Purdy's in Pictures

There's something irresistible about a picture of a messy baby. They just enjoy dessert so much. 

 Oooh. This is the closest Ben has ever been to a messy child of ours:) haha

Time with cousins. Macey and Micah

 Vanessa and Cody

 Benson and Jon

 Dad and Brigham, our newest cousin

 Still messy!

 Our neighbors have a bunch of lambs in their barn

 They like to suck your fingers!

  

 At the water park

 In the mountains:

 eating rocks

 This is Brigham's home:

 My dad's friend invented instafire. Pour some out and light it=instant fire. You can also light it in your hand and put it out by covering it. Kinda cool. 

 Brigham's blessing day and the homemade root beer

 The cake for the tradition of smashing the baby's hand in it

 My parents, Micah and Yolanda

Macey and Mackayla are 2 yrs 9 months apart and we figured out the space between Nette's 1st and 3rd is 2 yrs 9 months. Power to you!

 Benson, their second, has SMA and will never walk. They have also been moving for the last year every couple months for Jon's schooling which ends this August. Things are about to get more stable but this little family handles it like champs.

Jumping fun

 awesome hair

I don't know how I missed a picture of the new gazebo and sandbox, one of the new favorite places to play! And let's not forget the day the kids went to a hawaiian luau and we went shopping!! We had a fun week!

Powell in Pictures

Boat ride:

 We had a great beach this year

 Tons of seashells to find

 Horseshoes and sleeping babies

 Our theme with patriotic shirts was with the olympics

 And our own olympic games

 This is harder than it looks

 This too

One of the favorite activities was fishing

 and kayaking

 The Air Chair

Luke and Blake surfing

 Ben and Cody surfing

 Macey cheered them on

 Ben surfing and sporting a sweet tan line

 EFG "especially for grandparents" time

 Tube Time

 Two story slide. Here goes Ben:

 and Cody!

 Plenty of eating was done: 

Another undocumented event, and one of Ben's favorite was his and Luke's climb through a slot canyon. He's been in search of one for years and this one didn't disappoint.

I will always love royal rumble.

Our first week in church here Macey's teacher asked her where she was from and she told them Lake Powell.

Actually that would be pretty cool,

We LOVE Lake Powell!

Never Rent a Budget Truck

A new record for me...I just downloaded 300 pictures from this last month. I'm not sure I've ever taken that many pictures.

So...this is obviously a rewind to June 1 and then I'll catch up.

Bye house!

Bye Oklahoma!

We will miss our friends and our ward there. Honestly some incredible people that I really admire live there.

(I covertly took a picture of our neighbors. ;) Notice the car that was beaten with a baseball bat at 2am from a drug induced rage. Oh I miss those things. Wait, that was my favorite part about moving.)

We really did have some sweet neighbors on the other side and in our backyard. I regret not getting pictures of them. But they took care of us here.

 Cody was not happy that we forgot to take our tree house. There it is! Luckily we have a new one that we get to hang here!

 The scenery along the way was flat and it's windy, so I guess these are useful:

My amazing parents came and helped us, once again, move our stuff across the country. We started our trek and realized that the Budget truck topped out at about 57 mph. 62 downhill. That made for a long trip and incidentally our truck did that on the way here. My advice: don't get a budget truck unless you love driving for hours upon hours in a loud archaic truck.

Our first adventure happened when regular fuel was put into the diesel engine of the truck. Yikes! We had a four hour detour. But my mother is the best person to be with in an event like that. We cruised the aisles of the grocery store for hours while the kids picked out a treasure and a treat. Then we sat and ate them and played games. Seriously, a great memory now that it's over! And my dad has 50 gallons of gas. ha ha!

Props to Mackayla for enduring the long drives. Once we made it to Utah Cody and Macey stayed with grandma Bonnie and grandpa Jeff and we kept going to Oregon. Mackayla came with us. She logged close to 60 hours in the car of just straight traveling (not day to day stuff) this last month, all with minimal complaining. She is a champ.

**Day 1 of Ben's new job today...and of course, he got called in! It's now 12:00 and he is not home. Supposedly though, his hours won't be nearly as intense as they were last year. Yea! But so far...not true:)

Reading by the Spirit

Emphasizing things on a blog is possible with a little change in text. I usually write the way I think in my head which is I think the way I talk. But I'm not sure that's how people read it. I could use bold or italics or underline or make the font bigger. In the scriptures, they don't do that.
I decided the only way to get the points that are supposed to be emphasized for us is to read by the spirit.
The other night a couple words just jumped off the page to me. Like they were bold and underlined. It was exactly what I needed to read.