Church History, Family History and great weather!!!

Kade has a cute little girlfriend that lives in Enterprise that we took him to see this past weekend. We decided that rather than hang out in Enterprise (which I have to admit doesn't have much more to do than Woodruff) for three days we would spend those days in St. George. Brian is a fan of KSL radio and recently heard them advertising a concert at the Tuacahn so we bought tickets for it. This is the first time that either of us had been to Tuacahn and it was awesome. The concert was by The Nashville Tribute Band. They have two cds out right now....Joseph - A Nashville Tribute to the Prophet and Trek - A Nashville Tribute to the Pioneers and are working on a third which will probably be along the lines of a Nashville Tribute to the missionaries. They played one song that will be included on it and I cried the whole time. But the concert was amazing and if you ever get the opportunity to hear them I would definitely recommend them. You can hear some of their music by going to their website. Nashville Tribute Band

Entrance


The Stage
We visited the site of the Mountain Meadow Massacre. Such a sad thing that happened there. I don't know if anyone will ever know for sure what the whole story is with it.



I have a great great great great grandmother that came to Utah and settled in Pine Valley near St. George. We were able to drive to that little community and visit her grave. She was such a great lady and gave up much to belong to the church. She buried three different husbands in her lifetime. I took pictures of her headstone and also of the little community where she lived and the chapel where she went to church. Isn't it such a cute little community nestled in the pine trees? I just loved it there. The wood for the pipes for the organ in the Tabernacle in Salt Lake came from this little valley.




We also visited the St. George Tabernacle. It is a beautiful building inside and full of lots of history. This is the pulpit that President Lorenzo Snow preached his famous "tithing" sermon from. The fold up chairs in the picture used to be in the Salt Lake Temple.





We also went and visited the beautiful St. Geroge Temple. I love seeing the different temples around the world. This one I think is especially beautiful at night.


It was a great weekend. We had beautiful weather and I enjoyed spending time with my wonderful hubby who caters to my history hobbies :)

Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching

Brian and I took Kade to Ogden last Friday to purchase the clothes he will need for his mission. We went to Mr. Mac (because they give a pretty good discount for missionaries.) We bought two suits, 10 white shirts, 2 pairs of shoes, three pairs of slacks, 10 pairs of socks, a lined raincoat, 8 ties and a belt. Basically, just what the list in his mission call said we should buy. We didn't have to buy luggage because that is what Grandpa Jack gave him for graduation last May. I remember seven years ago when Rory left how much the total was at Mr. Mac the day we bought his clothes. Lets just say prices have gone up.....we paid about the same and we didn't buy luggage or his white pants for baptism (they were out of his size.)
One step closer to sending my baby boy around to the other side of the world.

Time Flies By

Obviously I haven't done real well about keeping up with this blog lately. I just don't seem to have enough hours in the day for some reason. Kade wanted to go to both girls and boys state this year---since he won't get to do it for the next two years. That is his excuse for doing everything now. "But Mom, I won't get to do it again for two years!" (And he has such cute puppy dog eyes when he says it.....how can I refuse.) Anyway.....back to the blog. We went to Richfield for both girls and boys state. I love going to support the kids from Rich County. I think they are some of the greatest kids on earth and represent our county so well.

In the past few weeks, I've also been to Salt Lake to purchase another copy of Kade's birth certificate for his passport (I had a copy....but do you think I could find it when I needed it. NOT!!!! Two days after I went to Salt Lake to buy another one I found the copy I already had.) Kade and I also went to Huntsville to get his passport. (We went to Huntsville because Aunt Lorri is friends with the postmaster there and it didn't have long lines to wait in like other places.) Brian and I went to Logan to get our taxes done (yeah.....we still get a refund this year!!!), we took Kade to Salt Lake for Eagle Scout, graduation and missionary photos, (I know I should have had graduation photos taken months ago.....but hey you buy the cap and gown now so I wasn't in a hurry like I was with Rory.) and tried to get everything in order for an annexation plan that the Town of Woodruff is doing and went with Rory and Abby to meet with a photographer they were looking at for their wedding. Whew!!!!!
When Kade first received his call I thought we had so much time. He leaves on May 6th and this is what we still have left to do:
another physical with Dr. Merkley with all kinds of tests for his New Zealand Visa, buy all the clothing he will need, get to the temple for his endowments, patriarchal blessing, farewell (which is April 19th) and I've promised him I will take him to Enterprise a couple of time to see his girlfriend before he leaves (couldn't he have met someone who didn't live so darn far away!!!!!)

I guess we just trudge on and do our best to get everything done in life. I'm here to tell you though......I'll need a little vacation myself by the time I get Kade gone and Rory married off. I'm actually kind of looking forward to staying home and being an empty nester for awhile.



This is one of my favorite photos that they took of Kade at the photoshoot.