Austin-Sarah Walks Wedding

What a wonderful day for a White Wedding! The Cerimony was a beautiful as the the Bride!


Sarah and Austin coming out fo the San Diego Temple.























Matty pre wedding
Matty all dressed up with Sarah.


This is Sarah's Sister, Jessica and her Mom, Kathy. Good looks just run in this family.



Guests at the Wedding:
Cory and Seth
My Dad and Drew
Stacy Walk
My Mom, Tami, Dirk, Stacy
Cody and Stacy

July Trip to Utah - AUTUMNS BIRTHDAY

Birthday Girl at Brick Oven Pizza party!
















Girls having a ride on their favorite Donkey Dobson!What a fun time we had visiting the girls on Autums Birthday. As you can see, this was pre Daniel coming into the world.

West Texas Travels

Last Friday morning after taking care of Smokey (Lance’s dog; Lance and his father Ron were in Utah visiting cousins and extended family – not to mention Erica his “24-7” BYU collegein’ sister!), Celeste and I headed out to explore more of Texas via back roads, little towns, 2nd hand shops and garage sales. We had not done this for almost a year. We actually had to write it in our scheduler to make sure it happened. Oh what busy lives we choose to lead! Anyway, our trip last year we went east so this trip we went west (Go west Youngman, go West – I digress) which took us on a nice hilly road through the Sam Houston National Forest (Nice for the ride but not so good for the 2nd hand shops). By the end of our first day, we hit the towns of Plantersville, Navasota and ended up in Brenham for the night. In Brenham we visited the Texas famous (if not world famous) Blue Bell Ice Cream Factory. It was a fun stop but we were very disappointed to find that they do not give out free samples of ice cream anymore! Later in Brenham, we found that Friday nights bring on expensive hotel prices ($130+ for one night even in a Days Inn!!!). I believe the fact that they were having a town reunion didn’t help the matter. We elected to stay at the Ant Street Inn which has been rebirthed as a premier historic inn. The Ant Street Inn combines the finest in deep south hospitality, warmth, and elegance with the conveniences and personal service of a first class hotel. It has fifteen guest rooms, having been painstakingly restored by artisans to retain their original flavor while offering the best in modern comfort and convenience have private bathrooms, twelve foot ceilings, polished hardwood floors with Oriental rugs, cable televisions, telephones, and individual climate control. Needless to say it was very nice. After our breakfast we went out to some of the local shops that we did not get to the night before. I found that I enjoyed looking more so than Celeste. Luckily she brought some books to read and once she was done she would go to the car, turn on the cool air and read her book. Lucky for me she was very content to do this which allowed me to look to my hearts content. We then took our time heading back home complete with a stop to get some food for the house. Our treasures from the weekend included 2 old trunks, a serving platter, old silver plated salt and pepper shakers, little silver plated jam bowl, hot wheels car case, 2 old bottles, 3 onyx eggs from Pakistan and a blue and white vase.

Goodies from West Texas

Sunday Reflections. . .

Sundays are always a special day for me, busy but special and this one was no exception. One of my favorite things about Sunday is the subtle little messages that our Savior gives to us as I attend meeting, listen to lessons or teach them, talk to other, listen to others or even just meditate. I have a Gospel journal given to me by my mother in law, that fits perfectly with my scriptures and allows me to take notes, write down thoughts or impressions as I go through my Sunday. I'd like to share my impressions from today

1) The Lord wants us to prosper in this life, not to get ahead of our neighbors but so that we can care for ourselves, our families, give to the poor and help those in need. Note that by prospering, He does not mean gathering a lot of material things that complicate our lives, that we can't take with us and that keep us from doing the really important things of this life. Because having a lot of those "things" can make us vain and prideful. The key to this journey is to stay focused on Him throughout the "obtaining prosperity" process.

2) This life is the pivoting point of the rest of our existence and the time is so short compared to the eternities that we have ahead of us. That is so hard for me to remember during my day to day rat race but easier to understand when I look at how fast my years are screaming by. I so want to keep my eye focused on the REAL goal of this "second estate". The trick I believe is again to stay focused on Him.

God is good - God is great and I thank Him for all my blessings in life. . .