Flashback Friday

In honor of high school graduations going on this weekend, I am posting Mike's and my senior pictures! Enjoy!

Mormons and Flowers

I think this is very funny and I hope you do too!

Wedding stuff

We really finally made it to Nebraska! And to prove it, here are some pictures from our trip! We stayed at a pretty nice hotel, nothing too fancy, but I really liked it! We had 2 queen sized beds in our room so Ethan got his own. He was a little confused about why he got a big bed, but he didn't complain.He loves this blanket that Janae made for him. He takes it everywhere and calls it his star blanket. I've been trying to get him to talk to you, Janae, about it, but he's too shy!
Jake and Mary's wedding was at the Winter Quarter's Temple. It is really pretty. Mary's younger sister and some friends watched the 7 Herrington grandchildren in the basement of the visitors center during the ceremony and then us parents went to pick them up and dress them for pictures outside the temple. On our way across the street to the temple, Ethan asked me, "Mom, is that Captain Moroni?" pointing to the top of the temple.
(At least he was close.) When we got to the temple grounds, he just wanted to take a moment to stop and smell the flowers.

Ethan had so much fun with his Herrington cousins. It was fun to see how they haven't seen eachother in almost a year and a half but he just fit right in with Mike's older brother's 3 boys! Here they are enjoying the sun.

Silly me, I didn't take any pictures of the bride and groom but I did get a great picture of Aunty Sarah at the reception dancing with her neice and nephews.

This just might be one of my favorite pictures from the whole day. Grandpa Herrington swinging Ethan around.

We had a great time visiting with family. We were only with them for really a day, but hey, we'll get to see them again at Christmas for a week or so!

Spoiled?

If you never heard our story about our trip to Nebraska last week, we were delayed 3 hours! At first when we checked in, we were told we wouldn't make our connecting flight and wouldn't get a flight until the next day. Well, that just wouldn't work because we HAD to get to Nebraska for Mike's brother's wedding. Mike fought, kindly, but frustratedly, with the lady at ticketing. She booked us for a flight that left Denver, our connection, at 7:30, 3 hours after our original flight. But to compensate us, she up graded us to first class. Was it worth it? Not to me. Now when we got to Denver, there were 6 or 7 people on our flight that needed to make the connection to Omaha too and they were told they might be able to make it. We were originally on that flight so we booked it over to the gate, that plane was delayed too, and we were told our tickets were sold to someone else. Stupid lady at ticketing just took us off the flight when all the other people on our first plane were left on the flight and told they could switch flights if they missed the plane. We were so mad, and not at all still upset, right? Needless to say, unless I get free flights at Christmas time to go see Mike's family, we will not be flying United again.
Here is Mike relaxing and enjoying first class. The seats are bigger and I actually got a snack (I guess you only get them on United if you are in first class) and my drink in a GLASS cup and then refilled when the flight attendant saw I was getting low.
Ethan enjoyed himself too. Unfortunately, I tried to keep him quiet so he wouldn't disrupt the other first class people. You know, those who actually paid for the seat.

After flying first class, when we boarded our returning flights, Ethan wanted to sit down in the big chairs and got upset when we didn't.

"GO BUNNY!"

Today we were at my parents' house and Ethan and his cousins decided to slip and slide. Everytime Ethan got close to slippin' and sliddin' he'd yell, "Go bunny! Go bunny!" Of course none of us understood what that was so we asked. What was his reply? "It's 'Let's go' in Spanish!" (He was corrected but didn't catch that, oh well. I'll let him play with Spanish if that's what makes him happy!)

Ethan the helper

Ethan is a fantastic helper and loves it! He asks if he can help dust when I dust and he grabs his tools when Mike is going to fix something. And to prove it, here he is dusting my piano...And here he is helping Mike work on the frame of the garage. (It needed to be sanded and repainted. For some reason Ethan thought he needed his screwdriver and wrench to do that!)

Ethan, we love you and appreciate your help around the house. Please keep it up when your little sister gets here!

Something for you husbands to think about...

"Consider how consistently you use your priesthood to bless others. . . ."If you are divorced, do you provide for the real financial need of the children you have fathered, not just the minimum legal requirement?"If you are married, are you faithful to your wife mentally as well as physically? Are you loyal to your marriage covenants by never engaging in conversation with another woman that you wouldn't want your wife to overhear? Are you kind and supportive of your own wife and children? Do you assist your wife by doing some of the household chores? Do you lead out in family activities such as scripture study, family prayer, and family home evening, or does your wife fill in the gap your lack of attention leaves in the home? Do you tell her you love her?"

Richard G. Scott, "Honor the Priesthood and Use It Well," Ensign, Nov. 2008, 45

PS Gals, please feel free to copy and paste this to that "special someone" in (or out) of your life! And I'm not hinting at my husband. I really have a fantastic husband who supports me and our family 100%!

So we pull up to a stop light and who is next to us?

That's right! Mike and I were on a last minute date, thanks Kristen, and we pull up to the stop light on State and University Parkway and I'm looking around, don't we all do this at a stop light? I look to my right and then quickly turn to Mike and ask, "Is that Elder Holland right next to us?" He takes a quick peek and then says, "That's the kind of car they all drive." We look back over, not gawking, and he waves to us. We were so excited and we waved back. It was so fun to see him out and about with his family, on a family night out in Orem, Utah, just chillin'. I was on a high for the rest of the night!