Tera's Wedding

My niece, Teralynn Hill, got married in the Draper Temple on Saturday, June 18th, to BJ Nordgren. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful ceremony and a beautiful couple. I was so glad I could be there. Weddings are such happy events... and romantic too.

Tera with her mom and dad (her dad is my brother) and her grandparents (my parents).

Tera with her brothers and sisters

Bert Powell Family Reunion

A few weeks ago, June 10-11, 2011, to be exact, we had a Bert Powell Family Reunion at our home in Draper, UT. Friday night was taco night and we also had a photographer who took lots of fun pictures and portraits. Then Saturday we had a big picnic at Draper Park. It was tons of fun. I am so glad everyone came and we really did have a great time. I hope everyone is planning to get together again soon.

I've posted a slide show. It has a lot of pictures but they go fast and I am just terrible at thinning out pictures. It was interesting to see that I had a lot of pictures of some people and not many of others. In fact, I don't have any pictures of several people except for what the photographer took. I don't know if that's because some people hide from the camera or I am just not very good at getting everyone.

Thanks everyone for coming. It was a blast!

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Another Iris Bloomed

I just had to post a picture of the iris that was blooming this morning. Isn't that orange amazing? I think it's my favorite one so far.

Savannah Sunset

An Iris Garden

You may or may not know that I love to work in the yard and grow flowers and vegetables. That doesn't mean I'm really good at it but I keep practicing and some things work out really well.

Last fall I ordered some different varieties of Iris to plant in my front yard. I thought it would be fun to do lots of different kinds. I think I planted about 12 different ones and I only lost one plant during the winter. The rest are doing quite well and they've started to bloom. I'm posting some pictures because the Iris is such an interesting flower with such beautiful shapes and colors. I think it is one of God's masterpieces. I hope you enjoy seeing these first few blooms.

Dodger Blue Iris

Harvest of Memories Iris

Alizes Iris

Luxor Gold Iris

Jamaican Dream Iris

Joshua's H.S. Graduation

Graduation Day.... again. Josh graduated from Itineris Early College High School today. We enjoyed the whole thing (Rebecca thought it was too long) and we are very proud of him.

Proud parents.

Bell Canyon

Last Saturday David went with Josh and the other Priests on a hike in Bell Canyon. After seeing the pictures, it's on my list. Just look at that waterfall.

Provo Activities

David was invited to a dinner at the BYU Stadium for work. He was able to take Josh and Tanner with him and they got to go down on the field and take some pictures. The speaker at the dinner was Coach Mendenhall and they said it was an excellent speech.



After their dinner, they met me at Rachel's soccer game in Provo. We watched the rest of that and then we headed to the temple in Provo to do baptisms. Some nights we really have to pack it in to get everything done. It seems like every time we planned to go to the temple, something came up. Well this time, 3 things came up and we just went anyway. Sometimes you have to do that or it will never happen. :) It was wonderful as always to be in the temple with the kids.