I was looking around at some of my friends and family members blogs and noticed a few linked to mine and some of them show that I made my first and only post 6 months ago. So, I decided to start adding some. I could see myself getting very addicted to this and I don't have enough time for that. I found these pictures the other day of Joel at the Fathers and Sons campout in May. I know it is kind of late but they crack me up so I wanted to put them up here. I told Jason that he didn't need to take Joel this year. He has 5 sons! 4 sons would be a handful without a toddler who would not be 2 until August. But, he wouldn't hear of it and wanted to take him anyway. He said he had a ball and loved the dirt. You can see that is true from the pictures below. They are not the best quality because Jason only had his Camera phone but I still love them. I wonder how much dirt he ate!
It doesn't seem like it was many days ago that I was handed the most beautiful baby boy I had ever seen. The nurses in the hospital named him baby Elvis and I couldn't even get them to bring him to me one morning because they were too busy enjoying him in the nursery. Jason had to finally go and find him! He looked like he had been given a haircut the day before he was born because he had a perfect little man's haircut. Russ was born the weekend of General Conference and I can remember holding him in the hospital while I watched General Conference and thinking that life could not get any better. This year his birthday fell on General Conference weekend again and he turned 12! Yesterday that baby passed the sacrament for the first time. I was so proud of how seriously he took that responsibility. It was fun because they asked Jason to pass the sacrament with him this first time. He watched everything his dad did and was so worried about doing anything wrong. I felt so blessed to have two wonderful men in my life that take their priesthood responibilities so seriously and yes it made me cry! I hope that Russ will always remember that he can look to his Dad as an example to follow in honoring his priesthood just as he did yesterday. I wish the next 12 years would not go quite as fast as these last 12 have but I guess I won't count on it. I love you Russ and I am so proud of the wonderful handsome young man that you are becoming!
