Family Time

My brother and his fiancé are moving to Conway, Arkansas! We all decided this is the perfect time to get some great family pictures done. Bucky loves his sisters and his nieces so this will be great keepsakes for him while he is away in Arkansas.

Aren't my nieces the cutest?!

the whole family

Bucky and his girls!

We took the opportinuty to have some shots of us too!

I love his silly face!!!

Justine Miller has once again done an amazing job!! We just love her work and I believe her camera is magic!

Science Center

Intel was awesome enough to give us 4 FREE passes to the Arizona Science Center. We took our friend Marilyn and her two cute little boys along to check it out. It has been forever since I’ve been so I was way excited.

They have everything – bed of nails,

tug of war,

floating balls, you name it!

The best part was the featured exhibit – LEGOS!

The theme was castles. They have life size men in armor,

cool castles

and even a big red dragon

and it's baby.

The boys couldn’t resist picking its nose!

We had a blast!

Havasupai

We went for our annual Havasupai trip in July and had a blast! This year Graig, Andrew and Jacob (Spencer’s dad and brothers) all came with us.We began with dinner and Big Earl’s in Carefree before leaving the valley. It’s so yummy!!!

Andrew, Graig, Spencer, Corissa on the hike in

Isn't it beautiful!

Mooney Falls is still awesome as well but also lost the play pools and the rope swing at the bottom. It’s kind of cool now that you can walk so far and get so close to the falls.

Tunnel you hike down to get to Mooney

We ventured out to check out Beaver Falls and played in the water along the way. Since Beaver is at the end of the fall chain, it had a ton of sediment drained into it so there is NO cliff jumping anymore. The hike through the green valley is so cool though that we still a great time!

Beaver Falls

Andrew and dad is the green valley

cool green rock showerHavasu Falls

Havasu Falls lost all the play pools at the bottom but is still an amazing sight to see as you turn the corner and head down the steep hill of red sand. The mist is so refreshing! The water level is lower so there are different cliffs to jump off.

Check out Graig! Hard to believe he’s 63!!!

former.... Navajo Falls

We were sad to see our favorite falls – Navajo Falls – all dried up and filled with sediment. Sad sad sad. It hard to believe we’ve jumped off these cliffs and that the whole wall used to be covered in water… sad sad sad.

There was a terrible flood last year that completely changed the scenery and all the falls. There is a new fall now that you will see just off the trail as you leave the village and head to the campground. It’s called Rock Falls. Oh and don’t pay any attention to the “no jumping” sign – hey, if the locals were doing it so can we!

Happy 1st Anniversary Rasbands!

Happy One Year Anniversary Katrina and Jay!

Since paper is the traditional one year anniversary gift we thought we'd give them a nice picture of the Albuquerque Temple. And not just any picture, a special one just for them!

http://www.culturalhall.com/ has several pieces and temples to choose from and you can even personalize it like the one we ordered for the Rasband family.

VoTe! Now till Aug 20th!

One of our Tillman Scholars at ASU - Nikki Lewis -

is vying for a scholarship at this moment.

She needs your vote!

Nikki is a wonderful person

and after watching her video at this link

http://www.lifehappens.org/vote

you will find out why

When you have a moment, watch the video and vote for Nikki.

It is simple (no need to register - just type in 003 and enter next to Nikki's video) and you can

vote as many times as you'd like.

Thanks for taking the time to help out Nikki!

Do you speak Russian?

Today Andrew reports to the MTC!

He was called to the Yekaterinburg Russia Mission.

A little boy asked Andrew if he could speak Russian and he replied no net yet and the little boy told him he better learn so he could speak to the people! Little kids are awesome!

We were able to spend some time with Andrew this weekend and he is a great young man and will be an amazing missionary and representative of Jesus Christ. We know he will be blessed by this decision to serve and we are so excited to hear all about Russia!

We love you Andrew!

Happy Anniversary! July 2, 2009

You both are an amazing example of love and happiness.

We look to you as an example to follow and hope we are as happy and in love as you both are 32 years later!