Such a GREAT day!

 We have been anxiously anticipating this special day for a while.  We took our little sunshine with us to the temple on April 14th  and now we could yell it at the top of our lungs..... 

WE ARE AN ETERNAL FAMILY!!!!!!  

IT'S OFFICIALLY OFFICIAL!!!!!!!!! 

 

We were joined by many of our dear family members and friends.  Thank you for making the sacrifice to share this special day with us!  

 

Jax was a little sweetheart--happy and smiling at everybody afterward.  We feel blessed beyond measure to have the chance to be in the temple with our little miracle baby and now having the potential to be with him FOREVER.  We were amazed and the feelings we had in the temple that day and since that day.  Words just can't describe the joy we feel!

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We all ate at The Pantry in the basement of the Lion House.  The food was delicious and I think everyone had a good time.  We were able to spend some time with Mark's folks that afternoon.  We went to an art exhibit at the LDS Church History Museum.  These were some of my favs:

Jax Be Nimble

 This was such a fun Nursery-Rhyme themed baby shower!  My sister was headmistress of this partay and she went ALL OUT (as usual!).  I had such a great time chatting with family and just enjoyed every minute.  We received many wonderful, adorable, and useful gifts!  Thank you!  

 I loved the detail of the food--everything had a nursery rhyme attached to it. 

 I thought it was so funny when my cousins were all laughing their heads off at a picture of themselves "back in the day" when they had big frizzy hair and lots of blue eyeshadow. 

 Here are the Cole girls after the party!  Thank you Kimi, Mom, Linds, and Aunt Vick for a wonderful celebration!

Easters

We went to church in Gtown on Easters.  It happened to be Benji's first time back in the home ward so that was fun.  It was a nice day at church.  We had to pose in front of the beautiful blossoms and also take some with the Easter Lilly.

Mark is very good at getting Jax to giggle.  It is adorable!  I love to watch it! 

He's Baaaaack!!!

 

One of the highlights of our Utah trip was seeing this handsome dude after his serving a mission in Peru for 2 years.  It was SO GREAT to see Benj!  He met Jax for the first time (how did I not get a picture???)  Hanging out with Benj was so much fun and it brought back a lot of memories of our growing up together as we did random things like quoted Disney movies, played ping pong, and had nerf gun fights.  Benj makes me laugh.  He has a great sense of humor and is a blast to be around!

  He gave a home-run talk in church for his "homecoming speech."

WELCOME HOME BENJ!!!  We are so proud of you!!!!!       

 

Miller Motor Sports Park, Jazz Game, and Bonus Pics

 We raced the go-karts at MMP while in Utah.  It was SO MUCH FUN!  I think it's becoming one of both me and Mark's favorite things to do when we visit G-town.  Chris schooled us all and Mark came in second.  I was on Mark's tail pretty much the whole race but couldn't manage to pass him up, so I settled for the Bronze Medal.  It was Kimi and Geo's first time so we look forward to more competitive racing from them next time ;)

Here is one of Larry Miller's car museums.  I'm reading Driven, Larry Miller's autobiography, right now.  So I might be able to add some extra details about him/his hobbies/his collecting million dollar cars, etc. later. :)  I was impressed with Chris's tour and bits of cool information he told us about the cars but I can't remember the specifics now.  Thank you, Chris for a great time!

Go JAZZ!!!!!  The Jazz played the Spurs while we were in Utah and Chris was nice enough to get us tickets. (Thanks!)  We had a great time with my folks and Jax got to experience his first professional basketball game!  It was an exciting game and the Jazz pulled off the win!

 

 Me and Mom. I thought the couple behind us was funny.  :)

 

We visited Grandpa Grant and Grandma Margie a couple of times.  It was fun to see them with Jax, their one hundred and somethingth great-grandchild.

My mom, dad, and brothers went to Peru to visit and to pick up Benj.  She brought back some neat gifts, one of which was this cute Peruvian hat. (Thanks!)  I thought this picture was cute.

Let's Get it Started

 For probably the last time, we made the long drive out to Utah from Kansas.  Jax was a champ.  He slept a lot and was very good!  One of our conversations in Wyoming went like this: "Let's play I spy.  I spy something that is blue." "The sky." "Yep."  Now your turn.  "I spy something that is brown." "The weeds." "Yep." And that's the end of the I spy game in Wyoming. :)
The fun all started in Park City where we ate pizza and wings, played games, swam, found Easter baskets and eggs, and went to the Olympic Park. 

 

Greg TOTALLY tricked me by pulling the oldest trick in the book.  "Oh yeah, I found my family's basket in the dryer but I want my kids to find it."  How did I not see right through this?  Mark ended up finding OUR basket in the dryer about 10 minutes later and I just had to shake my head and laugh at myself :)  Thank you Mr and Mrs E Bunny for the basket and money eggs!

 This was fun to see!  It seems like yesterday that the Olympics were in Utah. 

 Park City was the best way to kick off our vacation and get the party started!

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