Derick went under the knife...

Derick, had surgery on Wednesday, to repair a hernia that he has has since he was little. Since Derick is going into Highschool this year and wanting to do weight lifting we decided to have it taken care of so that he doesn’t have any problems. Derick had Kirk and Brother Johnson and Brother Wood (his young men leaders) come over the night before and gave him a priesthood blessing. The surgery went very well. Derick was the most scared to have an IV but that turned out not bad at all.

Oquirrh Mountain Openhouse

What a fun, short, long day I had yesterday. Short because it was up to Salt Lake and back to Cedar City in one day. Long because I felt I was driving ALL day long. Fun because I went up north with 11 young men to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple openhouse. What a neat opportunity to be able to go into these sacred rooms that these boys won't have the chance to go into again until they get their endowments out for their missions. Tyler was so excited to be able to join us even though he isn't quite twelve. He couldn't beleive that he would be able to actually go inside the temple and then was a worried because he didn't have white clothes to wear. He didn't realize that you don't have to wear white to go into the temple openhouse. I'm so glad to have had this previledge to go through the temple with my two boys, I am so proud of them.

Kid Pond

We went up to ”Kid Pond” to go fishing with Adam, Kollen and their kids. We had poles and Tyler had his tackle box, which we should have checked before we left. We ended up with no bait so Adam tied a funny looking rubber hook on each of the kids poles and let them fish, needless to say we didn’t catch anything but grass. Derick did although cast the end of his pole into the water so he and Tyler went wading into the water to retrieve the pole. It was quite funny they were afraid that they were going to sink and disappear. They were able to save the pole and cool off at the same time.

Third times a charm (we hope)

Pioneer children sang as they walked......

We always look forward to the 24th of July breakfast. Grandpa Marchant is always there on the grill making his yummy pancakes. If you ask nicely, he'll even add some sprinkles to your pancake. Grandma Marchant made bonnets for all of the girls to wear during the Primary childrens parade.

Green Show

The kids favorite thing to do in the evenings is to go to the Green Show at the college. I think that they only do two different shows over and over throughout the wee, they probably have it memorized by now. There's nothing better though than free entertainment.

My first Speed Scrap

This is what I came up with at my first speed scrap. Luckily my sister was hosting it so I knew if I got stuck that I could just call or email her. It was alot of fun I think I will try it again some time. Most of them are during the day so I'll have to find one that is in the evening again.

What's Up!

I haven't been the best at blogging lately, but I've been busy. Nothing to exciting has been going on since our trip to Ohio so I feel I haven't felt there was anything to blog about. So this post is just about our life right now.

Go Indians! Day 6 in Ohio

Kirtland Continues

at the fair

Our at the fair kit is in the Stuff to Scrap store today! If you click on the image above you will go directly to our store. Here is the layout that I did with it.

Scraps N Pieces sneak peek

Lori and I have been having a great time doing digital scrapbooking kits together. It is so nice to be able to do something that we both enjoy together, even though we live 3 hours apart. Thank goodness for computers and the internet. I thought you might enjoy seeing what we have been up to. Some of these previews aren't even in the store yet so you're getting a sneak peek.

Day 5, Kirtland, OH

It has taken me forever to get my vacation pictures done. I'm getting close, but I wanted to put these pictures from our visit at Kirtland, OH on now. There will be more coming soon!

Day 5, Church Historical sites. Johnson Farm

On Sunday, what better thing to do than to go to the church historical sites around Kirtland. First, we went to the Johnson Farm, where Joseph and Emma lived for one year.


This is where Joseph was pulled from his bed at night and tarred and feathered. The next morning he preached to the congregation at church where the 4 men who tarred and feathered him attended. Three of the four were later baptized.


Many revelations were given to Joseph during his stay at the Johnson Farm. The inspired translation of the bible was done here.

Day 4 Continued @ Warther's Museum

Mark Warther, the grandson of "Mooney" was our tour guide. Kaitlin was given a piece of wood at the beginning of the tour and was told to hold onto it for a later time in the tour. He then took it from her and made a pair of pliers using only 10 cuts and no shavings. This is what got "Mooney" started into carving.
This was Mooney's wifes button house. She collected thousands of buttons and made these pieces of art. I really liked this part because I used to play with my Grandma Evers, buttons all of the time with my sister. How I would love to have those buttons to make something like this with.