How was conference?

So what did everyone think of conference? Leave some comments and let us know your thoughts. It is always great to listen to the prophet and general authorities speak. Now if we could all just do a little better at following their council...

Guestbook Added

We now have a guestbook on our blog. Feel free to leave a comment and say hi! It is on the right side of the page.

Priesthood Session

The priesthood session of conference was really good. It seems that the leaders of the church really want us to focus on fulfilling our callings to the best of our abilities. They especially seemed to talk a lot about being of service and fulfilling our responsibilities to our families. We all need to do all we can to show our love for our spouses and our children. I always enjoy conference weekend, there is so much for us all to learn, and be reminded of.

Update

To answer a comment from a previous post, the house we are staying in is a three room home. It is a pretty old home, and the outside is somewhat in shambles, but the inside isn't too bad now that it is cleaned up. The windows are single pained, and it is right on the highway, so the traffic is a bit noisy at times. But all in all it isn't too bad of a place to stay. The weather here is hot and dry, with lows in the lower 90. Hopefully it will start cooling down here soon. The nice thing with the hot weather though is that many of the air conditioners here are kept in good repair. When inside everything is nice and cool. We look forward to watching conference on TV this weekend. Savannah and Olivia are as cute as ever. Olivia has had a fever the last few days, but appears to be getting better. It looks like she might be starting to teeth. She is also starting to crawl just a little. She won't do much, but she will move a few inches forward if there is something she wants.

Slideshows

We have now uploaded a bunch of pictures and added slide shows for them. Feel free to watch the slide shows, or click on them to see the slide shows at a larger resolution.

The House

Here are some pictures of the house we are staying in. It is pretty old, and as I said, it was really dirty, but we have cleaned up the inside so it is pretty nice now. The outside of the house is pretty junky, but we will leave it that way.

First Night

The first night when we arrived in ---------------- we were in for a few surprises. The place was pretty dirty with dust and dead bugs everywhere. The most eventful surprise was what Tom saw crawling next to the couch that night. See for yourself:

This was of course after the centipede was long since dead. Elise wouldn't even look at it, and never saw the actual thing. She hasn't even seen this picture yet, but soon she will when she views this post. Needless to say we did some extensive cleaning, and finally after a full day of cleaning on Saturday the house is looking pretty good.

Trip to Arizona

Our trip down here to -------------- was pretty uneventful. Savannah and Olivia got a bit grumpy as was expected, but it wasn't too bad. On the way down we stopped at looked at Montezuma's Well and Montezuma's Castle. At Montezuma's Well we saw a stick bug. That was kind of neat since we hadn't seen one before.

We also saw a couple of Indian ruins at the well. Here are a couple of pictures of them, one on each side of the well, as well as a picture of the well.

After going to Montezuma's Well we went to Montezuma's Castle. Here is a mockup model of what the inside of the castle would have looked like back in its prime.

Here is Savannah in front of the castle and shows what it looks like now.

First Post

Well, we now have a blog. We'll see how often we post to it. We just got down to Arizona where we will probably be until just before Christmas. We are down here for Tom to do some work automating a haul truck in an open pit mine. He really enjoys the work.