I love to see the temple.

So over the weekend. I had the honor of attending the Sacramento temple with a friend of mine who was attending for the first time. Oh what a beautiful and blessed thing to share with someone. I was so grateful for the opportunity to share this day with her and her family. Those of you who know Julie know it was a long year to wait for her. But it's been so worth it. It was a hot and humid day the previous day when we got to Sacramento. But the overnight rain brought a much needed cooling of at least 10 degrees, and some beautiful skies. Such to correctly represent the day. It started off darker and once we came out form the sky was clear and the day was bright.

Here we are when we came out of the temple. I wish we had one where we can see Julie's face...


Oh can I say how much beauty was in this day. I don't think words can convey the thoughts and feelings I felt. I am grateful beyond words to share this day.

Some reason makes me believe that we'll have many more of these days where we will attend together. Hopefully all our husbands will be able to join us.

I can Ripstick.

This is what I learned this weekend.
Sorry not the best quality... but you get the idea.


What no one else thought this was as funny as I did?

So I held something back yesterday...

Ok so I wanted to see if anyone actually reads my blog... for those of you not on facebook... I'll share the news. Yesterday while Keith was getting his haircut, I decided to do something I haven't done in a long time. I took Brenden to meet daddy... well, actually sit next to him, and say "Cut it all off." The result...


Yea, I had no idea my son had ears. Well, hope some of you are happy... I know Keith won't ever get his haircut again...

Welcome to C. Roy Carmichael School

This is day one!

Well today marks the end of week one for Brenden's kindergarten year. We are so amazed at how well he's doing. You know you always feel great about your own kids but wow this was a treat for us. He's loving school and not upset about having homework. But he is shy. He says it all day long. I was pretty worried about it. Today was my day to volunteer in his class so I got to see him in action. He's pretty shy about a few things but not afraid to stand up and answer questions during class. He's a great helper and always on the clean up duty. That I pride myself on a little. He never has to be asked to clean up.

These are all DAY ONE pictures.

This is B and his buddy Reece. Reece is bigger he's a bit older. Bren is actually one of the tallest boys.

As you can see I wasn't the only mom on day one... ha ha ha I do love this pic though so classic. Who taught Kaleigh to pose?


Mrs. Wolcott is amazing. What a fantastic teacher. Brenden loves her.


I was worried about B surviving day one so I brought him gatorade to help him out. He survived. LOL

This is it. Week one is over. Best part is that on Fridays Kaleigh can join and we can enjoy school all day long.

Oh what I was leading to earlier is I had a conversation with B's teacher about him starting at 4. She has NINE 4yr olds this year. WOW! Well, she told me it's not the starting that's the hardest thing it's the decision to move them on... where she said she had no worries about Brenden because he excels clearly above the level he needs to be already. I personally just want to work hard on his penmanship.

I promise later I will share my first day of school photos. Hope you are all having a great beginning to the school year.

it's been too long

I will try to post pics this week. Does anyone still read my blog out there?

Girl's Camp

So I've been gone for a week (for those of you who don't facebook). I've enjoyed/endured a week at beautiful Buck's Lake. I was asked to be a tent mom for the first year girls. I have to admit I was a little scared at first I mean, 12 yr olds. I only have one beehive in my class and she's going to be a mia maid next month! I'm glad to have older girls because I'm not much on patience. However, these girls were AMAZING!!! Not one complained about getting out of bed by 6:30, which is more than I can say for our YCL (who happened to be one of my laurels). I was greatful for their excitment and determination. Every girl was excited to get up and do the POLAR BEAR PLUNGE. The Polar Bear Plunge was jumping in the lake at "NO NO Beach" at 6:30 every morning, except for the day we left. Every girl was up and down at the beach in record time, to hopefully get a warm shower after. It was fun, but I must say the water was warmer than the air. It was a nice teambuilding thing as we promised (including me) that we would all do it everyday together. We all won awards for doing it everyday. I apparently won a Hardcore Polar Bear Prize. Probably because I didn't want to get out of the water. I had a different bathroom than the girls so I had less of a fight for a shower. We enjoyed learning a lot of things together, including:

how to cook biscuts on a stick,

making omlets in a ziplock bag,

how to treat a 1st degree burn, and how not to run near a fire (she's okay).



We also learned that taking a double dose of Benadryl helps you not be afarid to conqure the rock wall,





and we learned how to work together to conqure the "copes course",

we learned we are truly sisters and are willing to do all we can to keep one another on the straight and narrow. We learned that we can strengthen our testimonies of Jesus Christ throughout our lives. we know that our Father in Heaven wanted us to know that our mission in life is possible, but we can't hold it inside and not share it with the world. I'm greatful for the blessing of being in the Young Women's program and for all that they do, they teach me even more than I can ever teach them. Before I thought teaching principles and history would help them understand where we come from. Now I know they are learning for themselves who they are.
I look forward to this week, I'll get to see one of the older girls. It will be a blast! I'm just sad that our wards are so far apart. Each ward is about 1-2 hours away. We are the only one's building. Every other building has 1 to 2 wards in it. I miss all my girls already and wish they could all be in my ward.