Raking Leaves

My cute little Bug was helping me rake leaves.. Really, look how hard she is working! Love this kid.

See, she's handing me the leaves one by one to put in the pile.

Last but not least, look at my two cuties.. You just have to love them right?! It's Shawn and his "mini me"!

For the Record

Team Edward...

Have you done your Family History?

Shawn and I decided to take McKenzie to the LDS History and Art Museum this week.. Ok call me a loser but I LOVED this place! If you've never gone, you must! It has many cool archives of our faith, and lots of information! I was SOO excited to see a certificate from the Relief Society from the BINGHAM WARD.. that's right, my family history got a ward way back when! If you can't read it.. squint.. it says Bingham.. Wo .. I am so famous. Oh, and the Bingham Copper Mine, yea that was in my fam too. Anyway, here are some great pics of our little down town adventure.

These are the casts of Joseph and Hyrum Smith just after they died. I for some reason thought this was absolutly amazing.. Joseph's face seems to be depicted so well in every painting of him.

This is a letter written by Joseph Smith, and 2 jail bars from Liberty Jail. The letter was later turned in D&C 121-123. If you don't remember off hand what those sections say, check it out... "All these things shall be for thy good... The Son of Man have descended below them all. Art thou greater than he?" Ahh! Some of my favorite scripture!

Some of the origional manuscript from Joseph's translations of the Book of Mormon.

Hyrum Smith's watch that saved him from one of the first deadly bullets, at the Martyrdom at Carthage Jail. You can still see the bullet hole.

A very old Picture of the Nauvoo Temple. Looks like a painting but it's not.

One of the origional Sun Stones from the Nauvoo Temple. So Cool!

I thank my ancestors for not only doing what they did in great faith in crossing the plains, to suffer much persecution, and endure to the end, but also for keeping these amazing artifacts that we can embrace, remember, enjoy, and share with our posterity. We must never forget their great faith, and live as they lived. With unfaltering devotion to their God and Religion. I only hope that I too can do amazing things that will make my lineage proud of me and embrace what I leave behind. What will you leave behind?

Amen. and Amen.