A visit from Kolton.

We were so excited to find out that Kolton was planning a visit to Arizona before he left on his mission. Kolton is such a cool kid. He always has been but in these last few years he has really gotten his head on straight and knows exactly what he wants in life!

We are so proud of the young man he is turning into and we know that he will make an awesome missionary.

He stayed the week with us. He made a quick trip up to Snowflake. Barbara and I took him shopping to get the last few things he needed for his mission.  We did a senior/missionary photoshoot. And we all headed to the Mesa Temple one night for a session. We squeezed a lot in in just a few short days!

We loved having Kolton in our home. The girls absolutely adore him and Ginger was over the moon to have "her boyfriend" back!

We are bummed to find out that Kolton enters the MTC a few days before we are in Utah for our Whitney Family Reunion.

Good luck Kolton. Thanks for taking the time to come visit us! We love you and know you are going to do amazing things with your life!

Happy Father's Day!

Lucky, lucky girls....

Summer Bucket List 2013

School has been out for 1 week...

We are finding plenty of ways to keep ourselves busy during the day but I absolutely love the excitement and anticipation over our Summer Bucket List Tradition we have created! 

This is our 5th year making a list and it's so fun! 

Like years passed, I'm not anticipating that we will get through all of them before the summer ends, or that we will even get to check all of them off. But it's fun motivation and good back up for days that we don't have much going on! 

In addition to our fun summer list we had each of the girls make a list of personal goals for the summer. 3 spiritual, 3 physical, and 3 mental. 

Elodie's List:

Spiritual:

1. Memorize all of the Articles of Faith

2. Prepare 3 Family Home Evening Lessons

3. Have Personal Scripture Study and Prayer Nightly.

Physical:

1. Swimming Lessons

2. Perfect Handstand.

3. Learn how to do a backbend/walkover

Mental:

1. Finish Harry Potter Book 4 with Dad

2. Read 30 minutes daily

3. Keyboarding lessons (30 minutes/daily)

Addysen's List:

Spiritual:

1. Personal Prayer

2. Work on Testimony

3. Prepare 1 Family Home Evening Lesson

Physical:

1. Swimming Lessons

2. Practice Cartwheel

3. Monkeybars at the Park

Mental:

1. Practice lowercase handwriting

2. Practice Site Words (30 minutes/daily)

3. Worksheets

Happy Summer 2013!