A Day With Daddy!

If you don't already know, Kelly is in the Sacramento Sheriffs Academy. This weekend they put on an open house for the families of the recruits. There was a ton of stuff to see and it was great to get to see what he does and where he has been spending all his time the last 7 months. They started with a welcome where the recruits were in their official uniforms and where in formation, then they did some marching which was very neat to see everyone in ranks marching around on command.

Here is Kelly standing at "rest" waiting for it all to begin!

After marching in, during the sheriffs speech!

Marching out at the end of the welcoming speeches!

Then everyone went out side where we where able to spend the rest of the day with our recruit. They had a bunch of fun things to see. They had motorcycles, helicopters, armored vehicles, mobile command centers, the K9 unit, and more. They also opened the Tactical Village, which is a large warehouse set up as a village. It had a house with like 10 rooms, a high school and locker room, a restaurant/bar. All rooms had props to make it look more really life. The purpose of this is to give the recruits placed to practice what they have learned. It was all really cool to see. We got to play in some of the stuff and here are all the pictures that I got before my camera died. (sad I know)
Ethan LOVED the helicopter. It flew in and landed while everyone watched and then we where able to sit and see inside it. Ethan continued to say "COPTER" the rest of the day. Then at the end of the day it lifted and flew away.

The cool looking motorcycles, Ethan's smile is so funny!

Ethan peeking out of the top of the armored vehicle


How cute is that bunch. I can honestly say that I have the cutest family ever. Just look at them!It was a great day the both of the boys where very well behaved all day long. Kelly now has about 10 weeks left and he will graduate on January 14th 2009. He is truly enjoying it and looks forward to receiving a job offer soon. WE LOVE YOU DADDY!!

WHO'S WHO

Can you tell which one is Ethan and which is Logan?

Elder Bell

For the Past 2 years my brother James has been in Lubbock Texas serving as a Missionary for the LDS Church. On Oct 4th at 12:30 he arrived in the Sacramento airport to a family anxious for his return. The kids had a great time waiting for the plane to arrive and rushed to him with hugs once he was off the escalator.

The kids playing around while waiting.

Here is a video of him riding down the stairs and seeing all of us.

Here we are enjoying James being home (I'm taking the picture.)

Walking to the car scriptures still in hand.

His brothers love to have him home. Logan will learn who he is and not even remember this. Ethan took a day until he would even touch him. But after hanging out for 2 days he is now happy to see him and I know that they will get along just great.

Welcome Home Elder Bell!

We Love You!

4(1/2) Months

Logan has his 4 month shots today. OK so they are about 2 weeks late, but the update is as follows. He weighs 16.11 pounds, is 26.5 inches long and in the 75 percentile for everything and the doctor says that he is healthy and wonderful.
This morning he rolled from his back onto his tummy twice, so I am in the prosses of getting it documented soon, but with the shots and with being a little more cranky and sleepy, he doesnt feel up to rolling over right now.