quick trip but well worth it. it was a great experience for my kids. They will now get to see the dedication this sunday which will be wonderful for them. What a great experience for them to have.

HEyyyyy mr. fonzerelli!

Last night at mutual they had a dancing through the decades. Spencer decided to get into it and dressed like he was from the 50's. He looked pretty cute. Cameron didn't want anything to do with it. Apparently he was too cool for the activity, actually it looked like spencer was to cool for it also. He had lots of fun. I love that he still likes being goofy and doing this sort of thing. He is still a kid!

check out his hair. He slicked it back with lots of gel. He also had a comb in his rolled sleeve.

aaron and the wolf badge!

Last night Aaron received his wolf badge, 3 arrow points and 4 belt looops! He has done great in scouting. I am happy he likes scouting. In this family ya sorta need to like it whether you want to or not! Our ward does this fun thing when the boys get their wolf badge they have to dig through this pie tin filled with whipping cream to find the badge (it of course is in a plastic baggie). He got into it. He dove right into the cream. I think he likes whipping cream! Good to know. I'll hide it in my fridge. Anyways he was quite proud of himself for getting all of his awards. Now off to the bears. He has already asked when he get's to start the bear book. Yahoooo for aaron.

spencer and cross country

I feel like I am playing catchup with this blogging thing. Spencer ran cross country again this year. The season was from September-December. He did great this past season. He was not last but he was not first he was right in the middle. This is great with spencer. I keep telling him, "slow and steady wins the race!" Last year he was coming in the back of the pack every time and this year he beat his personal best. He was in the middle of the pack. There was a couple things that I observed at his races. There was a couple of kids on his team that needed a little extra help towards the finish line and spencer would stay back encouraging them. I know this because at his races I would run and be at certain points of the races to cheer him on. So at these 2 races he didn't see me standing there but I saw my son. And what an example to me that kid of mine is. He was telling the kid "you can do it go, go ahead you can do it. take a big breath, breathe through your nose (which i tell him all the time, pure oxygen when you are running). He encouraged these boys. It was amazing to watch. One paticular race he was running and looked back to see a kid from the other team had fallen and everyone else was running by this kid, spencer turned around and went and helped the kid up. The kid of course took off running. Spencer didn't care, he just was there to help the kid. I was amazed!!! I am proud to be his mom and love seeing this caring side of him. He has always been for the underdog. He is a great kid. I am so happy that he succeeded in cross country this year. He is going to do it again next year! I told him, you will be at the front of the pack. He said "I don't care mom." Love that kid!

camerons drawings

This is the drawing he drew in church, because he was bored!




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I am a little proud of cameron right now. He got picked to show case one of his drawings at his 8th grade promotion. We are going to go get it framed. The teacher only picked a select few. He is such a great drawer. He has an incredible talent to draw and has been told that from last years teacher and this years. I put some of his favorites on here. Enjoy! There is some serious detail in the transformer ones. The yellow one took 14 hours to draw. A lot of time went into it.

cameron got his braces off

My little cameron got his braces off about 3 weeks ago. He looks so cute with them off. I told him he looked older. Can I just say, he is stinkin good looking. Spencer get's his off in October and can't wait. It will be just in time to put payton in them! Such is life huh!!!

fun times

So we have been trying something new as a family. We try to stump lovey. Here's how this game works. Lovey is like a juke box. The boy knows just about every song ever made. He can guess a song the first 4-5 notes it's played. So we hang out around the computer and start playing songs for lovey. Well this one night we started getting into it with dancing. Here are a few pictures of that. Spencer entertained us with his dance to "boogie shoes". Cracked me up. He looked like napolean dynamite. We had lots of fun.
I have tried 3 times to download the video and it won't let me. Sorry.