Steadfast & Immovable...Always Abounding in Good Works

Youth Conference was last weekend and I still haven't posted pictures, so here they are. This year, youth conference was such a good experience! I learned so much and felt so good during whatever we were doing. It started out last Wednesday night with the trek video from last years youth conference(which was great-the video made everyone cry!), and they an In-N-Out truck for dinner on Thursday and that kicked off the rest of the weekend. The speakers (Kory Kunz and Michael McLean)were amazing! I've never been excited to go listen to speakers, but this time they were definitely one of my favorite parts! That's almost all you heard during the testimony meeting, how much everyone loved their talks. the testimony meeting was so spiritual and two non-members even bore their testimonies! One of my really good friends even came! We got to go to the beach, a couple dances(the last one was very pretty), and do a really awesome service project. We helped renovate a pretty old and not very clean school in not the best location. We painted murals all over the school and inside some of the classrooms with hundreds of other volunteers. There are some amazing ones, so I'll post those too. I've never enjoyed a service project so much either! I liked this project specifically I think because I knew I was helping change kids' lives for the better. Helping renovate that school made me feel so much more grateful for the things I take for granted...and my health! I felt like I would get sick just being there. Overall, youth conference was one of the best experiences I've ever had! BTW: Kory Kunz is an amazing singer and songwriter and piano player and he sang and played us some of his songs. They all have a story behind them, which he told us a lot about! He's got a couple of CD's out through Deseret Book, but if anyone's interested in listening to samples of his songs...here's the link.
http://www.ldsaudio.com/shop/music.aspx?type=artist&id=533

Where A Kid Can Be A Kid!

We haven't updated in ages, so there's a whole bunch of stuff for you to read now! Starting with this: For Gabrielle's birthday party, she wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese's. She had so much fun and now she can't wait till her actual birthday on June 30th!

Abby's Orchestra Concert

Relay for Life

The Relay this year was so much fun! We didn't relay for anyone specific this year, however we walked a lot! We spent the night in a tent and Calli and Abby slept outside...it was COLD! They really wanted to though and actually went throught with it! Abby's girl scout troop came and served dinner to our campsite. How nice! I had enough hair (ahem...10 INCHES!) to donate it...oh man! I did not like it at all when I got it cut! I've gotten it styled since though and I do like it now! The only problem now is that I actually have to make sure I have time to do it! Ugh. Oh well. We had a ton of fun this year at the Relay and we hope EVERYBODY joins Nathan's team next year and walks with us!





Okay. This is the difference between boys and girls. Girls will play the game and the boys will destroy it.




Ha! Good Morning, Sunshines!

Memorial Day at the Calls!

John and Kristy invited us for a BBQ at their house in Fresno all day on Memorial Day! Everyone one was there! They made really good food, we played tennis, soccer, volleyball, went swimming, horseshoes, ate and chatted the whole time! We had so much funnn!

Finally! the...

DS! Since Christmas, Zoe has been saving her money to buy her very own Nintendo DS! She finally did it and was very proud! It costed her about $130, so she was very determined! She got a red and black one so its like no one elses' and she loves it! She even got a new game to go with it! This was a major event so we had to take a ton of pictures! (=Especially of the cashier counting all the coins!=)

Cook takes Idol as Kacy watches from the pit!

What a fun night Kacy had last night! For those of you who haven't heard, Kacy has a teacher with a contact that has allowed her to take 50 of her students to American Idol three times this season and Dancing with the Stars once! They were fortunate enough to get tickets to last nights finale! She came home hungry, tired, without a voice and totally excited! She even came home with free t-shirt exclaiming Archuleta as the winner (someone was too quick to print t's ya think!?)! Regardless, she wore it proudly to school today. She had an incredible time at all four tapings, has been able to take advantage of some of our Southern California highlights and is finishing off her freshman year with a bang!! She's a good kids whose having good things happen for her!

Welcome Baby Girl Marsden!

Annie had her baby on May 12, 2008. Its A GIRL! She was born at 9:58pm, was 7lbs. 11oz., and 181/2 inches long! She is soo cute! I like Emmie Michelle!!! Congratulations Annie, Jordan, and Allie!

Happy Birthday Josh and Andrea!