Spring Into Summer

This spring held a lot of main events for us. I attended an amazing 3-day writers conference in SLC. Maren turned 9 years old and about 3" taller. Easter was fun and sunny, but cold. Chelsea attended Prom and wowed her date. Then she had the nerve to graduate from LDS Seminary and Cody High, and my parents came for the event. Oh, and Jacob turned 13 and Brandon turned forty-something. In-between all that, I got an ear infection, and Brandon had a gall bladder attack.
It rained so hard we couldn't plant the vegetable garden until the 2nd week of June, so we only planted short season crops. Yay, turnips and radishes! Kinda.
Braeden left us for 3 weeks for smart camp at UofWY, and Jacob enjoyed a week of band camp, blowing his horn. We did a LOT of yardwork.
But then vacation time came and we spent 3 days in Denver playing hard at the Zoo, Imax, and Elitch Gardens.
Then the sprinkler guys came and dug up our yardwork to install the UG sprinklers we've been longing for. Yay, automatic timers! Brodie saw the nice men digging up the yard and decided it looked fun, so dug up our vegetable garden. Fortunately, he left the zucchini and tomatoes alone. Not that they have time to produce anything.
THEN, my sister Shelli and her family came to see us, but that's going to be it's own blog post.
But summer is finally here and as I've said before on this blog, Cody summers are just about perfect. Enjoy the pictures!

BYU in Vegas, Baby

A few weeks ago, we made a road trip down to Vegas with our friends, Josh and Lisa, to see Jimmer, er, BYU, play in the Mountain West Championship Tournament. I'd never been to Vegas before, and I'd been warned, but this was one AWESOME trip.

Pre-game warm-up at In-n-Out Burger. Yum.

Sportin' the colors

Umm, blurry Jimmer.

Warming up for BYU/TCU

My anti-BYU brothers-in-law. It's good they were far away.

Game-on huddle dance thing

Emery couldn't find his game all tourney. But he's so cute.

This still went in.

Lisa and I were pointing out all the sights. The men were silent. . .

Then they both yelled out, "Hey, Hooters!" I'm pretending not to know what this means.

This was the most frustrating game ever. BYU/Utah. BYU lost by 1 pt. The refs, UGH.

Our seats were right behind the band. For this game, we moved NEXT to the band.

Dinner at Rainforest Cafe in MGM Grand.

Ready for more basketball?

BYU/NM. Really didn't know what to expect here. They'd lost twice to New Mexico.

That says Jimmer has 44 pts. In the 3rd quarter.

50. Points.

The guy with the points sign got it signed by the team. He was so pumped.

I don't know if they got these signed.

52 points.

Knuckles.

Victorious fist pump. He knows.

Best. Game. Ever.

BYU lost the championship game to SDSU, but I love these pom poms in Josh's back pockets.

We had such a great time! Thanks, Cougars! Thanks, Vegas!

In An Alternate Universe

Yesterday I received this email from my oldest, Chelsea:

you havent blogged in awhile. here ya go! :) what a good lookin family...

Dad

Momma (uh, thank you)

Chels

Braeden

Jacob

Maren

Thanks for the post, Chelsea!

It's kind of weirding me out.