Temples, baptisms, and Father's Day

My neice Emma, was getting baptized on Saturday of Father's Day weekend. So the whole family was traveling down to Salt Lake City. Mom and I decided to go a few days early and visit some temples and Rachel's family.
On our 1st day, we did a session in the  Salt Lake Temple. Then we went across the street and checked out the new City Creek shopping center. It was awesome!  Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my camera, but we still had fun.

That night Rachel brought her kids to the hotel to go swimming. While the older kids were swimming, Logan stayed in the hotel room. He managed to find my stash of yogurt pretzels.

The next morning, Mom and I went to Lizzie's music class! It was the last one before summer vacation!

Here is Lizzie playing the piano while Grandma watches!

Everyone put their hands in the air!

That afternoon, Mom, Rachel, and I did a session in the Draper Temple. It is a very beautiful temple.

Saturdy morning Emma got baptized. Again, I forgot to take my camera!  (I  must be getting old!)

That afternoon, Mike, Greg, Megan, and I went to Temple Square to hang around.
Here we are at the Conference Center.

We saw the Joseph Smith movie, and hung out in the Family History Library.
This is one of the few times that Mike is actually getting help on the computer!

Mike and Colleen on Temple Square.

The next day was Father's Day. After we got home, it was present time!
Meg made Mike a pillow out of Univ of Utah colors!

Mike also got a "zero gravity" chair. He loves it!

And the two combine quite nicely!

He also got tickets to a Hawks Baseball Game. We will go later this summer.

We ended up skyping with Drew that night. It was so good to talk with him!

Happy Father's Day!



School's Out!!!

School is finally out for summer! The last week was very busy. Megan was studying for finals, and I was closing up my office for the summer. During the last week of school, there was the 9th grade awards assembly. Megan got 3 awards! One academic award, one honor roll, and the "sciencitific curiosity" award.

Here is Megan with her favorite teacher, Mrs. Smith. She taught Meg's accelerated biology class. She was a teacher who changed Meg's life. 

So, what do you do when school gets out?  You have a girl's weekend at the cabin! I took Megan and her friend Emelia Munson to the cabin for 3 days!  We played games, rode the 4-wheelers, and slept!

We went to McCall and had dinner and bought a carmel apple at the McCall Candy Co. 

YUM!!!!!!

The new Jeep made it's maiden voyage to the cabin. It did great!  It really looks good in the driveway at the cabin!

I'm so glad it is finally summer! It is going to be so fun!    





Memorial Day Weekend

We always wonder what to do for Memorial Day Weekend. With the long weekend, the draw is to head out of town. Usually we go to the cabin, but this year Abby graduated from Centennial High School Saturday afternoon. So we stayed in town for that. Rachel and Marty came into town with their kids, so a good time was had by all!

While we waited for graduation to start, I got little Logan to finally warm up to me!

Megan with Lizzie!

Abby with her siblings and cousins! 

That night we had a family dinner to celebrate Abby's graduation and Mikaela's b-day!

Logan after eating red velvet birthday cake!

So, what do you do with an empty bedroom, and a child who is out of the house?

You turn it into a sewing/craft room!

Mike and Greg painted Drew's old bedroom 2 of the "Top Ten Empty Nester's Colors."

Another good use for the long weekend!

I will show pictures when the room is done!

What a great way to spend a long weekend in town!