This is my feeble attempt at posting a video of dd's graduation. So....here goes.

Video of Graduation

Brighton Beehive Girls Camp

This picture was taken on Saturday afternoon. It was move-in day. You could really feel the excitement in the air as parents, siblings and girls hiked their gear up hernia hill to their various cabins.  I couldn't help think about how beautiful they all were and what a force for good they will be to all the many Beehives that will go up and experience camp and many for the first time ever camping or being away from their family for a week.  There are three other girls pictured from our other stake. It was fun to see them again.
   DH and I took them up last night to begin their "dry run" before the Beehives start next week. KSL says it will be snowing up in the mountains on Tuesday. Fun times! There was snow still up there and it covered some of the roads to get up on top of the camp. It was beautiful. We also got to see five moose drinking in the river on the way up. It was so wonderful to watch.
P.S.   Don't like how quiet the house is today.:(

May Part 2

For some reason, blogger wouldn't let me continue so here is another post to continue May Happenings. Dh spent much of his evenings and days off working on the yard. He pulled up all of the old bushes, trees and the overgrown tams on the north and west side of the house. Here are some pictures....

Here are more pictures of the cute quilt the girls made.

Take  notice of the cute quilt stitches on the grey fabric. They used Perle cotton. So sweet.

It happened in May!

I don't know about ya'll, but, the beginning of May went very fast. It seemed though that it was "twenty-something" for more than allowed. Finally June has come and so here is a recap of May's top events in our family. May began with the annual ninth grade dutch oven cookoff. DD4 and her friend made Panko fried chicken strips and baked beans. They served it with Creamies and lemonade as a full meal. Dh helped them learn how to use the dutch oven and was there to supervise. They cleared $30.00 to share between them. The weather cooperated until time to shut down. The wind came up and blew many of the awnings over and then came the downpour. Everyone was soaked.

Mother's Day was combined with both my dd1's and my birthday. My wonderful girls secretly made this fun quilt for me. They embroidered some of the cute blocks and then sewed them altogether and quilted it by hand and then bound it just it time for the party. I told them they didn't EVER need to get me another Mother's day gift...EVER. This was so cool! The pictures doesn't even give it justice. 

MY DARLING DAUGHTERS

Daughter #3 is a Senior and May has been especially busy for her. She received an award for most valuable team member on her ProStart team.(ProStart is the Culinary Arts Program) She also helped cater a few parties and end of the year dinner for the program. Here she is at the Arts Fest with one of her friends selling baked yummies to the attendee's.

Senior Ball

It is spring finally. My bulbs I had planted came out and the daffodils are so cute.







It's prom time again. To ask her out, the young man put Hershey kisses on the pathway to our door and balloons she had to pop to reveal who it was that had asked.

 When the big night came Saturday evening, there was a lot of excitement getting hair done and last minute hem fixed on the dress. She came back home later that evening with a big smile on her face. She really had a great time with the group she went with and of course, her date.

A Finished Project

Over a year ago I had cut squares for DIL's friends and relatives to write advice to her. I put them into quilt squares. I used a pattern found in McCalls Quilt magazine. I think it turned out very nice.

 I wanted to finish it for Christmas but ended up finishing it for Son and DIL's first anniversary. I learned a lot from making this. Yes, a quilt this size can indeed go under my very small sewing machine arm space. It certainly didn't want to very bad. Free motion is quite a skill. I will have to do more to get more proficient at it.  I put the backing on, quilt and bound it in one week. It gave me a good feeling like "hey, maybe I should finish a ton of the rest of the quilt tops that are storing away in totes."

Blackbeard the Pirate

Dd#4 was in a play today. They tried out for parts on Monday, rehearsed all week, and then put it on for the community twice today. She was singled out as one of six crabs. They did some singing and dancing too. The  play was sponsored by Murray City and the directors were from a company called the Missoula Children's Theatre. The company brings the props and costumes and they help young actors put on the play for the community.
 #4 was on her knees much of the play. She said her knees were screamin' tonight after it was all done. Her costume was darling.

Happy New Year!

Christmas was wonderful at our house. Santa was very good to us. Dad and Mom came and spent a week with us. We are so lucky to have them here. We all enjoy their company. I hated to see them go.I am posting a few family pictures. After the grand present opening, we had all of the Butcher family over for snacks and a party. The house seemed very full and very happy to have so many people come. I never would have been able to host such a party at the other house. I feel very blessed to have this big of an area upstairs to get everyone together. DH worked very hard to make it happen and it turned out great.  We also realized we needed a few things changed and added to make it more comfortable for next year.

   I caught the flu bug the day after my parents left for home. I stayed in bed for two days and then last night I felt like I shouldn't expose the family at the New Year's Party so I stayed home and watched the ball go down on the couch. ( I switched channels to the ball only for the few seconds before it dropped because the smut that was shown was so worldly......wow...)

   Today we loaded up the sleds and took the girls up the canyon to a golf course/tubing area. The girls fairly flew down the mountainside because it was pure ice. Two of the girl's took on air. DH will certainly be sore tomorrow.
    Here's praying that 2014 will be a good and productive year for our family!