to jump or not to jump

Last week the boys enjoyed the diving boards at the rec center for the first time. They both went off the high dive right away with no problems. They did it several times. Today when we went they just couldn't do it. Maybe the first time they were pumped and had more adrenalin? They wanted to do it but as soon as they started walking out on the plank they looked down and panicked. Then they had to come back down the ladder. I reminded them we were there to have fun and they could stick with the low dive. But noooo. Oh sheesh. They both went up several times and then came back down the stairs.



Waiting in line happy and excited. Poor little puppies.



Ice cream makes everything better.

Pioneer Day

We joined up with two other stakes for the annual Pioneer Day Parade. Our ward was given a train theme. You can see jonah in a blue train box. It was so hot and my trains for the kids were falling apart. Violet started balling when the front of her train fell off. I ducked taped straps on it (like Kyle told me to do the night before) but she was already spent before the parade started. My friend who made them with me said she did glue gun, duck tape, super glue, everything the night before and hers fell apart too. I guess we needed to bolt everything together! For next time, I guess. Actually next year we are doing wagons and scooters!!










Violet is wearing a bonnet I got on church history trip in high school. I've been saving in my closet for something like this. It was worth the saving.







A fire truck hooked a hose up to the hydrant and sprayed out over the park. They boys were elated for the moisture... and the mud.



We were all wet and it felt so good.



Jonah is happy.

Seth's Baptism

Seth is now a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It was beautiful to see him be baptized. He beamed with happiness. I can see that Seth has reached the age of accountability. I can hear it in his prayers to Heavenly Father and in his awareness of right and wrong.



Seth's cousin, Joy, is the same age so they were baptized the same day. I love seeing the boy and girl counterpart with these two as they grow and hit milestones. It was sweet to hear them sing, "I Am a Child of God."



Here is the family before Seth and Kyle changed into whites. It was a wonderful, spiritual day.

I enjoyed this quote from Relief Society on Sunday:
President McKay, "Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite. There is something within him which urges him to rise above himself, to control his environment, to master the body and all things physical and live in a higher and more beautiful world."