The Nolden Family

Here’s a hodge-podge of events that have happened in the past month or so….

Above: We recently went to the Atlanta Temple for Date Night. They are going to shut our temple down for 2 years (soon) to do a complete renovation!!! We are extremely bummed! We will have to drive to either the Birmingham Alabama Temple or the Columbia South Carolina temple, both of which are about 2.5 hours away.

That’s funny though that I should whine about it since when I was growing up in Utah we used to have to drive 4 hours to the Manti Temple. But after I left Monticello (which now has a temple…the first small one), I have always lived within minutes of a temple…the furthest I have lived from one is 45 minutes when I lived near Seattle…so this is going to be very strange and sad. But I guess we will survive .

Above: A couple of weeks ago we got to take the girls to see the Jonas Brothers’ 3D movie. Hannah LOVES the Jo Bros too…so we all went together.

Above: Hannah can’t wait for the Hannah Montana movie to come out too!! I’m thinking another trip to the theater will be coming soon.

Above: Ashley had to dress up as an ancestor for “Achievement Days” last week. Then she had to present three facts about that person. She chose Nancy Naomi Tracy…one of Karen’s ancestors that lived in the days of and knew Joseph Smith. The picture she is holding was drawn by Franzi (our favorite German foreign exchange student).

Above: One of the best things about our house is the creek that runs through our property. The kids have really been enjoying it lately. (Don and PJ). Who knew we would be able to go crawdad hunting in our own backyard…it is very cool. We used to do that in St. George…but we would have to drive 30 minutes up to Veyo to do it.

We thought we were pretty safe playing outside during Fall and Spring…not too many worries about ticks and chiggers…..but Donovan got his first Tick on this day! He was traumatized!

When it rains the creek gets REALLY full and runs pretty fast.

Above: Just imagine Donovan saying: “STOP, PJ!!” And yes, they have fallen in many times.

Above: VIDEO ALERT!!!

Donovan swinging across the creek on the rope swing.

Above: VIDEO ALERT!!

And now it’s PJ’s turn.

Above: VIDEO ALERT!!

Frank’s Mom and Dad gave us this bell for Christmas. Frank finally got it rigged up on the back porch for us. We use it to call the kids in from the forest when it is time for dinner, etc. It is so awesome!