Roxy's first day of Kindergarten!

Roxy's first day, doesn't she look grown-up?


Luckily, the little girl with her is her best friend/next door neighbor. It makes me feel better that she has a bus buddy and they're even in the same class.


There she goes, if you look closly you can see my broken heart following the bus.

Our Itinerary:

Here are our plans so far:
Friday, Oct. 3
Depart Phx.@7:10 a.m. Arrive SLC @9:45 a.m.
Rent a car, go to RS Bldg., go to WriteWise headquarters
Be in Springville when Ben and Roxy get out of school, do something fun (you plan), all go to dinner when TJ gets off work (you decide where...fun, different, not too $$)
Katie and Cody stay with BC/TJ and Mom and Dad go to Fay's.
Saturday, Oct. 4
General Conference
General Conference
General Priesthood mtg/GNO with TJ, Kate, Mom
K and C stay in Springville or SLC ???
Sunday, Oct. 5
General Conference
All meet in SLC for picnic in a park in between sessions???
K and C stay with us
General Conference
???
Return car, airport by 8:
Depart for Denver@ 9:55 p.m.
How does that sound??
Can't wait!!! So excited!

Think about it...

Here is one of the most profound statements I've ever read:
"We can have eternal life if we want it, but only if there is nothing else we want more."
Bruce C. Hafen April Conf. 2004

We Are Coming!

So we booked our flight Monday and we are officially coming to see you guys...and the Prophet of course, in October! We are excited! Mom and dad are staying at her cousins in SLC and they said we are welcome to stay there too but if you have a spare piece of floor, one night we might want to come spend the night there to spend more time with you guys. If there is not room that is fine too cuz we are planning on everyone going out to dinner one of those nights too so we can hang out then. We are just excited to be coming! We will figure it all out when we get there. Love you!

Remember this?

Here are Papa and Ben and Roxy playing in the dirt!

We are so anxious to see you again!

Mom's an author

This is me with Robert Allen and Richard Paul Evans, both NYTimes Best Selling authors.

My book is almost finished.

We can't wait to see you again!

Welcome baby Parker Kate!

Isn't Parker Kate beautiful?

Big sister and big brother LOVE Parker! Darling shirts that Aunt Kaw made for them!

Amanda won't like this picture, but I think it is beautiful! She has since lost all but 5 lbs. of her baby weight and looks great!

Look at precious baby Parker Kate! One of her first and LAST quiet moments.

This is what we did saturday...

On Saturday we hiked to a waterfall with my Uncle Dave and my brother Roger. We had a really fun time.



Isn't she the cutest hiker ever?





Ben put his face under the water, it is glacier water, so it was pretty cold. His face is priceless in this picture, don't you think?


Yes, that is me shooting a gun. Is it frozen over down there in Arizona?




Yes, it must be frozen over in hell.
My logic with letting him do this is two-fold.
First, I want to take away the curiosity and mystic, so he doesn't seek it out on his own.
Second, I want him to experience the power behind the gun and get a good healthy dose of respect.
I really am anti gun still. I just hope if we keep it in a controlled environment Ben won't seek it out with his buddies as he gets older.


Roxy with Ben's BB gun. So cute and so wrong all at once.


Later, I was cleaning my closet and came across my dress. Roxy was radiant in it.


So was Ben.




Blaine was just scary.

BIG BEN!!

That is nuts how old Ben looks! I want to see Roxy's first day pix too! What a stud BEN!! I hope we can come see you guys for conference!

Second Grade.

Check out what a big boy Ben looks like. Click here.

Best View Alien Baby Zandt

Head at the top then the little arms and chubby blob belly in the middle

Cody calls this view "The Punisher"

Arm sticking out in the middle with the head on top and body on bottom....naturally

Baby Blob Zandt

The face looking directly at you slightly slanted to the right- really hard to see at first.

I made it!!

So I had a bit of trouble signing on but I am here now and ready to contribute!! We have our first OB appointment today and will be posting the latest picture of baby blob Zandt. The update is that it's heart is now fully formed, it moves it's limbs/buds- too soon to tell distinct gender parts yet. Thanks to Amanda we have a day by day calendar of what is happening with development each day. I am 9 weeks and 5 days today. I will be 10 weeks on Wednesday. I started feeling sick around week 6, but I have been known to be a squeek of a hypercondriack (SP) so any symptoms that I "could be experiencing", I am . Some dumb girl at this office I worked at the other day asked "how far along are you again? 5 months?" Thank you sweetheart. Apparently she was judging my term by the number of chins I have accumulated. Whatever. I hope she gets bad stretch marks on her face when she is pregnant! No I am not hormonal....that is how I really feel.
More to come!
love,
Katie

Whyyyyy?

Is it that you're afraid some crazy internet guy will see Parker's pics and steal her? We can make the site private.