A Saturday full of pretty places!

Checked out some pretty stuff Saturday!  And finished the day off with a walnut caramel apple pie crepe and lemon cheese cookies at Park Place in Cedar City.  Yummy Stuff! 

Tavin - HS Grad, Brynnli - College Grad

One of those proud days.  Proud to see Tavin do the hard work to succeed in his goals and get ready for the next steps forward in his life!  Awesome job being one of the valedictorians chosen to speak!  He worked hard in school, sports, and had a part time job on top of all of that!  Big sister, Brynnli, also worked hard and got her Associate's degree all wrapped up at SUU in one year!  Lots of family came to town to celebrate with them!

Grand Edventure Date - at the concert!

Fun date night with this cute, amazing grand daughter!DQ after for treats and a little excitement after that when we discovered a  phone was still at the concert! Luckily we have a friend who was still inside working and a sone who showed us how to use our find my phone thing! 

Three in one family...in one month!

Kaebri - #17!

Trigg - #7!

Zade - #11!

And all together at Family Dinner!  3 amazing kids celebrated all in one month in one family!

Happy Mother's Day Kindergarten style!

One of my favorite things at school - the kids personalize a gift bag for their moms for Mother's Day.  They are so cute! 

Kennis rocks it!

Wow!  We got to attend Kennis' piano recital.  It wasn't your normal recital.  There were 4 pianos and they never played alone and sometimes all of them together!  And yes, she did rock it! 

Zade - outstanding student of the year award!

Got to attend a special evening with Zade as he was honored as one of many outstanding students of their schools.  I was so happy to meet his wonderful principal also. 

Easter made more special for Jim and family

One more thing that made Easter a bit more special was something Paul did.  He and Ross shared the costs to refurbish a headstone that had errors on it and make it into a new, beautiful headstone for his brother Jim's wife and Jim.  Some people we do stone business with sawed off the face of the mistaken printing and cut and polished the stone.  Paul designed, with Jim's daughter's help, a a new face for it and Paul took it to a local shop and had it carved.  Paul took it up last Wednesday and he and Jim installed it at the grave site.  Jim's daughters have done other nice things to improve the little site too and it made a lovely Easter gift for all of them to have their mother's gave finished up nicely.  They seemed very pleased and thankful for how it turned out. The grave is at an old Pioneer graveyard called Pleasant Green Cemetery.  So glad Paul and Ross helped out so this could be done. Paul also had a good visit with Him and with Jay and Brynn while up that way.

The first Camp Out of 2019 - Pine Park!!!

And this was also our first camp out using a camp trailer.  Juge and Lance have let us park their smaller camp trailer at our house and have let us use it as we please.  It was fun to try it out and see what a little step up from a tent is like.  We took Bean along and had a great time even though we got a late start and were a bit rushed.  The weather was perfect, there was a full moon.  It was cool at night and warm in the day.  We did have to share the site with a few other people, but we were off a bit from them and had our privacy and tried to give them theirs.  We ate, slept, hiked and saw beautiful scenery.  We stopped by Enterprise reservoir and got shakes at Milt's in Enterprise.  And we loved seeing all of the green and water that this Winter's extra rain and snow have brought! 

We also stopped in briefly at the Art Festival and had a nice little visit with Tara and Bryan and their youngest son, Talon.  

A very special Easter

This year's Easter was a bit more special because our sweet bishop's wife gave us an Easter Nativity to add to it.  The person who came up with the idea says they think Easter should be as special as Christmas and wrote a book, A Christ Centered Easter, and created the Easter Nativity and outlined some things to do to bring more of Christ into you Easter celebration.  This year they produced a video program for each day to go along with it and as we participated it made did make it a more Christ-centered holiday for us.  The new Come Follow Me lesson went right along with it too.  Of course Easter always makes me think of Weed and Bean and how blessed we are to have the hope of seeing sweet Weed again and knowing all will be well with Bean. (We already feel so blessed with how much better Bean is of course.)  So Easter brings us peace and hope and knowledge of the love of our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.  Happy Easter!!!  Hosanna!!!

"And then, just like that, it was Spring...and that thing you've been waiting for?  Braving the storm for? Clinging onto hope for? I thik it might be right around the corner...Hope on, dear friend.  What He has in mind for you is far better than you know!"

"It is Easter, and those words still ring with hope today.  Come and see, and then go quickly and tell about Him who heals hearts and elevates sould and brings strength and power and peace.  He is the grace gifter.  He goeth before you.  On this day, my hear rejoices in Him."

The Son of Man hath descended below them all..Therefore, hold on thy way..Thy days are known..for God shall be with you forever and ever.  D and C 122:8-9

These activities were done at our YSA FHE get ready for Easter activity and also go along with the Easter activities in the Christ-Centered Easter book.  Our bishop's wife put the activity together and it was also a part of making our Easter just a little more meaningful this year.  

One thing I like to do that I probably should stop doing to save time and money is giving the family Easter treats.  It's not anything big and maybe they just think it's silly.  We used to have family egg hunts, but everyone got so busy with all of their city and other hunts it just seemed like too much candy and too hard to get together.  So I just get my little See's chick inside the egg and funny whack-a-pack balloons and something for the parents and maybe something else to going along about the real meaning of Easter.  I should stop.  But every year Jay and Brynn send a cute picture and a thank you and I think, "Well, at least someone likes it!"  And I keep doing it.