Keeping up with the Paces

Sunday, July 22, 2018

Memorable Monday
Angela's first and last YW

KBP YW

Angela is moving on to RS and her last YW activity was going to Feed My Starving Children. This was her 3rd time serving there. It's such a wonderful place to make packets that will be delivered to parts of the world that need food. Angela LOVE YW and is sad to leave, but RS will benefit greatly from Angela's kind heart.

serving

On Angela's last day of YW, she got to bring home her Young Women Journal. She has poured so much time into it. She took great notes and pasted handouts. This will be a prized possession for years to come.

Angela's First YW activity to her last

Her first YW activity happened on her actual birthday - Februrary 29, 2012. She woke up in the morning with a welcome to remember and ended the day with her first activity - New Beginnings. Katelyn Judd introduced her to the girls in YW. It was a great evening, Danni made a video presentation as a part of the evening. She worked really hard on it and it turned out better than anyone could have anticipated. She is really talented.

Happy Birthday Banner

Cupcakes found on the lawn

YW in 2012

Friday, July 20, 2018

Laurel Retreat 2018

Angela went to San Diego on the Laurel Retreat with the stake. I want asked to go with her, so I worried the whole time she was there. I asked Sis. Gardner to help Angela while she was there. Angela had a really good friend, Judy, that hung with her and the girls in the ward helped her while she was in the hotel room. This was a huge leap of faith for me, but she had fun.

The girls went to the San Diego Temple, Seaport Village, Mormon Battalion, and the beach twice. The girls know and love Angela and it is obvious by looking at the pictures. She had a blast and I'm glad that she went. I still wish I could have hid in her luggage though. I'm grateful for the leaders that watched over Angela and took pictures.

Group Pics

Angels playing games

Angela at the Beach

Ang at the temple

Angela with Judy

Angela at Seaport Village

Angela had a blast in San Diego

Angela made a lot of memories

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Danni's Maternity Shoot

Ashley took Danni's maternity shots out in the desert. The location was just a little drive and walk, but it was beautiful, especially at dusk. Danni looked stunning in the dress she picked and borrowed from Kaylynn. She is a gorgeous mother to be. The pics turned out great!!!

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Free Food

It's that time of season, free food. Chick-fil-A offers a free meal if you dress as a cow and 7-11 offers free slurpees on 7-11. It's become a little tradition with the family. My kids are good sports and let me take some pictures. There were some sister missionaries that got in the spirit and went dressed as cows for their lunch. Here are the pics that I took this year.

My cute cows

Slurpees- they are kinda small

Monday, July 9, 2018

Memorable Monday
Previous 4th of Julys

I was making these collages to show Danni what each Fourth of July was looked like and what patriotic shirts we wore. Patriotic outfits have been a huge part of the holiday. Danni has been helping me the past few years picking out shirts for us. It's been fun to plan with her.

2017 - Mesa

2016 - Mesa

2015 - Mesa

2014 - Mesa

2013 - Mesa

2012 - Mesa

2011 - Benson

2010 - Mesa

2009 - Mesa

2008 - Mesa

2007 - SLC

2006 - Mesa

2005 - Mesa

2004 - Mesa

2003 - Mesa

2002 - Benson

2001 - Mesa

2000 - Benson

1997 - Mesa

I'm missing the year 1998 and 1999. I'm not sure if I took pics on those days or not. It's fun to look back and see how much my kiddos grew over the years.

Thursday, July 5, 2018

4th of July Trip
Birthday Trip

We headed up to Show Low for the 4th of July. I panned a little hike for the family. I called it a stroll because that's what it looked like on a ma. It was much more than a stroll, but not really a hike. I t was a beautiful hike but we made it short. It was fun hike and I enjoyed my kids teasing me about my stroll.

Stroll Pics

Chairs around Show Low

The next day, we went to the parade. In Show Low, the people had put their chairs on the ground to reserve their spot, but living in Mesa I've learned that we don't leave chairs unattended if we want to keep them. We found good enough seats to seats to watch the parade. The parade was cool at time, but other times we just waited for participants to come. After an hour, we went to have my birthday for breakfast. The restaurants was at the end of the parade route, so we could see some of the parade entries we missed. I noticed that the parade ended just as we finished our breakfast. After the parade was over, we met up with Loren and Brittney at Fool's Hollow. We had a lot of fun playing in and around the lake. We rented a canoe and a kayak. Angela wanted a turn to have the kayak by herself. She did well on the kayak and I'm so proud of her. Show Low didn't have fireworks because of the fire restrictions, so we just watched a Marvel movie at Danni's house. We headed home the next day after we played a round of UNO and jumped in the rain.