Any guesses on baby names?

Everyone keeps asking us what we are going to name our baby girl and we just say that the baby is due in 'two weeks' and so you will find out then.

So as a baby name poll, we would like to see what you think we will be naming our second little girl...

Comment with the names.

Divine Institution of Marriage

I would have you focus on the fact that 'marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God', and is a central part of his plan for his children.

Trying to be like Daddy!

Happy 92nd Birthday Grandma Sewell !!

Mira's Great Great Grandma Vera Sewell had her 92nd Birthday on September 21st.

A Civil Right?

Voting on Prop 8

If you want to see the implications that the passing of Prop 8 will have on our families...watch the video at the top of our blog.

Pretty crazy stuff.

Where babies come from...

The fruits of our labors

From Snowflakes and Flowers

This summer we decided to put in a garden. We are just renting here but the owner said we could place a garden where there used to be one before. Well, we used the elders as brute labor to help pull out the grass (crab grass is the worst). And then there was the tilling and planting. After all of that, the end result is what you see above. Wheww! Larry didn't have much time and so I (Kaylene) had to do most of the work despite the fact that I was a few months prego.

From Snowflakes and Flowers

After a few months of watering and weeding (yet we didn't do much weeding) we had:

From Snowflakes and Flowers

Tomatoes, zucchini, squash (acorn, butternut, spaghetti), and bell peppers (at least the plants of the bell peppers).

From Snowflakes and Flowers

From just one day of harvest this was the result. What beautiful color and flavor.

I loved the part that when everyone was upset for the price of tomatoes, I had plenty here at home to do what I pleased and more to spare. I sure does pay to plant a garden. I also had the opportunity to figure out the many ways to eat a zucchini.

Idaho Vacation and Yellowstone July 08

My parents, Mira and I (Kaylene) were able to drive up to Utah, Idaho, and Yellowstone this summer to see family. It was an exciting adventure. We were sure glad to see so many of our family that we haven't seen in a long while. We love you all!!

Here are some pictures of our adventures:

It's been a while . . .

First off, this is Larry and not Kaylene typing up this entry, but I figure that since this is a blog for our family, it's free game.

It has been a while since we posted anything on our blog and there is a lot to say, just it has been hard to find time to say it recently. We'll get around to it. We promise.

It has been a while since my family (parents and siblings) have been all together, almost five years in fact. I know that there are other families with a longer record than that, but still, five years feels like a really long time for a family where we are used to having each other around, especially us boys. And really, us boys were the ones that weren't around. We weren't around because each of us received a call from God through His living prophet to serve as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I served in the Albania Tirana Mission from October 2003 - October 2005, Alan served in the Brazil Campinas Mission from August 2005 - August 2007, and Ian just completed his service in the Canada Calgary Mission which started in August of 2006. Let me tell you, it's good to all be together again. There are so many stories that the three of us already share in from our days of high school and serving on summer camp staff, let alone just growing up together, but now all three of us have the opportunity to sit and reminisce on the people that we learned to love as we shared the message of Jesus Christ.

The funniest part of our reunion is that Ian didn't know that it was going to happen. Mom and Dad decided to drive up to pick him up and then the rest of us (except Emma) flew up to Idaho. Kaylene, Mira and I flew up to meet the happy travelers in Hayden Lake, Idaho at my grandparents' house where Ian was already planning on eating Mexican food made by our Aunt Chris (that tasted great!), and then the other two, Alan and Nicole, traveled to Pocatello, Idaho and were at Emma and Robert Wood's house when the rest of us showed up. It was great to be all together again and what made it even better was that it didn't seem really like there had been that gap of five years. We just picked up where we left off when the whole thing started (although with more numbers).

Family is just great.