I always feel this way when i go to the temple too!

i just love my boys! how sweet is this picture....not even planned! the temple always brings happiness and this is evident even when we are walking around the grounds enjoying the beautiful flowers and sitting on the SOFT grass! happy thoughts indeed!

love all the flowers!

this was a fun shot! i was laying on my stomach in the grass to capture this angle! isn't it just gorgeous?

i'm in love with all the different flowers and colors around the grounds!

what a great day this was!  have a wonderful rest of your weekend!

has it really been FOURTEEN years?

i cannot believe that our oldest is FOURTEEN today! my word...where did the years go? our precious celestial boy is one year older today and i was thinking about when he was born. he had a head full of thick black hair.....the cutest FAT cheeks that i could squish and kiss to no end....and the sweetest spirit. not much change in those departments.  but do you want to know what i love about these pictures the most? he looks like a normal happy boy! you can't even tell that he is severely autistic.....my camera catches all his smiles that i never could before!

Happy Birthday!

love you.

it's always fun when grampa comes over

this just makes my heart happy! tay giving grampa loves.

don't you think cj looks like grampa?  :)

one silly kid with his grampa! he kept begging grampa to tickle him.....my dad is the king of tickle torture. always fun to have him visit.

Another Anziano Hardy going to Italy!

good times!

this picture makes me laugh because all the girlies will be married by the time trev man returns!

trev with grandma and grandpa

trev with us.

seriously only a 1/4 of what was on display to eat!

last night was Trevor's open house....tons of food, people, and mommy stress in Cyndi's eyes.....Trev man is going to serve in the Italy Milan Mission for two years!  This is most exciting for me and my better half because we both served in Italy Padova Mission many moons ago.  so many moons in fact, our mission was split between Milano and Roma. lucky Trev man will have about 70% of our mission in his! we can't wait to hear about it and find out what cities he will be assigned to.....if he's lucky he'll go to Verona (Jed says it's Bolzano) :)  buona fortuna Anziano! ti vogliamo bene! 

A Quicky to DL then planning my DQS10

Token shot...but it's a tradition!

I'm sorry, but isn't this the COOLEST shot of the castle and statue? 

I haven't been a very avid blogger these past 4 days or so....we had a quick DL trip to do and I was consumed with planning it and consumed with my DQS10 partner stalking that I didn't take time to blog on here.  However, I am very excited to start that latest adventure....go check it out on my other blog!

Remembering when they were little....

They've really grown into such great boys!

We love grandma and grandpa...

It was one of those days and we wanted to head over to grandma and grandpas house to say hi and see how they were doing. Had a fun visit and spent some time talking and visiting. Okay, if you're wondering why Tay has no shirt....there was an accident....nufsaid.  I like how everyone is kind of color coordinating with the blue. Nicholas was making a "carpet angel" and insisted I take his picture...he is really loving the pictures lately.  ha ha ha

I fell asleep last night early because I was so exhausted.  All the late nights are catching up to me and I have to be better.  I need more sleep.  Anyway, happy Monday and beginning of another great week!

Playing with colors....

I love the desert clouds....they make it so amazing!

Just playing around with our fruit bowl....I like this picture. 

Too much brown in this picture and the lighting isn't great.