Our Action Packed weekend

Bryce and Tyler (and our neighbor Josh) enjoyed the Father and son outing in May. They left on Friday afternoon, and Tyler and Josh COULDN'T WAIT to sink some worms, and hopefully catch a fish.



What a great catch! They were SO EXCITED!!!!


Saturday morning, they went fishing again, and then cleaned up their tent and sleeping bags and headed home to pick up Brenda and the lunch items and headed out to Kelton for our Allen Family Motorcycle ride.

Kelton is one of those places you say "WE Drove ALL THIS WAY FOR THIS?



And we reply, "You BET!" or "Absolutely!"














We couldn't have asked for a more perfect spring day...then we had hours of clean up. Matt chose to have more to clean up than the rest of us. We had a great time

May

WE LOVE SPRING!

Baseball is into FULL SWING at our house. Tyler is one of the pitchers on the Yankees team...Actually he's the BEST pitcher in our league.(according to Mom and Dad,). He does a great job! When he isn't pitching, he plays 3rd or 1st base.




Bryce is the Assistant coach,and Brenda is the official scorekeeper...(no one else is stupid enough to say yes)





Tyler participated and graduated from the school D.A.R.E. program. (Drug Awareness Resistance Education) This is a 9 week program where the 6th graders become aware of the benefits of being drug free, and the problems that come with choosing otherwise. Good Job Tyler! We'll Always say NO to drugs!

Brenda enjoyed celebrating Mothers Day. (I love being spoiled!)

Tyler made a cute basket and flowers out of paper and a nice card. It's a very clever idea and one that took a lot of time for him to make. I'll cherish this special gift!


I'll always cherish the giver of this gift, even more!

As part of my Mothers Day present, Bryce made some YUMMY cheesecakes (the Betty Crocker homemade kind--NOT the box kind) for dinner. He did a fabulous job!





While the cheesecake didn't last long, my love for the giver of this gift will last forever!

We went to Preston for the day to spend a few minutes with our mothers and some of our extended family members. We had a nice day.


Bryce and I were working in the garden. We were pulling the weeds out and knocking the dirt off. I was gently hitting the dirt clumps against my shovel. Bryce the perfectionist he is, was shaking the dirt clumps in a hardy, profecient manner. He (accidentaly) kept flipping dirt on me. I finally said "please stop flipping dirt on me or you'll be a lone man in the garden." His response was "so is THAT what happened? Now we know the rest of the story."

April

Tyler started off his spring break in an AWESOME Way. He was able to participate in the 6th grade dance (which he was very excited for). As part of the P.E. Healthy lifestyle, they learned 10 different types of dances, the waltz, swing and others. At the end of the dance,there was a dance competition, where Tyler and his partner Nicole took 1st place!



We Celebrated Easter and watched General Conference with cousins in Preston.

We enjoyed the day with our friend Kathy who was visitng from California!

We were needing a get away, so we packed up the trailer and motorcycles and headed NORTH to a place called the City of Rocks. (In April we should have headed SOUTH.) Brenda is convinced that the City of Rocks is the coldest spot on earth.




We arrived at the same time as a cold wind storm did. Needless to say being at an elevation of 6260, in April, with a storm, was not the best combination. That would have been bearable--but our heater in our trailer wasn't working. The lyrics of the song "this is the worst trip, I've ever been on" was the theme of our dinner conversation. The wind whipped around ALL night, and we were so cold! In the morning, our trailer pipes had frozen and we had ice on the windows....(sing it with us...this is the worst trip...)

The morning was still extremely cold, but at least the wind had stopped. The boys were able to play around on some of the rocks, while Brenda sat by the stove trying to warm up.










After leaving City of Rocks, we stopped at Kelton, our favorite family motorcycle spot.





We also attended the baptism for our Niece Makayla. This is the celebration luncheon after the baptism.






We had a fun spring break