Tents and Tots

Since weather in Idaho stays cold for so long, we decided to have an indoor outing for dinner a few months ago. We cooked hamburgers and tater tots and enjoyed them in our make shift tent. I love when we create fun memories like this!

Brighter

I love when my husband makes a bad day a little better by surprising me with flowers. He's AMAZING.

My Birthday

Oh yeah... back in February, I had a birthday. We spent a fun evening at home. My birthday cake was one Ben learned how to make on his mission in Brazil. And I was spoiled with gifts that the boys loved helping to open.

We Three Brothers Be

WE ARE INDEED ALIVE!
In case some of you were starting to wonder.

In June we spent are weekends wedding it up with Ben's brother Daron and his new bride Brooke. Along with that we have been battling one sickness after another for the last two months. In the last month alone, all of us, excluding Ben, have been on some sort of antibiotics. AND if that WASN'T ENOUGH... we have been potty training both Gavin AND Xander for the past two weeks. So in other words... Sorry, been a little busy. ;)

I've got plenty of pictures and plenty of blogging to do, but for the moment here's a little something. The collages are the boys in the same church outfit at about the same age. 

Can you see the family resemblance?

A New Beauty...

MY Our family's new camera.

I've been wanting a nice camera for a while now. Ben and I looked into them and this is what we found...

Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

14.1-Megapixel Digital Camera

picture courtesy www.officedepot.com

AND I LOVE IT!

Here are a few of the reasons:

the zoom

 AND YES... those are the craters in the moon! AMAZING

the SpeCIaL EffeCTS

...especially the color filter. 

I can chose a color from the scene and the camera will make everything else black and white.

 This effect makes everything look like it's a miniature.
Doesn't this picture say childhood in the summer time!

 And probably the BEST reason... it lets me capture high quality pictures of
the boys I love most!

Mother's Day Highlights

It was one of the best Mother's Days that I've had yet! 

And not just because my sweet husband surprised me with this beautiful necklace...

@ Amazon.com

I LOVE that he listened when I mentioned I wished I had something with my birthstone... 

it makes the thought even sweeter!

Here are the highlights of my day:

• Ben made breakfast while I slept in.
• At church, even though he didn't really sing, Gavin DID join all the children up front to sing the Mother's Day song.
• I talked to my mom!
• We got to Skype with Kiana, Ben's sister who's on a mission in Florida.
• We enjoyed a yummy dinner with Ben's family. Which not only tasted fabulous, but I didn't have to cook, either!
• I received a little bit of spring from Ann for Mother's Day in the form of a beautiful potted flower arrangement. 
• AND LAST, BUT NOT LEAST... My THREE beautiful boys and their smiles and laughter!

I'm grateful that I can be called MOM.