May 2010

Eddie had a conference in Salt Lake, so we decided
to make a family trip up there and stayed at a hotel
with an indoor waterpark - fun!

Everyone had fun dunking the ball.

The tallest waterslide was really fun and not too

fast - even I wenton it a lot of times.

We had a fun dinner overlooking the waterpark.

Happy Mother's Day! I'm so grateful for the kids

I have, and for the baby who is coming soon!

Joshua and Megan did well in their piano concert!

Megan's band sounded great at their end-of-year

concert - she is getting really good at the flute!

Joshua had a great concert, too, and is

really great on the trumpet!


Joshua at a Court of Honor with his dad - he has

his board of review for his Life badge soon, and will

start working on his Eagle this summer!

Joshua, Zachary and Eddie had a lot of fun at

the Father and Son campout - their fire was a

popular spot since it was pretty cold.

Megan and I had a fun girl's night out and brought

one of her friends to a BYU Ballroom Dance Show

while the guys were on their campout.

We had a fun trip to Bryce Canyon, and stopped

to see Butch Cassidy's old family home on our way

down.

I had a fun birthday celebration at our hotel

(Ruby's Inn) by Bryce Canyon. I'm six months

pregant and feeling large!

We had fun at the hotel pool and hot tub.


There were many beautiful views in Bryce Canyon,

and we had fun hiking around Queen's Garden, etc.

Joshua finished 7th grade with a 4.0!

Megan had a fun 6th grade graduation and was

at the top of her class, too.


On Memorial Day we had a fun time with a picnic at a

park and a visit to the Orem Cemetery with our cousins.

We also visited the Provo Cemetery.

April 2010

Happy Easter!
We had a fun time at our grocery store,
Macey's, making bunny ears and hunting
for Easter eggs.

The kids also had a great time hunting for

eggs with their cousins and then watching

the first session of General Conference.

We went to the next three sessions at the Conference

Center in Salt Lake (Megan, Joshua, and Kimberly took

turns going with Eddie - one to each session).

We had a great time staying over at a hotel and

swimming in the pool there between and after

Conference sessions on Saturday.

Then the kids enjoyed a week of for Spring Break,

so we rented an RV and went to Cedar City on Thursday

where Eddie had a Conference, then went on to Zion's

National Park for a couple of days.

We couldn't resist a picture under the "Carter Carillon"

at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, where Eddie

presented a paper at his Conference - it was the first

time we all got to watch one of his presentations.

We enjoyed hiking up to the three Emerald

Pools in Zion's, and going under the waterfalls

you can sort of see behind us.

Joshua made it first to the highest

Emeral Pool and waterfall.

There is a squirrel you can barely see on the fence

near Megan. The squirrels were very friendly on

our hike to the Narrows (which were closed, but

we just enjoyed a beautiful hike).

We enjoyed stopping by the river. Zachary found

a good hiking stick close by.

We met up with some of our cousins that morning

and enjoyed hiking with them.

Joshua hiked all the way to the top

of Angel's Landing - we were praying

hard for him below!

Megan with her cousin at the Weeping Wall.

The kids found a nice frog near our campsite - icky!

We enjoyed campfires with our cousins' family.

We enjoyed playing with this cute cousin at our

house, who I think looks a lot like Joshua:)

Megan after a gymnastics performance.

Zachary after his last soccer game - he

scored a goal! (he isn't excited about

taking a picture, though)

We had a fun FHE activity going to Cabela's - their

fish are fun to see!

Megan is face to face with a curious fish.

There were fun animal exhibits to see, too.

We all had fun shooting at different targets there.

We enjoyed Eddie's cousin's art exhibit at BYU -

she is talented! She just graduated and sold her

first painting for $600.

March 2010

It's a Girl!!
We're so excited, especially Megan! These
ultrasound pictures aren't super clear, but the
baby is waving at you in picture one, and is
showing between her legs in picture two.

Zachary got to babysit "Webbie" for the weekend -
this tarantula (from BYU Preschool) was not as fun

as their bunny to take care of.


We are in the process of getting a new shower in our
basement bathroom, and we even got our sewer pipe
moved out of the middle of the room:) The old shower
had been leaking out into the hallway and the sewer pipe
was really rusty and clogged - the plumbing is all new
now and we're just waiting for the tile man.




Megan is in front playing the flute in her Spring

Concert for Timpanogos.


Joshua played the trumpet in his Spring Concert

at Dixon Middle School.

Megan had fun in her hip-hop dance performance.

We had fun with the kids and a couple of cousins

at the Science Palooza in town. Zachary wouldn't

try out this rolling "doughnut", but Joshua and

Megan loved it.

We had a family dinner at Los Hermanos and

celebrated Joshua's 13th birthday a few days

early. Can you believe we have a teenager?!?

On Joshua's birthday he took some friends and

family rock climbing at the Quarry in Provo, and

we had a blast! Eddie and I got to belay the climbers.




Then we took everyone to Pizza Doc's for dinner.

Joshua wanted brownies for his birthday, but

we couldn't light the candles at the restaurant,

so here he is at home for the final celebration.


Eddie won a BYU contest to present the best

Communications speech and won some good

money as well. His sisters and I all enjoyed

his presentation and then a nice luncheon at

BYU's skyroom restaurant with the award

donors.

Zachary is on a soccer team with his neighborhood

friend. He's enjoying it a lot more than last year!

We ran into Cosmo at the Brick Oven Restaurant

and he was nice to pose for a picture with the kids.