Happy Father Day!

Dad, thank you for always being there for me. I could never express in words all that you mean to me so I'm not even going to try. I love you Dad, thank you for everything!

Thank you Don for being the best Father-in-Law. And especially for raising such a hardworking and wonderful father for my children. I love you!

Happy Father's Day Kirk!

I am so greatful that I am married to such a wonderful husband. Kirk is such a great example to my children. He is such a hard worker, I know now that the kids might wish that he wasn't but one day they will look back at him and think of how greatful that they are that he showed them how to work. He is also by far the FUN one of the two of us, he teases and can be silly. I am most greatful though that he is a worthy holder of the priesthood, by blessing them and being able to baptize them into the church.

I love you Kirk!

Tyler's Father's Day Letter

Kaitlin's Father's Day Letter

Life is a trainride

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My Grandma e-mailed this to me today, and I wanted to share it with everyone.

I love my Grandma, she is one of the greatest people that I know. My grandma taught me the importance of our talents, she is a very talented lady and is always learning something new. I Love you Grandma!

Kid's Week

This week at work I have been doing kids classes every day. Derick has come with me to work in the mornings to help me with the class. The pictures are some of the projects that we made. I'm glad that tomorrow is the last day of "Kids Week", then next week we start Kids Clubhouse, which will go on Thursdays for the rest of the summer.

The picture also shows a couple of the Story Boards that I did.

Busy Busy Busy!

Things have been crazy for me at work these past two weeks. Our head designer was gone for two weeks so I got to fill in for her, which was exciting because I get to do the story boards. I also have been busy helping our class coordinator get ready for our kids kick-off week. But to top off everything, it was our class coordinators last week on Friday and the gal who was being trained to replace her quit. So now I am Head Designer, Designer, Class coordinator, and Event coordinator all in one. I can't wait until our designer gets back on Monday.

Roberts has decided to throw "Events" twice a month so we plan activities, projects to have customers make, decorate the store, advertise and so on. Last month we did
"50's" week. Here are some of the pictures from that event.

"Remember" Memorial Day

For memorial day it's always a tradition when we're here in Cedar City to go to the cemetary and clean up around the families plots and leave flowers. Then afterwards we go to Grandma and Grandpa Marchant for their famous yummy pancakes.

Derick and I also went over to "Veterans Park" which is fairly new to the area and drove around there to see the flags and the memorial statue that is there.

Grandpa Marchant's Scripture Bookmarks

For Grandpa Marchant this birthday he got new scriptures. Each of the grandkids drew a picure for him of their favorite scripture story for him to use a bookmarks.

Andrea we hope you had a great Birthday! We love you.

Happy Birthday Aunt Andrea!

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Putting in a Sprinkler System!

Over the long weekend we decided to get our sprinkler system put in. Kirk, along with alot of friends and family were able to get it done. Thank You to everyone for all of your help!

After finishing the front lawn this is what we saw on our porch, all of the Rollie Pollies in the dirt had climbed up onto the porch, there were hundreds of them, it was quite a sight.
When we started the process, I gave Kaitlin the camara and told her to go be the photographer of the process, this is what she ended up with. You can see what her attention span is like.

This photo says it all!

The final product of our labors

Retirement Party

My Dad was given a retirement party this month after working for the same company for 38 years. It was alot of fun! My Dad was givin the highest respect from his colleagues they payed him some very nice comments there at the party.

Blessing Book

This last year in October, a tumor was found in my Dad's head. For his birthday this year I decided to make this little book about the whole process that we went through, thoughts, feelings and some of the things we experienced. I left blank pages between each page hoping that my Dad or anyone else looking through it will write down their experience also.

This is the front cover of the book, our motto through this was always "Git er done" How greatful I am for the priesthood. My whole family was able to have blessings of comfort, & healing. It was so special to have my Dad ask me if he could give me a blessing, even though he was the one going through the main issues, he knew that I needed a blessing.
This page is just a page of feelings and thoughts. My Dad, Mom and I were able to go to a session at the Manti temple before we met with the Dr.'s. You can't get much closer to our Father in Heaven then at the temple.
After finding out about the tumor, I did some research on the Huntsman Cancer Institute site and found a Dr. Randy Jensen that specializes in brain tumors. We first were sent to see Dr. House, and I remember telling my dad that everything would be fine because "Dr House" fixes everything, for those of you who watch House, you'll get it. So we went to see Dr. House at the University of Utah and he said that he could do the surgery but that he would also refer us to another Dr. if we would like. So we mentioned our research on Dr. Jensen and he said "I work with him all the time, let me call him and see if we can get you in" he came back to us and said, he can see you in an hour. I'm sure you are all aware how hard it is to get into the specialists. Dr. Jensen was a wonderful man, you could feel the spirit with him whenever he was around. He made us feel very comfortable, and we knew that our Dad was in the best hands.
My Dad is doing wonderful, he had very minimal problems after his surgery. We know that he was blessed, and that the Dr's were blessed to take care of him.

Ice cream after the concerts

Derick's Orchestra

Derick has been playing the violin now going on his third year. A friend in our Ward found out in that he was interested in learning the violin. She said "I have a violin of our daughters the he can use". So we talked to the school and they signed him up. They told us that he would have to be tutored after school to catch up to where the other students were that year. Derick caught on really fast and within two weeks, he was ready to join the class. His second year he went on to advanced orchestra. and by his third year he joined the Chamber Orchestra. Derick loves playing and we have enjoyed going to his concerts.

Kaitlin's Happy Mother's Day book

This is what the Mother's Day book Kaitilin wrote says.

My mother is beautiful. My mother has beautiful blue cristools in her eyes. She has nice hair. She is good at lots of things. She is a great artist. She is a good singer. She is good at the piano. She is a good cook. She does lots of things for me. She feeds me alot. SHe helpsme draw stuf. She does my hair. She is good at growing. We love to do lots of things together. We love to go to the museums. We love scrapbooking. I have the best mother in the whole world. There is not another mom as marvelous as mine. I love mother so much.

Thanks Kaitlin, I love you too!

Happy Mothers Day!

Lately I've been dreading Mother's Day. I guess I have too high of expectations on that day thinking that everything should be perfect HA HA HA. Last year I remember yelling down the stairs to the kids, after they had be fighting about who knows what, to stop what they were doing and by the way "THANKS FOR A HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!" in not a very happy voice. I'm trying this year a different approach by not being so selfish and not expecting anything but the normal around here. Now that were home from church and everyone is hungry and tired, I'm trying to ignore all the grumpiness and yelling while trying to make a nice dinner.

I guess instead of Mother's Day being all about me, I'll write about what Mother's Day should be about to me, My Mom. My Mom is a great example of what a Mom should be, unselfish, loving, giving. I don't remember my mom ever complaining about hating Mothers Day, maybe we were all perfect little angels, NOT!, no it's because she did everything for us not her. My Mother in Law is the same way, she would drop everything she is doing to help.

I love being a Mom and I need to remember all the little things like Kaitlin being the first to tell me "Happy Mothers Day" this morning,ready and dressed for church without being asked, Tyler who was full of hugs, kisses, and I Love You's, and Derick just taking my hand and holding it for no reason. That's why I love being a Mom.

The picture is of the card that Tyler made for me at school. Make sure you look at the word he used for the last "I" in HEIDI. When I asked him about it he told me that the dictionary said that it meant something nice, and then was in tears saying that he was going to change the word to something else, I finally convinced him that I wanted to keep it that way and that I love it!

Happy Birthday Balloons to Heaven!

We all wrote a note on a balloon and sent them up to heaven.

Happy Sweet Sixteen!

We celebrated Nichole and Michele's 16th birthday. We decided that since they would have been turning 16 we wanted to do something special. So we went to the Happy Factory and made toys for different countries and children at the hospitals. For most of the children that recieve these toys this is their first and only toy that they have and will ever have. It was so fun to do this service.

I have the best Visiting Teacher, Bonnie Jones, she took me and the kids out to their farm on Wednesday to see the baby lambs. We were hoping to see one be born but it was too windy. It was so fun to take a step out of our busy lives and go to a farm where you feel like you step back in time and everything is slower and more peaceful.

Pirates of Penzance performance