R.S. Lesson

I need a break from my R.S. lesson, I have to teach this Sunday and I am just so drained from this lesson. Ken is M.I.A this week so that means the only time I have to prepare is late after the kiddos go to bed. The lesson is on "Words of Hope and Consolation at the Time of Death", Not your fun lets get together and talk about it lesson with out crying. Although I knew this lesson was coming up about a month ago, I just feel I want to be sick on Sunday and not teach it, I much rather blog than study. I would like to say that my testimony of the gospel is so much stronger because of recent events this year, I have changed the way I look at my girls and take every moment I have with them to let them know I love them, and they are children of our Heavenly Father and I feel so blessed to have their sweet spirits in my life. I am so grateful that Ken and I were sealed together in the Temple and that means that my Family will be together forever. (deep breath and let out a sigh) OK, I feel better now that I got that out, well back to preparing.

This past weekend Kens Boss invited us up to his "little" cabin in Winter Park. We had such a good time relaxing and hanging out. They took us and the kids to this really cool park and we also found a skate park that the girls loved, now Maci wants to go Pro and be a professional scooter rider. I loved it up there and I think Ken should try to relocate us up there and, I found a dream home.

4 TH OF jULY

I must of had a smudge on my lens it looks a little blurry, and don't mind Ellie's grumpy face she was mad because when we got to the park she was told that she had to wait until dark to watch the fireworks, the funny thing is, is when they did start she hid under the blanket with her hands over her ears, oh well what do you do?

Can you tell that Maci has food stuffed in her mouth, she still is so cute.

I hope everyone had a good 4th of July. I love to celebrate the 4th with a good picnic at the park and watch fireworks. Just a little fact- I cry every time when I hear our National Anthem and see fireworks at the same time, I do it every time and Ken just kind-of laughs about it. I love this country and our freedom and it makes me so happy and proud to be an American!

ZOO

Last Thursday Ken took the day off, so we decided to take the girls to the Denver Zoo. We had such a good time and had so much fun. I love family days when we can all just be together.

Friends

The girls and their sand cakes they made for us.

Avery and Ellie having fun in the sand box.

Maci and Velzey just being so cute.

Kori and Nathan (usually his tongue is always kept in)

Avery with chocolate.

Sweet Avery with more chocolate.

The girls roasting marshmallows in the backyard, our new favorite thing to do.

The YUMMY oh so YUMMY hamburgers Ken makes and I just love them!


Don't ya have friends in your life that you just love and every time your around them you have such a good time, well that's how we feel about the Crazy Browning family. I have known them since high school and now they live a hour away from us (well for now) and evey time we get together I have so much fun with them. Tonight they came over for some yummy Hamburgers (Ken, they were perfect again) and some good times. The girls had so much fun laughing and playing in the sandbox, they all were just so cute together. We are so blessed to have such wonderful friends in our life.

What went down this week...

First of all Ellie went back to Utah with grandma and grandpa Sorensen on Monday and stayed with them and with out us or her sisters (yea she thinks she is so big and loves to rub it in Maci's face that Maci did not get to go) No offence to Ellie but it was fun to spoil Maci this week and just have some good quality time with her. We did miss Ellie very much and we were ready for her to come back home on Saturday.
Maci got to have her friend Hero over to spend the night and have a sleepover (yep, that is the girls name...Hero) they had alot of fun and stayed up way past my bedtime.
I went with some girlfriends (Cassie, Tracy and Kim) and got expensive pedicures and was overcharged for... well lets not get started on pedicure thing, but I did have a Awesome time laughing and hanging out with some grownups. It was some much needed "me" time.
Ken has been in town all this week which has been really nice having him home, the girls and I are just happier when he is here.
Now for the part of the week which just plain sucks. I have had to take the van in about four times now in the past two weeks because the air does not work. We won't go into how much it has cost, lets just say I could of bought a few Coach Purses and had been much happier than I am now. The Van is Still Busted with NO AIR, do you hear me people NO AIR!! I take it in again tomarrow to the same guy, why you ask? Because we have already paid him so much money, I figure he better figure it out now and not charge us, it just make me sick.
Some good news this week is that Presley has just up and decided to start walking, she is no longer crawling and just as proud as can be that she is a big girl now. She is so cute with her little self just walking around the house and outside it is fun to watch her on the go.
Well that's about it.

PJ Birthday