Easter Pics

For Easter, we decided to take a trip to Mountain Home, Idaho area for an extended family Easter egg hunt. Once we checked into our lodging, we headed over to visit Tom and his family. We had a really nice visit and shared a lot of laughs, JaCoby was tuckered out by the end of the day.

Saturday was the big day for the hunt, while we were waiting for more of the family to arrive at my aunt and uncle's place, we had a great time visiting with family I haven't seen for a while and some that Tennille had yet to meet. The Easter egg hunt was a blast as you will see by the pics and captions below. Later that night, we spent some time with my sister's family and had a great time getting to know them better.

Sunday, we attended the blessing of my cousin's latest baby. It was a really neat experience. JaCoby was really excited for this that he said he couldn't sleep the night before and I asked him why and this is what he said " I was excited because you said we only had to attend 1 hour of church!" LOL Kids say the darnedest things.

Tennille had to have a pic of the baby kittens That were at my aunt and uncle's house. She wanted to take one home but they were not old enough yet or they might have let her. She is such a softy for kittens.

Yep that is me doing a little Easter egg hunting. I thought I did pretty good finding 88 of them, but the winner found 127 of them. Tennille ended up getting the Turkey prize for finding the least amount of eggs (29). The prize was a calculator 2 feet x 1 foot. They said they thought she might need this since she couldn't see the eggs lol. She took it all in stride.

JaCoby showing his basket of eggs he found. I believe he found 27 of them.

JaCoby was determined to find those darn eggs in every nook and cranny possible. Who knows maybe somebody wanted to bake the eggs.

JaCoby comparing with the other kids "How many do you got??"

We had to make sure we got a snapshot of JaCoby's only living great-grandma at the ripe old age of 74, she is determined to live till at least 90.

A nice pic with my wife's brother Tom and children.

I bet you can't guess who does not like to smile?

Father & Son May 2007

Another lost photo, I thought you all might enjoy. Sorry about it being so long ago. This was taken at Camp Zion at Mt. lemon during Father and Son's.

WOW WHAT A WEEK

Wow what a week, We left on Monday the 24th on for the long journey to St. George, Utah. Unfortunately Tennille wasn't feeling good, so I drove to Knigman. We stopped at the Holiday Inn there to spend the night, I think it's what Tennille needed. She seemed to feel better afterwards.

We than continued the drive to St. George, We decided to surprise Grandma Winkler at Beaver Dam Elementary, the kids loved JaCoby (but who doesn't).Just as we got to St. George Tennille commented how beautiful it was to see the red dirt. I never thought dirt could be so beautiful!!!

When we got to Grandma McKnight's, JaCoby wanted to see 3 people in the following order; grandma, grandpa, than Cambria. Who would of thought Cambria would have made such an impact on his life. :) Grandma already had plans for us to go to the annual church dutch oven cookout party. We loved it, especially JaCoby. He decided to show off his climbing talents on the climbing wall.

As you can see by this next photo he even did better than his dad.

Wednesday, was RELAX day, Tennille went to Kohl's with her mother and megan (no photos of the shopping trip sorry, so I found the store logo LOL).
That afternoon we went to see my brother Lonnie. It was real nice visiting with him, We hadn't seen him in over a year.

JaCoby seemed right at home with his Uncle Lonnie.

He wanted us to meet his girlfriend Shelby, so we took them out to dinner at Iggy's. We also had a blast playing some board games with them.We sure thought they were quite a cute couple. Tennille really liked her and commented on how they love the same books.

On Thursday morning, grandma McKnight watched JaCoby while Tennille and I went to the St. George Temple. Boy do we love that temple.

That afternoon we went to Pine Valley, to relax at the McKnight Retreat and breathe in the fresh mountain air. JaCoby loved it.

JaCoby loved counting the deer 1, 2, 3, ...

How many can you count?

Friday morning, one of the major reasons we came up; my uncle Curtis' wedding . So again G-ma McKnight to the rescue to help take care of JaCoby as always we knew she would do a great job.

Here are few photos from the couple and their family:

Curtis & Julie Anderson

The Anderson Family & Julie

The Jones Family & Curtis

That evening we went to to Staheli Family Petting Zoo. It was fun watching JaCoby play with Hanah and Seth. There will be photos to come later, since my camera decided not to cooperate for the rest of the day, hopefully Megan will send me some of hers,until than here is a preview that I pulled off the internet.

On Saturday morning we headed home with a stop in our favorite hotel in Kingman.

Sunday the drive into Tucson went good, except for the fact that Tennille got tired of seeing Joshua trees on a 100 mile scenic biway of nothing but pretty much Joshua trees. I don't know about you but I am beat.

GOOD NIGHT

Snowflake

On Friday August 31st we decided to take advantage of this time here in Arizona and traveled up to Sholo and stayed the night there and attended a temple that we may not have the opportunity to see again. The Snowflake Temple is gorgeous, and well worth the 4 hour drive. The scenery was just like being back home in the mountains of Utah. There were beautiful evergreens everywhere (and no cactus). The spirit was so wonderful in the temple, We knew we were meant to be there at that time. If anybody gets the chance they should go to this beautiful house of the Lord.

FT Huachuca

On Friday the 24th of August, we decided to go on a get-away to Sierra Vista/Ft. Huachuca. I had been there about 11 years ago for a MI school, so Tennille wanted to see what it was all about.

JaCoby relaxing in a Queen-size bed in a hotel in Sierra Vista, AZ,which he had a hard time getting on because it was so tall, but he thought it was pretty cool having a big bed all to himself.

We went and saw the 3 museums on Ft Huachuca. There was a museum dedicated to the Buffalo Soilders, the history of Ft. Huachuca, and another dedicated to the history of Military Intelligence. We couldn't believe it, JaCoby was really intersted in the museum artifacts, it really kept his attention. We were impressed.

Spring Visit To Mt Lemon

Here is the family visiting Mt. Lemon.