UTAH VALLEY CHILDREN'S TOUR 2014

Church History Tour

There are WAY too many pictures to post here.  And they are not of the concerts!  Most were in chapels where we were not filming!  

This 16 day trip was amazing and we got to see most of the church history sites and heard amazing music all along the way.

Miles and Quincy are both singing for the choir this year.  We were so lucky that Grandpa and Grandma Hansen stayed with Porter and Ella.

We started by getting to Mount Rushmore...

(along with a couple of bus problems/etc...)

We had concerts and LOTS of bus time as we made our way across the country.

Kirtland Temple.  The kids got to sing in the temple.  Choice experience.  

Sacred Grove.  Hope to have the whole family there next time.  

The Spirit is so strong there and I hope the boys recognized that.

Hill Cummorah...

Nauvoo

Carthage Jail

 (took this shot through the bullet hole in the door)

The Group at Carthage

Quincy Illinois

We had a great time!  Loved the time to spend with just the older 2 kiddos.

We ended our adventure stopping in Denver for something exciting...

 AND the kids at home were so well taken care of.  We feel so blessed to have these 2 Grandparents in our lives.  They took over as mom and dad and now they have a special bond with Porter and Ella that is different than before.  We love them so much!!! 

 We face timed once and Ella loved it...but we had to abandon that idea because she had a hard time after that "visit".  

These 2...so glad they will always have each other!!

Summer Ball

We watch and play a lot of baseball at our house during the summer.

Miles' Warriors team won the Utah's Perfect Game Championship this year!

Way to go Warriors!  Fun group to watch play.

Quincy has loved the opportunity to play accelerated ball.  

He loves to catch.  He's crazy enough for it! :)

 Ella is drug to A LOT of games!  But she sure loves it when she can recognize the boys. 

She especially loves when Miles is on deck!

There's nothing like watching your children play and excel at something that they love.  

Take us out to the ball game...

all summer long!

Payson Temple coming along

We love going down to the Payson temple site and have a FHE about temples!

We are so excited to have a new "home" temple.

Ella is so excited she is putting her wrestling moves out there in front! :)

1st weeks of summer

Lego building with friends

posing for pics? yeah, that's unusual!  We'll take it!

Park/Splash pad

Walking to church with daddy on Father's Day.  We love our Daddy!

Visit from Paige!  Ella still asks where she is even after she went home!  We are so excited for her to come to UVU to school!

With cool Jessie jammies, we just wanna stay in them all day!

(look at that face...trying to get shoes on so mom will know I do not want to take the jammies off)

Paige brought the kids Disney gifts.  She is so thoughtful!  She had no idea that Mulan is Ella's favorite movie...guess what she brought her?  a Mulan doll!  So lucky!!

 Happy Summer!

*I hope I survive!

Where is Ella?

Where is Ella?

We can't find her...

Well if you can find her "wii wii" you most likely will find her with it!

*mental note to grandparents: If you lose this item, you will be in big trouble!

or she is finding Easter eggs still.  This is out of the ice maker!

or she is hogging the bed.  and not allowing anyone to get within 5 feet of mom....her mom....her spot....

you get the idea...

or playing games like peek a boo...or singing songs like Head Shoulders Knees and Toes

Or singing at music time at the library!

Or drawing all over....something...

oh wait, this is me!  but it could totally be Ella.  She is very capable of something like this...

so proud?? ha!

Baseball madness

Baseball madness...

3 boys playing ball this summer...

First, our Porter FINALLY gets to play Tball.  He was so excited!

Look at that cute BlueJay!

You gotta love when you look at your son's bat and there are crater dents in it.  SO, he gets a "birthday" present a month early!

We travel Utah County so we get to see some places, and eat at some places that we don't normally go to.  

JCWs

We finally got a photo of Porter in front 

Swig Cookies!!

Our Quincy has loved playing this year too.  He is an awesome catcher!  He would rather play there than any other position.  You have to be a little crazy to be a catcher.  Yeah, I think Q will excel there.

Ella is definitely not hurting going to all of the games...

she has very nice moms let her play with their "toys"

and their daughters!

Yeah, sometimes it is tiring business!!!

Sometimes even the older brothers get distracted...

ice wars!

Miles' team is so much fun.  Great coaches, kids, and moms!!!

Love this group!  They won the league championship for a 2nd year in a row!

 Oh yeah, and then we signed Miles up for BYU golf camp for his birthday present...

oh dear, we have a new passion!

Great!??