Junteenth

 

We celebrated Juneteenth at Millcreek in Salt Lake City.  They had an excellent fashion show.  Heritage Builders supported the event.  I had to lobby to get the ward to cover Juneteenth on our flag fundraiser and they have been doing it ever since.

Lucas 8th birthday

 1. Who is your favorite person in the whole world? birthfamily, mom and dad

2. What is your favorite color?  Blue,pink, purple

3. What is your favorite television show? Spongebob

4. What is your favorite outfit?  Church clothes

5. What is your favorite sport?  Basketball

6.What song do you love? ??Church songs

7. Whats your favorite cereal? Fruity Pebbles

8. Who are your best friends?  Madden, Emerson

9.What do you want to be when you grow up? Doctor

10. What is your favorite book.  Church books

11. What are you really good at?  Football

12. Where do you wish you could go on vacation? Hawaii

13. What is your best memory?  Being with my family

14. What would you buy if you had 1,000 dollars? Buy homeless people houses

15. What vegetable do you hate the most?  broccoli

17. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? cookie dough

18. Who is your biggest hero? Dad

19. What do you like to do best with your friends? Talk to them and play with them

20.  What do you hope you'll get to do before your next birthday?  Football machine

Lucas was asking about his birthday 365 days before it got here.  He had been begging to go to Boondocks for months.  He wasn't wanting to wait til his birthday to go.  He wanted an oreo cake and of course his presents.  All his dreams came true when we finally got to boondocks.

These two are still the bestest Friendemies.  It made for a long, long summer.

They love it when I take their picture.

Jessa spent more time digging her ball out of the grass, bushes, water...and lost a few balls in the process.  Golfing is not her thing.

And Kellan thinks that it is his thing. LOL

He's still got it.  All those years of playing as a kid the muscle memory is still there.  Its amazing what the body knows that the mind isn't even consciously aware of.

Quinty still has some good eye hand coordination.

Mikeys 14th Birthday and FSY

Mikey wanted to have his birthday dinner at Texas Roadhouse.  We made him sit on the saddle and had everyone sing real loud.  His favorite.  He then went to FSY with his friends and had a blast.  I would text him and tell him to call me.  He would reply back OK.  But then he wouldn't call me.  He didn't want to come home.  Glad he had so much fun.  Hopefully when he go off to college he will still remember us.  Happy Birthday Mikey!!

May Happenings

 Lucas has been spending the past few weeks dressing like Michael in all his clothes.  Sweet boy is growing up way too fast!  He idealizes his older brothers and Michael.  He wants to be just like them.  He still likes to get exactly what Quinton gets whenever we order food.  Quinton loses his mind so we have to be a little sneaky about it.

Mikey was on a really good team this year.  He had fun playing baseball and being part of the team.  He made some good friends.

The end of another Comp soccer season for Kellan.  These boys are getting so big.  His coach has been really good for Kellan.  He jokes with the boys but also expects them to work hard and show integrity on and off the field.

Jayla's Senior pictures.  So proud of her.  She decided to apply to BYU with two weeks left to apply.  She wasn't going to apply, but then felt God directing her to apply.  Michael and I were trying to prepare her for not getting in.  We even discouraged her from applying until she felt like she should apply.  It doesn't make sense for her major, but she followed the guidance and was accepted.  For some reason God wanted her to go to BYU.  Can't wait for al the uncomfortable growth and the good things she is going to do.

Mexico Cruise/Senior Trip

First girls trip!  We finally made it into the parking lot after fighting our way in.  I got out to go find a bathroom and when I got back I started directing traffic so that Jayla could drive the car in.  It worked great!  Cars had been waiting there for 3 hours to get out of the parking lot after their cruise.  They had to delay pulling out of the harbor because guests and even cruise workers were having a hard time getting to the ship. 

The weather was perfect for hot tubbing when we finally got on the ship.  We had the entire place to ourselves for a few hours until the ship started to fill up.

It was different not having the boys around to get dressed up so we had plenty of time to get ready for formal night.  The dinners were amazing!  The deserts were amazing.  The company was amazing.  I miss my 4 course meals and all the soft serve ice cream I could eat. I'm having ice cream withdrawals.

Deck 4 is always my favorite.  It was fun introducing it to Deanne.  We watched the sunsets and listened to the water.  It was fabulous.

Probably one of my favorite pictures of the girls.  It was a beautiful day as we left the port.  Things were off to a good start.

We celebrated Jayla's birthday the second day we were there.  She loved that we made our server Jeff sing to her.  It was a good time.  She was a good sport and wore her sash and sometimes her crown the whole day.

The deserts were the best every night!  Ordering at least two was a must.

Playing mini golf on the sun deck.  Jessa was so so bad.

Cabo

Our first stop was Cabo.  This is the local beach in the port.  It was so crowed with locals, which was kinda fun.  I didn't know what they were saying at all, but they seemed pretty used to cruisers being there, so they just ignored us, which was really nice.  The water was amazing!  It was the perfect temperature.  We bought some souvenirs here from some fun shop owners.  They gave us a great deal.  I enjoyed the authentic feel of the port.  Felt like I wasn't in a touristy area so much.

Deanne was so excited to get a picture with the frogs until some of the local cruiser described what went on in there.  Lets just say Deanne couldn't post it after that.

The coastline on our way out from Cabo.

So glad Deanne came with us.  She made it a blast!  It was nice having another oldie there with me.

In Cabo we swam with dolphins.  It was a pretty fun experience to be able to pet them and interact.  They even taught us some signs for the dolphins to do tricks with.  10 out of 10.

Mazatlan

We opted for a beach day in Mazatlan.  We were pan handled to death and our heart strings were pulled on pretty hard all day.  The water was amazing.  The waves were huge.  We had a goodtime chilling on the beach.  We got some lunch and spent some money.  

The town was quant and the locals were the best.

Deanne kept losing her water bottle everywhere we went.  We went to guest services and the guy was like, yeah your water bottle was brought in 5 days ago!"

Puerto Vallarta

 

We took a boat to a private beach area with islands, slides, parrots, food, boating, ziplines, hammocks to sit on and the pina coladas were epic.

We ziplined into the ocean.

The water was gorgeous.