Is it just me, or would everyone agree that I might be nuerotic if I can't eat jelly bellies unless they are separated into individual flavors?

Way back in March, Jim organized a pack trip for our ward's Priest and Teacher Quorumns. They had to pack all of their gear, cooking equipment and food through some pretty treacherous country. In all, Jim said they had about 18 hours in the saddle. They even had one horse fall off one of the switchback trails and roll all the way down to the switchback below, barely missing the others kids and animals below. Luckily, everyone returned home, uninjured but very tired. In all there were 5 adults, 12 boys and 23 horses. Crazy, huh?

Look Out High School!

Colt, who is my oldest son, graduated from 8th grade last night. While I don't completely agree with the HUGE deal that the school makes out of it (why graduation? why not promotion?) I am proud of my boy and just a little freaked out that he is old enough to begin his high school experience. Colt is an amazing athlete and for that reason alone I am sure he will completely LOVE high school. I'm sure all the cute girls that this town seems to grow will be an added bonus for him!

Can you believe how tall he is getting?

When your mother-in-law gives you lemons . . .

Jim's parents have a lemon tree and every year they share! I think that I am the only one who actually asks for any lemons and by so doing, end up with about 100. I use about six over a weeks time to squeeze in my diet coke and then about another 6 to make lemon bars and unfortunately the rest go to waste. Oh waite, my boys have lemon wars so it's not a total waste. Well this year I was determined not to waste one lemon so JJ and I spent one whole Saturday juicing lots and lots of lemons. We got enough juice to make about 10 pitchers of fresh lemonade. But during the spring ice/wind/snow storms we didn't seem to have much use for fresh lemonade. So we froze the juice. I can't wait for summer when I can sit on my front porch and sip the fruits of our labor!

These are the conditions that Savannah played her softball game in yesterday. As you can see, I am safe inside my car. (see my hood in the picture?) Savannah claims the wind was the reason they lost to RV. She claims it was the wind that carried RV's hits up and over the fence for out-of-the-park homeruns (twice) and caused one of their hits to bounce over the fence for a ground rule double. Funny, the wind didn't help St. Johns at all. :) This morning Savannah was still trying to unpack the dirt from her eyes.

I bought these shoes for Savannah because they were so amazingly cute! She wore them to school today so I asked her to take a picture of them and send it to me. It looks like she just held the phone under her desk and snapped the photo, but I don't care. They are super cute even from this angle! Don't you think?

Welcome Spring!

This is what it looked like dropping JJ off at school this morning. . . . I wanna go back to bed.