Nauvoo Pageant

Saturday night we went to the Nauvoo Pageant and left Ethan with a babysitter. Whoohoo, it was great, I think we need to have a date night more often! The pageant was wonderful, I was very impressed. I loved how the stage was set with the temple in the background. The temple was dark for the whole pageant until the end when they lit it all up, after taking down the fake temple prop. It looked so gorgeous and really made an impact after seeing a story of the early Saints in Nauvoo who sacrificed so much to build that temple to worship and make sacred covenants in it.

Home again, Home again, Jiggity Jog

Ethan and I got back from a two week vacation last week to visit my family in New Mexico, Brian came back a week early for work.
It was really great to have almost everyone there at one time (we missed you Dave and Brian!), and since that happens so rarely, we took a lot of pictures, even though it was a bit chaotic with 12 kids 8 years old and younger running around. Luckily my parents just moved into a nice grandkid (and adult) friendly house so everyone had so much fun!


~Jail Break! Olivia, Caleb, & E ~Girls Late Night Crafts


~The 8 Lillywhite Kids ~4 Babies!


~We are Sisters :) ~The sis and sis-in-laws


~My whole fam ~Cute brothers


~All 11 grandkids ~Karoake Queens


~The Slip-n-Slide line ~Ticket to Ride, anyone?


~Kaitlin Loves Rylie :) ~Real New Mex Cuisine in Santa Fe

Cheney Reunion

Here are some of my favorite pictures of our Cheney family reunion in June. I've just been so busy I forgot to post them!

What a great family I married into!

Ethan with cousins Saffi and Schafer















He's so cute!

Freedom Rings

What a wonderful 4th of July!

1. softball game (don't know where the "scrunch the nose and breath really hard out of your nose" face comes from, but it's hilarious)



2. parade

3. naps for E and me/disc golf for Brian

4. BBQ with friends

5. fireworks

6. Ethan sleeping in until 10 the next morning!

Of course, none of this will even compare with the fun we'll be having for the next 2 weeks as we go to New Mexico tomorrow!

Life or Death Eternal ANSWER

Here's the answer to the riddle I posted last week. Great job to everyone who guessed it--you're way quicker than me :) (for a more detailed explanation of the answer, see the comments on that post).
The question you would ask either guard is "What door would the other guard tell me is the 'life' door?"