Palmyra NY

After Tate and Felisha's reception, we drove all night to get them to the airport in Buffalo by 4am, then we continued on to Palmyra NY. We stopped along the way to nap a bit. I seriously took hundreds of pictures on my trip, so sadly I am only able to share a few here. We walked through the sacred grove, toured through the Smith home, both the older one and the newer one. Went to the printing press where the book of Mormon was printed and saw what a huge task that was to get those first 5000 copies made. And mom and dad did some initiatory work in the Palmyra temple,while I took a nap with Ezra in the van. We were planning on doing a session, but they don't rent temple clothes there, so we were out of luck. Oh yes and we went to the visitors center that's next to the Hill Cumorah. We did a stop by the Harris farm, but couldn't tour the home as it is a private residence now. I loved being in Palmyra. Definitely a testimony strengthener.



mom, dad, Ezra and me in the Sacred Grove

me and Ezra in the Sacred Grove

look at how the branch is attached on the top and bottom

Hill Cumorah visitors center.

Some of the equipment used to make the Book of Mormon

more equipment for making the Book of Mormon

Smith home (replica, exact location however. They even have the inside furnished exactly how Emma had it. They said that her journal was very detailed so that how they know exactly what was in the home and where it was located.) I did take inside pics, but won't post them here. I also took inside pics of the newer Smith home much bigger, but forgot to take an outside picture.

On the Smith far with the Palmyra Temple in the background.

A snail I saw crossing the path on the Smith farm. very cool to see it trucking along.

Our first flight

The day started with a phone call at 505am saying I need to get to the airport right away, my plane leaves at 7am. So Chris and I scrambled got in his truck, but before we could
go to the airport we had to go to Edmonton and pick of two of Tate and Felisha's friends. WE somehow made it to the airport at 630am, then we found out our confirmation numbers wouldn't work. Turns out the guy they use to get cheap flights used a credit card that didn't work. After a couple hours of waiting to see if he could get us more tickets and discovering he couldn't for that day, we bought out own. We got the cheapest tickets for that day and so the plane didn't leave until 545pm. So we were at the airport all day long. Ezra did really well though. Finally we boarded the plane and set off. Ezra fell asleep as we were ascending and stayed asleep the whole flight, only to wake to nurse a bit a few times. About 1 hour into our flight, the seat belt sign came on and we had to wear our seat belts. We were flying through a thunderstorm and the turbulence was horrible. My butt left the seat at least 20 times, and we swayed side to side ever more times then that. Our seats were right at the back row and so we were beside the flight attendants and they were even freaked. I was between 2 mormon girls and we were all praying the whole time I am sure. I kept thinking with the three of us praying things would work out. LOL!! Not the smoothest flight, but we made it safe and sound.

Waiting at the airport

Ezra on the plane

Me and Ezra

Leaving Edmonton

Arriving in Toronto

Another plane shot of us

Tate and Felisha's second wedding cake

This is the cake I made for my brother and his wife for their reception in toronto. The cake from the reception in Raymond was transported to Toronto. I did to have to recover 4 out of 5 of the layers, but it all worked out. We decided to do polka dots for this cake to make it a bit different. I was really worried about how the cake would taste, but it was really moist and yummy! Everyone was raving about how great it was, which was a big relief. We didn't get any pictures of Tate and Felisha beside this one, they were just about to right after dinner, then the caterers took the cake apart and cut it up. yikes! They didn't even get to keep the top layer ofr freezing for their one year anniversary. I am probably going to make them another top layer size so they can still enjoy that tradition.

Ezra is 3 months

I am a little late with these pictures, but life has been busy busy, and better late than never. Ezra is such a delight. I love when I get long moments to just hold him and play with him. He laughs real laughs now and his laugh is so cute!! He plays with toys now, and eats his fingers as often as he can get them to his mouth. Ezra is also starting to sit himself up, just the kind where it seems like they are doing push ups when they are leaning back a bit. so so cute! Not sure how much he weighs but I would guess around 13 pounds.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Sunday was Mother's day, my dad's birthday and the day Forrest got the priesthood. Such a great day. My mom and dad drove up that morning and got here just before church. Went to church with us and then left after eating dinner with us as well. As an added bonus, they brought my grandma! She was unable to come up for Ezra's baby blessing because she had just been in a car accident, so it was even more extra special having her spend her mother's day with us (well the parts that she wasn't travelling with my parents)

Chris ordained Forrest and it was a truly inspired wonderful blessing. I am so proud of Forrest and his choices to do right. He is just a great son. I am also so greatful for Chris and for working so hard to find something he had lost so that now he is able to comfortable use his priesthood. My heart is full, I truly am blessed.

My Grandma Boehme with Ezra. She gets pictures of just her and each great grandchild. So this is her and Ezra. I am sure grandma has over 80 great grandkids.

Chris and Forrest

my mom and dad and Forrest. Since it was dad's birthday, Mother's day and Forrest's ordination I thought it fit to take a picture of the three of them. Plus pictures with grandparents are always a good thing.

This is Forrest and Chris and I. blah to me, but oh well. I have decided that even though I hate myself in pictures it is necessary to get them taken and also to post them when needed.

Forrest and me

Forrest is 12

I almost forgot to post about Forrest's birthday.

For Forrests birthday we bought him guitar hero for the ds and I also got him a mini guitar case that is actually a case for his ds and holds his game and the hand piece for GH. It also came with a little pick so he can strum on the ds with, pretty neat. With his money he got for not having a party and money from grandparents, he bought 4 books (loves to read like his dad) and 3 ds games. I will take a picture of him with all that stuff and add it later.

This is the story behind the cake. I asked him what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday and he wasn't sure. So I told Forrest to look through my cake books and see if there was any in them that he would like. So after going through them he had two he really wanted. The first choice was a diaper cake. I said ummmm no. Then he said ok, how about this keg a beer cake. It is a big keg of beer with two little drunk men by the spout, again........NO! Then he thought about it for awhile and said, well then can you make me a cake of me, a cake of my face. I took a deep breath and said "I can try, but it probably won't look much like you." SO this is the end result. Kinda funny, not too bad, but still kinda funny. hahaha


comparison shot

all different angles of the cake

For the hair I rolled fondant cut into little strips then rolled each strip and put each piece on the cake. Took a bit of work, but worth it.

Tate and Felisha's Wedding

Tate is my youngest sibling and the last to get married, so no more weddings for us until our children start getting married. There are 21 grand kids so far BTW. Tate and Felisha's wedding was so nice. I made the cake, so I took the kids down about a week before. I was going to just visit and take it easy for a few days, but then Tate decided it would be a good idea to take some of the cake to Toronto when he went before the wedding, so I baked cakes the night I got there and all the next day. It was crazy, I had to bake the 14 inch cake 3 times. blah!!!! First, it was too soft, then the next layer broke as I was putting it on cooling racks. A 14 X 14 inch cake is pretty big. Finally the third time worked and I got it all done. All the other layers did up really well. So we will see how everything holds up after flying out to Toronto and being frozen. Yup, that means I will be going to Toronto for their reception out there. Felisha is form Toronto. I have never been on an airplane before. So Ezra and me get to experience our first plane ride together. Mom and dad are going too and will be getting on a plane in Calgary and I will be joining that flight in Edmonton, at least that is the plane. Not scared to fly, just worried about where I am to go and what I am to do to get on the plane. I already have a plan to take non drowsy gravel in case I end up like one of my sisters and end up getting sick on planes. It will all be a great adventure. I have never been anywhere really before, so I am excited to go to Toronto. Plus mom and dad are going to take us to Palmyra and stuff. I am nervous about leaving my other kids for so long ( I will be gone a week), and of coarse I always hate being away from Chris. But I am excited to bring the kids back a gift and to hear all the fun that they had with Chris and no mom.
Anyways, here are a few pictures of the bride and groom. I only got one picture of the cake with my camera, after I took it I tried to get a closer up one, but my camera decided not to work and I still haven't been able to get it to work. I think the lens is broken. wahhhhh! It was such a great camera took great pictures and I have never had any problems with it before.





great shoes!

if you look really close you can see the garland type thingy made with beads of icing.