Seussical

Nicholle and Emma participated in Seussical Too at the end of the school year at Freedom Middle School in Bakersfield, CA and Elizabeth had the opportunity to do Seussical Jr. at the Hurricane Community Center this summer! Nicholle and Emma were cast as Thing 1 and Thing 2 and Lizzy was a Who-Girl! They all did a fabulous job and had a great time being involved with such a fun production. The sad thing is that they did not get to see the others performance. Oh well...that is what pictures are for...So fun!

Thing 1 (Nicholle) and Thing 2 (Emma)

Kevin and his Who-daughter Liz and Jojo and the Cat

Liz on stage during the performance...

Nicholle and Emma on stage during the performance!

Meeting the Farnsworth's

Kelly, Kevin, Ruth, Dean, Nate, Richard, and Ty

What can I say...I married a wonderful man and his family is nothing short of amazing! We traveled down to Chino Valley, AZ with Kyler and Eli on the Fourth of July. Along the way we stopped at Navajo Bridge and crossed over on foot. It was in the low 100's...no big deal.. 

We arrived at Ty and Wendy's house on Monday afternoon and were met by Ruth and Richard (Kevin's parents) who were there holding down the fort while Ty, Wendy and their five kids finished up their vacation to San Diego (to return on Tuesday). So Monday evening we tromped off to Prescott to see the fireworks. When I say tromped I mean we hiked... the city had the park blocked off so that we had to hike into it and it must have been at least a mile walk if not farther. (I forgot to take pictures...sorry). On Tuesday I got to meet Ty, Wendy, Katie, Sarah, Brandon, Tyanne, and Dylan. On Wednesday I got to meet Dean, Amanda, Wyatt and Jared who were also spending time in San Diego on vacation from Montana. On Thursday Kevin's brother Nate and his wife Carrie and their three children Kolob, Manti, and Bridget drove up from Tucson. On Friday, I got to meet Kelly and his daughter Carson sans Taani and the other two children (not sure of their names yet) who had another obligation in Mesa to fulfill. Sadly, I was unable to meet Spencer (the last brother) because of his work obligations (Cough...). Needless to say, I got to meet four of Kevin's five brothers and eleven of the thirteen nieces and nephews (total Farnsworth grandchildren including our 7 is 20). It was amazing and they all treated me as if I have always been a member of the family and I loved every minute we spent together! The only thing missing were our other children (Nicholle, Emma and Micah were in California with their father and Aiden being so young stayed behind with Lizzy who was involved with a community production back in Hurricane, UT).

There was lots of adventure during our trip... On Friday we all trekked into Prescott to go to Barry Goldwater Lake for a picnic and found out that we couldn't BBQ because of a fire ban. So we drove caravan style (the blind leading the blind) back towards Chino Valley and stopped at another park only to find the ban was firmly in place there as well. Finally, (I say finally loosely) we ended up at a pavilion at a part only a couple of miles from Ty and Wendy's place...we unloaded all the supplied, started the coals, kids were playing happy to be freed from the cars, and what do you imagine happened? A huge thunderstorm rolled in and the rain began to pour. At first we all huddled under the pavilion, but then the water began to come in sideways and lightning began to crackle in the sky...Needless to say we did not stay at the park very long. Everyone scrambled to the cars and hurried to pack up all the BBQ supplies and took off for home. The BBQ was supposed to be a lunch and ended up being a dinner. Everyone was drenched but safe and we now have some fun memories. 

Navajo Bridge

Kolob, Manti, Sarah, Kyler, Tyanne, Carson, Brandon, Dylan, Katie, Jared, Eli, and Bridget (Wyatt was not feeling well)

Wyatt, Jared, Kolob, Manti, Kyler, Tyanne, Sarah, Eli, Katie, Dylan and Wendy

Help!

May was a super exciting month... several road trips, a couple of weddings (including my own), kids, school, packing... June started out the same... moving to Utah, finals, graduation, unpacking, spending the weekends with Kevin's awesome kiddaboos.. .but the sad thing is... I am BORED during the day when Kevin is at work and most of all... I miss my kids and I still have another month to go before they come back from spending the summer in Bakersfield.

I have been looking for a job...and since I am a college graduate now this should be cake, right? Not so much... A job would not only keep me busy but it would also help pay the bills... I have been working on my resume and have sent it out to several different corporations. I have also been to LDS employment services and will be attending their workshops this week. I want a job working in anthropology, CRM, or even teaching (I need to get my Utah teaching credential). So if anyone knows of anything fabulous in the Southern Utah region please let me know.

Kevin and I were also called to serve together as the ward nursery leaders. So I can fill some of my free time preparing for our two hours with a dozen two and three year olds this coming Sunday. Anyone with titillating ideas to occupy these cute little monsters will be loved unconditionally forever...

P.S. Kevin and I never fight... I do not know what he is talking about... I am always right and once he learns this tid-bit of information then he and I will never have a problem...(wink)...

Getting To Know You - by Kevin Farnsworth

Married life is great!  So much better then being single!!  Having someone to share your triumphs and discouragements with.  Someone who has your back when it seems like the whole world is against you.  I love Jess and she loves me.  We are having fun getting to know each other and the little quirks we have and are just finding out.  To be perfectly honest, we fight a lot!  We are very similar as far as personalities and we tend to clash at times.  We are both extremely stubborn individuals and neither of us like to be wrong.  What I love is that we are able to apologize and move on.  We don't keep our feelings buried and hold a grudge for days or weeks or years at a time.  If we have a problem we air it out and sometimes it get's a little hairy!  I am happy to say that at the writing of this post it has been four days since our last argument, progress!!

I look forward to strengthening my  relationship with Jess and I know that she feels the same way.  Neither one of us would have been divorced if it was our choice, that's just not who we are, we don't quit, we like to stick things out and struggle through the hard times knowing that good times are on the horizon, isn't that what life is all about?  Neither of us are perfect and we acknowledge our faults and don't judge the other or nit pick one another.  We strive to look for the good in each other and exercise love and patience.  Jess has the harder job in this aspect.  I am grateful for her.  Never in my life have I met someone who has possessed such love and forgiveness towards others.  I look forward to learning from her for the rest of my life.  I am grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who has brought two imperfect people together and given them a chance to be happy.

I was going to write more but I forgot that I was supposed to do the dishes tonight.  Well, four days isn't bad!

You're Such A Brat!

Yes, We Are...

We did it...we got married on May 20th and we now live in Hurricane, Utah!

This is our house...812 N 2500 W Hurricane, UT 84737

These are our awesome kids...

Nicholle, Emma, Micah, Elizabeth, Kyler, Eli, and Aiden....

We are truly blessed to have a Father in Heaven who knows us individually and will guide and direct our lives for the better. It is amazing what fasting and prayer can accomplish.