Getting ready to go to the Opera in Salt Lake with Paul Bodily Fall 2006

Halloween 2006 with my roommates Darcee Thomson Bowen and Brooke Yates when we were living at the Riviera Apartments

Christmas 2006 with Jasmyne and Adam

Christmas 2006 with Jasmyne, Adam, Luke and Myself

December 2006 with my Riviera Apartment roommates - me, Alyssa Anderson Yandow, Darcee Thomson Bowen, Brooke Yates

December 2006 in our Apartment in our green kitchen

February 2007 - Cibola Arizona trip with Arnett Family to find Grandpa Marvin's plane crash site and see the farm

The old bobcat at Cibola that Grandpa Marvin used to work the fields

March 2007 dropping Jasmyne off at the MTC to start her mission.  She went to the Russia Moscow West Mission.  Jasmyne, with Adam on her arm are in this picture.

Daniel and Caleb in my coat at the MTC when we took Jasmyne there to begin her mission.  She was a good missionary.

Caleb and Daniel - they had so much fun playing together

Caleb and Daniel playing together when we dropped Jasmyne off at the MTC.  They would run up and down the sidewalk.

April 2007 - Michelle Rogers came to visit for General Conference.  She stayed with me and we had a great time together.  This is us late at night when we decided to take pictures of ourselves.

May 2007 - flying with my family (everyone but Jasmyne) and Aunt MaryAnn, Junetta, Barbara, Sandy, Uncle Rex and cousin Leliani, and others to Missouri to be there for Uncle Don's baptism.  My Dad baptized Uncle Don.  One year later, Aunt Marsha, his wife, was also baptized.  The following year they were sealed in the Nauvoo Temple.

We had the plane almost to ourselves.  It was fun to have so many family members on this flight.

We flew into St. Louis Missouri during this trip to see Don be baptized.  Don was living in Mexico, MO at the time.  This is use waiting for the bus to take us to get our rental car - with our large family it was a large van.  At the end of this trip, Mom and the boys flew out of Kansas City airport.  Dad and I drove the van back across the state to St. Louis to return the van as they required us to take it back to the location we rented it from.  We then flew out of St. Louis.  I liked spending that time with my Dad.

Caleb and Daniel were so tired after this long flight.  This was the first time they had flown on a plane and they seemed to like it.

May 2007 at the Nauvoo Temple during our trip to Don's baptism - back row L to R: Adam, Ben, Jessica; Middle: Luke; Front row L to R: Caleb, Daniel

Ben

Nauvoo Temple - picture I took during our trip end of April/beginning of May 2007

Me at the Nauvoo Temple during our trip for Don's baptism

 

 

 

 

May 3, 2007 - one year to the day before Joshua and I were married I was in Mexico, MO at Uncle Don's house - this may also have been the day he was baptized but more likely it was a day or two after.  I took these pictures myself of his home and the farms surrounding it.  I love this area and think it is one of the most beautiful places in the world.  To me it is very peaceful.  The first time I had come to this place was when I was 12 or 13 with Mom, Dad and Jasmyne.  I remembered so much of it even though I was now 20 years old.  Ever since visiting here, I have dreamed of one day living here. 

May 3, 2007 - Mexico, MO.  Barn across from Don and Marsha's house.

May 3, 2007

I am very pleased with the way these pictures turned out.  I love this area and I feel the pictures capture some of the beauty of the area.  Unfortunately though, there are lots of ticks in this area.  We went for a walk in the pastures and came home to find them all over our clothes.

May 3, 2007 - Mexico, MO

May 3, 2007 - Mexico, MO - Don and Marsha's house.  I love the enclosed porch that they have on this house.  There home here became my first dream home.  I think it is such a beautiful home.  In 2010, they moved to another town about 10 minutes away from here.