S'MORES

S'MORES!

After we couldn't get a fire going in our fire pit (because of too much rain) we decided to make s'mores in the microwave.  David didn't seem to mind!

Amber is immortalized

Remember this poster that Amber made for her high school Broadway production back in January?

It is now on the wall of the theater in the school and her artwork is immortalized!

Pet sitting

When no one is around to play with, this is Clary's (the cat) and Zoe's (the dog) favorite place to sit and watch the outdoors.

Good thing it is summer and there is usually somebody home to entertain them.

Our FIRST trip to Utah this summer

The day school got out Mom, Amber, Megan and David took a drive to Utah. It took 20 hours and 3 days to get there. Here is our last rest stop before our destination.

We spent our first evening visiting with Maria's sister Andie and brother Bryce's families.

Aww cousins!

Monday was the first day of Especially for Youth. Amber and Megan went with their cousins and good friends. Pictured below are: Truett, Michael, Amber, Megan, Nicole, Marinda, Zachary and Loren. To see more EFY pictures, you will have to check out Amber and Megan's facebook pages.

After the kids got dropped off at EFY Maria took David and cousins to the Taylorsville community pool.

Tuesday, after visiting a couple temples (here is the Oquirrh Mountain temple) David and Maria drove to West Bountiful to visit Aunt Lori and more cousins.

Drew, David, Matt, Mandy, Tyler

Kids rule at Texas Roadhouse, especially when you get a free t-shirt for putting a handprint on a paper for a parade float. The food was awesome, too.

Before the buzz cut (David decided he wanted to have a haircut just like his cousins and Uncle Brad was willing)

During the buzz cut

After the buzz cut (are they cousins or what?!)

Wednesday we toured the Tracy Aviary in SLC and cousin William and David tried to sneak up on a peacock

We also spent an afternoon at the Discovery Gateway children's museum. Here are Jordan, Aunt Andie, Aunt Laura and Kaylee making music.

Kaylee enjoyed getting rid of, I mean, burying a couple cousins!

Friday we toured the Conference Center and Temple square.

Here are Joseph, William, David and Hyrum with the First Presidency

David used his water bending skills on the fountain

It was a great week. We will get to do it again in July!

Happy Birthday Grandma!

We are so glad that we could celebrate Grandma's birthday with her. Amber presented her with a masterpiece of a cake, literally. She decorated the cake to look like Van Gogh's Starry Night painting. It was almost too beautiful to eat.

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Minnehaha Falls hike

We took Grandma on a hike around Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis.

Checking out the Falls

Marissa and Amber with the Mask of Chief Little Crow

The Falls

The hike (why are they hiking barefoot?)

Temple trip

Marissa, Mom and Grandma went to the temple for an Activity Days picnic. We had gorgeous weather. We are so blessed to have a temple close by.

Preschool Graduation

David graduated from preschool last week. He looked so handsome in his nice clothes. He told me he wanted to wear his nicest shirt with a tie. Here is his class.

What do you do with your preschool certificate? Turn it into a spyglass or a megaphone, of course!



David and some pals.
David loved Ms. Connie.

Kindergarten here we come!

Stake dance time

This is a picture of the good looking bunch of girls that we took to the stake dance over the weekend. Three nonmember friends came. Now if we could only convince the boys to go!

Father and son camp out

Kelly took the boys to the Father and Sons camp out over the weekend. They had a great spot right by the lake. David actually came home in a different outfit (only because he fell in the lake shortly after arriving!) The boys loved fishing. David got pretty good at casting, but didn't catch anything. Steven had a lesson in fly fishing. They can't wait to go fishing again. Kelly is still trying to recover from lack of sleep. In the middle of the night David decided that his foam pad was not comfortable enough and talked Kelly into giving up his cot. David has multicolored hair left over from the school carnival the night before. I figured we would let him get as dirty as possible and wash it all out at once.