Happy Birthday Ken...

We all gathered to play in the water for Ken's belated birthday party... sometimes we wait to celebrate till it's warm outside! Here are some fun pics... The Wacky Race got rather intense... Here is Nate completing one of the obstacles...doing a somersault in the kiddie pool...
Dave coming up out of the slide pool.
Court hits the runway...heading for the finish line.
Nate...head first off the slide into the pool.
Bam's turn to slip-slide around the ball.
Dave flying through the air with the fastest time.
Court running around the ball 10 times...or should we say running and sliding...
Emma thought her daddy was so funny... when he would slide on the slippery slide she would crack up laughing!
Bam...putting on a show for Emma! Dave won this round of the Wacky Water Races... with the fastest time of 35.8 seconds. It would be well to note that Dave's time is under appeal. Stay tune for round two... and you all know it's coming!

Happy Birthday and Happy Father's Day Ken! This year we had to postpone Ken's Birthday for a month... because of the Temple Celebration that consumed our lives in May. We decided to celebrate with a water party. We all got together to play and BBQ. The casual water party turned into our version of "Wacky Wet and Wild" Races. As usual the Martin brothers could not pass up an opportunity to compete with each other. Here we are all having a great time! (I'm trying to load a slideshow...wish me luck!)

All Aboard!

Ken and I just completed one of the most exciting... fulfilling... exhilarating church callings of our lives. Back in February we were called to oversee our stake's participation in the Draper Temple Youth Celebration. Can you imagine 8,000 youth in the Conference Center singing, dancing and celebrating their new temple? It was amazing! Our stake was assigned the "Train" dance... so after almost 4 months, a few train wrecks,and working with almost 600 youth... we decided "at the last minute" to dress like train conductors and have some fun with the youth. They all loved it!

Meet Landon... He is Kenny's 5 year old son. He doesn't like his picture taken... so I get crazy poses. He loves playing with his uncles... and always wants the "whole" family to be together. He just graduated from pre-school... WOW!

Ken and I were called to be temple ordinance workers in the new Draper Temple. We work on Saturdays and we love it.

RyAnne is Kenny's little princess! Aunt Ree taught her how to "strike a pose"... so cute! She is gramma's girl and loves being my shadow. She can talk your ear off and the questions are endless. She loves jumping on the tramp and swinging with Brady or Emma.

Sweet little Emma Grace... is Brandon's little angel and we just adore her. She loves her tongue! Emma is quite picky about who she includes in her inner circle of friends. You can tell if you are included by these signs... #1 She will look at you. #2 Then she might smile at you. #3 If she really likes you... she waves both hands and kicks her feet and growls at you. So cute!

Brady is Sharee's little man... and he is so much fun. He is into tools and raids gramma's tool drawer on a daily basis. The other day we found him lugging around grampa's sledge hammer. His own hammer seemed quite inferior after that. Brady loves being outside and working around the yard with us... he has his own rakes and shovels... however he is usually trying to get us to swap tools with him.