Saturday, April 25, 2009

Spiritual Vacation
















Yup, Cameron and I drove up for General Conferance a few weeks ago, it was wonderful!!! We were on the road literally the day after we got home from camping, and loaded up for our road trip to Salt Lake. We were super excited because we dropped the boys off at my sister Andreas house in Vegas, it was soooo cool that she and her family were able to watch the boys for us for 2 nights!!! This was the first time that we've ever been away from our boys OVERNIGHT! It was pretty incredible I have to admit, but was hard to take in at first (I shortly got over it because Cameron and I haven't had a weekend getaway since before we had babies and we knew they were with good loving care:) Anyhow, we got tickets for Saturday afternoon session, Cameron got a ticket for Priesthood, and Sunday Morning Session:) There's nothing better than the feeling you have when you are sitting in the Conferance Center with our Prophet, the 12 Apostles, and the Quorom of the seventy. The spirit was so strong, I had tears the whole time, especially when our prophet spoke and when Elder Jeffrey R. Holland spoke about the end of Jesus Christ's life, when he was utterly alone. The Holy Ghost truely testified to me that Jesus Christ, our Savior Lives. We were able to sustain our Prophet Thomas S. Monson, and the 12th Apostle Neil Anderson, and all of our other authorities, I felt especially lucky. We had an amazing time together walking Temple Square, and talking about how cool it is that we will be able to walk in Eternity together, with our family, we love the gospel so much.

Camping Doheny Style! (a yearly tradition now)
















Last year we took the boys camping down at Doheny and we loved it so much we decided to do the same thing again this year. Ethan was just a baby last year so he definately enjoyed running around and keeping up with his brother this year. We camped with our friends Owen and Britni, who are moving, and their daughter Mia who is James's age. We had a blast together, taking walks to the beach, barbequing yummy steaks, and roasting smores of course. The kids all played soooo well together and James enjoyed climbing trees, gathering, sticks, and peeing in the sand...shhhhhh. My unborn sister, Rachee, joined us later with her friends to enjoy roasting hot dogs, smores, and having some good conversation, it was so fun!

Memories That Will Last A Lifetime...