Memorial Day Flowers and Rooster Tails

We had a fun Memorial Day today. The Lucky Peak Reservoir had a rare occasion over this past weekend. They released the water from one of the overflow chutes which causes what they call a Rooster Tail. They only do it when they have a surplus of water and this year we had lots of snow so they were able to do it. It's only happened twice in the eight years we've lived here so it was pretty cool to see. We brought a picnic to the park there at the Reservoir and then we got to watch as they opened the gates for the water to flow through. I think Dave and I were more impressed than the kids.

This is a picture of our rescued Irises. When we moved into our last house, we were given Iris plants from both sets of Dave's Grandparents gardens. We tried to bring some with us when we moved but they didn't make it. We found out that the people who had bought our old house were tearing everything out, so we swapped them a batch of Rice Krispy Treats for a bucket full of Irises. They were just going to throw them all away so we're glad we asked them if we could scavenge through their dirt piles and save what we could. Irises always remind me of Memorial Day.

Three more days of school!! The Kids can hardly wait!!

Trekies

Last night at Mutual, Megan and Trevor painted their "suitcases" in preparation for Trek in July. They've been slowly gathering the supplies they'll need and hopefully we'll be ready to go.

I finally got my new computer up and mostly running. There are still a few bugs to work out but I'm having fun exploring all the new gadgets. Yesterday I got to talk to my Sister with my webcam. It was cool!

We had a death in the family this past weekend, Megan's Hamster Oreo lived to a ripe old age of two. She was a really nice Hamster and we will miss her. Megan was pretty sad but luckily she had a Slumber party to go to that day which kept her from dwelling on things.

The calendar just keeps filling up for the summer months. The kids are counting the days, hours and minutes for school to be out. They get out on the 29th. We'll have about one week of nothing and then the summer activities begin after that. I hope I survive.

Busy, Busy , BUSY

This week isn't even half over and we've been busy, busy, busy. Monday Trevor had his final Band concert of the school year. He did great! He wasn't sure he wanted to continue on with it next year but we talked about it and he decided to stay in Band.

On Tuesday Megan had an awards ceremony for The National Junior Honor Society. We are very proud of her for keeping her grades up and for her community service that allows her to be a member of the NJHS.

Our next door neighbor was recently diagnosed with Breast Cancer, so three ladies from church decided to donate our hair to an organization that makes wigs for women. A local salon gave us half price haircuts and they even gave us some extra hair they had collected from other people who had really long hair.

Flat Larry

Our local Television station has a segment every morning called, Where's Flat Larry. Larry is the Weatherman and the station wanted people to print out Flat Larry and take him along on their adventures. We printed him out and made some Mickey Mouse ears for him too. We took him with us to Disneyland and then uploaded our picture to the News Station. This morning while I was watching the news, our picture was featured. I was surprised to see it because I thought they might contact us first to let us know it was going to be aired. The video is of them showing our Flat Larry. Sorry the quality is so bad but it is not a Satellite station so it's pretty fuzzy. I hope you can actually see it.

Head Hugs

Here is a picture of Megan holding all the hats she made. She made them as a service project for the National Junior Honor Society. We took them to a Women's Shelter. We're lucky to have such good kids.

We've got a house full of company right now. Dave's Family are doing the annual Whistle Pig hunt. Trevor and Logan will get to go out with everyone on Saturday so they're pretty excited. If there's any left by the time they're done, I'll be surprised.

The kids are already counting the days for school to be out. I'm not so sure but I won't mind not getting up so early.