Memorial Day Weekend

We spent most of the long weekend out on the four wheelers. We went riding south of five mile.

This picture is up a little canyon called Black Rock Canyon that is about fifteen miles south of five mile. It was so pretty up there. It was so different from what you see around most of five mile.

We saw this snake right in the middle of the road. We saw a couple of snakes, lots of lizards, antelope ( or as Kage called them cantaloupe), and a few other species of wildlife.

David took this picture of Kage and I as we were driving down the road.

This is how I spent some of my time as the boys were looking for cache's. On Saturday morning the sun was out but that afternoon we got stuck in some rain showers. We rode about 60 miles and found 17 caches on Saturday.

Monday we went back out caching in the same area. We were supposed to meet my Mom and Dad but we missed them while we were out finding this funny cache. Each cache has a name. This cache was called "A nice place for a crappy cache" It is probably the funniest and most original caches we have ever found. We rode another 50 miles and found about 11 more caches. While the weather wasn't the best we still had a lot of fun.

Way to go David!

I get to be a proud mom today. We had our end of year awards ceremony today. In the fall all third graders in the country take a test called the IOWA. Today they handed out awards for students that performed in the top ten percent in the nation on the test. David was in the top ten percent in math, social studies, science, core total (all around knowledge) total composite (total test). Way to go David!

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We haven't really been up to a whole lot lately outside of the normal, school and work. A few weeks ago we had the pinewood derby. Here are a couple of pics of David with his car. He didn't win but I think he still had a good time. This year's pinewood derby ran so much smoother than last years. We spent three hours the night before impounding cars and I think that really helped. The next night the pinewood derby started at 6:00pm and it was over by 7:00pm. It was amazing.

We have been busy getting the yard in shape for the summer. For Mother's Day I got all of the flowers to fill my containers and hanging baskets. I also got one more hanging basket for the deck. I have four around the deck now. I planted everything with pink flowers. They look so pretty. When they get a little more filled in I will have to take some pictures and post them.

Last weekend my little brother Cameron got married. We spent all day Thursday doing the flowers and then Friday at the wedding. They got married in the Bountiful Temple. I had only been to that temple once for the open house many years ago. The views were amazing.

Yesterday (and today for the boys) we had another rocket shoot. The weather was great and rockets are always fun.


Now we look forward to almost being done with school. Nine more days but who's counting!