Hill Cumorah Pageant 2014

I never tire of telling people that we live only 20 min away from Palmyra, NY  because I feel so blessed to be able to be surrounded by all these Church History Sites and also to be able to attend things like the Hill Cumorah Pageant each year! People from our ward are always part of the cast so it is fun to see them dressed up with wigs and costumes on!

These are two of my Young Women dressed as Lamanite dancers

The Stage

This is what the boys did on the drive home:)

Drive-In Movie

 Back in July we took the boys to their first Drive-In Movie!! 

They loved it!!!! 

We took the crib mattress and put it in the back of our car piled it with pillows and blankets and let the boys have at it!! We saw "Earth to Echo" and "How to Train Your Dragon 2". 

YES we stayed for BOTH movies, I know we are crazy:) I will admit the next day was a bit rough, due to lack of sleep, but it was worth the fun we had together!!!  

Happy 4th of July

We had a wonderful 4th of July here in New York!!! We got together with some families from our ward and had a BBQ and went swimming! We always miss our own families, especially on Holidays, but we feel so blessed to have such wonderful friends who are our "family" while we live far away! 

Our family on the 4th! 

One of the Elders does Rodeo and he was teaching people how to lasso! 

Grayer jumping on the tramp with this friends, Kelsey and Dusty

 That night we headed to the local golf course where they put on a fun firework show! 

Grayer with his friend, Phillip

Finden had a love hate relationship with the fireworks...
 He needed comfort because they were so loud - hence he is sucking his thumb but you will see in the next picture he wanted to touch them:) Silly boy

There was a family who brought sparklers to the golf course and was sharing them with kids around them. Grayer LOVED them! 

Finden liked them too:)

Trip to the ZOO!

Our most recent trip to the zoo was a significant one for us because it was Finden's first time to the zoo where he really understood that there were things to look at, and he absolutely loved it! We had to pull him away from each animal and he would cry until we got to the next stop. It was quite entertaining and it made for a really fun trip to the zoo!!!

He has a death grip on the fence

 After we were done looking at the animals we played in the little river/water park.

Father's Day

So we have an awesome grocery store here in New York called, Wegmans. For Father's Day the boys and I went there and got Andy's favorite cake... white cake with raspberry filling and butter-cream frosting. So why is Andy's cake rainbow colored you ask? Well, when I was ordering the cake Grayer was walking around and saw a cake display with a cake decorated like this and came running to me saying that we should make Daddy's cake look like this. "He will love it" he said. So we ordered the tie-dye rainbow cake and you know what? Andy did love it!! 

 

Missionaries

We have awesome Elders serving in our Ward right now so we have them over as much as possible!!

Elder Thueson, Grayer, and Elder Ryser eating lunch

Finden enjoying his lunch as well:) 

Elder Thueson wanted to learn how to make a quilt, so I showed him how! 

I took this picture so he would have proof to show his Mom that he really did sew his own quilt!

Elder Ryser played and read to the boys while we worked on the quilt

Beach Time!

We love it when it gets warm enough to head to the beach. Here are a few pics from our first trip this year. Unfortunately it was still a bit too cold to swim but it we still had fun having a picnic, playing in the sand, and wading in the water.

Finden thoroughly enjoyed his first sand experience! I couldn't get him to stop playing to look at the camera:)

Grayer braved the cold...

But then came and wrapped up in a towel right after:)

Lots of Seagulls