Beloved Church President, Gordon B. Hinckley, Dies at 97

Our Beloved Prophet and President of "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" Joined his sweetheart in Eternal Glory on January27th, 2008. We will miss his sweet words of strenght and kindness, Testimony of the Savior Jesus Christ and his work, Example of enduring to the end. He was a leader and friend who will remain in our hearts for ever. We love you dear President Hinckley.

Testimony of President Gordon B. Hinckley

"I hope that all of you will remember that on this Sabbath day you heard me bear my witness that this is God's holy work. The vision given the Prophet Joseph in the grove of Palmyra was not an imaginary thing. It was real. It occurred in the broad light of day. Both the Father and the Son spoke to the boy. He saw Them standing in the air above him. He heard Their voices. He gave heed to Their instruction.
"It was the resurrected Lord who was introduced by His Father, the great God of the universe. For the first time in recorded history, both the Father and the Son appeared together to part the curtains and open this, the last and final dispensation, the dispensation of the fullness of times.
"The Book of Mormon is all that it purports to be—a work recorded by prophets who lived anciently and whose words have come forth "to the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations" (Book of Mormon title page).
"The priesthood has been restored under the hands of John the Baptist and Peter, James, and John. All the keys and authority pertaining to eternal life are exercised in this Church.
"Joseph Smith was and is a prophet, the great Prophet of this dispensation. This Church, which carries the name of the Redeemer, is true.
"I leave you my testimony, my witness, and my love for each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen."
President Gordon B. HinckleyApril 1, 2006, Sunday morning session of the 176th Annual World General Conference

We Love LEVI

This December we lost one of our favorite cousins to cancer. Levi fought a great battle and was such a great example to us all. Before he passed away he completed two amazing goals. First, Levi received his endowments in the Bountiful Temple. What a truly sweet experience to be part of. Then, in October, he took a last trip to South Africa to visit Victoria Falls (with this trip he visited all 7 continents on one passport - all with his mother as his companion) to the worlds tallest bungie jump. He was to weak in the end to jump so his friend Gavin took the plunge for him (Levi had already done the 2nd highest jump in the world while in New Zeland and wanted to do the largest himself). It was truly a Miracle that Levi was able to spend the last part of his life with his loving family on an African Safari.. We all kept updated on his trip by visiting his blog (http://www.levistrong.blogspot.com/) to live every moment we could... We are so amazed at how well he did. What a wonderful Mother and Father he has who cared so lovingly for him every day of his life and through out his illness. Thanks to Sy and Ron for the example of love and compassion you have shown to us all. We love all the Snarr family so much and will miss LEVI.. He is off to serve as a Mission Companion with his older brother ZACH.. We love you Guys.... Until we meet again....

Christmas News Letter

Sorry for those of you who thought you would be reading a Family Christmas letter. We had a little power flicker and lost the letter. We ment to re-type it but for Christmas this year we got the Flu and Strep. Ya! we spent a lot of family time together. Bonus! We had a wonderful time other than that. We hope you all had a great hoilday season.. Happy New Years to you all aswell..

Little Zoe Dress-Up

If you enjoyed the gingerbread house give this a try I love playing paper dolls as a girl. I had the “Gingham Girls”. For those old enough to even know who they are... They were a Christmas Present from Grandma Jones. I stayed up all night playing with them Christmas Eve waiting for Santa to come. This web-site and artist also reminds me of an all time favorite artist, author and illustrator Mary Englebrit.

http://www.jennybharris.com/activities/xmas/christmaszoe.htm

Sorry for the nude it won't let me publish it with cloths on. A little chilly don't you think?

Gingerbread Houses and special moments

Abbie

Spencer

Andrew

Zachy and Dad

Zachy

Finished Houses. Some of which didn't even make it home they were eaten in the car.

We love to make ginger bread houses every year the day after Thanksgiving. We have been doing this as long as I can remember. Our cousins even joined us a time or two when we were younger. I have to say that I am so thrilled that my boys are still excited about making them.

I am a very lucky mom because my kids love to hang out with mom and dad and they and their friends like to hang out with our family too. I will hold on to every little tradition I can as long as they will humor me. I am very grateful to have such sweet and tenderhearthed kids who don't act like they are to cool for making gingerbread houses, give a F.H.E. lesson, go to the Nutcracker ballet, go to a girly movie with the family (Enchanted) and admit that they liked it, play games or do activities that their little sister and brother picked and even read book with them in bed. I hope you all have these special moments with your children. This year let's all try to make even more opportunities for special moments in our families. (Don't get me wrong; there are days they are all banned to their own rooms. Ironically when we seperate them they only want to be with each other more. Go figure.)

Click on this link and you can make a ginger bread house of your own with out all the mess and cavities.
http://www.jennybharris.com/activities/home/sweethome.htm

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Getting Ready for Christmas

You've probably already seen this, but it's a lot of fun and it's fun to see your kids dancing. The kids were so excited to see themselves, so I thought I would share the sights with you as well. Here are the kids getting jiggy: http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9627398705

Not to be outdone, I decided to get myself in my usual Christmas spirit. http://www.scroogeyourself.com/?id=9629209413

So.... Bah Humbug!

Regan

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

We had a great Thanksgiving day. We hope you all did as well.. We Spent the day at Grandma Connie and Grandpa Da's house in North Lehi. We had Grandpa Great Roberts Who just turned "95" a couple of days ago, Grandma Great Jones, Great Aunts Jackie and Jenny, Stockman gang of course, Roberts-Abbott's(Ginger, Cologne, and Dominick), Andreson's(Jason, Amber and kids). After a great meal we had a great time playing with cousins, talking and playing games. Some of the gang watched Spiderman #3.. We took the opportunity to take our Christmas card pictures as well. It was so COLD! Thanks Amber....