My mother-in-law has 9 granddaughters...and no grandsons!! So of course we have lots of princess fun! One night Grandma thought it would be fun to get the girls together for a princess picture so they all had Grandma time to get their hair and nails done and then dressed up for the pictures. Afterwards they each wanted an individual picture...here's the fun!!
I don't even know where to start! :) We have been having a lot of fun here...it still feels like we're on vacation and so we've been doing all sorts of fun things with both families and therefore have tons of pictures. I've been having fun digital scrapbooking again so in an effort to catch up here are some of my almost finished pages.
One of the things we decided before we moved here was that we would get a summer pass to the "Legacy Center." It is an awesome city run sports center with gymnastics, basketball, rockclimbing, indoor track and most importantly an indoor pool. It's great...one entire wall of the HUGE room is just huge metal garage doors that they leave open all day so you have the convenience of an indoor pool (no sunscreen...YEA!) but still get the fresh air. It's awesome. It's a zero entry pool with a big playground in the middle, then a deeper section which the bigger girls can touch the entire length this year and then a 5 year and younger pool with some slides and shallow water. It's fabulous and well worth the money. It's right near my parents house and they and my sister have passes and we've been there lots this summer...too much fun!
(You can click on the picture to see it blown up...)
We started our camping trip off a little rough. We were at Nunn's Park in Provo Canyon. There is a river at one edge of the campground which is running really high and really fast with campsites all along the river. With our little girls we chose to go on the other side of the road right along the bike path that goes through the canyon. Shortly after our tent was up and we were getting ready for lunch we heard some screaming in the river, sirens, and then a sheriff's vehicle went flying through the small campground. We heard more and more sirens and found out that a little girl had fallen into the river a little upstream from us and they were trying to find her. There was an amazing amount of police and search and rescue action literally on both sides of our small campsite. We quickly determined that our girls needed to stay on the picnic bench to keep them out of the way and we sent Daddy off to help look for the little girl. I can't describe what it is like to sit holding your little girl and surrounded by your other daughters while looking at the river knowing that someone's little girl is in there. By the time Daddy got there they thought they had found her so he got out of the way. I sat there amazed at the number of police and rescue vehicles that continued to go by, at the helicopter flying amazingly low and slow over the river, and all the people out there wanting to help...all for one little girl. Life is amazing and it was so wonderful to see SO many people out there doing their best. And grateful for people who spend hours training and preparing for theses tragic situations to go in and save the one. Eventually we learned that the little girl was 8 years old and was found and pulled out alive, although we learned she had been in the river about 1/2 hour, had gone down the river about 1 mile and was found face down trapped in debris. A few other family members were treated for hypothermia trying to save her. A previously trained rescue civilian happened to be near the area and found her and with the help of search and rescue they were able to get her out and lifeflight her to Primary Chidlren's Hospital, however she passed away a day or so later. I later learned her parents weren't even there and that they were trying to get to her as soon as possible...I'm grateful she lived for awhile, hopefully long enough for them to get there. How horrible and tragic. You can bet we watched our girls extra careful and I have to admit it was difficult walking around Bridal Veil falls and seeing where she most likely fell in...it could have happened SO easily. SO easily. She was eight...the same age as my oldest who I tend to try to trust a little more and maybe not watch quite as carefully my 2 year old. But they're still kids and the edge by the river is steep and the pathway narrow and sometimes crowded...all she had to do was stand there and get bumped a little or bend over a little too far and she was gone. Life is precious and fragile. I certainly looked at my little ones a little differently after this experience. Give yours an extra hug and say a little prayer for the family of this little girl.
Yes, I know, I've skipped other important events to get to this one, but that's the way life goes today :) Hooray for graduation! At first it seemed a little anticlimactic since he technically graduated back in December but since we were still in Davis we figured we do the ceremony. It was nice and we were glad we did. The day was crazy though since it was also the kids last day of school but we had some AWESOME friends who helped watch the kids (THANKS AGAIN!) and it all worked out nicely. The fun part was that they showed it online so our parents got to watch and even the kids got to watch Daddy on the computer live when it was his "turn" to get "hooded." Pretty cool! These pictures were actually taken the next day (I just ordered the "professional" pictures a minute ago, which is why I'm in the mood to do these pictures now, which does not explain why I am rambling...)
I had to get the "hood" I thought it was pretty cool...love the colors :)
Afterwards our awesome friend told us to go out so we enjoyed a nice dinner and went to Daddy's FAVORITE electronics store (for the last time...he was sad...they need one here!). It was a great day and WE'RE SO PROUD OF YOU DADDY!!!!!!
