Well Heidi and Wyatt got married on Monday and had a luncheon afterward in Salt Lake. Then Tuesday was their wedding reception, also in Salt Lake. Then Thursday my sister Jamie got married in Salem. It was super nice. Salem is famous for it's pond and they had the ceremony and reception at a city building right across from the pond. I didn't get very many pictures in Salem. I tried to turn it on right as they were walking down the aisle and the batteries were dead. I was so bummed and I kept thinking I need to get a picture of that! Then I kept remembering that was why there were photographers there. On Saturday they had a reception in Cokeville, Wyoming. That is where Justin is from and where they are living now. Our whole family went up and stayed the night there in a motel and I think we doubled the population of the town for the night! I thought Kamas was small but Cokeville is tiny! I think it's going to be quite an adjustment for Jamie to move there but I'm sure she will love it.
Jamie didn't have bridesmaids or a maid of honor. She had men of honor instead. This is her with our nephews Cooper and Jordan .
Here are my girls. They all looked so cute in their matching flower girl dresses. I need to steal some more pictures because I didn't get that many.May was also the end of school. Hayden "graduated" from kindergarten. We've been really lucky that our girls like to go to school and do really well. Hayden liked school a lot She was quite the social butterfly and had a lot of cute friends in her class.
This is her with her teacher Mrs. Ure. Gracie had her in Kindergarten too and we really liked her.
This is Hayden and her "best friend" Kamryn
We also had the spring dance show. As usual it was awesome and the girls did really well. I'm not sure what it's going to be like to get 4 girls ready for the dance performances but I think I'm going to have to send Greg to hair school so he can help me out a little.
Gracie did something really exciting this year. She is a pretty good speller. She hardly ever missed a spelling word on her class spelling tests but she hasn't done that well in the school spelling bee's mostly because her mom is a slacker and we don't study as much as we should. She decided, I think with a little prompting from her teacher, that she wanted to try for the Park Record Spelling Bee. It is a county wide spelling bee separate from the schools bee and the students had to go before school and take a test to qualify to participate. Well Gracie was one of around 200 kids who took the test and the only one from her school in the 2nd and 3rd grade category to make it. She was one of 20 kids who qualified and only 18 showed up to participate in the spelling bee at the Egyptian Theatre in Park City. She was so nervous and so was I but she did awesome. She finished 8th place. I was so proud of her for even trying something like that. I know I wouldn't have had the guts to do that in 3rd grade let alone the brains! I think it was such a good experience for her and I hope she'll do it again next year. If we weren't traveling all over for wedding stuff we definitely could have studied a little more and I think she could have won it!
This is the whole group. One little girl even came down and told her mom she changed her mind and she wanted to go home. They all looked pretty nervous to me. 
This is her teacher Mrs. Tuttle
Ally B., Alley Mack, Shyanna, Gracie, Hayden, 
Next was the bridal shower we had for my younger sister Jamie. She and her boyfriend met last summer and planned on getting married in May. They weren't officially engaged however and she had given him a deadline because the wedding plans were well underway and they were scheduled to have their engagement pictures done so of course she wanted to be "engaged" for them. So my older sister Shelly and I threw her a shower the day before the pictures were scheduled. Jamie brought Justin over to meet all the friends and family at the shower because most of them hadn't met him yet. After he had been introduced he said "I guess now I've met everyone I'd better make it official" and got down on one knee and proposed in front of all of our cousins and Aunts who were there. It was quite the surprise even though we had an idea it was going to happen at some point. I sort of expected him to just hand her the ring and ask her if she wanted to get hitched. That happened to someone I know :).
I think that's enough catch up for now. I hear chaos going on in the other room and I have to go discipline some little people. Ahhh remember the days when you really looked forward to summer vacation? Those days are looooong gone!
I say it every year but I just can't believe my big girl is another year older! Where has the time gone? It doesn't seem that long ago that we were celebrating her 8th birthday and it definitely doesn't seem like 9 years ago that we walked across the street to the Logan hospital to have our first baby! Gracie is such a sweetheart and has been such a big help to me these days. I'm realizing more and more that I really rely on her for help and it's so great to know she's getting old enough that i can really depend on her to help out. She is a such good student and loves school. We had to talk her into missing a half day of school to go to St. George with us last weekend. She was almost willing to miss out on our trip so she could go to school for half the day! Not sure where she gets that from! In the last year she has really grown up. She is more willing to try new things. She played junior Jazz basketball this year and really liked it and she also started taking guitar lessons. If she can just remember to practice I think she well be good at it. She has also become her dad's number one farm hand and drives the truck for him when he needs help feeding the cows. She is such a good example to her sisters and she loves them very much. She loves teaching them new things and is usually pretty willing to help them out. There are those times when she can get a little feisty and a tad on the moody side but she is a girl after all and we are learning that's what girls do. We love Gracie so much and can't wait to see what the future holds for her..jpg)
