Rebuttal

Well, congrats and good luck Mr. President of the young men of the Miller Ward. (there isn't any sarcasm in that - good luck really!)
I was just sustained as the first counselor in the Elders Quorum last Sunday as our president was bumped to the Bishop's second counselor and there was a shuffle of the presidency. I am excited, although, since I was the Secretary before I don't have much more to do as counselor...
And work is going well. Things are picking up, and I am learning how to design plumbing systems (which is mainly code driven).
So see, I post stuff that is going on in my life.

Fathers and Sons

Jovin and I went camping this weekend for the Fathers and Sons campout. We went up to Payson ('bout an hour and a half drive north). We had a great time even though Jovin didn't seem to quite grasp the idea of how fun campouts are supposed to be. We had a nice fireside for the young men (so I am told - I didn't get to see it cause it was past Jovin's bedtime and he was NOT going to try to listen). Saturday, we had a nice breakfast provided by the Elders Quorum (which I got out of cooking cause of the kid!) Then we relaxed and played a round or two of Bowling Ball Golf (I wish I had my camera out for that one, it was a fun one). Imagine Frisbee golf, but with actual bowling balls!! Who woulda thought...

Jovin did alright sleeping in his playpen (for three hours) after which he got a little chilly and I decided to keep him warm next to me. Which was great for him cause he slept most the night, but it pinned me on my side between him and the playpen. My arm kept falling asleep. The moon also came out and shined in the tent as if someone turned their car headlights on us. It was awesome.

So I am excited for camping this Summer, I have heard that it is a nice way to get out of the heat! And it is already HOT!!

Happy Mother's Day!!

We just wanted to wish all the Mother's a WONDERFUL Mother's Day!!

I had a really nice first Mother's Day. I got to sleep in. Cory and Jovin made all the meals. Cory took Jovin during Relief Society so I could enjoy the lesson. We've played games and relaxed. It was a great day.


Cory helped Jovin make a plaster of Jovin's hand for Mother's Day. Cory is really sneaky. I was home when he did it and I didn't even know what was going on. (Of course he did it while American Idol was on... so he knew for sure I would be oblivious as to other things happening in the house.) It is really cute though. Cory said it was kind of hard to do since Jovin is so wiggly and wants to squish stuff. It turned out really cute.

Anywho... Happy Mother's Day!

A Little Trip

Well we got back Monday morning from our little trip to Utah. We got there on Wednesday the 3rd. We stayed with my family and we went to the zoo Thursday morning. It was windy and rainy, but it was fun too! Thursday night we went to Angie's graduation. She got her Masters in Occupational Therapy. Friday night was Cory's graduation where he got his Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering.


Saturday was Cory's 25th birthday!! We then stayed with Dianne, Tasha and Kip's family. Kip, Kris, William and Anna came down also to spend time with the whole family. It was a lot of fun to be with everyone again. We went and had Killpack Family pictures taken Saturday morning. We can't wait to see how the pictures turn out.

Saturday night we played games and watched a movie. Joe and Caleb were there in the mix too!
Sunday was a wonderful relaxing day. We went to church with mom (Dianne) and had a wonderful birthday dinner for Cory and William.



We really enjoyed our trip and we miss everyone already! Jovin misses his Grandma's and Grandpa and I really think he misses his cousin Anna. I have a slide show of pictures from our trip and he gets really excited when a picture of Anna is on the screen. Oh, and Kris, Jovin is still waking up at night... (thanks Anna!) ;~) Is Anna sleeping through the night now? I'm just curious if they switched sleeping patterns.

What A Weekend!

Well this past weekend we went on an adventure. We headed out to Tempe, Arizona to the Red Bull Flugtag. Red Bull does this every year at different locations across the nation. College students make and design things to fly off of a 30 foot runway and then land in the water. The contest is to see who's contraption will fly the farthest. We parked our car and walked across the bridge to where the event was taking place and where stands were to get a good seat. Well we didn't know that you can't bring a video camera and they wouldn't let us in. So we walked back across the bridge and watched it from across the river. We then pulled out our video camera and we caught a couple of them on tape, and they were hilarious! There were so many people there in the stands, and watching with us across the river. It was really hot too so we didn't stay to watch the whole thing.


We then decided that since we were out that way we would go and walk the grounds at the Mesa Arizona Temple. When we went for the Easter pageant we didn't get to walk around the grounds because we were saving our seats on the grass. (and there were over 10,000 people there at the time too.) The grounds, and the temple are beautiful. They have a couple of fountain/reflection pools and a lot of pretty flowers.











We also gave Jovin the chance to experience grass for the first time. After seeing Mike & Elizabeth's blog with Lydia and the grass experience we thought we'd let Jovin try it too. He really didn't like it all too much. As you can tell from the picture it was all he could do to keep his hands and legs from touching the grass.