Thursday night, we went over to mom's in Casa Grande to eat dinner with grandma and grandpa Stephenson. Tanner remembering that mom had his 'Tanner and Porter' fish asked where they were. I told him that they went home to their mommy and daddy (literally). So he went up to Rusten and asked if he would buy Tanner a purple fish. Of course Rusten agreed but didn't think Tanner would remember after spending the weekend with mom in California. They went up to aunt Karen's for Hannah's homecoming. Saturday night, Rusten was talking to Tanner and first thing he said was "daddy my fish?" So yesterday before we picked up Tanner we stopped to get two 'brother' fish. Its really a male and female beta, the only purple fish they had. But he can find that out later in life!! With Tanner gone for the weekend I realized a couple of things. (I've never had to house to just Porter and me, since Porter was born). My house stays clean, Porter takes longer naps and sticks to his schedule, and most of all that Tanner completes our house and makes me fill whole!! Ooh the power and hold kids have on you is priceless, or maybe its overwhelming? But you still love and miss them when they are gone, even though you needed a break!!!
Monday, August 27, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
Biker Memorial
We got to West Gate that morning before the game, it just so happened they were having a Biker Memorial for the four helicopter news pilots that had died a couple weeks ago. One of the pilots that died was a biker, one of the news channel 3 anchorman drove his bike up on the stage and there was a couple of people who spoke. There were thousands of bikers there raising money for them. The last three pictures are of K.I.T.T., the car from Knight Rider.
Cardinal Game
Here are some pictures from last Saturday's Cardinal Game. They're not the greatest pictures, I should of taken a digital camera. We went to the game for Rusten's birthday, it was what I had gotten him. We had a wonderful weekend!! Thanks to nana, papa, and aunties!!!
Friday, August 10, 2007
President Faust
Article from lds.org
SALT LAKE CITY 10 August 2007 President James E. Faust, second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died at his home early this morning surrounded by his family.
President Faust, 87, had served in the First Presidency since 1995 and as a General Authority of the Church for 35 years. A Church statement today said that President Faust had died of “causes incident to age.”
President Faust was appointed second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 12 March 1995. The First Presidency is the highest presiding body in the government of the Church.
He had previously served four years as an Assistant to the Twelve (the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is the second-highest presiding body) before being appointed a member of the presidency of the First Quorum of the Seventy (other senior leaders in the Church) on 1 October 1976.
His most recent assignments included vice chairman of the Church Board of Education; the board of trustees of Brigham Young University; the Welfare Services Executive Committee; and Deseret Management Corporation.
Bruce Olsen, managing director of Church Public Affairs, said this morning that President Faust’s “gentle manner and depth of knowledge, which was an important part of his ministry for nearly 35 years, will be missed.”
“He was a true Christian who spoke and wrote with wit and wisdom,” Olsen said. “Many members of the Church loved his unique way of teaching the restored gospel of Jesus Christ at General Conference.”
Olsen said that Church members around the world are calling to extend to President Faust’s family their heartfelt condolences.
President Faust was born 31 July 1920, in Delta, Utah. He participated as a member of the University of Utah track team in 1938 and ran the quarter-mile and mile relay.
His college career was interrupted first to serve as a missionary for the Church in Brazil and later by World War II, during which he served in the U.S. Army Air Force and was discharged as a first lieutenant. In 1948 he graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor's and Juris Doctor degree. He began the practice of law in Salt Lake City and continued until his appointment as a general authority of the Church in 1972.
He served as a member of the Utah Legislature from 1949 to 1951, as an advisor to the American Bar Journal, and president of the Utah Bar Association in 1962-1963. He received the Distinguished Lawyer Emeritus Award from the Utah Bar Association in 1995. In August of 1997, he received an Honorary Doctors Degree of Christian Service from Brigham Young University. He was honored as a Distinguished Alumni at the University of Utah in 1999, and was awarded the Honorary Order of the Coif at Brigham Young University in 2000. In 2003, he was given the Marion G. Romney Distinguished Service Award by Brigham Young University Law School, and he was awarded an Honorary Doctors of Law degree by the University of Utah. President John F. Kennedy appointed him to the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in 1962.
In 1998 President Faust received a Brazilian national citizenship award — an honor given to only a select few world leaders — and was awarded honorary citizenship of the city of Sao Paulo.
Married to the former Ruth Wright of Salt Lake City, they are the parents of five children: James H. Faust, Janna R. Coombs, Marcus G. Faust, Lisa A. Smith, and Robert P. Faust. They have 25 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
July Scrapbooking!
These are just different pictures of the boys from this last month. Easy scrapbooking!!
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Thursday, August 2, 2007
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