Yay for YouTube!

Pres & Sister Gilbert made their first official YouTube appearance! A few weeks ago they got to go to the Korean EFY. The church invites all the Mission Presidents serving in Korea to go. They said it was an incredible experience!

I guess at one point before they left- Mom & Dad were hugging all the kids and mom looked over and there was this group of 20 or 30 kids just surrounding my dad. Mom said it was an incredible moment seeing his 6'2" frame towering over all these Korean kids but just loving them.

Today has been a rough day for me, I have had one of the worst migraines of my life for the last three days, and it just seems to be getting worse. I have been having a "poor me" day just missing my mom so much. Whenever I've had these migraines before, she comes and picks me up and takes me to her house to take care of me all day. Today laying in bed trying to take care of Porter and myself has been very hard. Then I checked my email and they had sent this video. Needless to say as soon as I saw them I started sobbing- and watched it over and over and over. But it is so amazing to see them actually out doing the work! It just makes me realize how important our sacrifice is.

This is e-mail Dad sent with the video:

"In the middle (of the video: about 3:10 into it) it shows us hugging some of the kids. We were able to hug about half of the 960 attendees. The purpose was to encourage them all to go on missions. We told them all they wanted to come to Busan! After which we gave them lce cream" (peach flavored ice chunks) if they were willing to hug us. It was really fun to be there with the youth of Korea. The EFY is a huge help to them. It is very hard to be a member of the church here. But through EFY they see they are not alone.

Staying good and busy. We were off to a zone meeting today that we did not know was scheduled until 10 last night. Cindy had a partially active sister and two sister missionaries over today to make soap (that is what the sister does) and have a lesson."

(Typical Dad e-mail- short and to the point... Love that man!)

Kickball Tourney... Ya you heard me!

Last year Dustin's friends Riley and Kiley Birch asked us to play on their SF Kickball Team during the 24th- and we kinda fell in love with it!

On the day of the SF tourney this year I tore two muscles and a tendon and dislocated my hip... needless to say, I didn't play! But the Salem Kickball Tournament was last night. Technically I wasn't supposed to exercise for a minimum of six weeks... but I've never been really good at listening to my doctors :)

So I played.... the first game went great! I definitely hurt but it wasn't too bad.... then the second game came around and I maybe pushed it a little too hard. When I kicked one time, as soon as I planted my hip popped weird and the pain was back again... LAME!

Oh well- one of these days I'll learn to listen do my doctors!

Anyway- since I was playing I didn't get too many photos but I didn't play the last few games so I snapped a few of the semi-finals.


Dustin taking a break between innings...
Yet ANOTHER home run for Dustin!

The Birch's! Love them!

Date Night

Dustin has been having to work so much lately- they are building the new dorms up at BYU and they had two that were technically supposed to be done July 1. Yeah, they just got finished last weekend. So the last few weeks have been super stressful. On Friday night I took Dustin golfing while Grandma Mindy watched Porter.

Awwww precious!



This is the best feeling in the world!!!!!



My awesome new golf shoes! My dad won some at a golf tournament right before he left- but he obviously didn't need new golf shoes so he got some for me! They didn't have my size so I took them back and traded them for these...

THANKS DADDY!


My new golf bag that I'm pretty much obsessed with!
Dustin got a new golf bag for our anniversary, and I got mine for my birthday!

Cousins That Play Together....

Every Wednesday I get to watch Jen's three kids- today Erika had a "Fancy Tea Party" party so I just watched them up at Jen's house.

In between Porter and Austin's naps they got to play- and I just thought these photos were too cute not to share!


If you zoom in on this one the look on Porter's face is hilarious! Especially since his legs are all kicked out like he is going to devour the block.



Porter's favorite toys- the blocks from Aunt Bonnie!


Such a cheese ball! As soon as he saw the camera out he started smiling!

"Camping"

Last weekend Jake & Kelli invited us to go up Payson Canyon and go camping with them. Unfortunately Dustin had to work the next morning at 6 so we couldn't spend the night, but we went and had a Dutch Oven Dinner!


Porter LOVES his Aunt Kelli!


(I don't know why Blogger kept flipping this photo... sorry!)

FINALLY! Some REAL food!

Porter got to have his first official "solid" food tonight- and he LOVED it!

For the last two weeks every time Dustin and I are eating he stares at our plates like he really wants some. I was actually very impressed how quickly he picked up using a spoon! Those things can be rather tricky!

At first he was trying to lick it out of the spoon like a cat... it was hilarious! After the first 10 bites though he got it figured out and downed the rest like a champ.

It's like Dustin said, "He was born to eat!" (just like his daddy)....



As soon as I'd put the spoon near his mouth he'd hurry and shove his fist up there to hold it in!


Like I said, he love it, and was all smiles!