TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL!

I wanted to tell you what happened to us on Friday night. We had been at BYU, Kaden's team practices there once a month for his baseball team. We decided to stop and get something to eat and so we decided to go to the Sizzler so off we went, pulled into a parking stall, I was talking to my friend on the phone when suddenly Justin yelled out "there is President Monson" so I hung up the phone
(I don't even think I said goodbye) jumped out of the car and ran over to shake his hand, I asked "can I shake your hand?" and then he asked my name and I introduced myself and Kaden. We proceded to walk in with him and his wife, opened the door to the Sizzler for them, Kaden opened the other door for him, while President Monson was walking through the door he was talking to Kaden about the BYU shirt that he was wearing and talking baseball and President Monson asked what position that he played and he told Kaden that he had played center field in the past when suddenly President Monson grabbed a hold of Kaden's face and told him to watch his ears, Kaden laughed. We proceded to wait in line with him and his wife and his body guard for about 25 minutes having conversations with them along the way. What a humbling experience to know that there is so many places for him to eat and not get bombbarded by camera's and things and he chooses just a regular place like Sizzler having to wait in line to even order I thought that he should'nt had to wait he should have been waited on right when he walked through the door even if I had to do it myself. The neat thing about it was that he didn't get over welmed by people, they knew who he was but had so much respect for him that they left him alone to eat with his wife. It wasn't what I would have thought would of happened. What a privledge it was to experience that with my little son and wishing the whole time that I had all of my kids there to be able to be touched by such a great man. It was hard to hold back the tears everytime we called to let people know what we were doing. I hope that Kaden will always remember how he felt that night, he said that he never wants to take a bath and wash his cheeks ever again and I hope that he knows what a privlege it was that he was that close to the Prophet I know I do.

Well the word spread fast and we had phone calls for the next 24 hours non-stop, and then when we got to church on Sunday everybody knew about it I am pretty sure that they announced in their morning meetings, I thought we would have to get up in Sacrament meeting and talk about it. Every body was touching Kaden like he was a king and what was funny is that he felt like one all weekend, he had to get up in primary and tell all the kids about his experience that he will never ever forget.

You will have to ask him sometime the details.

Fun in the sun!!!!!

Last weekend for father's Day our friends "The Wilson's" invited us to spend the weekend at their Condo in St. George, we love doing things with them, their kids are around the same age as our kids them having 3 boys and 1 girl makes it a perfect fit. They get along great!!! We left Saturday night and arrived a little later than we planned because Kaden had a couple of pretty important games to play so between the U.S. open and kids we tried to fit everything in. They played and played and played some more. We went to the lake and we went swimming in the pool we even got some horse rides in. Then it was time to go home. "We were not ready to go".

We even stopped at Justin's Uncle Lynn's house he lives out by the lake we went to. It was so good to see him Justin hasn't seen him forever, he really likes Lynn it made his fathers day and also made his uncle's. Lynn was great our friends little boy Ryan loves horses and wants to be a cowboy someday so we thought it would be fun to go show him the coolest horses, there was a worker that saddled up his horse and took them for horse rides it was great for the kids. They called him their "Gruncle" for great uncle.

The kids found a friend, they were playing in the field behind the condo as we were looking out the window some of the boys were a little nervous to go into the trees. We were a little nervous thinking that it might have been a rattlesnake so we called for the "THE BIG GUNS" to help so off went Hunter and Darrin to go save the little ones. Zack came home with the look of death and said "I am not going to be a part of what is out there", so he hung around and waited until it was safe. So here they all come with the furious beast "The horny toad". I guess it wasn't so scary.

THANKS TODD AND PAM, we had a blast!!!!

A night at the Owl's game

Last Wednesday night the boys went to a Owl's baseball game and had a blast. Kaden's team had the opportunity to go onto the field with the Owl's player that played their postion while they sang the National Athem. Kaden was in the height of his glory.

Shelby's Piano debut!!!

Today was Shelby's piano recital, she played "Oh when the saints, came marching in" and she rocked at it.