22 March 2015

Brandan and Becky celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary on March 17.  They have been blessed and treasured years.

We don't feel that much older until we look at these kids from 1995.  Optimistic, more than a little giddy, absolutely confident we were starting something wonderful.  

 Spring Break started on Wednesday.  Becky's activity days group did yard work at the temple on Wednesday afternoon.  We cleaned out one of the beds and spread bark mulch on another.  The girls worked hard on a surprisingly warm day.  The temple grounds have all the gardening woes found anywhere-- slugs, weeds, broken sprinklers, bare patches.  It takes a lot of work to achieve the perfect look we expect when we visit temple.

 Gibson helped, too.

 Our Young Men and Young Women are holding an auction next month to raise money for summer camps.  Our youth will also be going on a pioneer trek so Becky made 3 pioneer bonnets to auction.  Hopefully someone will buy these bonnets, but if not, she wouldn't mind getting them back.  Gib, Helen and Eddy modeled for the photo.  Our family is also donating window washing, a custom Halloween costume and a pan of baklava.

 Becky also got an Easter countdown ready for her Primary class. 

 Luckily it was Spring Break.  Sofi, Abe, Helen, Gibson and Helen's friend Brooke all helped Becky organize and fill the eggs and it still took a couple of hours to finish.

 Here are the finished eggs, all 15 dozen.  It feels like a worthwhile project-- a kid friendly way to share the story of Easter-- but Becky is still hoping for a smaller Primary class next year.

 Abe and his friends volunteered to pretend to be injured at a community emergency response training.  They had a long wait before they were needed.  A firefighter took pity on them and taught them how to use fire extinguishers.  In the photo are Abe, Spencer and Ashton.

The firefighter had a gas burner he could light with a remote control.  The boys took turns putting out the flames.  This might be 11 year old heaven.