April 2010 — The Latest

Ty does the long jump, triple jump, 200m-dash and 4x100 relay in track.

Rachel made blue cupcakes for FHE one night and ate almost half of it!

Van and my mom by the calves' pens.

My sister and her daughter, Natalie

My sweetie!

After church today (4-11-10)

Feeding Rachel's and Wyatt's calf - a Holstein heifer named Anna (after her cousin)

Ryan named his heifer calf Speckles. He's pretty happy.

Van built a nice little barn for these two. There are actually two more pens on the other side.

March 8th (2 days after Wyatt's 15th birthday), celebrating with presents and cake. He got his driver's permit a few weeks ago.

Rachel lost her 2nd tooth. She put it in an envelope under her pillow and was pretty happy with her coins the next day!

We just thought it would be fun to post more pictures of what's been going on lately. Van has been off work from shoulder surgery since Jan. 12th, but will be going back on April 13th. He doesn't want to, but he's glad he has a good job.

The kids and I have been busy doing the usual stuff - School, Ty in track, Wyatt in several school-science and academic groups and projects, all boys in scouts and piano lessons; Van still teaching seminary (about 10 students); and I am running all over the place, doing laundry, feeding my family, cleaning, and trying to quilt for fun. In general I'm happy. I think we all are. Life is definitely challenging, but good. We really enjoyed General Conference. My sister, Noelle, came to visit this week from San Diego. It was fun to see her and her two girls, ages 6 and 2.