Family Picture

It's that time again... the one everyone fears!!!  The dreaded extended family picture!!! 

We have the date now all we need is the color coordination!!!  Vote for your favorite color combination in comments!  Erin voted for autumn colors... what is your choice??? 

More from California

Russ in line @ Big THunder Mtn. (if you could call it a line)  Most days were great!  The worst one was the friday before Labor Day, but that was to be expected.

We decided to do the big all you can eat bar-b-cue lunch on our anniversary!  It was pretty good!

This is our hotel room.  We stayed at the recently renovated Red Lion, it was just 1 mile to the gates of disneyland!

This was our beautiful bathroom!

We're Back!!!

As most of you know by now...  Ben received his mission call to Atlanta, Georgia while Russ and I were in California on Thursday!!!  We thought it would be for sure 2 weeks and up to a month!!!  I'm glad he will be in the states... I think... looking at pictures, it looks like a really big city!!!  Does anyone have any info???  He will enter the MTC on December 9th!!!  Just 3 months.  I don't know yet if he will be there for Christmas OR if he will fly to Atlanta on the 23rd!?!  I will post more info as I get it!

This is Russ & I in front of Cinderella's castle.  It was 87% or more HUMIDITY each day that we were there!!!   We were dripping as soon as we went outside!  We stayed at the Red Lion hotel which was only 1 mile from disneyland and walked to and from once or twice a day!  Needless to say... many miles were put on my new flip flops!!!

This is Russ' 1st attempt at taking our pic. while he held the camera... I figured with his long arm it couldn't hurt!!!   We didn't take many pictures... but I will post a few more next time!!

It's out of our hands now!

Ben has officially turned in his papers for his mission tonight!  He met with the Stake President and hopefully it will be just a few weeks before we know where he will be serving for the next two years!!!  Anyone care to take a guess where he will go???

More Lake Powell...

I know this is a little long but this was so cool!  While everyone else went hiking up one of the slot canyons (Jen, Desi & I stayed to keep the boat from hitting the rock walls), these kept coming to the surface!!! I had no idea that there were jellyfish in Utah!!!

Lake Powell 2009

We are back!  What a fun trip!  Jen, Tom & Desi went with our family to Lake Powell this week!  We all had such a great time!  The pic's are soo cool!  I will try to load some videos of the AMAZING wipeouts!!!

Zack was sooo happy cause this is what he ate for dinner on the way down! 

He held the record with 5 sandwiches!!!

Brayden thought he'd look cool in Uncle Tom's hat & glasses!

Ben wake boarding!

Desi loved to be in the water!!! She was sooo good in the boat!

Morgan was extremely brave!!!  I caught her 1/2 way down!

Megan & her little lizard!

Jen , Tom & Desi

The kids are still in awe that their dad can really ski!!!

What a stud!!!

I will post some more pics later!

Have you heard the saying...

     Have you ever heard the saying... "I feel like a chicken with it's head cut off!"  Well lately that is my state of mind!  Last night we had a fabulous Make and Take!  Most everyone showed up and we even were finished before 9:30!!!  Russ was tired and had already gone to bed (That's what you get for waking up @ 4:45 AM to go to work every morning!) and I was wiped out!  I finished up and read for a while thinking... I will be able to sleep SOOOO good tonight!  After 2:00 am I quit looking at the clock!  Why is it when I'm at my most tired that I cannot sleep!?!  I just lay there and think of all the crazy things going on in my life!  Granted a lot of them are of my own doing...  maybe I will seriously that about that lovely word SIMPLIFY and do just that!