Only Live Middle School Choir
Performance this Year
It was nice to finally watch Braxton participate in his choir concert in person.
Setting aside time to watch your son perform on YouTube is not so easy!
We are very proud of him and his growth. It was fun to find his
friend Alyssa and take some photos of them both.
Cort and Marshal Soccer
This year has been so much fun to watch my boys grow in soccer. Not only that it has been wonderful to strengthen the bond between Marshal and Brayden. Brayden is such a good role model for Marshal and we feel so lucky to have many great role models on both sides of the family!
Rachel and the Twins...
Oh! and Liesel and Jonathan!
Liesel and Jonathan came for graduations and it was a lot of fun to play with the girls.
We sure do miss them when they are gone!
Love these girls!
Congratulations
Class of 2021!
Top Left: Kylie giving Marshal a hug. Top Left Middle: Jonathan showing off his outfit that he wore special for Kylie's graduation! Top Right Middle: Marshal peaking out from under the jacket where he was playing on a device. Top Right: Marshal watching Austin play on his phone at Ashlyn's graduation. I didn't get a photo of her so I had to steal one from Facebook and post it below this. Center Right: Marshal hiding under a jacket playing on a phone. Bottom Left: Levi showing off his mad baby skills. Bottom Left Middle: Marshal and Kylie. Bottom Right Middle: Kylie, Marshal and I. Bottom Right: Kent and I have been rewatching White Collar and this guy looked so much like Peter Burke that I had to take a photo.
Congratulations to Ashlyn!
Congratulations to Brayden. He was his high school's Valedictorian and was able to speak at graduation. Unfortunately, he only had a few tickets for seats at graduation so we were not able to attend his graduation. We are very proud of all he's accomplished as well.
We were very happy to be able to go and support our other niece Kyli at her graduation as well.
So many graduates to make us proud!
Gems From My Favorite
College Textbook
Recently I have found my favorite college "text" book, "The New Peoplemaking" by Virginia Satir. There are so many gems in here that I just started taking photos of my favorite quotes!
Life in May
Top Left: This is how Marshal plays Among Us with his cousins and aunts and uncles. Such a funny kid. Top Middle: Mom and Marshal showing off his missing teeth. Top Right: Kent taking all his vitamins to get his health back after Covid. He got a little too skinny in all the wrong ways. Bottom Left & Bottom Middle: Marshal showing off the two teeth he lost. On tooth one day and the other front tooth the next day. Bottom Right: Marshal came home after church and hopped on the crazy cart without even taking off his church clothes. Kent and I just sat in the van and laughed at that crazy boy!
Funny video of Marshal on the crazy cart in his church clothes.
Top Left: After months of not being able to go to the temple we were able to take the youth to do baptisms for the dead. What a wonderful oppotunity! Top Middle: Cort wanted a photo with this lion at Lagoon. We had season tickets this year and finally found time to go on Memorial Day. Top Right: We enjoyed this peacock ready for it's photo shoot. lol Left Middle and Middle: The Activity Days boys got to make birdhouses. The boys seemed to have fun. Bottom Left: Memorial Day we ran out to Larkin to place flowers on Grandma and Grandpa Kunz' graves. On our way home Kent and Cort saw an accident. Cort and I got out to process what had happened. The Fireman on the scene was very kind to talk with us about the way cars are made to keep people safe now a days. He gave us a fire hat and my boys weren't nearly as excited as I was. lol Bottom Left Middle & Right: More poses from the peacock. Bottom Right Middle: We took a selfie with the Butterfields and their cousins who attended Lagoon with us. It was so much fun to go with them.
Top Left: Kent and I are wild. We take date nights to Lowe's and Home Depot. Bottom Left: Kamryn Blackburn has been buying wigs lately and I tried one on. It looks so much better on her...but it does tempt me to splurge on a good purple wig for Halloween. lol Everything Else: Selfies of me and selfies with Kent. We are sure adorable. lol
Top Left: Marshal says the funniest things. I hop he never stops. Top Middle: Only in the country will you get slowed down like this by a tractor. We had a fun time at the Jones house but neglected to get any other good photos. Top Right: We found Casper...but didn't see him there. Bottom Left: When your kids struggle to get all the dog poop so you have to use technology to help them see better. 👎 Bottom Left Middle: Marshal was really impressed with this junk mailer that said they had over 140 vehicles to choose from. lol Bottom Right Middle: Yummy meat that Kent smoked with his new smoker. Yum! Bottom Right: Nothing better than being the "black Jeep of the family." 😆
Top Left: It been interesting how when you take my polarized sunglasses and look at the sky through my tinted car windows they make this pretty rainbow effect. Kind of cool. Top Middle: For our activity we took a walk to the temple. As we waited at Bishops house this gopher (I'm guessing) ran and hid under the car. Uh oh! Top Right: I love listening to Jody Moore. I loved the ideas she gave in her podcast "What Happy People Think." Center Right Top: Natalie Cline on our State School Board just doesn't play by the rules and she sure makes me laugh! Center Right Bottom: Great ideas for when your child is feeling anxious. Bottom Left: When a conspiracy theorist gets a hold of a ten dollar bill you get this. 😂Bottom Middle: The funny things Marshal does and says. Bottom Right: Oh the things these kids are learning growing up in a Pandemic.
Beautiful World in May!
"Perhaps it's not actually possible to have the kind of faith we want and truly
believe what we say we do without walking through a fire or two."
-Jordan Dooley
"I travel because seeing photos in books and brochures wasn't good enough for me. To be there that was everything."
-Wiremu Ratcliffe
