We'll Be Seein Ya

I am thankful every day that I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. The knowledge and guidance that it gives to my life is priceless. I don't know how I could live in this day and age and raise my family without it. However, I don't think I have ever been as thankful for it as I am today. I am thankful for the Temple blessings. Of knowing that families are eternal. That even though we might have to be a part for a little while it really is only a moment in the eternal perspective. So Poad, this is not a final goodbye it's just a "We'll Be Seein' Ya!"

Lincoln Sherwood

Jan 9, 1947 - Sept 26, 2010

Sand, Fire, Marshmellows...Priceless

One of the many things I learned growing up in St. Johns is that all you need to make a summer evening a ton of fun is a sand wash, the ability to light a fire, and marshmallows. These three things are part of many of my memories and I'm sure a few of my children's. This summer we invited some friends to experience the fun with us. Let's face it, it's always more fun to have little ones around and unfortunately my little ones had the nerve to get bigger than me. All of them!!! So thanks Matthew's for coming with us and sharing your little ones.

We learned a few important things on this adventure to the sand wash. I thought I would go a head and share them.

Flip Flops are NOT the foot ware of choice at the sand wash!

Smoke Bomb's at the sand wash are a must! They entertain kiddo's of all ages for an extended amount of time.



There is a talent to roasting the perfect marshmallow. Megan has this talent!!

Look it is roasted perfectly! I didn't take a picture of my marshmallows because I do not have the marshmallow roasting talent. My marshmallows all come out a very beautiful shade of black. Boy do they taste good!

We also learned there are many ways to eat giant marshmallow. ( I found these giant marshmallows at Alco and I must say they were my favorite find of the whole summer! They were just awesome.)

Kensie's method was to just put it on a stick and eat it like an apple. Good method and the least messy.

Brookyn's favorite way to eat hers was to just smash it. She made her smore, smashed it as flat as she could and shoved it in her mouth! Her way was my favorite way to eat them.

Tayli just enjoyed the hugeness of the marshmallow! She set her giant marshmallow between her graham cracker and very carefully nibbled away so she wouldn't smash it at all. This too was a good method but a little too time consuming for the rest of us.




Now Bryle really didn't care how he ate them, he just wanted to get as sticky as possible. This one was not my preferred way of eating them but he sure enjoyed it!

Draylon really didn't have much to do with the giant marshmallows he just went for the chocolate!! Wearing brown is one of his favorite things to do at the sand wash.

Look at that face!! This is how everyone feels after a summer evening at the sand wash.

I think everyone had a great time and made some great memories. I have a feeling this won't be the last memory making sand wash trip for the Sherwood's and the Matthew's. And it was so much fun to have the little one's and the big one's too!

Fun In The Sun

For Labor Day weekend we were able to go down to Gilbert for my nephew Kyle's wedding. While we were there we decided to take in a Diamond Backs game. We had a blast!!! It was our first time to go. If we lived down there I would go all the time. They played the Astro's and they lost. We still had so much fun. We invited anyone who wanted to go but it ended up just being our family and my parents. Here are a few pictures of all of us.

The whole gang (minus me who was taking the picture)

Kensie and " The Boyfriend" Jason (23, returned Missionary, all around great guy, stay tuned)

Kace ( you will understand his look in the next picture)

The Clone's (oh my)

My cute parents

Look, I really was there!!