We're Off!

We're off for the yearly trip to Utah to see family and friends. We can't wait!

A Little Catching Up!

Whew, I dropped off the blogging planet, so to speak! Between trying to finish up the school year, the computer going in for repairs twice, and Dennis and I preparing for and going to youth conference for four days, blogging has fallen way down the list. I'm now playing catch up with what's being going on in our lives for the last 6 weeks. We returned from youth conference on Saturday, and it was awesome but I will have to save that post for another day!

Graduation!

Em graduated from preschool in June, and is now ready to move onto bigger and better things. It was a great year!

Mrs. Murphy and Miss Carol--two great ladies

(On the President's Day, when I arrived to pick Em up from school, they were very confused as to who President Hinckley might be? Em kept talking about him being a president and they were a little stumped! We'd watched the movie about him the night before so it must have been on her mind!)
Her good friend Emily

Recital Time!

All three kids had recitals in June. Chiara had a piano recital on the piano, Cardon had a guitar recital at an assisted living home in Glastonbury, and Em had a dance recital. The song she performed to was the Chimpmunk version of "All the Single Ladies." As you can tell from her poses, she really acted the part!

I filmed her playing the piano so I don't have a photo.

This is part of a group shot after the recital!

Work it, Baby!

Verdant Vermont

As we were driving to our camp site in Vermont over Memorial Day Weekend, Cardon explained to us that one of his vocabulary words that week had been verdant. He thought it was a great adjective to describe Vermont, and I have to agree! We spent the weekend with some families in our ward at Silver Lake, a state park very near Joseph Smith's birthplace. It was awesome!

By the shores of Silver Lake


The kids

The teens

The family

A very old cemetery

Verdant

Quaint!

Prayers Answered

This is Sox, our beloved cat. Unfortunately, not the sharpest tool in the kitty shed, so to speak. In March of 2009 he treed himself in a tall skinny pine in our backyard, and after many hours of hand wringing by the family--(OK, not me. I was in NYC with my friends!), our friend, Gregg, a tree cutter by trade/hobby, climbed up the tree in his spiked boots and rescued him.
On Monday, Sox was nowhere to be found and when we called to him, we heard frantic meowing from the trees in the front yard. Sox was stranded on the tiniest of limbs quite aways from the ground. After much begging/crying from the kids, I put on some long pants and sturdy boots and headed out to get the ladder. By the time I had the ladder ready and was headed out into the thick of the forest, here came Sox through the undergrowth. He was down! Em explained that the reason he was out of the tree was because she prayed he could get down. Thank goodness for answered prayers!

He doesn't like to sleep in the garage at night. He thinks he's tough and sleeps outside so who knows how long he'd been stranded?!

Baseball Bud

Bud has had a great baseball season this year, and it's been a lot of fun to watch his team. They actually had their first loss of the year on Saturday. These photos are from May 15th, Em's birthday. She doesn't even get out of watching baseball/softball on her birthday. Poor girl!