May Things

I wasn't sure if we were going to survive until the end of May, but we somehow did it. Sam ended up passing his classes, and Max finished his online history class in 2 days while maintaining his 4.0. Miracles never cease. To celebrate I made the boys go with me to see the new temple square visitor center. It was super cool and even Sam approved since it only took 15 minutes!

They let you take pics in the celestial room

Monte giving Sam some running form tips

Much to everyone's surprise Sam actually received an end of the year award for Honor Roll. I'm sure those teachers weren't sad to see him go. Sigh.

Max was excited to get his new yearbook only to open it to find his page and see that a graphic covered where he and 21 other students faces should be!

Toby's ugly work car made it to 100,000 miles. We're not sure why this is a milestone but Toby insists that it is.

Toby is still missing a tooth and still takes awkward selfies when he's traveling

All my children were home for Mother's Day and that made me happy

This is for posterity. Kris would not let go of these balloons and we all want to remember that

Another fun RS activity in the books.

We brought Linz a cookie. I think she'd approve

 

Year 1 Down

Sam had a great first year of lacrosse. The team and coaches were amazing and were super nice to Sam aka Crush and really helped Sam improve. The team was Region Champs and made it all the way to the semi finals where they lost in a close, heart breaking game. Their head coach, who won coach of the year, wasn't able to coach that day (long story) so the team was just off. Super sad, but Sam's excited to get back at it next year. Sam was fun to watch and really improved and led his JV team with takeaways even as a freshman.

Could be one of my all time favorite pics. Both boys doing what they love - music and lax

Team breakfast the morning of the semi final game

The boys all dyed their hair for the semi's

Sam getting some varsity reps in a playoff game

Unfortunately Sam's season didn't end the way he wanted. He got a pretty bad concussion at one of the last region games and we ended up having to take him into the ER to get a scan. Gratefully all was well but then he had to start the long road back to playing.

Concussion protocol

Sage came to support at the Park City game

 

Final Choir Concert

Max had his final choir concert and despite all the warnings it was actually really good. Megan was nice and brought Gracie and Johnny up with her so she could be there and got to sing with Max in the alumni song. Max, of course, accompanied a lot of choirs but he also had a solo and he has a great voice! He also made the Productions company for next year so we're excited to see him be involved with that.

Look hard and you can see Megan and Max in the back row. Megan's so short

Max's solo

 

Birthdays & Stuff

Sam finally got his giant trophy for getting superior on all of his federation songs over the years

Max made it to State Solo/Ensemble again and of course got a superior

We all supported Marcus at his division Championship lacrosse game against UVU. It was intense, and fun and we won!

Obviously we celebrated with a Crown Burger after the big W

Megan and Johnny trying to read Sam's handwriting. It was hilarious

 

Another yummy marzipan cake for my birthday

For my birthday dinner we got dumplings. Sam made a new record and ate 22

He had to go outside in case he threw up

Celebrated Lyndi's bday with a Napolean Dynamite party. It was lots of fun

Miles is the cutest

Max went to Spring Fling with Emma and had a blast