We just got back from Taking Camille and Olivia home to Arizona so now I can catch up a little bit. We were able to have them for about 2 weeks and it was just wonderful. We picked them up at the airport and as soon as Liv saw me she started running to me with arms wide open...E-Mawwwwww. Wow that made my whole year! Then she did the same for E-Paw. They got here just in time to help with Candice's quilt which also made an excellent tent for playing under



We did some baking...

Went shopping for some new "Mermaid" panties. She is quite obcessed with The little Mermaid movie and can sing along with all the songs. Then she makes us all sing them too..."sing Airiel E-Maw!" I bet we watched it 30 times while she was here. I am totally ok with that though because little mermaid has always been my favorite disney movie too.

















Candice moved out on thursday...











Sure do miss her. She moved out with a girl she works with to a little house downtown. I was at jury duty all day so I couldn't really help. Kelley and K.C. got her all set up though. I know she wants to be out on her own and fix up her own place. I have sure enjoyed having her her with us. She brings a lot of joy into our home. Olivia adores her, And she pretty much keeps us laughing ALL the time!




We played in the snow...not very good oh-man snow.




















We went up to Logan to visit Great Grandma Braegger for a few days. Lots of fun jumping on her bouncy bed! We had a good visit with Brenda and Leslie too when they came over on wednesday.











Kelley and K.C. and I went up to the Draper Temple open house wednesday night with the youth in the ward. It was all scheduled so we could go in at 6:40, but there was so many people there, and there was bus mix ups, so we didn't get up to the Temple till almost 8:00. It was really beautiful though. The paintings inside were really pretty. It looked like they had just looked out the window of the temple to get their inspiriation. Lots of pictures of the mountains and trees . Its going to be open for appointment only because its smaller. About half the size of Jordan River Temple.

The same night ,Candice's friend Megan was going to be on American Idol (they were showing the auditions from Salt Lake City) and Candice was supposed to be on there too because she was with her when she auditioned for it. I heard from several people that they showed Candice standing next to Megan a few times and Megan did a great job! They had a little piece about Meg's life that was really cute too.

There was a bunch of stuff that Camille had left here when they moved cause she didn't have any need for it at the Wilkinson's. Well they need it now cause they just moved into their own apartment. So early thursday morning they loaded up her kitchen table, vaccum, book shelf and some other stuff and we drove down to their place in Gilbert. The ride went pretty good till the video player's battery died and we couldn't watch mermaid anymore. Then she just wanted to get out of that car seat! I can't blame her for wanting to get out of her seat...I wanted to too! it is a really long drive... about 11 hours. Camille is so patient with her though and got her to settle down with the promise of seeing daddy really soon. Here she is going to her happy place...











There was not a lot of ideal restroom facilities along the way. This was one of the memorable ones. It's a good thing they had this porta potty all chained up cause we wanted to STEAL IT!


















We got to their new place (it was very nice) and got freshened up, then went over to Kellen's parents and dropped Olivia off there cause Gary had gotten us tickets to go to the Sun's game. They were great seats and it was a lot of fun, except Kelley was feeling pretty sick. He had started getting a cold the day before, now it was full blown runny nose, coughing, sick. He tried to keep going and function, but I know he felt terrible We left a little early from the game and came home and zonked out. The next day, we decided we would go visit uncle Clyde. We had not been there since right after we got married, but Kelley's dad told us the address, so we thought we could find it easy enough. Well the land mark we were looking for..(a big water tower), was no longer there, so we drove around and around the temple. It was supposed to be quite close to the temple, but we couldn't find it. Finally Kelley called Chris and he googled it and we found it. But Uncle Clyde wasn't there so we left him a note and went and got some lunch. We played at the park that is quite close to thier house... it was really a beautiful day. Probably about 75 degrees. It felt good to take off the shoes and play in the warm sand!








Later after everyone had napped (Kelley needed one more than Olivia) we went to the Pro Bass Shop. It was very big and Olivia loved looking at all the "animals".

Olivia and E-Paw picked out a nice fishing boat.

We were shopping around a little at the mall there and liv found this Barbie and fell in love with it. She has been watching this "Bobbie" movie quite a bit where Barbie does ballet and Olivia trys to dance just like her. She was so cute with the Barbie...her first one!

Gary and Bev took us all out later for a real nice dinner at a place called Lucille's smoke house. Really good food! It was a fun night and we sure appreciate thier generosity and showing us a good time in Arizona!