David Turned 50!!!

Yes, it's true, David is now 50 years old and he doesn't look a day over 35.  :-)  Really, we looked at the pictures and the kids declared that at about 35 he stopped changing and looks just the same today.  Yay!  He either looks really young or he looked old before his time.   Hahaha.

He loves having friends over for BBQ's so we decided to have a big birthday bash.  When the Powells plan a backyard event, you can pretty much plan on rain.  Sure enough.... it rained, and rained, and rained.  It was beautiful all week before his birthday and it's beautiful the next morning with no rain in sight for 2 weeks.  Needless to say, the BBQ got rained out.  We even had a jumpy house and everything and we really hoped the rain would stop.   But NO!!  It rained and rained.

An hour before the party was supposed to begin, we cancelled the BBQ part and just told everyone to come for cake a little later.  There were a few people coming from further away so we didn't cancel with everyone and just had a small BBQ in the house.  It turned out to be really fun and then more people came for cake.  All in all it worked out pretty well.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID!!!

50 candles take a lot of people to light.

Grandpa and Boston!!

I thought this was funny because apparently someone didn't want the frosting so they cut just inside the frosting.   Hahahaha

This is the jumpy house in the beautiful weather... the day AFTER the party.

Rachel made a video for Dad's birthday which you can view at this link.  She did a really good job!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTIz_UUgKpc&feature=youtu.be

Rachel Graduated!!

Rachel graduated from Corner Canyon High School on June 2nd.  Jared, Tori and Boston arrived the night before and Grandma Ginia, Grandma Hill and Josh also came to recognize her.  We are so proud of her and I think her smile tells how happy she is to have graduated!!  CONGRATULATIONS RACHEL!!!

Boston had a very long day so his smile was rare.  This was one of his happy moments!!

Memorial Day

Our Memorial Day was filled with activity.... Rachel played in the finals of her soccer tournament and they WON!!!   She was so happy and it's such a nice way for her to end her club soccer career.

Since her tournament was in Layton, we headed north to Ogden to visit dad's grave site.  We arranged to meet Terry and his family there who were bringing mom up.  We spent some moments remembering dad and how much we love and miss him.

Then we headed back home and on the way we stopped at the cemetery in Sandy.  David's grandmother is buried there and it was nice to visit her grave site.

A Great American

Adam received the Great American Award last week in their 5th grade Patriotic Program.  Just a few of the kids earned it and it took a lot of work so we are super proud of Adam.  He had to do the following:

**memorize all the states and capitals and label them on a blank map

**memorize the Preamble

**memorize the 1st and last verse of the Star Spangled Banner

**make an art project reflecting patriotism (he painted a big flag on a canvas)

**do a report on a great American inventor and do an experiment (Adam did Thomas Edison and built his own little flashlight

**make a timeline of 10 great Americans (he included grandpa in his Navy uniform)

**do 3 hours of community service

**do a project of his own (he mapped all the National Parks in the US)

We now have another GREAT AMERICAN in the family!!!

 

Senior Dinner Dance

At the last minute, Rachel decided to go to the Senior Dinner/Dance with a bunch of her friends.  She had a good time and they took some cute pictures.  I'm assuming you will all recognize Rachel, but if not, she is the one on the far left.  :-)

Sewing Machine Cover

You may remember that I am slowly trying to finish all my craft and sewing projects that I have stashed away in my craft room.  Well, I finished another one!!!   Woohoo!!

This was a short and sweet one but lots of fun.  It's a sewing machine cover.  It's patchwork so I got to piece together some cute fabrics and then I practiced some free-motion machine quilting.  It was a little difficult at first because I couldn't get the tension right with my new presser foot but then I figured it out and it was pretty fun.  I don't think I could do large quilts since my sewing machine area is limited, but it may work well for small projects.

Cruise to Mexico and More!

David is turning 50 on June 11th of this year so I surprised him with a cruise to Mexico, Honduras and Belize.  We went in April since I found a good deal on the cruise.  We had a fantastic time!  I ended up just leaving my camera in the room so almost all the pictures were taken by David on his cell phone.  We just focused on enjoying what we were seeing and doing.  We didn't get to take any pictures of the cave tubing we did in Belize since we were in the water riding on a tube through a giant cave.  It was really neat though and we would highly recommend that.

After the cruise, we spent a couple of days visiting David's sister, Julie, and her family in Ocean Springs, MS.  Since our cruise was out of New Orleans it was a quick drive to get to Julie's.  We had a great time there and loved spending time with them.  Thanks Bahr family for having us!

This trip also took me to 3 new states (Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama) and 2 new countries (Honduras and Belize).  I only need to visit North Carolina, South Carolina and Wisconsin to have visited all 50 states.  I guess I will start planning my next trip.  :-)

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