Clay's 12th Birthday!!

I know I'm still out of order--but this is such a special event I didn't want to wait until after I organized Hawaii! Clay turned 12 while we were in Hawaii on the last day when we were traveling home. He actually got to celebrate his birthday for 3 hours longer than usual because we left Hawaii at 10pm their time. I'm not sure it was much of a celebration--packing and being sad that we were leaving but I'm sure we will make it up to him soon. We got home Friday morning at 10:30 and picked up some doughnuts for breakfast/lunch (I'm not sure which it was!) Then we tried to sleep for a few hours and later had tacos for dinner and opened his presents. He has reached the age of clothes--(sorry batman!) He also was pretty excited to get Rock Band and has had a lot of fun playing it. Sunday night we had our family over for his ordination. I now have 3 priesthood holders in our home--we are so blessed. We are grateful to our families for making time to share this special event with us. We are so proud of Clay!!

SUMMER!

It has been a while since I updated so it will be a little out of order--We got back from our vacation in Hawaii and our hard drive on our computer died--so we had to get a new computer and try to save what info we could--so it's been pretty hectic for the last couple days. I finally am able to download some pictures after having to buy new software because ours was outdated for the new computer--it never ends!!!

Cassie went to girls camp the week before we left and had a great time. Russ and I were able to drive up on Friday for testimonies and then we drove back around 10:30. We brought two other girls home who were leaving on their vacations Saturday morning. I must have been going a little fast around the curves because just as we were almost home--one of the girls who was dead asleep in the back seat--started throwing up! (our car has now officially been broken in.) It was close to midnight and very very dark on the road but we pulled over and tried to help her. Russ and I realized how lucky we are to have kids that don't get motion sick--probably because they are use to my driving and we insist that they are not sick when we are traveling, but just need to get some rest--it seems to work. We were glad when Cassie got home on Saturday safe and sound.