Bruce's Graduation Open House

(First of all, let me apologize for some of the fuzzy photos. I wanted to include them even though they aren't perfect.)

We had an open house on Sunday before Bruce's seminary graduation. We had a lot of family, two sets of grandparents, friends, and ward members.

We had lots of good food, plenty of visisting...

cousin fun...
cute kids...

and games...and beauty salons.

Bruce has had great young men's leaders.

Bruce has worked really hard and we're proud of his accomplishments.

I'm so glad for everyone who came. We love our family and grateful for a good family and wonderful friends and ward members. We're blessed to have so many great people in our lives.

Bruce used to have cool hair

Then I made him cut it...
(posted by Bruce)

The Week In Review

Veronica turned sixteen years old this week. She was given birthday money to go to a nice restaurant, so she took the family and her best friend to Cheesecake Factory. Everyone enjoyed a delicious meal and then we shared a few desserts. It was a lot of fun.

Saturday evening we had a birthday party. I made six dozen cupcakes, we had all the fixings for s'mores and roasted starbursts, Travis built a big fire, the kids hit golf balls into the lake, sang songs (a couple of them played guitar), visited, watched part of the Jazz game, played games and had a great time. There were about twenty kids that came.

During the middle of the party, Travis held down the fort while I took Joe to Urgent Care. A reckless dunk on the neighbor's basketball hoop, off a trailer, resulted in a broken wrist for Joe. It was very painful. (This picture was taken the next day)
We enjoyed visiting Grandma Higginson and Grandma Rindlisbacher on Mother's Day. We love them both! I had a wonderful day with cards and a gift certificate to Barnes and Noble.

Bruce's friend (and future college roommate) Skyler came to visit over the weekend. We loved having him come and look forward to seeing more of him this fall.

Our Young Women had a fund-raiser for girls camp. For a $40.00 donation, we'd get a ten-minute family photo session and a disk with the two prints of our choice. These are the two we chose.