BYU Women's conference...

May always starts out my favorite way! Miss Donna (Miller) flies in from Cali, Miss Kelly (Laing) and Sister Randa (Farnsworth) join us and we attend BYU Women's Conference together. It is always just the best weekend! This year we decided to rent an air bnb close to campus where we could just have a great girls weekend. We rented an apt called the BYU Bungalow. It was so cute! Donna and Kelly fixed our dinner one night and Randa and I fixed it another night. We enjoyed one meal at Brick Oven Pizza as well. Donna and I were the first ones there on Wednesday and we had time to kill so we decided to go to the BYU Bookstore.  There was hardly anyone there!  It was the perfect time for shopping! We loved all our classes and opening and closing sessions.  The closing speaker was originally going to be Elder Nelson and his wife, but seeing as he was made the PROPHET this year, the closing speakers were Elder Gong and his wife.  One of the new apostles.  It was great!  We always enjoy this weekend and this tradition. I think we will make renting an apt the new tradition to our tradition! We also went to the Provo City Center Temple on Saturday.  Randa left Friday night because she needed to be home for Saturday.  We missed her being with us for the temple.  Anyway, a great weekend and I love these ladies and our tradition!! And the best part of the weekend....Joel and Kristen came over to show us her diamond!  They got engaged right before her graduation from Utah Valley University with her MBA! A perfect day! He proposed on a hike, then they had graduation, then they came over to show us the ring! 

Wrapping up April...

We will finish up April with some cute pics of Walter. He is my sunshine every day! He likes to talk to Grandpa through the baby gate, and he also likes to try and open it. Thankfully he can't! He loves to play the piano and walk all over with his pushing toy (not walking by himself yet), and he's always a big help with the laundry! It's the last day of the month and the tulip festival will soon be over so Dave and I went to check it out. Amazing how much more tulips there were than two weeks ago. Wish Aunt Bev could see it now. What a difference! It was all beautiful and we had fun just walking at a leisurely pace and enjoying it all. April has been a great month! 

 

Happy 60th Dave!

We had fun celebrating Dave's 60th birthday! The Winieckes happened to be in town so they got to join us! They made a cute candy bar poster. I made a timeline which was a fun project and we put it up in the wall at the restaurant (Wallabys). Neil and Jan Budge joined us, Randa, Carson and Jackson came (Eric and the others had other stuff going on), John and April came, Joel and Kristen, and Amanda and the kids (Nate had class). It was a fun group and we had great food, presents and of course a costco cake! Amanda was the only one who got a picture of that! So I "borrowed" it from her instagram page. We love our husband, dad and grandpa!  Can't believe you are 60! We had friends and family write down memories of Dave and I put them into a little book for him. Happy Birthday! 

Spring...

When it's a lovely spring day you get everyone outside to spring clean! Jacob and Lilly worked hard cleaning out the chicken coops while David mowed the huge lawn. Grandpa and Amanda helped everyone and Grandma supervised and took pictures. Actually, Grandpa also worked on a chicken coop project, making new frames for the chicken run. Nate worked on a welding project in the garage. After all the work was done, we went to Tucanos for Nate and Dave's birthday dinner! Their birthdays are 2 days apart and they get to eat free! We always love to go and stuff ourselves there. It was a productive and fun day! Happy Birthday to Nate Today! 

 

Always love to celebrate with this guy...and Walter was pretty cute too!

Snow and derby time...

All that crazy wind brought a storm in. We got a touch of snow.  YAY! We have not had near enough snow this year (both for my liking and for the moisture we need). It has averaged snowing once a month since December. We need more! We have been praying for it and had a special fast too. It is much needed. Also tonight was David's pinewood derby. As you can see, he was a fast blur when it was his time to race! His car did pretty good. It is always fun to watch those races. This will be his last pinewood derby as he will be 11 next year and moves into scouts. Can't believe how fast he is growing up!

Tulip Festival...

I invited Aunt Bev to come up to go to the tulip festival with me. I got my accomplice Teresa to get her up here (She is Bev's daughter-in-law) and Teresa's daughter Bridget would meet us as she is at school in Salt Lake. Aunt Bev tried several ways and times to get out of coming, but we made her do it! I had tickets to the Jordan River Temple open house and we could get lunch in between. We rented a golf cart so she wouldn't have to walk at the festival. It turned out to be a disappointing day. It was very windy and there were hardly any tulips out!  As you can see by the picture...so disappointing!  It's always so beautiful! And it just got windier as we went on. I made her get out and walk through the Light of the World statues of Christ. She did love that part and Bridget took pictures of every statue for her. Then we drove to Kneaders, she has never eaten there but I had a menu printed out so she could see it before we got there (new things are scary for her) and it was even more windy! I could not believe how windy it was. Then we drove over to the open house and it had been closed down!  The massive winds had knocked over all their tents and caused a lot of trouble so they closed down. I said good bye to them and they went on to the mall for her make-up and the drive home. She told me it was a lovely day but I know better. It took so much to get her up here, I don't know if we can do it again, but I really want her to come another time when ALL the tulips are out! Walter was the perfect little guy for the entire adventure!

It snowed again...yay!

Yesterday it started to snow! We were so excited! The boys didn't mind at all as they still played out on the trampoline. Today we woke up to beautiful white everywhere! And the scene when I picked the kids up from school today was so pretty. It is my mom's birthday today. The lovely scenes make me think of her and I am happy she is "warm" in heaven. She never did like the snow, but I love it. I do miss her every day. She would have been 84.