Ciara's First Day of Preschool

Last Tuesday Ciara started preschool! She was so excited to go to school like Ethan and take her princess backpack. Now two days a week for two hours I have no kids at home! Even though Ciara is younger school be be good for her to have time away from me where she has to listen to someone else and interact with other kids! I just can't believe that my baby girl is getting old enough to do big girl things!

Ciara having her breakfast before her big day!

Then we had to have a photo shoot with her adorable new clothes that Grandma got for her!

Ciara with her backpack that is almost as big as she is!

My two little cuties all ready for school!

On the way to preschool!


At preschool

Running to me after.

Ciara and Miss Dena- Ciara LOVES her!

Ciara and Michelle

Ciara and Tanner

I Love To See The Temple

On Saturday we had a Primary activity at the Denver temple. We met over there as families and a temple worker took us on a tour of the outside of the temple. It was a wonderful morning!

Ever since I was a little girl I loved to see the temple. Growing up I loved see the nativity on the temple grounds of the St. George temple during Christmas time. I loved driving by a temple at night when it was all lit up. Now I love going and feeling the wonderful spirit that you can only feel in the temple. What a blessing the temple is in my life!

Seth and I try to go often and we hope we are teaching our children of the importance of the temple. So we take them regularly and hope that they can feel how special it is just by being on the temple grounds. My testimony of temples can be described in this primary song:

I love to see the temple. I’ll go inside someday.
I’ll covenant with my Father; I’ll promise to obey.
For the temple is a holy place where we are sealed together.
As a child of God, I’ve learned this truth
A family is forever.

Seth and I were asked to give a talk on temples at the beginning of the month. It was such a special blessing to be able to prepare together, study together, and attend the temple together in preparation for our talking assignment. Here is a small part of my talk that I always want to remember:

I attended the temple shortly after my grandmother’s funeral. I went with a melancholy spirit as I pondered the things that just had happened. As I thought about my grandparents and wondering what they where doing, what it was like, and thoughts like that I felt my grandfather there. I felt him, his personality and all, just the way he was. And as if he was talking to me in person I felt him say in only a way that Grandpa Evans could say, that he expects me to live up to the covenants made in the temple each and everyday. That is an experience that I will never forget and testifies of the power of temple work and eternal families.

*The kids touching the walls of the temple as President Monson has counseled.*

T-Ball

Ethan finished another year of t-ball, and loved it! By the end of the season he was turning into a great little hitter! Here are some pictures that were taken at the last game! I think that they are so cute, and wish that Ethan would stay this little and innocent forever!

Hitting

Running home after a GREAT hit!

Getting ready for the ball

Don't you just love the tongue!

Getting his trophy at the end of the game!

The whole team!

What a great season!

Walking With Dinosaurs

A few weeks ago my parents took all the grand kids on a special date night to see Walking With Dinosaurs! My parents got tickets for all of us, and it was awesome!

We first went our for pizza, which the kids loved! They always have fun when they are together. Then we went to the Pepsi Center for the show. It was so cool! They had full sized dinosaurs come out and walk, growl, fly, and fight. It was very entertaining, and taught us a lot about the different dinosaurs. My favorite was the Stegosaurus and Ethan loved T-Rex!

At first Ciara thought the dinosaurs were scary, which they looked so real, and wanted to go home. But by the end she was really liking them. Ethan loved it all! We had to go to the library the next day and check out every dinosaur book that they had. He keeps asking when we can go see the dinosaurs again! They wouldn't let me take my camera in so I didn't get any pictures of the actual show. But to check it out go to their website here.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for an AWESOME night!