What have you done to make someone Happy today?

pic from elaine turso

Patrick's scrapbook page from a friend of his.

A Great Day

Yesterday we had a wonderful opportunity. All the missionaries were gathered together in our stake center to hear Elder Melchin, Elder Hallstrom and Elder Nelson. This is one of the perks for serving a mission.

When the general authorities came into the chapel we all stood up. They lined up in front of the chapel and we all got to shake their hands. The talks were so good. Elder Melchin spoke very briefly. He had been to our mission just over a month ago. Then Elder Hallstrom spoke. Grampa and I were privileged to have Elder Hallstrom and his wife and daughters at Vancouver when he did a mission tour there. He was in the office while in Vancouver and signed one of my apples. Yesterday he spoke for about 10 or so minutes. Next Sister Wendy Watson Nelson spoke. She is such a good speaker. She said that each day she has a question in mind. Opens her scriptures randomly and reads until she has the answer to her question.

Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve was the concluding speaker. He spoke for quite a while and then asked if there were any questions. Our young missionaries had some really great questions. He answered each one of them by turning to the scriptures. It was an amazing learning experience. I think he must have the scriptures memorized. I am always amazed how they can tell you exactly where to turn to find the answers to your questions.

Then - just to make our day even better, we were delighted to have Mathew and Liza here from the states together with other grandkids who were able to come for supper. We love having our family together. This is the blessing of old age. Those little short people are the cutest!!

We love you all so very much,
Gramma & Grampa

The New Adventures of Cal and Troy!

this is the helmet cal uses cause he is just super cool! -cal

and of course the gloves to keep the hands warm
most of all the bicycle Dad and i bought some mountain bikes to start riding to work because they are very gas efficient i can get 40 kilometers to the pound.
Dad not so much =) anyways we bought them last night around 8 o'clock and ended up going for a cruise right after. we also have gone over to walmart not bad for a start we both got the same kind. my buddy got us a discount ( we were hooked up i know lol) but we are gonna start riding everyday and im planning to cruise down to the coolies =) im excited.

That's it for tonights broadcast folks please tune in next for more of cal and troys adventures!


Love you all Cal and Troy

Sea crest out!

The Dancing Baby!!

Skype addresses

Troy, I tried to search for a Skype address for you but found none, could you send it to me in an e-mail. Also if anyone else has Skype let me know through e-mail and I will set you up in my/our contacts list, that is if you want to look at my handsome face while talking to me from great distances away. If you don't have Skype yet, go to skype.com and download it for free.

Uncle Brent.

Aaron and Chelseys friends and brother (back right), at on of the A le carte restaurents.

Maxine (Chelsey's Gramma) eating supper with Aaron, Chelsey and Brooke.

Aarons Two best friends and Chelsey's girl friends.

The Trio was singing a love song that roxanne and I were exposed to when taking Spainish classes in McMurray. It is called "Besseme" I believe it means "kiss me" (or kiss me now??).
Although it seems like alot of eating was going on..... I lost 15 lbs. Montezuma and I became very close friends for almost 4 weeks.

A video of the chef at the Tokjo Restaurant.

Fish Faces and Swinging at the Park

Hey Everyone! Just thought I would share a few more pictures of the little gal. I tried to upload a crawling video, but it didn't work, so I will keep trying!! But for now, here are some candid shots of Camilla. We are doing really good! Mike is loving work and we are both looking forward to heading down to Utah for Conference. Mike has a mission reunion that weekend too and is looking forward to bringing Camilla to meet people from his mission. Camilla is growing like a weed and can crawl at super sonic speeds. She has the most hilarious personality and always keeps us laughing.
Much Love,
Addie, Mike&Camilla

This is a shot I got of her sleeping. She is always in the funniest positions in her crib and enjoys the fact that she can move around and make herself comfortable (although, she doesn't look that comfy in this pic haha)

This is Miss Cami and Daddy at the park. We've been really enjoying the warm weather and she LOVES swinging at the park!!

I snapped this shot last night while laughing hysterically. (Trust me, its much more hilarious in real life!!!) She can make fish faces. I just think it's hilarious when she sucks her little cheeks in!!

Camilla raced in the Honda Baby Crawl at the Mom and Tots fair last week. She won second place!!! haha It was the funniest/cutest thing ever! This is a fake action shot as I took it after the race was done. What a cute idea though! The girls had fun!

Best Vacay Ever!

Soooo Jen, Les, I and babies all headed up to the Mac to enjoy a lil visit with the fam. It was sure nice to see our parents, brother and few friends. Whilst on this trip some fantastic, memorable moments occured.

1. The first one begins with some innocent clothes shopping with Les, Mom, Jacey, Kingston and myself. Les had gone to strap in the lil monsters while mom and I finished paying for our stuff when all of a sudden Les runs in wheeling Jacey and exclaims, " WE have a big problem." The big refered to problem was that Kingston had been strapped in, doors locked and closed. So the tiny tyke was in the sans adult supervision. We tried unsuccessfully a few times to coax the little gent to push the unlock button but he would just smile at us and play with the keys, while sitting nicely. (Now he sits nicely) hehe So Les ran to an auto place, which told her to run to the security place who told her...We can help! And they did. A kind gent thought we looked pathetic enough to unlock this poor boy and give him back to us. Poor Les was more freaked out than Kingston I think.

2. Les and I were on our way outta town when we had a Fuji Sushi craving hit us, and like suckers we stopped. It wasn't open for another 10 mins and we thought, "why not let the kids run around Plaza II before the car ride?" So Kingston made me ride the escalators over and over again and Les carried Jacey football style around the mall until time was up. We decided to hitch a ride with the elevator along with another mom and her two kidlets. Ummm, it stopped moving. The elevator got stuck between the two floors. AWESOME! So Les called the emergency number while I stopped Kingston from putting his fingers in the two stranger kids mouths and tried to not let Jacey touch the floor/wall/ceiling/ anything. The lady thought we were in the States and then told us it would be about 1/2 hour until we were rescued. Umm, did I say we were in Plaza II mall elevator with four infant kids?!? Blech. After about 10 mins or so Les and I could hear people and figured we had to be close to the floor and so we sumo powered the doors open. There was a security guy on the other side and we were about a foot above the floor. We hopped out, said sayonara to the mall and enjoyed our sushi...after we lysol wiped. =)

NO JOKE, these two storied happened within 2 days of each other. I might just write a book about my life now. - Alyson

The most important things in life

are not

THINGS

more Dominican pics

Some pics at the resort. Brooke at an outside restaurant, offthe balcony of Jordan and Kristinas room, a street in one of the towns (shot with one hand while steering a dune buggy), on the boat we went snorkeling from (the waves are breaking on the reef behind us) and the setting for the wedding ceremony just before Aaron and Chelsey got hitched!! It was a real good time, hot weather, beautiful beach and good company.

I'll post some more tomorrow.

Uncle Brent

Update from Aaron & Chelsey

Hi everyone,

We are back from our vacation/wedding and had a wonderful time. We are so blessed to have so many wonderful people in attendance. The weather was beautiful and the wedding day was perfect. We couldn't have asked for a better day. Spending two weeks in a third world country sure made us appreciate the wonderful life we have here in Canada and we are so thankful for all the great people we have to share it with. We are now back to work and enjoying our married life together. We know we haven't been the best bloggers, but we promise to try and blog more often.

Love,

Aaron & Chelsey

Our big/little news

Hey everyone,

We haven't had internet access but have been sooo excited to share our news. Cass and I are going to be parents in September. We are almost 11 weeks now and had a sonogram done 2 weeks agoThis is babies back, not too exciting but they get better

This the front, you can see the head and little arms and legs

Here's the side, the kid looks like an alien but we love it anyway, you can see the cord really well and it looks like the arms are by the head

We'll keep you all updated, we go back to the doctor's on the 15Th so we'll post soon after.

Love,

Cass and Jeanine