fun videos.

"The Elders Quorum Dessert Making Contest"

The Elders Quorum put on an end of summer party for all the men and their families. The requirement though is that the men had to make the dessert with with no help from their wives.
They made it a contest and the wives were the judges. They had sign up sheets where you cast your votes for different categories.


At the beginning of the day, while Andy was shopping for his dessert he started texting Jay and telling him how he better watch out because he is going to kick his trash at the contest that night. And then after texting for like an hour back and forth bashing each other they ended up deciding to join forces to make one gourmet dessert. So here they are cooking away.

This was their texting conversation!

Andy: "Going to get my ingredients for my dessert tonight. Oh yeah! need anything, I mean besides help because thats what your going to need to beat me. Bring it on!"

Jay: "You mean you are just starting? Oh man, I have remade mine 3 times just to get it perfect. Your done for!"

Andy: When your the best perfection only takes once. You better bring your "A" game."
Andy: "What no come back. I knew it, your already scared."

Jay: "Sorry, once mine was set to perfection, I decided to relax and take a shower, thus the delayed response from me. You better stop wasting your time texting and work on that food of yours."

Andy: "Tabby said that mel likes to get things done early, hope you didnt get and help."

Jay: "That would be cheating! I would never do such a thing. Did you take tabby with you to the store to buy supplies?"

Andy: "Tabby had other stuff to get. I looked up my own recipe, and gathered my own ingredients, Heck I even got up this morning and milked a cow for my cream."

Jay: "Thats cool. I raised a cow and then milked it. And I gathered my own cocoa butter to make chocolate. "

Andy: "I plowed the fields and planted the grass for the cows to eat, and harvested the wheat to make the grain for the cows and your flower. "

Jay: "Ok , I concede. You win,... you win, you always win!"

Andy: "I almost gave in with your rasing the cow. But....never. "

Jay: "Im actually going to the store in the next few minutes. "

Andy: "If you want you can come over and join me"

Jay: "What do you mean? Join forces and produce one gourmet dessert?"

Andy: "Precisely!"

Jay: "Done!! I'll be over in just a minute. "

And that is how it all began.

Mel and I sat on the couch and chatted while they cooked, it was the best moment of my whole week, I could get use to that.

The Results
"The Sublime Key Lime Pie"
Ain't it pretty y'all

And then after a tight competition, and a little crowd work from Jay which involved going around to each person making sure they had tried their pie,

That's Right, They Won!!!!

Don't you love the trophy from the Elders Quorum, its a ping pong trophy. It is so pretty that the boys insist on surprising each other with it by sneaking it into each others houses. Ahhh, Good Times.

The Bunny Park

Jensen and Evie

Jensen, Brooklyn, Maddie, Evie, and Lennix

That is one funny face Brooklyn is making, where did that come from.

Nauvoo Trip 2010

My mom got this shot while I was sleeping I didn't even know she was doing this. It is very sweet.

Carthage Jail.

Annie's Frozen Custard.

The Temple

Enjoying the sunset by the Mississippi, it was gorgeous our first night there. This is my favorite spot in Nauvoo, it is like standing on holy ground. This is where the pioneers crossed the river and said goodbye to Nauvoo.

This is Michael Bedard. He was an artist that we met in Nauvoo. We went into his gallery and were immediately blown away by his art, it was breath taking. He is trying to finish a painting right now which is the one behind him, it is a portrayal of when one of the prophets was in the St. George temple and all the signers of the declaration of Independence and some other great men and women of the past came to him and asked to get their temple work done. So in the painting there are temple workers and about 60 or more great influential men of the past. It is very cool.

When he saw us he asked how old Megan and I were, and then after looking at us for a while he asked if he could take pictures of us. He is trying to take pictures of women so that he can use their faces to paint some of the influential women into the photo. So our faces might be used in his painting. It was a really cool experience. He had an amazing spirit about him. He is truly inspired to paint what he does.

This is the wagon ride where they take you all around Nauvoo and just show you where everything is. We went on a carriage ride after this one that was even better because they told inspirational stories about the people who lived there.

This was the girls favorite part about it of course.

The Visitors Center

This is the Garden behind the Visitors Center that is dedicated to women. So I went with my girls and took pictures by all the women.

Kisses

And more kisses

This is the show that the Young Missionaries put on for the kids, the girls loved it, it is called Anna-Amanda, which that is who is on the stage in this picture.

This is where they have all the night shows, we watched "Sunset by the Mississippi" then we watched the BYU Folk Dancers, it was awesome.

This is Evie sneaking up onto the stage in the middle of the performance for the 10th time.

This is in the Family Fun Center where you can go to different stations and learn how to do different things, this is us making rope. Brooklyn was thrilled that she got to make her own rope. She wore her rope on her belt the rest of the trip.

They mainly liked playing with the baby dolls though, they were a little too young to want to go to all the stations.

Except Evie, she liked listening to the people, she especially liked learning about making bread with Nana, plus she got to eat the bread also that was a plus.

Outside there is a childrens play area where kids can play pioneer games and dress up in full pioneer gear they loved this part of the trip.

This is the Nauvoo brass band that goes around on a wagon and plays music through out the day. Maddie loves it everytime they passed she danced and waved.

We took the girls on lots of wagon rides through out the weekend, but this was the only one that is pulled by oxen in a wagon that is the actual size that the pioneers would have used, which is a lot smaller then I have always pictured.

This is in the Visitors Center, we just thought they all looked so cute sitting there together.

This was after watching the Old Missionary's show. My mom just couldn't resist asking to where the hat