Damstedt Family: April 2009

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

She has 8 children (the 5th is especially beautiful)
She is the greatest example to me of what a mom/wife should be.
She is always serving and thinking of others. During our recent trip to Utah she would bring home books from her library for the kids to read that she had picked out just for them. She LOVES books and LOVES her grandchildren.
Jane wanted to have time to sew with her grandma's while we were there and mom just sat down with her, whipped out these outfits like there was nothing to it- amazing!
I love her so much!
Happy Birthday Mom

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Happy Earth Day & Strawberry Tower

B made us this awesome tower while we were gone. We can't wait for Saturday when we're supposed to have beautiful 70 degree weather and we can plant!

Bridal Veil Falls & BYU

On Monday we had such beautiful weather we had to get one last hike in:

Jane and Bruce loved the cold water

The little girls just threw rocks.

We also went to the "animal museum" at BYU

This is what Deseret Towers now looks like:

Bowling on Thursday was so fun!

We of course stopped by the wonderful candy counter to get things for friends here.

Sunday at the temple

On Sunday we went to church at our old ward and so lots of people we love. Then we went to my parents ward and hung out in nursery.

Later we went to the Provo temple (along with the other 600 missionaries) and took pictures.

We saw the Logan, Bountiful, Salt Lake, Draper, Oquirrh Mountain, Jordan River, Timanogos, and Provo temples while we were there- amazing!

Food and Friends

While we were in Utah we ate LOTS of great food and saw many friends (we're so sorry for those of you we missed too. )

Jamba Juice

Cafe Rio

and other "REAL" Mexican

Smart Cookie

J Dogs

Provo Bakery goods

Our Matthews friends

Beautiful girls from high school

My friend Karena

and her family

Uncle Jeff and Lexi (in IKEA)

Grandma and Grandpa Great

Thursday, April 16, 2009

More Fun in Utah and Snow this morning...

We woke up to about 3-4 inches of snow Thursday morning.

Friday Morning- not even kidding:

I took a really cool picture of this huge tree covered in snow:

Our neighbors have goats (Buddy and Blacky) that Jane and Bruce loved to feed everyday.

This week has been a fun one. Yesterday we went to the aquarium with my sister Joanna and had a great time. We touched the rays,

saw all the awesome fish- the sharks were so cool- and also love the new addition of "South America" with the huge fish,

piranhas, poison colored frogs, and eels

After that we went to IKEA!! love this store. Then we headed back to Provo and had Brick Oven for dinner- yum.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Dinosaur Park and Hill Aerospace

On Friday we went to the Dinosaur park in Ogden with Grandma and Grandpa Damstedt

Afterward we went to the Hill Aerospace museum- it was incredible how much stuff they had on display!

*We also had an Easter Egg hunt Sunday morning that was really fun and there were tons of eggs!

Thank you so much!

Saturday, April 11, 2009

She ate a cricket!

On Thursday we went to Baby Animal Days. We held rabbits

chicks,

ducks,

saw sheep, cows, went on a pony ride,

and

JANE ATE A CRICKET!

There was a group from the University at a booth and they had crickets (BBQ and Sour Cream & Onion flavored.) B and Jane both ate one except she didn't eat the eyes because that's freaky.

She "loves" insects!

* We also saw Monster's v. Aliens that night and liked it a lot!