Hall of Flame!

So today we went to the Phoenix Hall of Flame Museum! It was fun they had a ton of fire trucks and wagons and all sorts of memorabilia, they had a section in there to honor all the fire men who have died since, well a long time ago, they had a special display for the hero's who gave there lives in the 9/11 attacks. I got choked up in that section because it is amazing the unselfishness of these brave men! We took the kids today because Channel 8 was sponsoring the day with water activities and a chance to meet Curious George! My kids (even Michelle) love Curious George. So we got there and I realized I forgot my cameras so I was reduce to use my phone to take the pictures of the kids. This first one is the kids with Curious George, Emie wasn't so happy to see him, she is getting to the stage of not liking characters in costumes! The other 2 pictures are of Eli and Parker getting to try out using a fire hose. They were spraying at a building that had holes in it they had to try to get the water in the holes. Michelle opted out of the water fun because she didn't want to get wet, I know I don't understand her either, it was like 104 degrees outside:(

It Took 5

Well it took 5 years major saving on Justin's Part, and major patience on Megan's part and we finally did it! We upgraded our cute LITTLE Chevy Venture to a rather

LARGE Chevy Uplander!

It is a 2008 with like 11,000 miles on it and it is huge compared to the Venture! I didn't realize how spoiled kids were these days until they gave us the wireless headphone and remote for the DVD player! But what makes it awesome is the trunk space. We've never seen so much space I almost don't know what to do. There are also 2 sliding doors, something I thought I would never get. We... ok I will miss the little Venture we had, and I should it was a great little car when we really needed it to be! So now on to new and bigger things hopefully this car will last us until Emie graduates High School. That is our goal wish us luck!!!

Swim Lessons

Well after last year when Parker "drowned and Died in Koe's pool"as Parker likes to say anyway, I decided that it would be a great idea to put our children into swim lessons this year! Every day when we leave to go, Parker asks where his life jacket is and I have to tell him it is swim lessons you don't wear it there. The kids are doing great, today is the last day of the first week, and they have already learned tons. I get to be in the baby pool with Emie which is so fun, her facial expressions are hilarious! So I needed pictures of the other kids so I left the pool with Emie early so I could get these guys in some pictures before it was to late! We do the swim lessons at Brimhall pool through the Mesa parks and recreation program! I really recommend getting lessons for kids! We made a huge mistake and Parker paid! Ok off the soap box! Here are the pictures!!

New Calling =

So on Wednesday night I got a phone call...the caller I.D. said Church of Jesus... so my first thought was to not answer it, my second thought was no go ahead, you think I would know better! The executive secretary asked if Justin and I could come in on Thursday night to meet with the bishop! I of course told him yes, we will be there. I then went right over to Justin and said "what did you say in your temple recommend interview?" So all day on Thursday I was wondering what could it be for Justin? what could it be for me? Well Thursday night we went into the office and Bishop extended the 2nd counselor in the Relief Society presidency to me! My first thought was......AHHH! I have never taught anyone over the age 11 and now I am in the Relief Society, I also thought I have to sit at the front of the room all during the meeting, the other thought I had was............... YEAA! I don't have to do scouts anymore!!! Now don't get me wrong I loved doing scouts, the boys were fun and I loved serving with Melissa but the whole scouting thing was annoying! Well now that I don't get to do scouts anymore I have to do enrichment night and all the stuff that goes along with that!! YIKES! Well I am excited and can't wait to get on with it! Wish me luck! So0000.......

A new calling + lots of meetings = no more blogging (well maybe every once in a while)

Previously On We Love Us...

Well I guess it is time to continue my post on our family trip to Utah!

Last I left off after the wedding and taking pictures at the temple!

After the temple the Crockett side of the wedding had an awesome luncheon at Gwen's parents church building just up the street from the temple actually. It was very nice and the food was great. When the lunch was done we had several hours to kill until we had to be at the reception to take more pictures so Kenny and his family, Monica and her family, and Justin and I decided to go back to temple square and tour the Conference Center! It is such an amazing building! Beautiful and just massive. We loved the tour...the kids how ever had a smaller attention span!!! The tour did last a little long so by the time we were all done it was time to go back to the reception area and get all 17 of us ready for "Cute Pictures" with Grandma and Grandpa and Danny and Gwen. That was a feat if I ever saw one! The kids all turned out very cute and handsome and the parents... well lets just say we all tried our hardest! Just Kidding we all looked great!

The reception was so nice and relaxing (for us) the kids played and ate and made us laugh and got hurt and cried and made us mad all in a 3 hour period you have to love the kids.

So off Danny and Gwen went to their "Honeymoon"!

On Wednesday Morning we all decided to meet at cabala's Jeff's favorite place to go and then all travel together to go eat and other such stuff! It was fun, we went to this great restaurant called Tucano's ! All the Utah people know this place so they understand how good it is. I could have eaten a whole cow in one sitting, the beef was phenomenal!

After eating we toured Provo and saw a few dinosaurs and animals...NO not my dad and no not the kids we went to several museums in Provo at BYU they were great and the kids loved them. When the kids did get tired of the museums we went to the Creamery on 9th that was great (the pics of that are on my sisters blog just click on Jeff and Monica on the friends and family list) that was good food and entertainment! After that we were calling it a night and Monica wanted to go swimming and "Mitch's" bro-in-law works at an apartment complex so he let us go swimming there! That was fun!

The next day(Thursday to keep everything straight) was fun to. Kenny, "Mitch", Justin and I decided to go up Provo Canyon and let the kids play and us sit and chat and maybe go on a hike. We did all that and it was fun. The kids never run out of energy...WHY? After we went up the mountain we decided that we needed to go visit Justin's Grandmother "Grannie". She was sweet and fun to go and see. She even remembered Emie! She also remembered the Justin went with Cyndi. We all thought that that was great considering she suffers from dementia Ruthanne and Joel live with her now and take such good care of her and I was just in awe of what they do!

On Friday Justin and I wanted to take our kids back to temple square in Salt Lake City. We wanted to show them the visitors centers and the museums there. That was a fun trip just me and my little family. We actually felt the spirit every once in a while. I hope that someday our kids will be taking their kids up there and hoping for the opportunity to share the spirit with them! The really interesting thing to us was while at the south visitors center we ran into a sister missionary and while talking with her I looked down at her tag and it read...Sister Platt and her flag was from England. I was so excited I said Hey we are Platt's to and our family came from England! We decided that we have to be related somehow and we hopefully will be able to figure it out some day!! She was really sweet and let Michelle try on her badge for a picture! We also went to the CTR exhibit at the church history museum that was great and the kids loved it too!

Saturday was come home day and the trip took FOREVER!!!

That was our family vacation and it was fun and exciting and we are very happy to be home and thankful that Aunt Bev and Uncle Eric let us stay at their home and that Danny and Gwen got married so we had an excuse to go up there!

This is for Monica!

I Interrupet this Message...

I interrupt this message to bring you breaking news!
We finally got the "new to us" air conditioner YEA!

We woke up on Wednesday morning and before

9:00a.m. we had the new 3 1/2 ton unit on our roof!

It is lucky that we got it in before the weather turned to

ugly. Last year right at the end of the year our air

conditioner just stopped working, so now that the warm

weather is back I am glad to be prepared for this season.

We already reached 110 degrees here on May 19th so yikes!

SO here are some pics of our Wednesday morn!