Thursday, October 30, 2008

Home at Last


We are pleased to announce that Colton was FINALLY able to come home from the hospital today. It was only a week but at times it felt like a lifetime. It is so nice to have him here with us (even though he is still trying to figure out what this non-hospital life is all about).

Saturday, October 25, 2008

More Pictures





As seen in the bottom picture, Colton is in an incubator to help him get enough oxygen. His lungs are a little underdeveloped (but nothing to be too concerned about). He will stay a few more days at the hospital until his lungs start fully functioning on their own. He still looks great and we are thrilled to have him officially join our family!

Pictures of Colton James (6 lbs. 14.2 oz & 21 1/2") Born Oct 23rd at 5:58 pm
















Sunday, October 19, 2008

Boyer's Farm





Caden had a field trip this week to Boyer's farm. Dad was out of town so we took lots of pictures for him. We saw lots of farm animals, went through a maze, went on a hay ride, picked a pumpkin, and then had fresh apple cidar (Caden's favorite part). It was so fun to see Caden in action at school. Then to round off the day we spent 6 hours in the hospital, because I slipped on the wet grass and fell down during the field trip. Other than some frequent contractions, everything was fine and they finally let me go home. Caden thinks hospitals are cool because he got to watch 6 straight hours of T.V.

Attack of the Killer Bees



Our home teacher invited a few young families in the ward to come and watch him harvest his honey. What we didn't expect was a scene from a horror show. When he opened the hive the bees got a little upset. It would have been fine but the kids had just picked and started eating some juicy apples from the nearby tree. The aggitated bees started flying everywhere. Mothers and children were screaming. For some crazy reason I kept getting them stuck in my hair. After three bee stings to my head, one on Jared's face, and one unscathed boy we made it into the house. The rest of the harvesting went well (because we did it in the garage). Overall, the image of a primary class activity gone wrong has kept us laughing ever since.


Sunday, October 5, 2008

A Few of the Pictures We Were Able to Salvage

This is a picture we took of the Sacred Grove. It was incredible to be able to experience the sights and the feelings first hand.

This is Heidi and Caden in the upstairs of the Smith Log Home. It was here that the Angel Moroni appeared to Joseph Smith.

Here is Caden in training to become one of the Nephite Warriors. The production of the Hill Cumorah Pagent was really incredible. (We even got a chance to hang out with Uncle Jacob)

We're Back!!

So this is our sad story of our recent absence from the world of blogging...
  1. First, as you might have noticed our camera picture quality has been steadily declining. We finally decided to invest in a new camera.
  2. Second, shortly after we got our new camera we have enjoyed a series of great summer vacations (from the Hill Cumorah, to Niagara Falls, to Oregon, to Utah) and have been saving the pictures to post.
  3. Next, after we finished our vacation spree, we loaded our pictures on the computer to prepare to post when our computer went on the fritz. Ahhh!!!
  4. Finally, (hundreds of dollars later) we now have a new camera, a new computer, and very few pictures of the last several months and years (as we lost all of our pictures off our hard drive).

Don't worry, even after all these blogging trials, we are back for another attempt.