Tulip Festival

These were taken at the Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival. Their gardens are so beautiful! We had such a fun time walking through them and seeing all the varieties.

Come here duckie!

Sam loves animals- all animals. Usually he pets and talks to cats and dogs but today it was ducks. I would never of thought of petting a duck, but I suppose it makes sense from a 4 year old perspective. So cute, but I can't blame the ducks for jumping into the pond as soon as they figured out what was going on.

Cave Art

I've been trying to get all marking utensils clear out of the kids reach to prevent incidents like this one from occurring. However, a purple crayon must have slipped my grasp and I ended up finding cave drawings all over the tv, wall, and chair. The chair was the one I could laugh at the most so I'll post it. Jacob says it is a picture of the temple. I can kind of see it too, but still... I'm not sure mr clean magic eraser will work for this one.

A Job!

We found out today that Jon got the job! We are so excited as this means we can stay in UT and we will get medical benefits for the first time. Wahoo! The best part is that when he finishes his masters degree by the end of this year then we will get even more benefits and stuff to look forward too and hopefully can get into a house. That would be a dream come true.

Happy Easter!

We went up to campus and took some family Easter photos while we were all dressed up. The kids had a great Easter. We had an egg hunt around the house and front yard and it was so fun watching them find eggs. Katie kept running up to us and telling us she had found an "eggie" between each one, Jacob was running wild trying to get them all, and Sam had to open up each egg and see what was inside before going on to the next.

For Our Angel Baby

"...Why is it that infants, innocent children, are taken away from us, especially those that seem to be the most intelligent and interesting. The strongest reasons that present themselves to my mind are these: This world is a very wicked world; and it... grows more wicked and corrupt. ...The Lord takes many away, even in infancy, that they may escape the envy of man, and the sorrows and evils of this present world; they were too pure, too lovely, to live on earth; therefore, if rightly considered, instead of mourning we have reason to rejoice as they are delivered from evil, and we shall soon have them again." -Joseph Smith

We sure miss our little angel. The few moments we had with him in this life will last forever in our hearts. We would like to give our gratitude for the outpouring of love and prayers we've received during this difficult time in our family. How interesting that this happens around Easter. As we celebrate Christ's triumph over death, we are reminded that he opened up the way that all shall rise from the grave and live again and we know that we will hold our little Benjamin again because of it.

With Love, The Abbott Family