Manti pageant 2009

For some reason I got it into my head that I just had to go see the Manti pageant this year. The Manti pageant is quite a tradition for Michael and I -- Mike because he was in it all through his youth, and me because I always saw it when I went to Snow. But neither of us have seen the pageant since our Snow College days.

So this year I invited Dad and Jan, along with Zion Carlie and Abbie. We drove down in a torrential rain storm, sure the pageant would be canceled. But just when we came out of the canyon into Sanpete county the rain cleared and we were welcomed by the most beautiful rainbow.

After a traditional Sanpete dinner of BBQ turkey, we met up with Mike's folks at the temple grounds. The pageant was really nice. I don't remember it being quite that cheesy, but it had it's moments when the spirit was really strong. And of course, the temple was beautiful.

What a good dad!

This is the "hats off to Dads" post. Michael is such a good father and I want to tell the world! These pictures are from Casper's malt shop in June. I love to see Mike enjoy the kids. And they idolize him. I know it's a little late, but...happy father's day!

Joshua's Kindergarten Graduation

It was cheesy, quaint, messy, noisy, and completely heart-melting! Joshua's kindergarten graduation and class presentation was really fun. His teacher was fabulous and really brought out the best in the kids. I'm already getting anxiety pangs about having Joshua in all-day school. I'll miss my little guy during the day!

This one is fairly self explanatory. I had the basketball hoop set up on a kitchen chair so Andrew could reach it. I left the room for two minutes, and this was the result. It was one of those "grab the camera" moments.

Jaussis on the river

These are from May - The Jaussi clan came up for a weekend visit and we went down to the river path by the golf course. I love the picture of Carrie's belly. (Baby Bella is a few weeks old now and just beautiful) I always enjoy taking pictures of my photogenic nieces.

May, June, July.

it's time to confess: I am a yo-yo blogger. Whew. Now that I have that out of the way I can get down to the dirty buisness of updating you'all on all the amazing and wonderful activities and adventures that our family has taken part in over the last three months. I have a slew of fantabulous pictures to go along with everything too! So chances are you've had to look through all of them just to get to this ranted explanaition. Just off the top of my head, here is a list of things I just have to share with you:
--father's day
--the park renovation and grand opening
--potty training
--Visiting Canadians
--4th of July
--Zacharies Baptism
--Durango
--Jaussi Cousins
--Landscaping updates
--Manti Pageant
--Dinosaur Museum
and I am sure that more will come to mind as I go. So there it is. A tantalizing taste of what is shortly to come! Hopefully I can get ont he ball enough to catch up before something else blogworthy gets added to the list. Luckily, there are no birthdays coming up in our immediate family until December!

Mother's Day 2009

I had a delightful mother's day this year. It started off when Joshua's kindergarten

class hosted a "Mother's Day Tea" party. It was so fun to sit in a tiny chair at a tiny table and watch Joshua sing his song and read his little letter about why he loves me. The children served the mothers lemonaide and cake, and gave each of us a flower that they grew in the greenhouse. Having two boys and no girls, tea parties are not the kind of thing I get to do very often -- it was a real treat!

Then the Barlows came up for the weekend and we had a great time playing together visiting together, and overeating together. We went to Daniels bike race, ate at Cafe Sabor (Mom B's favorite restraunt), watched movies in the theater, watched Joshua's soccer game, made the most delicious carrot cake ever, and went to church. Michael got me the new book by Dr. Laura about the benefits of being a stay-at-home-mom. It's like a pat on the back everytime I read it!

Sunday night we went and visited with my mom in Logan.

I love having lots of family around. It's the best thing for a mother to have the people she loves all around her!