Shelby's YW Recognition Award

Shelby received her Young Womanhood Recognition Award on Sunday.  She wouldn't pose for a regular pic.  This at least shows her wearing it.  She completed over 50 "value experiences" and 8 projects.  Some of her projects were redecorating her room, planning and making family dinners for 2 weeks, running a soccer camp, helping with girls camp twice, soccer team captain, memorizing "The Living Christ" and her favorite was making and sending handmade birthday cards to everyone in our family for a year.  Congrats Shelby!  You are amazing!!

More LuLu

Sometimes LuLu looks like a wet rat.  Not sure that I like the idea of Shelby bathing her in my tub!

Isn't she cute?

All four kids lined up playing electronics:  Shelby, LuLu, Tad and Trevor.

Cute Tad and LuLu!

Chinese Week

Dan and I volunteered to help house a group of 14 year olds from China.  These four came late Friday night after the fireworks and left at 7:30 Sat morn to head to Southern Utah.  We will get 2 different boys Monday night and they will stay the week with us.  Should be interesting!  (I would tag them, but they told us English and Chinese names for themselves.  I can't say the Chinese names and I don't think they remember what their English names are.)

They made it!

Picking up Tad and Trevor after a full week at EFY.  They each told us about 10 minutes worth of a report.  I guess the rest was either horrible or too good to tell us about!

Handcart Days

Today was the Bountiful City Handcart Days Celebration.  Shelby and I went to the parade, Dan went by himself to the Bees game.  Eric and Amy Jacobson invited us to dinner, so we met Dan at Red Rock Brewing Co and had a fun time with them.  We just met the 4 Chinese boys who are staying here tonight.  More on that later.

Our Primary was invited to walk and sing with this float.  The song was a  little irritating.  No one from our ward walked.

Stripling Warriors.  Tad and Trevor were going to participate, but went to EFY at the Uof U instead.  It was pretty cool to see 2000 boys from Bountiful marching.  It took 6 minutes for them all to walk past us.  I saw Jordan Mack, Zach Hosman, Josh Blotter and David Giles from our ward.  Mikey Jacobson also walked.

Poor LuLu

LuLu loves to fetch.  Lately she finds a tennis ball and puts it down and waits patiently for someone to throw it for her. She hasn't figured out that someone needs to be close by.  I think she will wait and watch all day.

My babies are 16

Tad and Trevor's birthday was on Sunday this year.  They both got their license on Monday.  Shelby did all of their shopping--clothes.  Trevor bought himself a Nintendo DS.  They both will go to EFY in two weeks.  Cute boys!!

Tad and Trevor have been working at Bountiful Mazda--mowing the lawn, pulling weeds and other Cristian jobs.  They got to be included on the July birthday cake.

Trevor went on his first date last night.  I didn't dare ask to take her picture so I took this one of Trevor afterward.  He doubled with "CBear."  Trevor's  date was Ashley.  They played tennis and came back for ice cream at our house.