Juliet's Mission Call Opening

Juliet submitted her mission papers and the wait began. There's no way to know when a mission call is going to come. It felt like it was going to come on Monday the 27th. We kept waiting all day in anticipation and it didn't seem like it was going to show up. I was a little bummed for her. Jack's PDay got bumped to Monday because of a temple trip. He called Monday evening instead of Sunday. While we were on the phone with him, Juliet got up a text notification saying that she could now access her mission call in the portal. She wanted to read it first by herself but decided to take Jack on a video call with her. She went into the backyard and read her mission call with her brother. Jack screen recorded the whole thing, which I think was brilliant. It was so awesome to see her reaction. Then she came upstairs and I begged her to tell me. She read it for us. And then we decided to have a mission call opening the next day at our house. She's going to California Anaheim Mission English speaking!! It's the exact same mission that Maxine went to! How crazy is that? Juliet said that was the last place she was expecting!

No one guessed Anaheim in the guessing board. 

All the boys who came to support!

Lauren is going to Tokyo Japan Chinese speaking! She's doing home MTC!

The famous Mr. Vick!

She'll do great! We think she might finish teaching someone that Maxine found.

I love that Jack was able to be a part of it!

Merril's 48th Birthday

For Merril's birthday, Merril wanted to go for a ride, obviously. :) They went to Toquerville.

I planned a birthday party at the church building close to us and we invited friends and had tacos. I cooked way too much food. Unfortunately, Merril and I didn't take any pictures. The party was nice and we were able to visit. The next day, I realized that we'd left a bunch of lettuce and cheese in the fridge at the church. Merril and I went for a run and got the cheese and lettuce and ran home with it.

 

That's Just Not Nice

Bro. While taking the kids to school on muffin Monday, I was driving past a cement truck on 600 North and the guy decided to clean out his cement chute onto oncoming traffic. It sprayed cement water all over the front and side of the Tahoe. Luckily it didn't do anything to the paint but I was a little miffed. 

I cleaned it up right away and it was fine.

 

Walmart Run

The advantages of having Walmart so close is that it's a fun place to go get what you need if you don't have a car. Mark, Liam, Ryder, and some other friends decided they needed some snacks on a Friday. This picture reminds me of my childhood. Two up on a bicycle is awesome! 

Someone borrowed the one wheel and off they went! I'm glad they're making memories.

Maxine's Spring Choir Concert

Maxine was singing with the Utah Tech Institute Choir and they were performing at the St. George Tabernacle. 

Their choir is so big! It was a beautiful performance. It was a lot of hard songs. But they sounded amazing!

 

Maxine's Lovely Locks

My girls have got magnificent hair! Long, thick and lovely! Maxine's had very long hair for a while and was ready for a change. She decided she wanted to donate it and asked for help cutting it. We've got the before picture.

And after! It's got a lot of layers. She called it a shag cut. I feel like it suits her! It'll be nice for summer. She won't have so much hot hair on her back.

I'm just tacking this on. Look at this cell phone tower they just put up. IT'S HUGE! You can see it from our house and as soon as you turn by Walmart. It's also supposed to look like a pine tree except we don't have those here. Super leggy. Anyway, it's been a topic of conversation around here about the goofy tree cell phone tower. Lol.

Easter General Conference

What a lovely blessing when Easter falls on Conference Sunday! Jared and Emily's family came down for the weekend and most of their kids stayed at our house. I asked if they wanted to hunt eggs and they said yes.

We hunted for eggs! Elizabeth was after them!

Everyone came over for dinner and we took a picture to send to Grandma and Grandpa Campbell.

I need to figure out how to be a less stressed out hostess. I worry about too many things that aren't that important. Something to work on.