Swimming Meets and Pops Concert and Singing in Sacrament Meeting

Friday night we went to the Pops Concert at Legacy High School. The seniors decided to dress in thrift store outfits and the sophomores dressed like spies. Rachel and Jake were very good! Check out the picture of Jake in his camo pants and velvet jacket. They finished the night off with a tribute to Queen with all of the kids standing around the auditorium stomping and clapping to we will we will stomp you and then into the rest of the Queen songs finially ending the the bohemian rhapsody! very good! Dad had screaming girls sitting next to him - he wasn't so thrilled.

Rachel had a swimming meet on Thursday and cut time off all of her events. She rocks at the backstroke! Yesterday, Jake had a swimming meet and broke his times - now the fastest time for a 200 free for Northglen! Beat his time in 100 breaststroke by 2 seconds, 3 seconds better in 200 free and a state time! And he swam his 100 fly at 59 seconds - 4 seconds faster than last time! I

took the afternoon off on Wednesday and Loralee and I went down to the Art Museum to the Van Gogh exhibit - wonderful and thought of Megan the whole time with all of his art and stories of his life living in the Netherlands and Holland. Jake and Rachel sang in church today. Rachel was supposed to sing with Rebekah but she got sick so she begged Jake and he stepped in at the last minute. They sang "If the Savior Stood Beside Me". They were wonderful!

Mustache Night and Swimming Meet for Elizabeth and Rachel

Elizabeth and her friends Haley and Nicole at Kids Night Out at the Westminster Rec Center. It was Mustache Night!

Rachel at a swimming meet at the VMAC! She got her best times in all three of her freestyle events. She cut time off of all of them!

Thanksgiving 2012

We got to go to Logan for Thanksgiving this year. Jake took the ACT on the day before Thanksgiving hoping to get one more point and then qualify for a full-ride scholarship. He did it!!! We stayed with Grandpa and Grandma Israelsen and then went down to the Beeleks for Thanksgiving - YUM! Sweet Potato Souffle was our new favorite recipe!

We got to go to Logan for Thanksgiving this year. Jake took the ACT on the day before Thanksgiving hoping to get one more point and then qualify for a full-ride scholarship. He did it!!! We stayed with Grandpa and Grandma Israelsen and then went down to the Beeleks for Thanksgiving - YUM! Sweet Potato Souffle was our new favorite recipe!

Megan's Call

Where?

Megan's Mission Call! Wonder where she will go.  Dad was on a business trip so we had to Facetime him and the Ellis's came over with balloons to celebrate and hear the call!

What a year it has been.  We are hoping to get a better system down for updating this blog!  Megan is waiting for her mission call.  It should arrive this week.  We have all guessed where whe is going and she has over 100 guesses from family and friends hoping to win the prize!  Megan finished school on May 7 and on May 9 started babysitting the Ellis boys so their parents could go to Rome.  She had lots of help from our family but discovered that motherhood is hard work!  The rest of the kids finished on May 25.  Mom still has to go back for a work day.  Mom taught a class to 2nd 3rd and 4th graders this year called 21st Century Learning.  3rd Grades final assignment was to use collaboration, critical thinking, creativity and communication to make a video entitled 3rd Grade in 3 Words!  Here is a link to the final project!