Steel Days

American Fork Steel Days. Lisa and Jen and Stacy and I ran in the 5k After the run we supported the band and had breakfast. It was a great morning.

Later in the day we had to walk around the carnival. Ahhh it brings back memories. Can't wait for next year.

Memorial Day

I know we are well past May, but I wanted to post anyway. We went up to Midway and had a BBQ with the cousins. Getting the perfect s'more takes time--and Errol has perfected the s'more. It's so good.

Finally, my turn for the s'more. (FYI-Errol and I didn't really eat the s'more, it was just for the picture)

Mills Reunion

I am finally posting about our reunion. So Deb planned the event and we had a great time. We rented a house in St. George and let the party begin. There was golfing and wave running and movies and food and games. I love family get togethers. It's great to hang out with the family. My cousins make me laugh so hard.

Jill and LisaDJ, Jim and Zackme and Jen

After golfing, we tried to go waving running, but it was a little bit cold. Still we had a good time.

StattonStatton watching Peter Pan with Zack.

Lisa is excited for the fun.Jeff volunteered or was volunteered to man the grill for the burgers and hot dogs. The group planning an exciting game of BINGO. I lost every time.

Saturday was shooting. This was a good time. I tied for first place with the girls. I'm ready to buy my own gun.

We tried again with the wave running, but the nice weather did not last too long and we came back home.

Shouldn't you guys be helping to clean instead of playing???

Some of the peeps. Zack thought it would be funny to try to knock us down. He thinks he is funny. (We thought it was too.)

Happy Father's Day

For Father's Day I made my Dad cupcakes. I thought they were appropriate.

I couldn't stop laughing when I saw them. My Dad liked them too.

This is the magazine picture. We did our best. My roommate found the picture and right away I knew I had to make them.

Quilt

One of my summer projects was to make a rag/levi quilt. I just finished it. I love it.

First of all I had to pick out the fabric.

Then I had to cut into squares and sew together.

After I sewed all the squares, I had to rearrange the squares how I wanted them. I enlisted my roommate to help me with that.

Then I had to sew all the squares together and then sew the rows.

And for the finish product.........

It did not take as long as I thought it would. I can't wait to use it this summer. Now I need another project. :)

catching up

Wow, where has the time gone? Just a random post to catch up on some things I have been doing. I was in charge of Prom this year. That was a good time. Our theme song was "Hear, you me". We changed the "Hear" to "Here" So it was like "Here in this place" It was stressful, but it was fun. And apparently, I am doing it again next year.

My friends who I begged to help chaperone. Becky, Amy and Kathy.

Our school has a pretty strict dress code for Prom. This is Kristin showing some girls how to where the shawls. That was the hardest part, having the kids keep covered up.

I also went to a few of my students rodeos. I was using my new camera lens and enjoying the rodeos.

And now I am so excited for the summer. I have a few projects I want to get done. Hopefully, I can accomplish them.

More fun from New Orleans

Ok, I am finally posting the rest of the New Orleans pics. I think one of my favorite things was the Jazz Festival. There was so many different genres of music. It was great. You could walk around and hear whatever you wanted and they had a ton of food. I had some jumbalya and parlines. Love it. The festival brought people in like, Bonjovi, Dave Matthews Band, Joe Cocker, The Roots Band, Etta James, Earth, Wind and Fire. I saw a little bit of Joe Cocker--but it was so dang crowded. I like the smaller stages.

One of more lively shows was a high school gospel choir. The woman with the tamborine was out of control. She would hit her elbows and her feet and shake the tamborine. It was so funny. She was definiatly feeling the power of music.

We also went on a swamp tour and saw some alligators. It was pretty cool, but then I kind of got bored. You see one alligator you've seen them all. However our guide had them all named and everything.

We also saw a plantation. It was pretty cool, but when I went to New Orleans before, I liked the plantations we saw better.

These are just some of my favorite pictures from the trip. We had time to walk around the French Quarter and Jackson Square.

Cafe Du Monde. I love this place and it's open 24hrs a day. I made Nancy walk down with me to have one of their Beignets. They are so good.

This was our hotel lobby. I thought it looked cool. It was a nice hotel. We had a great time.

Brek and the bus driver. He was awesome. He knew exactly where to go and he got where ever we needed right on time.

At the airport ready to go home. I love New Orleans. I would for sure plan another trip there.