Halloween

Here is our little buckaroo.  He has been sooooo excited about the handcuffs.  Don't you love our little flip flop wearing cowboy?

The older girls got to wear costumes to school for the first time in their lives.  Isn't it sad that they never got to celebrate Halloween at school in elementary school?  It was a Tooele thing - no costumes.  Here they are accompanying their brother trick-or-treating.  The warmest Halloween I remember.

Graduation Day is finally here

We had two graduates this past week.  Wesley graduated from high school.  He thought it would never come to an end, but it finally happened.  He just missed Valedictorian and Salutatorian being ranked third in his class. He was however quite decked out with a lot of "bling" for all his accomplishments.  The silver gown is for earning an honor's diploma (only 6 in his class completed these requirements), the silver sash for being Math Sterling Scholar, and the cords are gold - high honor roll, sage - two diploma enrichments in math and science, maroon - completing the engineering tech pathway, red - donating blood at least 3 times.  He also had a medal for being academic all-state for tennis and a medal for being a regents scholar.  We are of course very proud. He has worked so hard.  He will attend BYU this coming fall and has 4 small scholarships to help out.

When Wes was all dressed up, Quinton had to get his graduation cap on and pose too.  He graduated from preschool.  He was not exactly what you would consider the top of the class being the youngest.  He pretty much embarrassed Mom and Dad by rolling around on the floor the whole time.  Oh well, we hope twelve more years of school will work out well for him.

Hyer Family update

We did get Christmas cards mailed this year, but didn't include a traditional Christmas letter.  No one wanted to write it and all claimed to have nothing to say.  So here's a brief update about what our family has been up to.

TROY - still working hard, still the Gospel Doctrine teacher, finally retired his PALM and upgraded to an IPOD touch
PAM - still teaching (preschool☺, AND now teaching in the computer lab once a week at the elementary), still YW President, still trying to find extra time in the day
AMANDA - still at college, still studying hard, just 2 semesters to go
WESLEY - severe case of senioritis, Math Sterling Scholar, still trying to choose a college
HEATHER - still learning to drive, still counting down the days 'till age 16, FINALLY got her braces off (picture was taken just before this eventful milestone)
HAYLEE - still playing the flute and the piano, loving Junior High, FINALLY joined the teenage ranks and coming to YW
QUINTON - still superhero obsessed, still keeping us on our toes, loving attending preschool (he thinks it's fun to call his mom "Miss Pam")

Conference

I just love conference!  Here are a couple of my favorite quotes.  There were so many good ones it's hard to remember them all.

Forget Me Nots

Loved President Uchtdorf's talk in the Relief Society session of conference.  Forget Me Nots are one of my favorite flowers too.  I made a little graphic so I wouldn't forget what he said!

Summer

The girls got to attend girl's camp in June.  Haylee was able to attend and had fun her first year.  Our stake theme was "The Time of Your Life" and our ward was the '80's decade.  Here they are modeling their 80's hairdo's.

Heather was asked to sing a solo for one of the devotionals.  It is a Jenny Phillips song called "Integrity"

At the beginning of July, we got to attend Youth Conference.  This has been in prep for several months.  We registered and trained the youth to do family search indexing.  They challenged the wards and the individual youth to do as many names as they could and the winners would be rewarded at youth conference.  Our ward ended up in 2nd place overall indexing/arbitrating 22815 names.  Heather individually took 2nd place overall doing 12251 names.  For her reward, she got to throw a pie at one of the stake leaders.

We went to USU for the rest of the youth conference, and the kids had a blast doing the service project.  They assembled and finished (oiled) wooden cars. 1200 cars were completed.

 

Top 10 stories of how Wesley broke his wrist that are cooler than what REALLY happened.

10 - After beating the region champ at tennis, we got in a fight and he broke my arm to get even.

9 - Bear attack

8 - Saved a rabbid puppy from a tree

7 - Upset girlfriend turned into the Hulk and broke my arm

6 - Stopped a speeding car from racing through a crosswalk full of kindergarteners

5 - Saved a little girl from being eaten by a shark

4 - Rescued a little old lady from being mauled by a tiger

3 - CIA mission to Australia fighting mutant kangaroos

2 - Beating up 7 ninja's to save my baby brother

1 - Saved an injured baby bird while skydiving

 

Can you believe that breaking a little tiny wrist bone called the scaphoid would require a cast that extends above his elbow?  It needs to be completely immobilized.  At least he's having fun making up stories to tell everyone.

OK, Since you asked. He really broke it in a region tennis tournament going for a ball that ended up being out of bounds anyway, he fell back and broke the small bone in his wrist. He did win that set but eventually he lost the match.