Family Pictures

I am looking for a photographer for our family pictures. But everyone I see is so expensive?? Does anyone have any suggestions or someone they've used that are good? Thanks!!

Oquirrh Mountain Temple

We had the opportunity to take the boys to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House today. Some friends of ours had extra tickets and we thought the boys would like to see a temple since daddy works at the Ogden Temple and they always want to see where he works and go inside. So this time they could actually go inside. They all did really good and were all reverant. Tyler especially loved the baptismal font and kept asking why he couldn't go swimming in it. He also liked the chandeliars. They were gorgeous!! It was an awesome experince and I'm really glad we took the boys even though I was a little hesitant about bringing Peyton. They let us bring strollers so that helped, we also went pretty early so it wasn't very busy at all. It was a gorgeous Temple!

Zoo Fun!!

Here's a couple of pictures from our Zoo trip we took today. We were bored so we thought we would surprise the boys. They were really excited and loved it. Especially Tyler and Peyton. Tyler was a little bit too little last year to really understand the animals but he loved them this year. During the bird show, one bird actually hit Bryan in the head when it was swooping by. Not hard just his wing, but Bryan thought it was hilarious!!They loved the new Madagascar exhibit, Tyler kept singing the "Move it" song!They were excited that they got to ride on their favorites during the carousel ride. Bryan loves riding the Wolf.Colbys favorite it Donkey Kong.And Tyler got to ride Moto Moto from Madagascar!Peyton got so excited when he saw the little meerkats running around behind him. He kept laughing, it was hard to get a picture of them right behind him though cause they wouldn't stop running back and forth.You can kind of see it to the right. . .And of course we had to stop by the souvenir store to get more animals. Its horrible that you spend more money on stuffed animals then we actually spent getting in the zoo, but oh well, they love stuffed animals!Tyler got a Moose, because that's his nickname!Colby loved how the daddy monkey and baby monkey could ride on his back! Peyton was spent at this time, he was so tired, he didn't really care about his new frog.

I had to add this picture onto the end, this is Tylers "bear face". I thought it was way cute. And by the way, if you're planning on going to the zoo this year, grab a can of Dr. Pepper. If you buy an adult ticket, you get a child ticket free with the can!!

Preschool graduation/fun vacations!

We've been having computer issues that last week and just barely got our computer up and running again, so its been a while since I've updated. . . . sorry! Bryan graduated from Preschool last week, he is so excited to start Kindergarten in the fall. They did a graduation program where they showed the parents all the stuff they learned this year. Bryan sang all his songs so good and so loud. He even had a solo part where he had to sing "Peter Cottontail" all by himself. He was so proud he kept looking at the camera making sure daddy was still videotaping him. After that we drove down to St. George and Arizona so visit my grandparents. The boys love going to St. George and visiting Scampers, their cat!! It is the only cat that they like.They also went to the dinosaur museum with Grandpa Smith. Then we went to Arizona to visit my moms parents. We went to a city called Oatman where wild donkeys walk down the street and you can feed them carrots. The boys loved that of course. Tyler was a little nervous when they would get so close. Peyton loved them though, the donkeys would come right up to him and try and eat his carrot that he was eating for himself. Then Peyton would share the rest of his. It was a long drive but we had fun so it was worth it!