My Little Patriotic Boy

Because we live on the Air Force Base, everyday at 4:30 pm, we here the Star Spangled Banner play over the large sound system. In honor and respect, everyone who is outside is to stop what they are doing and stand at attention or with their hand on their heart. We have lived here almost two years, so this is nothing new to my children, but I usually have to remind them to stop what they are doing and to stand still and put their hand on their heart. Yesterday, Taysen had just headed out back to play and was ready to get on the swing when the song came on. I was in the kitchen when I heard him say to himself, "oh, my hand on my heart." I looked out to see little two year old Taysen standing still by the swing set with his hand on his heart, well close to his heart. He stood their almost the whole song until a few seconds before the end! I was so proud of him! What a great reminder to us all of patriotism! I ran outside afterwords and had him 're-pose' so I could get a picture of him!

Create

I found this Mormon Message very inspiring. I have always been a dreamer. I love how President Uchtdorf says that we all have a deep yearning to create something that doesn't already exist. We all have the ability to create, just as God created us. We have talents and abilities beyond our imaginations. What is it that you want to create? What is your dream? I hope that we will all have the courage to go out there and create what ever our hearts yearn to create!

Our visit to Denver Zoo

I took the kids to Denver over Labor Day weekend to visit Aunt Shan and Uncle Jordan! We had a great time. We also went to the Denver Zoo. It was a lot of fun, and we were definitely pooped by the end of the day. There were a few things we didn't get to see, like the Gorillas were hiding, and by the end, I was so tired, I skipped a few of the smaller things. On our way out, though, Taysen saw a statue of an alligator, and he said, "We didn't see the Alligators." Woops, we must have missed that somehow. When we were just about to the car, little Taysen said, "I got a great idea...lets go see the alligators!" Here are a few highlights from our day at the zoo!