Happy Birthday MOM!!!!!

I just got back from a wonderful little weekend vacation to San Antonio! It was my mommas 50th birthday!! Happy Birthday Grandma!!

All of my momma's sisters got to come into town to help celebrate! We had so much fun with Aunt Marie, Kayla, Aunt Sheri, and Mandy! Nothing compares to being around mom and all the sisters... except maybe being around dad and all of his brothers! I got there early Thursday and got to spend quality time with mom and dad without anyone else around. XJ really loved hangin out with Grandpa! He was talkin his ear off! Everyone came to the gym and surprised mom! She was really surprised and I was so excited! The next day we all just kinda hung out.. we went shopping a little bit to pick up stuff for momma's birthday. Later that afternoon a good friend of ours Kim Shuck came over and took a few pictures of XJ so mom could have some good ones to print. SHe is amazing! Here are some of the best ones from the shoot:

He is pretty perfect! Saturday we had a little get together with people who have been there for mom from the beginning! We put together a video of pictures from the very first of the gym up until now.. if I can figure out why my computer wont upload videos to blogger you'll get that soon. After cake with friends, all the girls went and got manis/pedis followed by more shopping and BBQ with the family that night. I would say the entire weekend was a big success, but the cap on the weekend was Sunday at church. Being fast sunday of course Kayla and I were trying to get Chase and Jaden up to the pulpit to bear their testimonies. All I managed to do was get Jade to dissolve into a fit of tears. Chase, on the other hand, made it up to pulpit to deliver one of the most inpired testimonies I've heard in a while. It wouldn't do it justice to try to paraphrase the testimony, but he said a phrase that really stuck with me and I'll leave you guys with this thought:

If we don't develop strong bonds with our family, how can we expect to develop strong bonds with our Heavenly Father?