Gilbert Arizona Temple

In case you haven’t heard. The church announced two new temples to be built in Arizona. The Gilbert Temple will be less than 5 miles from our house! That will be exciting and fun to be a part of a new temple. I know it was a great experience for the Runyans in Folsom. If you’re familiar with the area, it will be across the 202 freeway from the San Tan Village (Greenfield & Pecos). The other temple will be in eastern Arizona. I’m sure the process will take years but it will be fun to see the progress and eventually invite friends and neighbors to the open house.

FHE at the Temple

We decided to take Jackson to see the Mesa Temple tonight for FHE. We wanted to make sure and see the Reflections of Christ display at the visitor’s center before it ends next week. Jackson had fun and liked seeing all the Jesus pictures and statues. It’s amazing how well little kids can recognize Christ at such a young age.


 

Pictures

Here are some pictures of Lacey. She’s doing great. Lots of eating and sleeping. She went to church for the first time today and slept through sacrament meeting then Sarah took her home. She is getting very alert and yet she can be very cuddly. She has been very easy. Our only concern has been her reflux. If she eats for a minute too long it all comes up. We’re not too worried because she is gaining plenty of weight.


I hope everyone enjoyed conference. It was definitely a different tone without President Hinckley but I think we can get used to it. Change is inevitable and thankfully there are plenty of good men in the church to take charge and move the church forward.

I fell asleep during the last session and Sarah told me Elder Ballard said I need to give her a day off but I think she is making that up. I will have to check that one out.

As a safety measure and so we can feel okay sharing personal information here we want to make our blog private. We will invite everyone we have email addresses for but if we don’t have your email address or you’re not sure then please email us at stubblefields+blog@gmail.com We will leave the blog open to everyone for a week to allow everyone to have a chance to email us.

One other item of miscellanea, Since more and more family and friends are blogging I have grown weary of visiting each blog almost daily to check for updates. Especially those of you who never update and I have to see the same post every time I visit. It is convenient to have the list on the side of the blog but still a hassle so I decided to use something called a feed reader and it is amazingly convenient. Here is how it works. There are a lot of readers out there but I chose and recommend google reader because I’m a google guy and you use the same login as blogger, gmail, picasa, etc. So you log into http://www.google.com/reader from there you can add subscriptions by typing in the address of blogs or websites you frequent. I created folders for family, friends, news, fun, lds and such. I subscribed to everyone’s blog and now all I have to do is visit my reader and shows me all unread posts. I can read the post within the reader or visit the actual post. Now that reading blogs is so easy and convenient I decided to subscribe to more blogs. I’m including a screenshot so you can see what I’m talking about. Also, if you start using google feed reader I can add you as a friend and share interesting stuff through the reader.

Feathered Friends Festival

Saturday we took Lacey on her first outing. We took a short visit to a riparian preserve where they were having a little festival. We had no idea until then that there was a preserve less than 2 miles from our house! It was tough for Sarah to walk around so much just being 2 weeks off the c-section, but she made it. Lacey slept in the stroller the whole time. We got to see all kinds of birds, snakes and tortuises.

Jackson got to pet this beautiful bird.

No petting this one. He might rip your fingers off. The handler told me all about how peregreen falcons catch their pray.

Our artist in action.

A little screech owl

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