Josiah's infatuation...

Lately after every church service Josiah loves to find Elder Muth and grab his cane. It is so cute and I just had to share a pic I snapped =)

Memorial day weekend...

I've been meaning to add this post and just haven't had a chance to until now.

My parents came to visit a couple of weeks ago and it was so much fun! Of course after they leave Rachel wanders around the house telling us that she needs to "go over the mountains to papa and nana's house"...that's how she explains Texas, it's over the mountains. So this time the day that they left Rachel was in tears and we decided it would be good to get her mind off of it. We went to the Zoo on Monday (Memorial Day) and had lots of fun! We brought a picnic lunch and just enjoyed the day. Rachel made "friends" with one of the goats at the petting zoo area and kept asking to take it home. I was happy to inform her that our HOA does not permit goats, lol. Josiah just took it all in and loved it too =)

When my parents got here on Friday we drove down to Tempe and had dinner at Ruby Tuesdays (love that place!) before driving to the park and ride near there to hop on the lightrail and head downtown Phoenix...our destination was Yogurtini, and just for Rachel to ride the lightrail. We love people watching so we enjoyed the fact that it was late Friday night AND comicon was in town, trust me the "people watching" was very interesting. After yogurt, we headed back to the lightrail station and were just in time to see fireworks happening at the Dbacks game. It was a wonderful evening!

Saturday we went to Encanto park and enjoyed the paddle boats. Poor Papa had Rachel with him and his legs I'm sure were sore after doing all of the paddling! It was fun none-the-less =)

Sunday was a fun day too, I got to hear my daddy preach Sunday night, which is always a treat =)

Hope that you all are enjoying your Summer too!

Yay!!!

Hope that everyone is gearing up for a fun Memorial day weekend! My parents are coming into town and I am sooooo excited. I haven't been with them since Christmas-time and so it is going to be a real treat to have them here. Rachel can't stop talking about it and has been asking "when will papa and nana get here?!" It is so cute how excited she gets when they get here...she does a little dance around the house and everything...but it breaks my heart to see how she cries when they leave :( Josiah doesn't understand yet just how much fun he's about to have...papa and nana LOVE to play! Their support of imaginatory play is very extensive and has hardly any limits...only thing is when playing cops and robbers, nobody can actually be the "robber", it is a imaginatory person. My fathers brother is in prison for life and was always the "robber" when they played as children, so their reasoning I can understand :)
I was just looking at pictures the other day and found that Rachel and Josiah look so much alike! Below are pics of them both around the same age, of course Josiah has more hair than Rachel did!

Sparky?

As many of you know I have worked for Arizona State University for 4 1/2 years now. In all of my years working as ASU I have never taken a picture with Sparky! This is mostly because I do not go to any of the sporting events, or homecoming stuff and so have just never had a chance to meet the actual Sun Devil. Now, everything has changed...I have been on a staff development committee for the past 3 years and every year we plan a staff retreat day full of motivational speakers and fun activities. We have held it at the Desert Botanical Gardens every year and it always turns out to be so much fun, informative, and relaxing (no so much relaxing for us committee members of course, lol). This year I became very involved in the planning since we had several members leave the college/university...so, we were able to arrange for "sparky" to come to our event. Now, what many of you may not know is that it is a HUGE secret as to who Sparky actually is at an event. When "Sparky" arrived, he (yes, it was a "he" this time) was not able to actually say who he was, it was all in coding and then we realized and ushered him to the changing room...which had to be a very private location so that nobody would know what was going on. This to me was so interesting and I loved the fact that I actually knew who was in the Sparky costume! He came out and did desk excercises with us all and was just a wonderful addition to our retreat...so much so, that I wanted to take a picture with him along with another coworker...she didn't know who was in the costume though...neener, neener! Anyhow, below are some team building photos from the event, so fun!

Photo's...

Ok, so I got busy and totally forgot to post pics from our Easter photo session. Ashley did a awesome job! Thank you so much for capturing such natural and fun pics and just for being a fantastic photographer!

I really like the effect that the early morning light had on the pictures...and how calm the kids stayed.

God is good, all of the time!

Modest Apparel...

Recently the subject of modest clothing came up amongst a group of us gals when we were talking about fashion, etc. I wanted to share the following website where I have found so many cute wardrobe pieces. The items change with the season and if you sign up for email subscription Jade sends out coupons/discount codes on a regular basis:
http://www.jademackenzie.com/

Proverbs 31:21-22
“She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.”

Sneak peek....

Saturday was a very busy day for us! Saturday's are always busy but when we add a photo session into the equation....well, let's just say it was a very fun day! We started getting ready early that morning in order to have the kids ready in time and headed out for our 7:30am appointment with Sis. Ashley. She did an amazing job keeping Rachel's attention the entire time, even brought some candy for her as a "reward", at least that's what I call it =) After we were done with pictures, we hightailed it out of the west valley to get to the church in time for prayer before outreach. Then, after we were done visiting our usual bus riders on outreach we went and got snow cone ice and went to an apartment complex that our numbers have been low at. We handed out free snow cones and talked to the kids and parents about coming to church on Sunday. We had 14 new riders on Sunday! It is so awesome how the Lord works when His people put forth an effort in the kingdom of God! Anyways, below is a sneak peek at our photo session (I stole it from Ashley) lol, there is more to come...




The Lee Family 2012