Conference Scenes

For those of you who are not members of our church, every six months we as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have a general conference. We have the chance to hear and receive guidance from the leaders of our church. We are lucky enough to watch this conference on television. My family gathered together to hear and watch conference while I was visiting. Following are scenes from this experience. For those of you who do belong to our church, these scenes will probably ring true for many of you too!!


The gathering begins!


My brother, Ladd, married his beautiful wife, Emily, a year ago. They actually celebrated their 1 year anniversary over the weekend as well. And, as you can probably tell, they are expecting their first baby (a boy!) in November. I loved being able to sneak this shot of them. Those moments between a husband and wife when they are so in love and anticipating their first child! Young love!


Emily, is beautiful. She is pregnant and understandably bigger than normal and thinks she is HUGE! I, however think she has the 'glow.'


Had to sneak another shot in of the lovebirds!


Ava at the start of conference.


A little way in.


A little further in.


Toward the end.


Dad, listening intently.


Mom, also paying close attention.


Ladd--isn't he handsome!


During the break.


Ava at the end of conference.


Don't worry, you weren't the only one who had a hard time staying awake!


Grandpa White. Anyone who knows my dad knows this look well!

Paper

A week a ago Sunday, Tom gave a talk in sacrament meeting at church. He spoke on the process of how paper is made, the various steps that need to be taken to get a single piece of paper, and what we can then do with a piece of paper, and how we, too, go through a similar process. Isabelle was paying attention. At the end of hearing his talk, she gave him this piece of paper! Too cute! She was excited to show him her used piece of paper. (It reads, (At the very top) Used Paper I loved your talk. I think you were fantastic. Love, Isabelle I knew you could do it.)

Kidfsfaire!!

After our little adventure to the ER, we did make it to the Kidsfaire. (Anyone who goes next year, I suggest buying tickets before you go--I did, and boy am I glad. The line for tickets was outrageous!) The girls had a blast!

Waiting for the Strawberry Shortcake show to begin.


And there she is!


They were totally into it!

The girls milking a 'cow.' I think we need to get them to a real cow, now that they've got the hang of it!

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The main event---Meeting Dora! Ava loves, loves Dora the Explorer. She was pretty much the main attraction for Ava, so I braved standing in line for 30 minutes to get up to meet her, during which time Ava falls asleep!! (Stinker!) I tried desperately to wake her up when it was our turn, but she was OUT! She stirred for a moment and I told her that we made it to Dora, she cracked a little smile, but notice her eyes are still closed! I have the proof though!!! She did meet Dora!


We kept seeing people with big bags of cotton candy and that is the treat my girls wanted! Every vendor we talked to seemed to be out. Finally, we found someone who pulled us to the side, and very low-key gave us the scoop of where we could 'find some.' We had to go to the back of the food court and look for a cart marked with big red stripes. Well, after our exhausting search, and what felt like an illegal transaction, we too had a big bag of pink and purple cotton candy!!

Human Ping Pong?

Saturday morning we were all getting ready to go to the Kidsfaire. My kids have been looking forward to going all week, so it was easy to get them going. Isabelle ran and got in the shower, where, evidently, she played an impromptu game of human ping pong. She fell and split her chin open--poor girl!! When we got to the ER, I realized that as a responsible adult, I needed to know what happened. As she told me what happened, I couldn't help but picture a game of human ping pong. "First, I slipped and hit my head on this wall" ding, "then I hit my head on the other wall" ping, "then I fell straight down and hit my chin on the edge of the tub" pong, "and slid down into the tub" screeeee (I can hear my girl sliding down the tub!). Long story short, she was given the option of stitches or steery (sp) strips as long as she didn't get them wet. Well, as this is the child that ran away from the nurse the last time at the doctors office when she had to get one little shot, she opted immediately for the strips! She can now be seen sporting what I'm sure will be a new fashion trend among elementary students. So, now at least when your child wants a couple of pieces of white strips taped to their chin, you will know why! If they want the matching black and blue bruises, the instructions on how to obtain them are above!

Catching the Moon!

The weather has finally started to cool down! Hooray!! We've been enjoying hanging out outside in the evenings now that it is cooler. About a week ago we went out and found a beautiful full moon, and I tried to convince the girls that I hung it for them. For some reason they didn't buy it (I suspect they already know that it was their dad!). They had fun trying to catch it, regardless of how it got there!

Student of the Month!

Isabelle was Student of the month for the month of August. She, and her friend Cassidy, were chosen by their classmates to be the students of the month because they both display the character trait of trustworthiness. We are sooo proud of her!!

Receiving her award.

Isabelle and Cassidy with their teacher.


Belle and her teacher, Mrs. Belle!

Isabelle and Ava.

Grandma Hunsaker Turns 90!

Beau (Tom will be referred to with his first name throughout this post to avoid any confusion that may arise between he and his namesake! (And because I like it!)) and I had the opportunity to go to Utah last weekend to celebrate his paternal grandmother's 90th birthday. It was a great time! We got to see all of his cousins and aunts an uncles that we don't get to see very often. It was also a neat experience because ten years ago, while we were engaged, I went with Beau to meet his extended family at her 80th birthday bash! How time flies!!

The view coming into Honeyville, the town where she and grandpa lived together all of their married lives.

Can you believe it--90!!

Jerald (her second son) pinning on her crosage.

Brooke paying tribute to grandma.

Aimee and Jen convey their feelings via poetry!

The great grandkids singing songs they have learned from grandma.

Doug presenting his slideshow.

The daughters

Jeff (third son) and family singing what can only be described as a moving number!

Dad (aka Tom and first son) was the MC.

The birthday girl!

Like father, like son...

Leave it to Beau to take a gourmet meal and do this!

Yum!

A fun scrapbook was on display.

This table was set up to display grandma through the years.

After the party we headed to the cemetery to visit grandpa's grave. Dad showing Abby some of her heritage.