Cedar's Sky Fest

Every year Cedar hosts a hot air balloon festival. Last year the wind blew so hard that they didn't even launch. It was pretty impressive to see them all (about 20 balloons) at once. The kids were excited and Hannah and Adrianna took most of these pictures themselves.

Katie's new part-time job

Katie had so much fun yesterday that she wouldn't give up til I helped her take another tooth out. This one was not quite as much fun as the first one. I tied that floss around and under the tooth probably 7 or 8 times and pulled but the floss just came off each time because the tooth was not loose enough. Even with tears in her eyes she wouldn't give up and finally we got it loose enough to get it out!!! she wants to know when she can get another one out.





Tess and I played outside for a while today and she grunted and pointed at a tree till I picked her an asian pear. She just sat on the porch and played with it, taking a little nibble here and there. Then she learned the game of "if I drop this in the grass clippings my mom will have to dodge the sprinklers to wash it off, and that is high entertainment". We both had fun.

Tess looks so much like me at this age. I would post a picture of me if i could figure out how.

Katie is very pleased to inform everyone that she has lost her first tooth!!!

It was wiggly when she came home from school today she was determined to get it out so that she could take it for show and tell tomorrow. She didn't even squawk a bit and it came out on the very first try. Her only concern was that if she took it for show and tell tomorrow would the tooth fairy still bring her money tonight? Well Katie, you are in luck because I happen to have some connections and can probably arrange for that. Congratulations!!!

My Picture Tour of Hong Kong

Ok, there are a lot of pictures here that everyone has been waiting to see so I'm just going to do a collage and you all can have fun looking at them. There are three different places that I visited today. The first six pictures are from Victoria's Peak which looks over all of Hong Kong from all directions. Victoria's Peak is on Hong Kong Island and to the North is Kowloon and to the west is Lantau Island. It is an incredible view but the weather was bad today so the pictures aren't that great. I want to get some night pictures of this with all the lights. The next 7 pictures are from Stanley marketplace. It's a famous tourist area on Hong Kong Island where tourists go to shop. The last 5 pictures are from Aberdeen which is the original harbor and fisherman area. There are a lot of native Hong Kong chinese people that still live here on their house boats and fish every day. I hope you enjoy the pictures, I enjoyed my day taking them. There was a group of about 30 of us that had fun making our way around the Islands and getting lost. I did run into two sets of missionaries, a couple missionary that had the last name Woolsey. I walked up to them out of the blue and asked them if they knew the Woolsey's that are in our Ward in Cedar City and it ended up being Brother Woolsey's brother and wife. Small world. Everyone in my group that it was strange that I kept on walking up to people and acting like I knew them. I guess the gospel gives us an instant connection and it's reassuring that we can be anywhere in the world and we have a brother or sister that we can talk to and be friends with. I'll have more pictures and updates in a couple days.