Look at all those A's

Have you ever seen anything like it? When I posted their grades at the beginning of the year, they said, "Mom, if we get all A's at end of the year, will you post it again?" How could I not keep my end of the bargain. I'm so proud of how hard they have worked.

Graduation Day

We are so proud of our baby girl. I can't believe how quickly time goes by. I can still remember her first day of Kindergarten, and now she's finished high school.

She was ranked first in her class, and finished with a cumulative 4.0. You've worked so hard! We love you Mandi =)

Bet you would have NEVER guessed

Well, here is another entry about Wesley. We have a new high school opening next year that Wesley will get to attend. He tried out for one of the teams and he is SOOO excited because he made it. Bet you will NEVER guess what team it is. They didn't even have this class in high school when I was a teenager, let alone a team. Drum roll please...........Wesley is an official memeber of the Stansbury High Ballroom Dance Team (and no every boy that tried out did not make it - it was VERY competitive) They learned two choreographed dances, complete with tricks, lifts, dips etc. He even practiced with his mom (who by the way took two semesters of dance in college, thank you very much), but he wouldn't do the lifts with me, sheesh.

He took social dance this last semester, and he just had his final dance concert. Can you believe there were 4 full classes of kids? Who knew? At the end, they had to take someone from the audience and teach them a dance. Here are a few shots - blurry because they are taken with the camera phone. He's a pretty good dancer too - I'd say the best boy in his class. We were impressed.

Memorial Day

The sight of all the flowers at the cemetary on Memorial Day is a beautiful, yet somber sight. Expressions of love and loss at the same time.

Somehow, it still doesn't seem right to see both of my parent's names inscribed here. We visited on Monday, and it looked like many others had already been to leave flowers. It always makes me wonder who else left flowers. It was nice to see my parent's remembered.

That afternoon, we went to Salt Lake City Cemetary too. We ran into Rose and her family. Then we explored a bit, and found some of the prophets' grave.

Happy Spring

I love the springtime. It's so uplifting when the bulbs put on their beautiful show. I only wish they would last a little longer. For an early Mother's Day present, we got this cute little bridge. Quinn, of course, feels it is just right for him.

Sadly, one morning last week, we had some tulip vandals. It was very distressing to be greeted with dozens of decapitated flowers. They destroyed everything in the front corner of the yard. Several homes on our street were hit - probably over a hundred flowers destroyed. All we could do was bring them in and try to enjoy them for a couple of days in the house.

Tennis

Wesley joined the tennis team this year, even though he had never really played tennis before. It's been a learning experience, and he is having fun. For family night, we watched one of his matches since it was a home game. We are proud of his persistence.

Quinn even enjoyed the game for a minute, but when he realized he couldn't play with the balls, he just had fun running in the big open field.

Spring Break Fun

What do you do for Spring Break? Go skiing of course.

The kids had never been skiing before (except for Amanda who went once when she was about 10). Can you belive that? Living in Utah - home of the greatest snow on earth. Skiing is free at Alta after 3:00 and we had half price ski rentals. It was a beautiful, warm day, and the kids had a blast.

Amanda, Wesley and Haylee were naturals.



Heather did well too, and got up everytime she fell. She didn't even fall once on the last run.