Ok so... our last post was of Christmas LAST YEAR. That's terrible. So let me explain myself, We got a new computer and I haven't been able to figure out how to put pictures up! So while I'm on Fall Break I've decided that I WILL figure this out. So hopefully there will be lots of updates soon!

Christmas Pictures

Mom took some family Christmas pictures. Tomorrow we will be getting our whole family picture taken by Jana Miller. We will be posting those as soon as we get them!

Christmas

We had an awesome Christmas this year! We've all been spending tons of time together and it has been great. David and Malia are even down from Boston and we have been loving seeing them again. Well, as usual we did our annual Christmas Eve dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Jarvis' house followed of course by the acting out of the Nativity.

Christmas morning we woke up and opened presents. I (Ashley) of course got my gigantic Toblerone in my stocking just like last year and loved it. :)

Clint got a brand new guitar that he was VERY excited about.

After all our presents were opened we went over to Ben and Lexi's house and watched their kids open their presents. Among many other things was a new bike for Cooper. Sadly when poor little Coop got on it to ride it we found out his feet don't reach the pedals. Maybe next year he'll be able to ride it. :)

The rest of the day was spent sleeping, eating, and playing with presents. We couldn't have asked for a better Christmas.

Utah

This last weekend we had the opportunity to go up to Utah for General Conference. It was so great. The weather was perfect. It was a wonderful experience to be inside the Conference Center along with the Prophet and other General Authorities. We stayed at the Allen's house. On Saturday after Conference we ate at the Lion House Pantry. It was really good. After Conference on Sunday we drove up to the Oquirrh Mountain and Draper temples. We got to see some snow up in Draper. :) The temples were beautiful.

The Salt Lake Temple

All of us minus Clint in front of the Salt Lake Temple

Clint and Ashley in front of the chandelier in the Joseph Smith Building

Ashley in front of the BYU sign. Hopefully she will be enrolling here in just 3 more years. :)

David and Malia's new adventure

Darcine here! David and Malia left for Boston on Tuesday July 21st. David will be studying at Harvard Law for 3 years. What an adventure awaits them! We will sure miss having them around.

Clint

Darcine again! It has been so great having Clint home. He returned with honor July 15th from the Barcelona, Spain mission. He's registered for school. Now he just needs to find a job and an eternal companion. :)

California

Well I'm sad to say that summer is coming to an end. Queen Creek High School starts this Wednesday. :( But, I did get to go on a super fun vacation this summer! This last week me, Clint, and Ben and Lexi's family all went to California. We got five day hopper passes to Disneyland and California Adventure. It was SO much fun.

We ate at Johnny Rockets one afternoon.

Kami and Cooper loved the escalators. :) They made me and Clint take them like 5 times before we could leave. :)

We found out that Huntington Beach was only about 9 miles from our hotel!

Ben and Clint with the kids.

Cooper is SO attached to his dad. It's so cute. :)

Ben and Clint turned Kami into a mermaid. :)