Finally! May of 2009 has come. Christy received her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing this very day from Weber State University. We were there...Neil, Kelton, Cameron, Lance, Christy's parents and myself to see her walk across the floor and receive her diploma. Way to go Christy! You'll never regret it. I'm so proud of you.
It brought on a de ja vue moment back to when Sandi graduated from high school in that same Dee Events Center 12 years ago and married Kenney 3 weeks later. Brian and Kenney both graduated from WSU and Brian was there for HS graduation, too. Lance skipped that portion of HS and just stepped into Evanston's gown, or was that Clearfield's gown with Jennie and was perfectly content to have them mail him his diploma a week or two later to avoid the sheer pleasure of (how did he put it?)..."parading across a stage in a funny-looking gown and hat in front of hundreds of people he didn't know, shaking hands with people he didn't like!" Wow, am I glad Lance has improved his teenage attitude. Now he and Christy only have 11 days to go and we sincerely hope that everyone (and I mean everyone) has received their invitation to the wedding reception on May 12th in Christy's back yard. If you're reading this and you didn't get an invitation, it was a terribly regrettable oversite or we can all assume that it is lost in "Mail Heaven" (as I love to call it when my clients claim their payments or statements were never received). Please...........Come anyway. I've got a bad memory, so I won't know if you were invited or not and it will make my heart (and yours) a whole lot happier if you just show up so I can hug you and thank you for being our special loved ones. Also, pray for good weather and lots of tulips.
Brian and Mikol survived the trip to Mexico without being beheaded and stuffed in a pickle barrel or without catching swine flu. We survived keeping their 3 girls for 4 days and 3 sleeps, as Becca and Anna used to call it. They were little sweethearts, and with Kaitlyn's adorable natural curls and Becca giving me a few pointers or how to make pony tails without comb or brush or finger marks they all actually looked pretty dang cute for church on Sunday, April 19th at 9:00 AM on which day I also had to teach my Relief Society lesson on Joseph Smith's Liberty Jail experiences (which kept everything in perspective) and then Neil and I were guest speakers in the singles branch here in our stake, the same branch that Mike and Jill met in. We spoke on the plan of happiness and thank goodness Lance was here to watch the girls during that hour and ten minutes. That added to my plan of happiness, I'll tell you that much! During our 3-hour block Becca chose to go with Lance to Elders Quorum, Neil took Kaitlyn to High Priests Group, I stayed in RS and Anna went to Primary. After our talks in the singles branch, we came home and the 6 of us had roast beef dinner together, so all in all the day went as usual, busy and crazy!!
Kenney, Sandi and their kids returned from a week long trip to California where they all seem to have had a wonderful time. They went as far as Las Vegas the first day but Kelton told us that Vegas is not a kid-friendly envionment anymore; we got a kick out of that. And Cameron said that during the whole trip, no matter who was driving, his mother or his dad, their GPS unit was repeatedly telling them to make the first legal U-Turn possible. Maili got to have breakfast with the princesses because she was there on her 6th birthday, April 25th. All 3 kids agreed that Splash Mountain was their favorite spot in Disneyland. One day they met up with an old missionary companion of Kenney's, and his family. I'm sure that was a wonderful experience and Maili told us all about his family. Sandi still has all her hair and I haven't heard a word of complaint about the trip. She, of course, came back to a mountain of work at her job but all in all, I think they survived it pretty well.
We are loving life here experiencing the true "Plan of Happiness". Hope this finds you all the same. See you all soon!