Blessings and more Blessings

It was a special day last Sunday for this family even though Jackson doesn't look too thrilled.  Brandon was able to give Jackson a blessing.  Stephen and I were so happy to be able to to be there in Utah and share in this special time for Ashton and Brandon.  The blessing took place at my parents, Russ and Elaine Homer's home.  My sister, Janelle had her new little baby, Evelyn blessed as well.  It was a beautiful day spent with family.  This post has a ton of pictures...I had a hard time limiting it to just a few since Jackson is such a cutie.

 Jackson and his Grandpa

 A beautiful family

 Jackson and his daddy, Brandon

 Jackson was so done taking pictures!

 Uncle Dallin loves his little nephew.

 Sweet baby Evelyn

 Jackson's cute little mocassins

Evelyn and Jackson

Cougars Homecoming 2015

Stephen and I both graduated from Brigham Young University...our blood runs BLUE!  We were excited to be able to attend the BYU Homecoming 2015 game this year.  We got tickets to go to the Saturday evening game and invited Mom and Dad to go with us since they are also BYU Graduates.  What a legacy!

We headed down to Provo early to try to beat some of the traffic and to go to lunch with Ashton and baby Jackson.  We had a burger and fries at In and Out burger.

Uncle Easton loves holding his nephew, Jackson!

Here we are at the game and ready to cheer our Cougars to victory.

What an amazing setting for a college football game.

Dallin joined us after halftime since we had a couple of empty seats in front of us.

And BYU barely pulls off a win!  It was a fun game full of fumbles, interceptions and touchdowns.  So glad we were able to experience the energy of being in the stadium with thousands of  people cheering on our Cougars and glad to be able to spend time with family.

One Step at a Time

When I was in Utah over the summer we took an awesome hike to the Bear Canyon Suspension bridge above Wasatch Boulevard in Draper.  The Bear Canyon Suspension Bridge is located on the east side of Draper in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountain Range. The bridge spans 185 feet across Bear Canyon and connects the Bonneville Shoreline Trail.  Since it is new this year and my parents have never seen it, I convinced them to take the hike when I was visiting this weekend.  It's about a mile hike to the bridge and I was pretty confident that they could do it.  I remembered it being fairly easy with just a few steep parts.  I thought they could take it slow and steady and make it just fine.

Well, it was an adventure to be sure!  It ended up being a little steeper and a little longer than I had remembered and the parents kind of struggled.  My mom tripped on the very first step and went down.  She wasn't hurt and we got a good laugh out of it.  It wasn't the best way to start a hike!  With their walking sticks in hand, they just kept plugging along.  I kept thinking the bridge was just around the corner and then it wasn't.  Oh well....we actually did finally make it to the bridge and took in the beautiful view of the valley.

Kamryn, Stephen, and Easton were the first ones to reach the bridge.

Mom chose not to walk across the bridge because it can be a little bouncy and it sways.  She just rested on the bench.

Easton

Enjoying the view off the bridge...the reward after the long, hot hike.

We definitely had an adventure and made some new memories.  My dad said he was glad he saw it but he was never doing that again!

Heading to Utah

We jumped on a plane Thursday morning and it was early.  We had to wake up at 4:30 to be able to make our 8:15 a.m. flight.  We were on our way to Utah to spend time with family and to see little Jackson be blessed.  We had a pretty uneventful flight with some patches of bumpiness but we did OK.  Yay for seeing family!

Awesome Experience

Easton gave a talk in Sacrament a few weeks ago on the subject of, "Keeping the Sabbath day holy in our homes."  He was the youth speaker and really gave a superb talk.  He was confident and his presentation was great.  He spoke clearly and slowly and his prepared message was awesome.  The concluding speaker for the meeting was a visiting General Authority, Fred Parker.  He spoke for a while on the subject of Keeping the Sabbath holy and then he paused and asked Easton to come up to the stand.  Easton walked up, stood next to Elder Parker and received a strong handshake.  Then Elder Parker proceeded to tell the congregation about Easton, a 14 year old boy how just taught us how to keep the Sabbath holy.  He said that if we would all follow the teaching of this young man that we would be doing exactly what we should be doing.  He shared thoughts of when he went to a training in Salt Lake City with the Prophet, Apostles, and other general authorities.  He compared what Easton had talked about with what had been taught in his training.  He said that everything Easton taught us was "spot on".  He spoke about the exact same things that were taught by the prophet, apostles, and general authorities at the meeting he attended.  

It was a special moment for Easton, one that I hope he always remembers.  We were able to grab a picture with Elder Parker after the meeting and he again complimented Easton on his teaching about the Sabbath and how it was perfect counsel.