My faith in humanity has been reaffirmed.

I'm taking a photography class and so whenever I see something beautiful I just have to take a picture. Well, we were driving in the car and I caught a site of the temple with amazing clouds behind it. I just had to take a picture and convinced my husband to drive up to the temple so I could do so. I couldn't get the right angle so I grabbed a few of our gift cards from our wedding and used them to angle my camera right. During this time, I really had to go to the bathroom and I was dancing all over the place. But I was not going to miss out on this opportunity just because I really had to go. So I got my pictures and climbed in the car and we raced home so I could go.

Well, the next day I was looking at where we keep our gift cards and I only saw half of them there. My first thought was about how I used them for my pictures. No, I thought, I'm not that daft to leave the gift cards on the top of the car. Well, we searched and we searched and came up with nothing. Our only options were that I had left them on top of the car and someone picked them up (for we drove passed the temple and made sure they weren't still there) or I put them somewhere and they'd show up eventually. Either way, we felt the loss greatly because we counted a couple hundred dollars in profit lost.

Today my dad called me and said that he saw on the news that the Rexburg police report that a girl found a few gift cards and gave them to the police. We called the police station as soon as possible and verified that they were our gift cards. David went and picked them up and I'm happy to say that they are back in our lives.

The media is always portraying how humanity is failing and how the world is falling apart. Little acts of kindness and honesty, though they are not given much publicity or hype,do more to give me a good perspective of how the world really is than all the news programs on TV.

I'm so grateful for that young girl who was honest enough to turn the gift cards in to the police. I'm grateful for good people who are always striving to do what is right. And I am gratefulfor my reaffirming faith in humanity.

What you shouldn't tell your parents...

Zach on the roof and Justyn jumping from the swing.



Devin had perfect form and David jumps over Zach.



Double act (Zach and Justyn) and David – the ring leader.

Camping/Memorial Day Weekend/Soccer – all in one

David is took a class this semester (it was a block class so he's done with it now, hooray!) where he had to go on two camping trips, leaving me all by myself at our apartment. I know, many of my siblings have had to deal with this and I figured I'd have to sooner or later, but I was not looking forward to this. And it was really hard. The first time I stayed at the apartment by myself, I hated it. I stayed there as little as possible, getting home late and leaving early the next morning. I was so glad when David finally came home. But the next camping trip he made, I didn't want to do that again so I went to my parents with David and Kimberly.

Though it wasn't the best experience for me, David had a lot of fun on his trips. I decided to post some of his pictures for you all to see.


David, my little boyscout, and his group around the campfire.



David took some artistic photos and here's one of them.

We also went to my parent's house for Memorial Day Weekend. It was a lot of fun. My sister had just come home from her mission in the Philippines so it was great to see her again.

We got a little creative (as you can see in my last post) and played some games. Here are some pictures of the boys playing baseball:



David W. has perfect form and David L. hits the ball with a stick.



Klayton's focused on the win and David took a panoramic of the beautiful sunset.

And finally, we have an amazing recreational soccer team this semester! We are undefeated and going strong. We're only in the Leisure league, but we like it that way and hope we stay there. I wanted to get a good picture of David but he was always on the opposite side. But you can see him in the background of Devin's picture.


Devin Garner eying the ball and LeaDawn (Brown) Grant throwing it in.