Houston Zoo

This week Lamont had a conference for work in Houston. The boys and I decided to tag along and stay in a nice hotel and eat at nice restaurants with him. However, on Friday while he was in his conference all day we had to keep ourselves occupied. So, I decided to brave the Houston traffic and freeways and took the boys to the zoo. They loved it! We spent about five hours there and I hardly heard a whine the whole time. They were very good boys and enjoyed every minute of it. We saw the whole entire zoo (minus the reptiles). It is a cute zoo with a children's zoo and even a small aquarium, which McKay loved. Here is a picture of the boys playing in the children's zoo.

Carter's First T-Ball Game

This morning was Carter's first T-Ball game. He's on the Pirates, along with two of his friends from church. He is so proud of his uniform - #1 of course. The game was a riot to watch. The coaches are doing good just to get the kids running in the right direction. Carter had a blast, and especially loved the post-game treats!!

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San Antonio Temple

On Friday we were able to go to the San Antonio temple to see our good friends Mark & Anissa Wakefield receive their endowments. Mark is my home-teaching companion and asked me to be his escort. He joined the church when he was 17 and then went into the Navy and slowly drifted into inactivity. Fast forward 15 years to 2006, he and Anissa and their two kids moved to Corpus and he decided it was time to get involved with the church again. He called up the missionaries and soon Anissa was baptized - and Mark performed the ordinance. Now they were able to go to the temple and receive their endowments and be sealed together as a family. It was a great session and we felt honored to be a part of it.

P.S. When the missionaries first taught Anissa about propehts, Mark piped up - who's the prophet now, is it still Ezra Taft Benson??

The Things He Remembers...

I have told this story to some, but it still amazes me. About a week ago I was eating lunch with the boys and Carter saw that our bag of pretzels cost $2.49 and he said, "Oh 249, that's Called to Serve. Mommy, what's 248?" I said that I didn't know and he said, "Well, I think it's Wake Up Ye Defenders of Zion. Am I right? Can you go check?" I went over to the Hymn book and sure enough told him that it said "Up Awake, Ye Defenders of Zion". Then he answered, "oh, I guess I was wrong, it's Up Awake, not Wake Up."