Darren has a 3rd degree A-C Separation

 Darren was riding his bike in Snow Basin and crashed.  He has a 3rd degree A-C separation.  It has been very painful and has forced him to stay home and not do much for a few weeks.  He is doing much better now that  it has been 5 weeks since the accident. He is gaining mobility but still  can't lift his arm very high and the bone is very prominent.

Learning to Sew

Shanee has been learning to sew this summer.  She learned how to cut out a pattern, cut the material and sew up a  pair of shorts with her friend Mariah and her cousins. It took almost an entire day to finish the project but she did a great job.  They even have pleats!  She says they are pajama shorts but I think they are cute enough to wear to school.  I was very impressed!
Last night at Young Womens we learned how to sew a pillow case.  She sewed this cute Halloween pillowcase.  Her brothers are begging her to make one for them.

We are the Champions!

Winners of the Perry 4th of July 5K race.

Kaden won first place for his age group and 4th or 5th place over all

Shanee  won first place for her age group 

Kyler won 2nd place for the mile race for his age group.

And Talmage completed the mile race!! He worked really hard to finish and ran/walked it all.

Tina and Margaret ran the 5K as well.

Here are the winners!

Kindergarten Graduate

Kyler Graduated from kindergarten!  (Just a little behind on the posts!)  The photos I took on my phone will not open up anymore so I had to re-take some photos of him in his graduation cap because it is so cute.  He had a fun year in Mrs. Espinoza's class at the new charter school, Promentory School of Expiditionary Learning.  School starts again in only 20 days!

Tavaci Graduate

Shanee had her last Tavaci concert on May 4.  She has been in Tavaci since she was 3 so she graduated with a 9 year trophy.  It is huge!  She has loved it and has learned so many fun songs. Both of her grandmas came up to watch her and we went out to eat at Maddox to celebrate.

 

Kaden has his first date!

Kaden got asked to MORP by his friend Celeste.  They were in a group with four other couples and had a lot of fun together.  They played ping pong and board games, ate hamburgers and went to the dance.  Hopefully we will see some more pictures from the date in the next few weeks because Kaden says they took pictures.
When Celeste came to pick him up I embarrassed them by making them get their picture taken.

The Ugly Tree Bush is Gone!!

This bush has been driving me nuts.  So I dug around it and cut off the roots and tried to push it down following the advice of some claimed expert.  This didn't work at all.  But when I put a chain around it and hooked it up to the blazer it came out in no time at all.  It looked even more huge when it was down.  It was a pain to get rid of but I think it was worth all the effort to have it gone.

o glad its out and it was worth all the effort!