More pictures from 2007: For our summer vacation, we participated in the Nauvoo Pageant Gold Cast.  It was our first pageant and we loved it.  On the way, we visited several church history sites like the Independence Visitor's Center, Liberty Jail, and Adam-ondi-Ahman.  We also visited Carthage Jail: It turns out we're going again this summer!  It will be our third time being in the Gold Cast. We went on a hike to Stewart Falls: Garrett, Lincoln, and Everett swam with the summer swim team: We took Garrett to California in a rental car to get his patriarchal blessing from Grandpa Broadbent: Jan and David marched with the marching band over the summer and marched in a few parades: We had a Court of Honor for David to get his Eagle: Jan worked on his Eagle project: Lincoln earned his Arrow of Light and graduated from Cub Scouts: The biggest event of the year was the premature birth of our little C...

More highlights from my recently-made photo book of 2006-2007.  I should point out that these pictures portray our family at our best.  Family life is usually pretty ordinary but you don't take pictures of that.  So these are the pictures from the less ordinary activities. At the beginning of 2007, Kurt married Alice Demske.  We all loved her: Okay, maybe Mindy wasn't at her best: Something the kids started doing that they loved was stuffing large t-shirts or pajamas with pillows and calling themselves "Bellies".   They had a great time doing this and playing together. Garrett took French horn lessons from Kathy Colton who studied music at the same time I did at BYU.  Here he's doing a recital with Grandma accompanying him. Garrett and Jan both auditioned for the school play, "Beauty and the Beast".  Garrett was a cute little shepherd. Jan was a candlemaker and also a wolf. Later in the spring, Jan was in the 9th grade ...

I love making photo books because I get to see happy and cute pictures of my family usually in celebration mode.  These pictures help me feel better about being a mom. Last week I finished up a book on 2006-07.  Here are some highlights from our family's activities in 2006 after we got home from Germany at the end of May: My sister Heidi married Aaron Ferguson: My SIL found really cute dresses and added sleeves for all the granddaughters: We bought a van on eBay, grew a garden and went on a hike: David did his Eagle Project of collecting junk: We took family pictures up by Tibble Fork: Everett turned 8 and got baptized: We went on a family vacation, camping at Lake Tahoe, and then driving to Davis, CA, where my grandparents lived so that Jan could get his patriarchal blessing from my grandfather: We also went to the Sacramento Temple open house: We celebrated my mother's 60th birthday: David went...