President Gordon B. Hinckley

SALT LAKE CITY 27 January 2008 President Gordon B. Hinckley, who led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through twelve years of global expansion, has died at the age of 97.
President Hinckley was the 15th president in the 177-year history of the Church and had served as its president since 12 March 1995.
The Church president died at his apartment in downtown Salt Lake City at 7:00 p.m. Sunday night from causes incident to age. Members of his family were at his bedside. A successor is not expected to be formally chosen by the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles until after President Hinckley’s funeral within the next few days.

For Many People, including the young adults, President Hinckley was the only Prophet that they knew. We will miss our Prophet. He was every one's extra Grandpa on this earth. He had a great love for us as members of the Church. We as a family know that this Church is the True Church of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We are grateful for a Prophet to lead us and guide us. We know that change must come. We will miss President Hinckley. And know that he is happily reunited with the girl of his dreams.

Snow Fest

Rexburg Snow Fest- We did a lot of sledding and went on a sleigh ride around Smith Park. The weather was great for sledding. Hayley had fun going fast down the hill. Tammy and Dylan had a Wipe Out on their first run together. Chris (being the heaviest of the group) won a free Jamba Juice in a race down the hill. Dylan's favorite part was the downhill bowling.

Dylan's First Day of School

On Tuesday the 22nd, Dylan had his first day of Pre-School. He was a little nervous at first, but is having a great time now. I would too if I was able eat a bunch of snacks and play on a slide during class!

Hayley Lost A Tooth!

After many days of wiggling, Hayley has finally lost her first tooth!

From the snow - to the beach.

This last week was action packed. On Thursday the 27th, the trip to California with the Haering group started. We stayed at State Line that night and arrived at Oceanside Friday night. On Saturday we attended a session at the San Diego Temple, it was beautiful.
On Sunday we attended church with the Montgomery’s. Later that night we attended the Eagle Court of Honor for Michael where I had the honor of giving him the Eagle Charge and Oath.

Monday (New Years Eve) we had planned as our Disneyland day. As we pulled up to the gates of the park we were surprised to see Sold Out signs. We quickly regrouped with everyone and went to Knott’s Berry Farm, which was not busy at all. There are a lot of bigger roller coasters in Knott’s, and Hayley rode almost all of them. She is our little daredevil. That night we rung in the New Year with Jayme, Brett, Jim, and Caryl.
New Years Day was our beach day.

Jill and Andy (Tammy’s aunt and uncle) had a condo just down the street that was on the beach. The only two that were brave enough (or dumb enough) to get in the water were Brett and myself. The water was freezing, but the waves were awesome. The largest wave being close to seven feet.

Our Disneyland day was moved to Wednesday the 2nd. We were lucky enough to get in the gates, but there were so many people there that we did not get to do everything that we would have liked to. As we entered the park within the first five minutes we saw Mickey. Dylan loves his Mickey doll, but he was scared to see a life size Mickey up close. It was very fun with everything still being decorated for Christmas. Hayley had an awesome time driving the car in Autotopia and going on the rides. Her favorite was Big Thunder Railroad, and Indiana Jones. On Thursday the 3rd we started our way back to “Ice”burg. We had a great trip and became closer as a family. We are looking forward to a great year, and wish everyone a Happy New Year.