This passed week I got to spend time with my parents and 7 of my 11 siblings! My parents and Michael came out for my brother Ryan’s graduation from the police academy. Shannon finished another year at BYUI! (her 3rd) Tracie flew in from Alaska to support Ryman and be with the fam. So, they all came Sunday night when we got home from St. George. Joel, Brady and Kelsey all go to school out here and were all finishing up their semesters. The week went too fast just like always… On Monday night we had a family get together with my mom’s side of the family. We ended the night with a cousins soccer game – and I’m not talking about my kids, it was Ben and I and all the siblings I mentioned and my cousins Bracken, Colby, and Jeremy. We played barefoot and all came home with bruised and/or blistered feet. The next day we were all hobbling around at the graduation 🙂 Tuesday we spent at Ryan’s graduation and we ate out at the Olive Garden. And that night we lost most of the group – Dad, Mike, Tracie and Ryan’s family all had to leave. My Mom and Shannon stayed until Friday morning. We played Nertz and Rook and learned how to make duct tape bows. We let mom cook for us and went out for ice cream. My dad fixed my hot tub (really I just had the valve closed instead of open! lame), so we’ve been swimming. To end I just need to thank the little white car that flashed its lights at me to let me know about the cop on 600 West, my mom had never heard of the flash your lights communication so I was telling her about it as we putted down the road at 25mph and sure enough mr police man was there waiting. Now Easter and Packers Birthday and all this with half of a house… hopefully a post very soon will be of my new carpet downstairs and no more signs of the flood.

Ryan at Graduation

the only picture I took of some of the family, mom and Tracie please send me pics

Ryan, Tara, Taylee, Marlee, Brinlee and Kylee

mom, ryan and dad

Arden, Ryan, Elma (love the grandparents glasses 🙂 ...

Packer Using the Tree

OK if you made it to the end then you get to hear about Packer Peeing. I am glad that this was the week before he turned 4 because it just seems more OK if it was a 3 year old. So we are taking pictures after graduation and we look over and Packer is tagging the tree RIGHT IN FRONT of the entire graduation crowd. He has been taught to go out away from people IF he needs to go, I guess I haven’t Stressed the part about ONLY IF THERE IS NOT A RESTROOM NEAR BY or IN A PUBLIC PLACE! So there he was this cute little boy peeing on the tree not more than 5 feet away. We all got a good laugh and he got a good talking to.