Catching up

Steve flew us in his plane to visit all our kids and grandkids in Utah!  It is so nice to fly for 3 hours instead of driving for 10!

Lots to update about -  Justin Graduated from Utah State!  They have decided to stay in Logan and are hoping to get hired on this summer as a flight instructor and start accumulating lots of hours so he can apply to airlines. Derek Graduated from Seminary!  WOOO HOOO that is a huge accomplishment with all the conflicts that basketball and football have had with early morning seminary for the last 4 years!

Weston and Addison Love Blue's clues!  I am amazed how they can work any electronic device! 

Addison is walking everywhere and pretty fast!  Farmers Market with Aunt Grace and Aunt Lauren

The babies LOVE grandpa's airplane

Savannah and Addison! I love these girls!

Grandpa and Weston 

Addison is showing me her strawberry plants.  She loves them!

Good by everybody :(  We hate leaving these goof balls!

Savannah watching Addison sobbing because we were leaving!

OK!  I don't like this part:(

One of our favorite Missionaries came home!  We love this kid!  Welcome home Matt

Way to go Seminary Graduate!

Swimming lessons with some of her best friends!  

Senior Prom

Moscow High School had prom tonight.  Wow!  Derek is a Senior!   He sure is a handsome Devil!  Every week seems to be the next last thing to check off before he is out of house :(  We will miss this cute boy!

Derek & Dane Best friends since 3years old

Boys waiting and waiting and waiting for the girls to be ready!

Dane and Ashley/ Derek & Kim

They had a huge group for dinner!  I think Derek was so glad to have the 10000000 pictures done! hahaha

Frosh

The Freshman had their formal dance tonight.  Savannah is not 16 and although she got asked by MANY boys, she is such a great kid and went stag.  All her girlfriends had dates so she invited everyone over to our house for dinner before the dance.  It was fun.   She looked Beautiful and this summer she turns 16 and we will have to deal with the all the boys :)  Grace and her friends were the servers.  They were the best!

Sav and her cute girlfriends all ready before the boys showed up

The best waitresses

The group of 12 eating dinner

Grace serving dinner

Elder Blake Johnson

We went to California to support and visit with our cousin Blake Johnson before he left on his mission to Guatemala.  What a great kid!  His Bishop ready a scripture about being steady and said Blake had always been steady in the gospel.  It is true!  What a great kid!  It was fun to see my brother and my sisters and all the cousins that came!  What a great supportive family we have!  We also got to talk to our cousin Taylor who is on a mission in Mexico.  His Mission president gave him permission to call because he won't see blake for 2 1/2 years!  He sounded great!  Gave his brother Blake ALOT of advise and even made him recite it back! hahaha  And then he talked to my Derek and gave him a bad time about when he was going to send his papers in.  hahaha  Derek told him that he would be home from his mission before he turned 19.  But he would get to work on it!  I love missionaries!

Cousins at Vazques Rock

The crew climbing up

Some parts were pretty steep

even some caves

some brotherly love!

These two have been best friends since they were babies!  I kept telling them how great it would be if Derek got his mission call to Guatemala!  They brushed it off telling me it would never happen! 

What a GREAT family

giving some love to the newest elder!

My siblings

the August 16th Birthday club

It was so nice to be outside in the sun!  We all got sunburned!

Easter

We had Stake conference today.  It was really nice.  I think Steve gave his best talk ever.  Which when I told him that he said it was a real complement since I have heard probably every talk he has ever given.  We had invited lots of friends over for dinner and had great company and NO SNOW!  Although the yard was still very soggy from all the flooding so the Easter Egg hunt was just a small part of the yard.    It was a great day to think about the Savior and all he has done for me.  What a beautiful day!

Easter Baskets

Grace finding eggs

She was the only one (I thought) that wanted to find eggs.  Steve is helping her find the last hard ones.  Later that morning Derek was not very happy I didn't wake him up:) Who knew? haha

Ready for Church

Hunting Eggs

Easter Preparations

We colored eggs.   We only colored 18 this year.  But we did have more than just Grace color eggs:) Steve made his traditional football egg.  Savannah spilled the egg dye all over her self (again) she is not my most artistic child! haha  Grace was concerned this last week that we hadn't got her an easter dress.  I know I forget that she is still 10.  I have made many easter dressed in my time as a mom but never for Grace.  So off we went to the fabric store and she picked out a skirt pattern and fabric.  I have not sewn clothes in a long time but I guess it's like riding a bike.  It turned out really cute and she loves it!

Savannah is so funny!  She does not like to use a spoon or the utensil made for coloring eggs she likes to use her fingers and then YES she has die all over them for a few days! Goof Ball!

showing some of their best work

Easter Skirt

working hard

Flooding

The winter snow is melting a little too fast for our little creek behind our house to keep up.  So of course the kids think it is the greatest!  They took out the tube and got on some big rubber boots and even tried to feed the ducks.  Just goes to prove, kids will play in anything:)

Science Fair

Grace and two of her friends entered the Science Fair........Lauren did not approve of this science project.  ........ But it was fun and it was in the category of Social Science:)  Is Smiling Contagious?  They gathered lots of data by smiling at people and seeing if they would smile back.  The conclusion is YES.  Smiling is contagious:)

Spring Break 2012

First time in...... I can't remember how long.... we stayed home for Spring Break.  It was really low key and we kept asking ourselves why we stayed home.  We didn't really have an answer.  Jackie and Lauren and the babies came on Wednesday and we just watched movies, got pedicures and ate lots of food.  The boys - Steve, Derek, Justin & David - all went to the NCAA tournament in Portland.  They had a great time.  They like to watch so much Basketball it is crazy!  On there day off of live basketball  they watch it in the hotel room on the TV.   The girls were very glad to have basketball free TV all weekend.

Triple play at the first of the week with friends

These girls were done swimming in about 10 minutes!  hahaha back to their phones!

Should have taken these girls to Vegas they were on a roll with the tickets!

Pedicure day with the Girls

Addi LOVED the pedicures!

Grace had a Volleyball tournament on Saturday ....... Oh ya - that's why we had to stay home:)

All Grace's Fans!

playing play dough - Weston has to have his binki in because he eats it :)

Steve took the boys to our old house in Portland ...... Wait Nope that's not our house!  

There it is!  HAHAHAHAHA  Derek got a big kick out of his Dad not really knowing where he lived!  To his defense we only had one car and I picked him up from Medical School and dropped him off - so technically he probably didn't drive here very often :)

The boys and their GREAT seats at the Tournament!