Korbin's 1st Birthday

I cannot believe my baby is one!?! Time goes by too fast!! We had fun on his birthday, it was a beautiful day. My Mom came over to spend the day with us, we took the boys to the fish hatchery and Korbin kept trying to jump into the water. We than had family come over for cake and ice cream. Korbin is getting pretty good at walking, but still insist on taking me everywhere with him. He is sleeping through the night in his crib without waking up and crying. Korbin loves to eat, he always wants to be eating something.  He is starting to get cute freckles a crossed his nose and cheeks. We cut his hair again, but this time short, because it was too crazy I couldn't do anything with it...now if he was a girl we could have pulled it up in some cute pigtails. I sure do love my little blue eyed boy. I can honestly say I never thought we would have a blue eyed child, red hair maybe, but never thought blue eyes. He is such a handsome boy I love my baby.

Ogden Temple Open House/ Dinosaur Park

When I was a little girl my parents took our family to the Bountiful Temple open house. I can still remember how memorized I was by how beautiful the Temple was. I was in awe with the beautiful chandeliers and the gold detail through out the Temple. After that experience anytime I would wake up from having a bad dream my Mom would tell me to think about the Temple and what it looked like inside. Thinking about the Temple always comforted me and helped me to go back to sleep, even up until I was in high school I would think about my experience in the Temple and the spirit I felt there. I knew it was were I wanted to be. Because of my experience with a Temple open house when I was little, I want to take advantage of anytime my boys can go in a Temple, so that maybe it will plant the desire to go to the Temple and continue to grow as they get older.

I wanted to take the boys to the Ogden Temple open house, but I didn't want to go alone, so I asked my friend April and her little boy Shandon to come with us. One of my favorite things about the Temple was all of the beautiful paintings, there was so many of them. My favorite painting was of a boy about 12 years old and the Savior had his arm around him, they were looking at each other and both of them were smiling. Any painting I see of the Savoir and a boy tugs at my heart strings. The boys were amazed by all the pretty chandeliers, when we walked through the Celestial room Korbin leaned his head back a far as he could to stair at the beautiful ceiling and chandeliers. When we got out of the Temple the boys were entertained by the fountains around the Temple grounds. 

We than headed to the Dinosaur Park, it was like 5 minutes away from the Temple. It was a really cool place where they had life size dinosaurs, the boys got a little scared sometimes, because of how big and real the dinosaurs looked. It was a big park and we didn't have time to see the whole park, I would like to take the boys back sometime so we can experience the whole park. They had a fun digging area, "secret" trails, caves, a pound area to feed ducks, and a fun dinosaur play ground. It was a fun trip I am glad we went. 

FHE at the Chester Pool

We had a family home evening with Trevor's family. We went to the Chester pool and swam and than went to Trevor's brother Rory's house for a BBQ after. I have never really taken the boys to a pool where they can't touch. Kellen being the little fish he is loved it, and didn't blink an eye when it came to jumping off the diving board. It took Karson a minute to warm up to the idea of not touching the ground, but he had fun once he got use to it. 

Scow Family Reunion

This year for the reunion we stayed at a cabin that is on private land up above Heber. When we were driving up to the cabin Thursday night we saw some big bucks and a moose that were right next to the road and they could careless we were there. I guess they knew they were safe on private property. It was pretty neat to see them up close. The cabin we stayed in was nice, there was plenty of room for our big family. Friday when we were heading to Deer Creek to go boating we saw a moose and her baby laying down next to the road, I was glad I had my camera. The lake was fun, the kids had fun playing on the beach and going tubing on the boat with their Mom. Trev tried to ski, but had a hard time getting up. We also had a water balloon fight with all the kids, it kept them busy while they were waiting for their turn to go on the boat. On our way back to the cabin we stopped at Wal-Mart to get Korbin a new pair of shoes, because we had him wear his only pair of shoe to walk in the water on the rocky beach. I stayed out in the car with Korbin while Trev ran in, when he got back he said "You will never guess who I just saw in Wal-Mart." He saw President Dieter F. Uchtdorf and his wife! I had to go in and see for myself, my sister Tiffany was at Wal-Mart too I had her come with me. I was planning on talking to him, but when we finally saw him he was walking out of the gardening section when we were walking in. It happen so fast I just said "Hi" and staired at him while he walked by and said "Hi" and looked at us as he walked by. I choked....When I had the chance to shake the hand of a living apostle. Let's just say I have a lot of should've, could've, would've, thoughts going through my head all the time since that moment. He out of all the leaders of the church is my favorite when it comes to giving talks and I saw him in person. Saturday we spent the day at the cabin. The kids wore shirts that my Mom had got them that said "I love my family." Kellen and Karson had fun playing with their cousins around the cabin. I talked all the women in the family to go on a run/walk. My idea was that my Dad would drive us down the road from the cabin 3 miles for those who wanted to walk and than drop off those who wanted to run at 5 miles....well we started driving down the road and I didn't realize how steep of a incline it was we got to 1.9 miles and decided we would all get out and go from there....steepest hill I have ever ran up...my lungs were on fire the minute we started, but we all made it back alive. After that Trev made everyone BBQ turkey and ranch potatoes for lunch, it was yummy. We than had a volleyball tournament. It was so much fun I was laughing so hard I had a headache. That evening Shalee made her amazing peach cobbler and chocolate cherry cobbler. I helped some what so I could learn how she does it, because I want to try and make it someday. It was a good time, I was sad to leave. Grateful to be apart of such a loving good family.