Happy Birthday, Sweetheart!

We love you! You are such a sweetheart, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

On Saturday we went to the Bees game and there was a special message for Grace on the scoreboard. There was an impressive fireworks show after the game also. We also went to Lagoon last week to celebrate Grace's birthday! It was a fun week.

Below are some pictures from the Bees game. Grace also started 2nd grade yesterday.

Daddy and Ryan

Grace and Ry

Grace and Isaac

New Bishopric Changes

Back on July 11th we had a change in the Bishopric. John Riggs was my 1st counselor since we were all put in and he did a great job. We miss having him around, but his family moved out of the ward, so I had to make a change.

The original musketeers (from L to R) John Riggs - 1st coun., yours truly, and Nick Romriell - 2nd coun.

My ward clerk, Rusty Robinson was put in as my 2nd counselor in the Bishopric and my previous 2nd counselor, Nick Romriell, is now my 1st counselor...here we are:

Bishopric 2.0 (from L to R) Nick Romriell - 1st coun., some guy again, and Rusty Robinson - 2nd coun.

I am thankful for the great people that serve around me. Nick and Rusty are great guys and I am learning a lot from them and they are doing really well in their new areas of responsibility.

...now, I really like to keep track of this stuff for historical purposes, but my joker High Priest Group Leader, Kurt Francom, was the guy behind the scenes taking the photo. He decided it would be awesome to take outtakes and goofy pictures of us.

Here is one of Nick laughing and me looking annoyed at Kurt's shenanigans:

Then he couldn't figure out the difference between picture mode and video mode, has this guy never used a camera before...here is our awesome 14 second behind the scenes clip:



And now the clincher, the weird picture he was trying to take for some kind of dramatic effect, I am not sure what he was up to. But, this looks like a really gnarly group, eh?

We all look confused (which I can assure you we are):

But the tables have turned, FRANCOM, how do you like these apples:

Hope everyone is doing well! -DC-

Quality Father and Son Time

The reason I like to try and throw pictures on here every once in a while and try to attempt to keep things up to date, is because this is a good way to journal and remember important memories.

Recently Ry and I had the chance to go to our ward's Fathers and Sons outing, it was a great time!

We made it up there and found our ward camp:

Ryan liked to take the lights that are supposed to help you see...to replace his eyes:

He found time to "hang" out:

We ate plenty of good food:

We went canoeing and Ryan loved his Diego life vest:

We also found time with great ward members, Rusty (who is my 2nd counselor) spent time on the guitar around the campfire:

MORE FOOD THAN WE KNEW WHAT TO DO WITH...it was soooo good!

So at about 7am on Saturday morning we were visited by a few moose that ran right through our camp. The bull and cow got so close to us and Ryan thought it was so cool, those are beautiful and huge animals:

Every time Ryan still talks about the moose he says "the moose and then the other moose" referring to the fact that the moose were right next to each other following close, it is so cute!

I love my boy so much, it was such a memorable time with him and, with how busy I am, it was so refreshing to just disconnect from the craziness of everything and spend time with my favorite little red head!