The Graduate

     It has been over a year since I have written on this blog. A lot of events have happened, so it is my intent to write more often and highlight some of our family events. I'm certain that in doing this, I will recognize the hand of the Lord so much more in our past year than I realized. 
      Last Fall (2014), everyone went their various ways in their school pursuits. DD1 was an online student with BYU-I and worked part time at a call center. DD2 decided to stay and work at a local bookstore before heading back to school in January, 2015. DD3 chose to head to college for the first time away from home. She had a struggle with homesickness but soon grew to love her roommates and had great experiences the whole school year. DD4 began her high school years with lots of fun friends and extra-curricular activities.  
      DD2 was able to have enough credits to graduate in April, 2015. Yippee! She stayed in an apartment just around the corner from DD3.  We all went down to her commencement and helped pack them both up to come back home for the summer.

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.