Libbi's visits!

Twin Falls Temple

Another beautiful example of Al Gore's and President Barack Hussein Obama's global warming in Twin Falls on October 4th, 2009!

One of our Saturday projects (after Jesse's football game and sandwiched around picking raspberries, making salsa, defrosting the freezer in the garage watching the Cougars and the Broncos football games and finishing off the homemade peach ice cream).

By the way it is grape juice - 54 quarts of it.

The Leftovers .....

Sports

Joey on a text book jog home on a base hit... Right?

Well, wrong.. This is him right before he slips and falls on face because he wasn't paying attention to where he was going. It seemed absoulutly hilarious to everyone but him.

Jesse shooting his amazing shot! (and he did make it)

Our insane dog Mia

She continues to show why they call them SPRINGER spaniels!

This is Mia and the peanut butter jar that we gave her. She has trouble getting the peanut butter off the bottom. It is quite intertaining!

April Portraits

Clogging!

Amanda and Christina in their duet costumes that Amy made!!

This is Amanda and Christina after their clogging recital.

More Shoshone Falls ...

The H2O is flowing over Shoshone Falls! Pics taken Friday, April 17th. It's worth the stop.

Temple Cultural Youth Celebration

Amanda and Joey participated in the Youth Cultural Celebration (YCC) last night in honor of the Twin Falls Temple dedication this weekend. After 5 long months of practices, all the hard work paid huge dividends with a spectacular show performed by 3,000 youth from 14 stakes in the TF temple district for Pres. Monson, Pres Eyring, Elder Cook and others. For me, it was a spiritually uplifting, exilerating experience that I will never forget. There is no doubt that the Lord has placed a living prophet on the earth today and that we have temples to bring our families together forever. I loved watching all the youth throughout all the practices and especially during the long two days at the performance. They were all excited and did a great job in the three dress rehearsals we had starting Friday night through Sat afternoon. (Those were the first and only practices we had with the entire 14 stake cast together - I do believe in miracles; we witnessed one last night). But when the final performance finally came and they saw the prophet come in the arena, the youth definitely "kicked it up a notch"! They had never been so quiet as they were when the prophet came in. They were so excited as they came off the stage - many had tears in their eyes and I heard over and over "that was AWESOME!" or "that was SO COOL!". Even the biggest, proudest, toughest boys were melted by the powerful spirit in the program. Here are a few snapshots I took last night. They don't do it justice, but hopefully give a flavor of the scene. Hopefully, in a few months we will be getting a professional DVD by Bonneville productions.

Everyone's played Where's Waldo - try "Where's Joey":
Pres Monson arriving!
Pres Monson speaking to the kids. (Amanda and Joey are right in front of him within a few feet)
The opening number "Living Waters":

Amanda on waiting on stage.

Joey on stage:

Amanda and her Two-step partner in their final pose: Joey and his partner pracitcing: During the closing number "Carry On"