Nauvoo 2010

We went to Nauvoo and had a great time! I even remembered to bring some names and Clint and I did sealings. It was cool to see "Nauvoo 2" stamped on the card. The temple was beautiful and quite colorful - considering it is a temple. Most of the lights were black and it was quite the contrast. They also had red and blue colored vases in the windows. The baptistry is the largest in the world, but also how big it originally was. A worker said that was because they were doing 2 at a time, but that seems kind of confusing to me.

Here we are going on an ox ride. We also took a hour long wagon tour, but didn't have time for the carriage tour. There was too much to do for only 2 days!
The most popular thing was the pioneer dancing at the fair before the pageant. We went to the pageant twice just because of this. This is the second night when it rained alot!
Here we are soaking wet with "Joseph Smith". The kids were so excited to meet him and "Brigham Young". The pageant was better the second night when we had really good seats, even though it rained.
Lucy and Juliette doing stick pulling.
Being hand cart pioneers. The carts were light, but when they got stuck in the mud, it was really bad. How did they do it?

Carol and Major sawing a log. It was pretty tricky and hard.

Juliette playing with all the pioneer house stuff.
Major playing fox and geese. It was kind of a pioneer Rubik's cube. He figured it out pretty fast.
Everyone should go to Nauvoo! It was an amazing experience!

June 2010

June was a busy month. I took the little kids to see The Princess and the Pea at the Hale Theater. It was a cute show! It was even entertaining for the adults! I didn't fall asleep!Carol got all done up for the stake dance which was a 70's theme. I made the shirt out of bandanas and added them to her old jeans as well. She had a fun time!
Juliette did awesome in musical theater this summer! She sang her solo really loud and was really dramatic on all the songs. This is her buddy Zack.
Carol and Lucy also did musical theater. I'm bummed I didn't take a picture of the girls. We had to borrow this one. They did awesome! We were so impressed with their beautiful and loud solos and they were super dramatic! Carol was in a lot of hilarious songs!

Juliette's Baptism

Juliette was baptized on Saturday. I can't figure out how to get the pictures in the right order, but here is her cute cake that Melissa Lee (my cousin) made. It was so cute and yummy too! It was chocolate with oreo filling!

Juliette is such a sweet girl. She was nervous, but excited to be baptized. She is glad that now she isn't the only one that isn't baptized in our family.
My niece Brittney took these pictures of Juliette in my mom's backyard.
I was surprised when Britney had her sit on this ugly bench in front of an ugly wall in the corner, but it turned out so cute! This is by the dirt box!

Now that Juliette is 8, we can all go to the Gila Valley temple dedication, the conference center for general conference and Kartchner Caverns!

Awards

Major got an honorable mention award for his poem for the district writing contest - Voices. I had never heard of this, but it is a big deal since there are about 65,000 students that they chose entries from. I think they are all school assignments.

At our schools Arts and Academics Night Major also won first place for his poem (same one) and his drawing. Juliette also won first place for her drawing. I am so proud of them!

The Best Year Ever

On Friday I went with Lucy's school class on their field trip to the state capitol. I don't think I have been since I was in elementary school, so it was fun. It was a very quick tour! We will have to go again and see the rest of the things we missed.

On Saturday Carol and Lucy had their musical theater show "The Best Year Ever". They both had lots of solos and did a great job!

Busy Saturday

On Saturday we had a birthday party for Juliette. She told me for months that she wanted to have it at the park with all her friends. I tried to talk her out of it because I thought it would be too boring. I got lots of compliments on how fun it was! Kids are funny! They played on the toys and Major got them doing a game of Red Rover which was a big hit!

Juliette loved all her presents, but the most unique one was a baby chick. It's pretty cute. I hope it doesn't die from being loved!
That afternoon we spent at our stake carnival. Carol and Major performed at the talent show. They did a good job!

Easter

We had a nice Easter. We enjoyed watching conference and then having family over for an Easter Feast! I was more full than Thanksgiving!

Friday there was no school, so we decorated Easter eggs. These are real eggs that are blown, then covered with paper. We are going to add to our collection every year.