Monday, June 7, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Beautiful Temple, toenails and kids
Temples....Toe nails and kids......
Gila Valley Temple
McKenna and Sophia this evening looking so cute! May 15th, 2010 McKenna only six days away from turning 12 and Sophia is 14 weeks old both so beautiful!
McKenna went with the youth from church to the Gila Valley Temple in Safford/Thatcher, AZ area today and while there took a tour of President Spencer W. Kimball's home. They left this morning at 7am and returned about 8pm tonight. McKenna went straight for her baby sister because she missed her all day she said. :o) McKenna is so cute with her.
Here's a picture of the beautiful new LDS Temple that McKenna got to go in today. It's the open house for it so anyone can go in without the usual Temple recommend that is required after the Temple has been dedicated to the Lord as a sacred house of worship. The open house period lasts for a few weeks.
A night shot of the Temple that I borrowed from my cousin Rachel's blog. Rachel lives there along with 3 other cousins of mine. :o) They will dedicate the Temple next weekend and then no one without a recommend will be allowed to enter so it's a neat opportunity for everyone. McKenna said it was the prettiest church she has ever seen and we had a nice chat about it. She told me of how beautiful everything was and that so many things were made with gold and the beautiful diamond chandelier. I had to break it to her that it's not diamonds it is crystals but very expensive beautiful crystals. She loved every bit of it! She had a blast with the girls and came home hyper and full. :o)
While she was gone today not only did I pull the weeds in the front yard but I also took the time to polish mine and Sophie's nails. I did Sophie's toes and fingernails this hot pink. So cute! Of course McKenna and Calvin loved it...Dad on the other hand didn't say much. :o)
Sophia's beautiful little feet 5/14/2010Buddies
Jacob and Calvin tonight. They were pretty much together all day long and over at Uncle Toma's house. I have admit that when Calvin first started hanging out with Jacob I wasn't to happy about it as Calvin tended to not behave very well afterwards. I told Calvin if he didn't start being a good example to Jacob that he wouldn't be allowed to play with him anymore. I know harsh words. Calvin started gradually behaving a little better and so did Jacob. Jacob's Mom told us what a good kid Calvin was so we continued to let them play almost on a daily basis. A few weeks later to my surprise Calvin was sharing gospel principals with Jacob and they were having a deep religious conversation two 8 year olds. :o) A few more weeks have past and Jacob has gone to church with us 3 times and loves it! Loves it so much that his Mom is even going to come this weekend due to her son and also a good neighbor Liz Orton who asked her to go this Sunday with them....so awesome and here I was going to not allow them to play together. Silly me!
Jacob and Calvin tonight. They were pretty much together all day long and over at Uncle Toma's house. I have admit that when Calvin first started hanging out with Jacob I wasn't to happy about it as Calvin tended to not behave very well afterwards. I told Calvin if he didn't start being a good example to Jacob that he wouldn't be allowed to play with him anymore. I know harsh words. Calvin started gradually behaving a little better and so did Jacob. Jacob's Mom told us what a good kid Calvin was so we continued to let them play almost on a daily basis. A few weeks later to my surprise Calvin was sharing gospel principals with Jacob and they were having a deep religious conversation two 8 year olds. :o) A few more weeks have past and Jacob has gone to church with us 3 times and loves it! Loves it so much that his Mom is even going to come this weekend due to her son and also a good neighbor Liz Orton who asked her to go this Sunday with them....so awesome and here I was going to not allow them to play together. Silly me! I'm so thankful for the gospel in my life and for the opportunity to see it work in my children's lives. Today was great! Our oldest daughter had a fabulous day on her first ever Temple trip with the Young Womens. Calvin has set a great example to his friend and has brought religion into their lives and who knows maybe one day they might even choose to be members of the LDS faith yes we are Christians. :o) Sophia and I had great bonding time today and so did Will and I. Beautiful Beautiful day!
Beautiful girls!
Beautiful girls!May 1st weekend
These pictures aren't in order of events...I tried I can't click and drag them anymore and am not sure why it's very frustrating so after trying for an hour I'll just leave them in the wrong order and explain. April 29th right after work we headed to Springerville, AZ for my Grandma's 80th birthday party. We stayed at my cousin Richie's house. The party was the next day Saturday, May 1st even though my Grandma Glenna's birthday is actually May3rd. Due to the amount of family coming we had it at the LDS church and all of my talented aunts made yummy Mexican food and lots of different cakes. There's lots of pictures from the actual party at the church. Grandma's brothers and sisters well most of them came and then 8 out of 10 of my Grandma's kids were there. We had good food and a great visit! Sophia was held by practically everyone there and kept on smiling! After the party and visiting we (Will, I and some other family members) headed to Show Low for the races where Richie my cousin is defending his title as NASCAR rooky of the year, track champion and state champion! We're so proud! The kids had a blast babysitting Sophia with Grammy back at Richie's house. At the races it was so so so cold but we had a blast watching cousin Richie and Uncle Richard race. The next day we woke up to a snowy blizzard! We got home fine but unfortunately saw a couple of tragic accidents or at least they appeared to be tragic. 
Richie's race car
The kids playing at Grandma's 80th birthday party! 
Richie & Mandy's house Sunday morning after the initial snowing. Picture courteous of my cousin Rachel.
Driving home looked just like this for us too...I took this off of Rachel's blog.
The sunset Saturday night as we were driving over to Show Low, my cousin Rachel took this picture.
Uncle Jerry's family at the party
Mandy & Richie with their son Keenan in the background.
Great aunts and uncles
My pretty Grandma Glenna and her fairly new hubby Walter Shumway his birthday is May 7th
Little Sophia and her bestest cousin Kortni who was willing to hold her 24/7 and helped babysit she loves babies and is going to be a cute little Momma!
Cousins
Great Grammy Glenna holding me and Grammy Sherri making me smile!
Grandma Glenna sitting with her brothers and sisters (all sitting) their spouses standing.
Grandma Glenna, Walter and 7 of her 10 children.
Will and I
Cute sisters
Richie's race carThe kids playing at Grandma's 80th birthday party! 
Richie & Mandy's house Sunday morning after the initial snowing. Picture courteous of my cousin Rachel. Driving home looked just like this for us too...I took this off of Rachel's blog.
The sunset Saturday night as we were driving over to Show Low, my cousin Rachel took this picture. 
Uncle Jerry's family at the party
Mandy & Richie with their son Keenan in the background.
Great aunts and uncles
My pretty Grandma Glenna and her fairly new hubby Walter Shumway his birthday is May 7th
Little Sophia and her bestest cousin Kortni who was willing to hold her 24/7 and helped babysit she loves babies and is going to be a cute little Momma! 
Cousins
Great Grammy Glenna holding me and Grammy Sherri making me smile!
Grandma Glenna sitting with her brothers and sisters (all sitting) their spouses standing.
Grandma Glenna, Walter and 7 of her 10 children. 
Will and I
Cute sistersHappy 80th Birthday Grandma! I love you!
Dear Toothfairy.....I crashed my bike today
Dear Toothfairy,
I crashed my bike today and I have another tooth for you. This tooth is so special that my Mom even took a picture of it before I put it under my pillow. What does crashing my bike have to do with my tooth you ask....well you see I was riding
my bike down the street with my friend Riley who was behind me and as I was pedaling fast I turned back to see where Riley was and the next thing I knew was I was flying off my bike towards the curb yelling. As I came to a stop I noticed that the curb didn't taste good and my bike was lying next to a trash can which was out on the street for trash day. I quickly spit the tooth out of my mouth into my hand because it was on my tongue and I almost swallowed it. Riley's parents hurried over to help me up and carried me home a few houses down where Dad rinsed out my mouth out. I laid down because I had a huge headache and waited for Mom to come home from her first day back at work from being out on maternity leave. It knocked out my left side tooth next to my permanent front teeth and also shoved the permanent tooth backwards a bit.
When Mom came in from the garage door, Dad told her that Calvin crashed his bike and knocked his tooth out and after much examining pictures were the next obvious thing to do. As you can see this tooth is very special because it caused me some bumps, bruises and swelling so I really hope I get more than $1.00 for it cause it's extra special.
See how special it is toothfairy!
I hope you feel the same as I do.
my bike down the street with my friend Riley who was behind me and as I was pedaling fast I turned back to see where Riley was and the next thing I knew was I was flying off my bike towards the curb yelling. As I came to a stop I noticed that the curb didn't taste good and my bike was lying next to a trash can which was out on the street for trash day. I quickly spit the tooth out of my mouth into my hand because it was on my tongue and I almost swallowed it. Riley's parents hurried over to help me up and carried me home a few houses down where Dad rinsed out my mouth out. I laid down because I had a huge headache and waited for Mom to come home from her first day back at work from being out on maternity leave. It knocked out my left side tooth next to my permanent front teeth and also shoved the permanent tooth backwards a bit.
When Mom came in from the garage door, Dad told her that Calvin crashed his bike and knocked his tooth out and after much examining pictures were the next obvious thing to do. As you can see this tooth is very special because it caused me some bumps, bruises and swelling so I really hope I get more than $1.00 for it cause it's extra special.
See how special it is toothfairy!
I hope you feel the same as I do.
With much love,
Calvin
PS "are you a boy or a girl? are you big or are you small? do you fly? what do you do with all of the teeth? what's your name? where do you live? I love you toothfairy" only this part was actually written by Calvin on the actual note he left the toothfairy with his tooth. :o) The above letter to the toothfairy was written by Calvin & his Mommy for entertainment purposes and to explain the events that occurred. :o)
Bobcat Award
Proud Dad David Barker, William Barker, Proud Dad Will and Calvin Wright. Calvin and his good friend William Barker receiving their Bobcat award on April 8th, 2010 only Calvin's second week being in Cub Scouts. :o)
William Barker and William "Calvin" Wright
So cute!Great Job Boys!!!!
Friday, April 16, 2010
Baptism & Blessing Weekend
Sunday after the blessing McKenna almost 12, me, baby Sophia 10 wks old, Will and Calvin just turned 8 in March.
Sophia crying she was ready for a bottle this was after about 50 pictures though she is such a good and happy baby now that we got the formula right. :o)
Pretty Sophia smiling at me
Isn't she pretty! Thanks Pops for taking all of these beautiful pictures
Yes she was so frilly and foo foo
I got her beautiful dress at Crismon's in Mesa, I made the headband and Brandy bought her the bracelet.
ADORABLE if I do say so myself :o) 
Calvin is such a good and happy boy what a blessing he is to our family! His Daddy is his best friend ever and I couldn't be happier about that. 
Our cutie Calvin getting ready to be baptized 4-10-2010
This is my CUTE Grandma Glenna and her new husband as of Feb. 2010 Walter Shumway. They came out Sunday to go to the blessing and then stayed to visit.
4 Generations
4 Generations
4 Generations with my sister Brandy and her girls. Brandy and her girls came Wednesday, April 7th and stayed until Monday, April 12th it was so awesome to be able to hang out with her and just chit chat etc. The girls are so cute and had a blast playing with the kids. They loved the play set outside. It was so funny every time Kyah came in she had sand in her pants pulling them down showing us her crack and then asked Brandy for some assistance getting it out. Twice it was almost a full cup of sand...talk about uncomfortable! :o) We ended up taking the kids out of school early on Friday to pick up Mom & Jim from the airport, went out to eat at every one's favorite Mexican food joint and then Brandy took the kids to see "How to train your Dragon" and they all loved it!
3 Generations
4 Generations with just Brandy & her girls
Cute Cousins! Mandy and her kiddos Keenan, Kortni and Bella came Saturday and then took McKenna with them to their hotel to stay the night. Kortni has been dying to see Sophia and she held her and carried her all around it was so cute! They had fun swimming and going to Olive Garden for dinner. It was great seeing Mandy we just love her & Richie & their kids!!! We missed the other family members that weren't able to make it due to tragedy but appreciate them wanting to come.
Brandy, Kyah and Adia
Cute Cute Cute
3 Generations
4 Generations with just Brandy & her girls
Cute Cousins! Mandy and her kiddos Keenan, Kortni and Bella came Saturday and then took McKenna with them to their hotel to stay the night. Kortni has been dying to see Sophia and she held her and carried her all around it was so cute! They had fun swimming and going to Olive Garden for dinner. It was great seeing Mandy we just love her & Richie & their kids!!! We missed the other family members that weren't able to make it due to tragedy but appreciate them wanting to come.
Brandy, Kyah and Adia
Cute Cute Cute This was Saturday right before Calvin's baptism all of the kids were ready to go so Pops snapped a few pictures. Calvin was so excited he could hardly stand it. Adia was also very excited because she turns 8 in May and will get baptized! Calvin personally called everyone that participated to ask them to participate...Grammy Sherri McDaniel to give the opening prayer which terrified her, he originally wanted her to talk but we told him that would make her too nervous, McKenna as the pianist, Kathy Amador as the chorister, Tomas Amador as the baptism speaker, Aunt Brandy to give the Holy Ghost talk, Dad to baptize him and he asked Uncle Bulldog to confirm him but he couldn't come so he wanted Little Grandpa Mike Wright to confirm him and then Mimi Maggie Prouty to say closing prayer. He wanted lots more to participate including Adia, Pops, Aunt Julie and Uncle Toma. My contribution was the program but he didn't ask me to do it as a matter of fact he didn't ask me to do anything but that's ok. :o)
Best Sisters McKenna is the best big sister ever!!
Cutie pies ready to go to the church for the baptism. It was great! McKenna was our pianist and wow we were so proud of her! I thought she'd back out when were told we were in the main part of the church. I thought we would be in the Primary or Relief Society Room but we weren't...that's a little intimidating or at least I would think to be up on stage infront of everyone when she's never done this before. She had lessons for a few months a couple of years ago and has taught herself so many songs out of the hymn book. When I asked Calvin who he wanted for the pianist he immediately said Kenna and she immediately agreed. Overall she did a great job! It did break my heart when she lost her place and put her hands on her head for a brief moment and began to cry but quickly got right back on track with all of us singers and stopped the tears. Poor sweetie didn't give up and we kept giving her the thumbs up signs as she carried on. One day Calvin will realize how special that was of his big sister because it sure wasn't easy playing all three songs for that many people on an unfamiliar piano.
My Parents came in Friday at noon and with all of the festivities still managed to look at homes as they are in the market for their new retirement home here in AZ. They found the house they loved and it happens to be just down the street from us unfortunately their offer wasn't accepted and they are in backup position on it so we are praying the deal falls through so they get it.
Best Sisters McKenna is the best big sister ever!!
Cutie pies ready to go to the church for the baptism. It was great! McKenna was our pianist and wow we were so proud of her! I thought she'd back out when were told we were in the main part of the church. I thought we would be in the Primary or Relief Society Room but we weren't...that's a little intimidating or at least I would think to be up on stage infront of everyone when she's never done this before. She had lessons for a few months a couple of years ago and has taught herself so many songs out of the hymn book. When I asked Calvin who he wanted for the pianist he immediately said Kenna and she immediately agreed. Overall she did a great job! It did break my heart when she lost her place and put her hands on her head for a brief moment and began to cry but quickly got right back on track with all of us singers and stopped the tears. Poor sweetie didn't give up and we kept giving her the thumbs up signs as she carried on. One day Calvin will realize how special that was of his big sister because it sure wasn't easy playing all three songs for that many people on an unfamiliar piano.
My Parents came in Friday at noon and with all of the festivities still managed to look at homes as they are in the market for their new retirement home here in AZ. They found the house they loved and it happens to be just down the street from us unfortunately their offer wasn't accepted and they are in backup position on it so we are praying the deal falls through so they get it. We had so many wonderful family members, ward members and friends that made this weekend so special. We really appreciate your love and support!!! 
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