TEMPLE TUESDAY

Hey everyone - I am trying to start this new thing called Temple Tuesday. This is where everyone who can, tries to attend a temple on Tuesday's. It can be every Tuesday, or once a month, or once a quarter, or twice a year or even just once a year - whenever you can, according to your own personal schedule. I am going to try to go every week, but we'll see once school starts how it goes.

Anyways - come join me! I will most likely be at the Twin Falls, ID temple. Where will you be going? I want to know!

July 4th, 2009 - STADIUM OF FIRE

This year we were so excited for the 4th of July because we had Stadium of Fire tickets!! And not just any tickets - FIELD seats - just so we could see the Jonas Brothers up close and personal - and boy did we!!! We were right by the stage - we could practically touch the Brothers. We had such a great time! So, instead of just telling you about it, here are about 40 pictures of that night. The performers were: SHeDAISY, Jonas Brothers, and hosted by Glenn Beck. What a night it was. We still get excited about it when we talk about what we saw and did. WOW! What a night it was. It was one of the best nights of our lives in a long long time - it was just pure fun and excitement - pure awesomeness!

Some quick notes about the pictures: The first one of SheDaisy is from outside the stadium when they were doing a little meet-and-greet. The first few pictures of the night and performers are from our seats. The majority of the pictures of the Jonas Brothers are from when they let us come around the stage as they were performing - and since our seats were so close anyways, we got right up there, right next to them. Enjoy:

Jasmine right close to the stage as Joe makes his way towards her!

Carl's brother Erick and his wife Kathi and Vickie in the background enjoying the Brothers.

I held Hailey up most of the concert. Being so close to the stage, Hailey could hardly see - all she could see standing up were the backs of people's heads. So as one of them came out on the edge of the stage, I had to hold her to be able to see almost straight above her.

In this picture even Carl had one of those "star-struck" moments when Kevin looked right at him as he took pictures. Like I said - WOW what a night it was - that is how close we were!

This is the picture that Carl is going to enlarge to poster size for Jasmine's wall - yep, Carl really took this picture. Nick is her favorite.

They had to say goodbye sometime. When that time came everyone was sad, but wow - we had just been a part of a great show.

The amazing fireworks display towards the end of the night.

Summer Events

We have had a great summer so far. Since Carl has been home we feel like we can live again as a family and we want to always be "doing" something.

Well, we haven't been home for longer than a week at a time this whole summer so far.

The first big adventure of the summer was Andrew and Jasmine going on a Trek with our stake. They had a great time and both are still talking about it.

The second big adventure we had was taking our first camping trip in Idaho. This was so much fun since we hadn't been camping in over 2 years. We never even had a desire to camp while we lived in Oklahoma so it had been a while. We went up by Pomerelle ski area southeast of Burley, Idaho. We stayed two nights - hiked, ate yummy camp food, sat around the fire, and just enjoyed nature. We were all a bit nervous about bears, but had no problems.

The third adventure we had was going to Utah for the fourth of July....this will be a post of its own.