A Few of Updates

 So Katie is engaged to an awesome guy named Greg, they are getting married on June 10th 2011 in the Salt Lake Temple!




                                
                                       Lizzy is pregnant! Due 11-11-11 we are so excited!




                                                       

 Annie's Boyfriend Payton is leaving for his mission to Madagascar! We will miss him, but we're very proud of him for choosing this!

                             

Adair just had her 4th baby a little girl Elsie, born on March 4th! She is so cute!



Just Another Trial To Bring Us Closer Together

                            
 
 

So during all the preparation and stress of getting Tory off to Arizona, we found out that my dad has bladder cancer! We were all very devastated by the shocking news. However through this great trial came many spiritual moments that brought our amazing family closer together. My parents are living with my grandma and grandpa right now and they just so happen to have one of the best Urologists in their ward, who got my dad right in and did his surgery the end of the week! He has been so amazing during all this, he is such a compassionate doctor! We all fasted Thursday to Friday right before his surgery, the night before the surgery Billy gave my dad the neatest blessing! The Spirit was so strong and after that I had the greatest peace that everything was going to be OK! The surgery went really well and the pathology report came back and showed that he got clean cells and they wont have to remove his bladder which the doctor thought most likely would be the case. I love my family so much I couldn't get through this life without them and I am so thankful for all these trials that strengthen our testimonies and bring us all closer together! I am so blessed to have each and every one of them in my life! Thank you to the friends and extended family who were so amazing and caring through out this with all the kind texts I got and cute amazing Emmy who took Gordon over night and during the day of the surgery she had all her kids, 3 of Adair's and Gordon! She also cleaned my room and did my laundry! I don't know what I would do without her in my life! Thanks to my mom's ward for all the dinners they brought and well wishes!

I love you Dad! I know we have many more years with you and I won't take them for granted after all this!



Our Next Six Months

So Tory got a job in Arizona at a really nice course, it's only for 6 months so he is going out there alone while Gordon and I stay home! It is going to be really hard, but I am so thankful for all my family who will be helping me out with Gordon while I work, I couldn't do it with out them! I tell my self "It's only 6 months" but then I think "It's 6 MONTHS!" We will be OK Tory found a place that is only 4 miles away from the course, which is good because he will only have his bike for transportation! He is renting a room in a trailer park from this really nice hippie lady who has 4 cats and two dogs! Tory and I don't love cats, but he'll survive and I don't have to live there! We will try to visit at least once a month, but the majority of our relationship will be through Skype! The hardest part has been Tory having to say goodbye to Gordon! He can't talk about it without wanting to cry and the day he left he told me he just lost it! I am writing this entry May 1st 2011 from Tory's new bedroom while he is at work. This is our last day together before we start our 6 months apart. I go back home tomorrow morning...here we go!

The Stache

Tory knows how bad I hate mustaches, but insists on having one recur every now and then. He thought it would be cool or funny or whatever, to have a mustache for his PGA profile picture! My first thought is any job he applies for he won't even have a chance at as soon as they see the stache! So I made a deal with him that he could keep it  over the weekend and then on Monday when we were going to renew our drivers licenses at DMV he could have it for his picture. He liked that idea so his PGA picture and our future was saved by one small compromise!

Would you want to have this guys as your head pro? Maybe as a back up for a low budget western!

Funny Kid

Tory and Gordon were on the way to the golf course for the first time of the season, they pull up to the club house at River Oaks, they had all the golf carts out and ready and Gordon says "Dad look at all the golf carts, they're so beautiful!"

Gordie and I are laying in his bed I'm trying to get him to go to sleep I tell him "Tomorrow we are going to watch Hollister get baptized, do you know what that means?
Gordon: "No"
me: "When you turn 8 years old you can get baptized, you go into a big bath and go under the water and all your sins are washed away and you make covenants with Heavenly Father, then after that you get confirmed and then you receive the Holy Ghost."
Gordon: "I don't want one."
me: "You don't want what?"
Gordon: "I don't want a Holy Ghost."
me: "Not til you turn 8 though."
Gordon:"I want to stay 2!"

Before Tory was about to leave for Arizona for 6 months he was looking at Gordon and says, "Gordon I'm going to miss you!"
Gordie: "Yep."

2011 General Conference

Conference was awesome this year and the best part of it was Tory and I actually got to hear most of it! We drove to Ephraim while listening to the Saturday morning session, then went to Brooke's house for the 2 hrs in between then listened to the afternoon session while diving home! Then Sunday we put on a movie for Gord in the morning then he took a nap during the afternoon! I love Conference! Here are some cute pictures of Gordie and Bridget 

                                      

I love these two together! They play so cute with each other

 

 Here are a couple of Gordon's new smiles every time I tell him to smile he give me a big cheese!

March 2011 Bike Riding

 Gordon LOVES his bike he got for his second birthday now that he can actually ride it! He will go forever, he and I went all the way to Emmy's house and back and he rode the entire time and loved it! 

The trick is getting him to come inside!