Maddie Graduates!

June has been a REALLY busy month so that is my excuse for just now posting this.





Here is beautiful Maddie as she graduates from Camas High School. We are so proud of her!

Time for Making Memories

I've always believed that it's important to make fun family memories while your kids are growing up. Maybe I feel the need to make up for childhood devoid of fun family vacations, but whatever the case, Thom and I enjoy taking the whole family on vacation about once a year. Last year we all went on a Disney cruise to the Bahamas and had so much fun. We shared our experience with our in-laws and my mother-in-law decided she wanted to take the whole family on the same cruise this year to celebrate her upcoming 50th anniversary.

So, we headed to Florida the exact same week as we did last year. With the girl's work schedules we decided to not add on an extra week of WDW or Universal and we did SeaWorld instead. We were able to get buy one get one free days admission so we went the day before the cruise and the day after. Lots of fun was had by all!

Our New Family Member

No folks, this isn't an announcement that I'm pregnant, those days are loooonnngg gone. We have ourselves a new kitten and his name is Charlie. We found him at the Oregon Humane Society. He's quite a little lovebug. We've been taking it slow, after all he has 3000 sq. feet to figure out not to mention two very strange looking creatures snuffling and staring at him with quizzical looks. He loves to purr, but right now he is afflicted with a kitty cold, which we were warned would happen. He sneezes a lot, poor kitty. We love him.

Easter

We had a lovely Easter Sunday yesterday. We had a wonderful program in church which was mostly musical numbers with a couple of short talks. Our little family sang "I Stand All Amazed" and I felt it went really well. Even Dallin was able to stand up there with us with minimal distraction and sing the parts he knew. My parents and Hannah were able to come and see us, then the whole family came over for dinner and egg hunt activities. It was a nice time visiting and catching up. All the kids are so busy and it's nice to hear what they are up to.

I am so grateful for the plan of salvation and that my family can be together forever. There really is nothing more important than our families and on Easter as we celebrate the miracle of our resurrected Lord these are the people I love being with.

Maddie's Prom

My baby girl had her senior prom this weekend. It was fun to prepare for it with all the dress drama, hair appointment, manicure, all the things that go into making memories. She and her date Graeme were a beautiful couple. I hope she will remember that night fondly, as I do my proms. Prom is just one of those memories that linger, hopefully in a good way.

Tomorrow is her Senior/Mother tea. Just the first of several "end of year/end of high school" events coming up. Sigh.

Little Purple Pansies Touched With Yellow Gold

My goodness, I have let my blog go to seed! I guess I just haven't felt very inspired to write lately. Today I am home with Dallin, who is sick, again, with a fever. I also happen to have pink eye so...look away! I am hideous!!! Anyway, I'm just feeling so happy about spring. This is the first year I can remember getting tired of the gray and wet days. I love fall and winter. I don't spend a lot of time outdoors anyway, don't like bugs, sweating, sunburns, you know. But this year I'm feeling the need for spring. Easter is in a few days and I've put pansies in my flower boxes and they are so pretty. I've enjoyed getting outside these last few sunny days and just breathing in the fresh air. It's been so nice, so spring...keep it coming...I'm more than ready.

A pic for the last post...

Little did I know that I couldn't save my post and add the picture later before publishing. At least I couldn't figure it out. So, here's the picture of Thom's exciting birthday gift.