HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHASE!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Chase and MaCall
Being a good sport and letting me take his picture.

Every time we look at this picture we laugh.

I know he hates me to take his picture but he humors me.

Chase turned 24 on Wednesday. I really am having a hard time with my kids growing up, it helps when they turn out to be wonderful adults. Chase has been so much fun since the moment he was born. Everyone who is with him loves him, and he really likes everyone. I remember one time going to parent teachers conference and the teacher telling me he was talking too much. I asked her to move him. She said she had several times. When I went home and talked to Chase about it, he told me he couldn't help it he liked everyone.

He appreciate everything we do for him and is always telling us how grateful he is. He recently moved back home for a little while and it has been so nice having him back, especially for Toph. He is smart, athletic, kind, giving and full of love. We feel very blessed to have him be part of our family! We love you Chase!!!

Kimmy's Last Week Of High School

Ok so for some reason it's not letting me move the pictures so I can put them in the right order. I will just have to jump around a bit.



My friend Holli made Kimmy her very own Holli cake. I think by far this was her favorite graduation gift. She loves Holli and her cake. It really was so very nice of Holli to do this.

This is after seminary graduation, it was so tender I wish I could have taken a picture of Ron giving her her certificate. We are a family of criers and they hugged for a long time and cried.
Sunday started out our week of graduation events starting with this.





Ok these are out of order, they are from the all night party after graduation. I was in charge of the food for the party so we got to hang out all night with them, it was a great time had by all.

Sunday was Kimmy's last Choral Edition Sacrament meeting and Monday was her final concert. She has loved being with this performing organization for 9 years. She will greatly miss singing with them and will miss the people she got to work with the most.

This is from Senior reflections on Tuesday night. The Senior officers are in charge and they show case the talent in their class.

These are from the final assembly. The Student Body and Senior officers after the assembly sit on the stage and each tell the Seniors and student body good bye. Then all the Seniors go up on stage to say their farewells.

After the assembly on Thursday.



Thursday night they had a Senior Barbecue and signed year books. We were in charge of the food for the night, so again we got to party with the kids.

GRADUATION

The cousins all graduating together.

Jumping for joy that they are finally done.


The Senior officers getting ready to go into the ceremony.


Sitting on stage for graduation.

And she is now an adult. Which kind of freaks her out.

This was just a sampling of all the fun we have had this week with our little graduate(lucky for us she likes us to be around). We really are so proud of her!!

MAY

I LOVE MAY

May is not even over and so far we have been so busy we can hardly breath. We have a lot more ahead of us, what with Kimmy graduating and your normal end of school year stuff. But I really am enjoying it all. My house isn't clean and my laundry isn't done, but that will all wait until June. Right now I just want to enjoy this time with Kimmy and my family.

Mother's Day Hike

Kimmy's Dance Fun

May Day Festivities

TOPH

Savior of the World

Toph and Elder HernandezHe looks a little tired here.
Some of the kids that were in it with him

Toph doesn't feel like I ever post anything about him on here. Here he is in our Stake play, Savior of the World. He was asked to do it well after rehearsals had begun. He was very cute and did a great job. I love that he will do things like this, and he even had a good attitude when Noel came and asked him if he would be willing to do it. He really is a great kid.

The Lusty Month Of May

HAPPY MAY DAY!!!
Anyone who knows me at all knows that this is my very favorite holiday! I love everything about it. I love the thought of everything being new again with the coming of spring. I love May Day baskets, the sharing of flowers, dancing around the May Pole(thank you Shane, Danny B and Jason, for making me one last year). I just love it!! So I hope everyone has a great day! I will try to remember to take pictures of the festivities to post.

Joy In The Journey

Yesterday my grandsons and I went for a hike. When we got out of the car to start our journey each boy wanted to hold one of the dogs leashes. They did great except the dogs wanted to run and they were pulling the boys little arms out of socket. I told them I would take the dogs and they could just hike. Zack started to run and wanted to get wherever as fast as he could. Brayden was just strolling along, happy as can be just to explore. At first I wanted to tell him to hurry and catch up. Then I started thinking, what's the hurry. Instead I ask Zack to wait for Brayden, he saw that Brayden was having a ton of fun with a stick just exploring, and he thought that was a great idea. Then we all just took our time and enjoyed the journey. We played in the water, climbed on rocks, played pooh sticks. It was a great day, except I forgot my camera, again. They were so cute and I don't have one picture to keep that memory alive. We will just have to go again and make more memories. I love those little boys and I think I am the most blessed Nana in the world to have had them come into my life! Thanks Cami for sharing them with me!

Changes

We have been really busy this past week. Chase is moving back home and we couldn't be more excited! But with that comes a lot of moving things around. Toph moved upstairs into the spare bedroom, that since Maegan moved out I had put a lot of junk into. Chase moved into Toph's room. Needless to say we have had to get rid of a lot of stuff. I don't really like stuff so I was surprised how much I have accumulated in the past two years since Maegan left. Plus Chase is going from a 4 bedroom 3 bath house to a bedroom. He had a lot of stuff as well. The DI is now our best friend as we make several trips there to get rid of all the stuff! Also with Chase moving back home we get another dog, luckily we all love Cooper, he is a really good dog. I have always said change is good and this is no exception, it is really good to have Chase home!

On a side note Ron, Chase and I went to Sandy last night to watch Zack and Braden play soccer. Can I just say there is nothing cuter than watching little kids play swarm ball. Zack is quite the little runner he is probably the fastest on his team and Bayden just make me laugh. Brayden did score a goal last night which was very exciting.

This is Brayden at the kick off of the game, everyone ran he just stood there looked around then started running. He loves playing soccer!

This is my fast runner Zack. He doesn't know if he loves it yet, but he gets better each week