Another Testament: New Slide Show and Web Site

This is very touching. Although it is one person's view of the happenings in the Book of Mormon, it is very cool to see it put to real life.

Branden David Davenport

Branden turned 9 this past Thursday! Look at how much he has grown! Wow I can't believe it has been a year since he was baptized.




All he asked for was more KNEX so that he could build something really big. A new Transformer and a Bionicle. Boys at this age are so easy to please!
We love you Branden!

Queen Creek North Stake "Goes Broadway"

This was the title of our last Stake Activity that we had on Saturday, September 12. Each ward was to choose a broadway show and pick 2 songs to perform. Naturally Dave chose The Phantom of the Opera! We love that show. The songs we chose were - "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Masquerade".

This was a phenomenal experience. We got the information late so we had about 6 weeks to put this together. Our ward is so awesome and always up to any task put before them! After 2 pracitces, 1 dress rehersal we were ready to perform.

Here are our lovely daughters!



This was such a fun time - I am only bummed that my camera blurred some of the pictures. (Actually my phone!)

Thank you to all who made this a Success!
Phantom and Christine (Brother and Sister Moak!)



Our Phantom had many fans!

Watch out Sister Moak, these girls were serious!

More of our Wonderful cast members!





Everyone had such awesome masks! Here are Brother and Sister Loeper showing off theirs!

Sister Jones changed too fast but she was our lovely Ballerina and saved the day!
Thank you to Brother Smith who "fixed" all of our music! We rocked the hall!
Thank you to Sister Ritz for doing our Coreography and all the last minute changes we threw at you!
Thanks to Brother Jones and Bisbee for being our lighting and Stage crew!
Once again - Thanks to all who participated! You are AWESOME!

Labor Day 2009

This Labor Day we went and went for a hike to look for cool rocks. Dave found this neat wash coming home from Father's and Son's this year so we went to check it out. We found these neat rocks that look like they were melted metal but they are rocks. We also found what looked like natural concrete! I guess that over time the wash and the elements compacted all of these rocks together. I forgot to take that picture. While we were out we visited Queen Valley (not Creek. It is a very small town hidden back in the mountains there after Gold Canyon. Anyway on our way we saw this little guy curled up and had to check it out!




It isn't the best picture since we didnt' want to get too close but it is a rattlesnake and we could tell he wasn't happy. Still we were in the car and safe to check him out!

Then on our way home we decided to go for a drive down the Apache Trail by Canyon Lake. Of course it was quite crazy by the lake so we kept driving and arrived at another town called Tortilla Flat! Dave and I had both been there about our kids ages so we wanted to show them it too!

While we were there of course we needed to find a bathroom and this is what we girls found!


Not what we expected but we couldn't help ourselves!



We really had a good time and didn't do much "Laboring"!

Ride with Dave!

Every once in a while I get to take a ride with my hubby and keep him company as he goes to jobs throughout Northern Arizona. About 2 weeks ago he needed to go to a small town about 5 hours north on the Reservation. It was nice to be able to talk without any interuptions. We did run into a lot of road work which made our trip there about 7 or 8 hours. So we decided to come back through Flagstaff and what I think is the Painted Desert. I love Rocks! I love to see the different mountain formations and wonder and speculate how they were formed. This Desert is just facinating for me. I couldn't help but take pictures of some of the mountains. They don't do any justice but I love it!






I love Arizona and the wonderful beauty that we have been given to enjoy here!