Maxine got the Vaccine

I didn't say a word to her. She just came home one day and said she had gotten the covid vaccine. She had a sore arm but didn't feel bad. Sounds good!

 

El Mirage

Merril and his buddies went down to El Mirage, a dry lake bed in California, to see how fast they could go on some of their fast bikes. Merril took a red Ducati that he bought to flip.

There's Shawn.

Ryan was down there too. They took dirt bikes too because they went to Dumont Dunes as well. 

That place is gorgeous in the Spring but SOOOOOO hot in the summer. 

 

Black Sabbatical Concert on a Rooftop

Merril and his band, Black Sabbatical, played on the rooftop of a new building at the university. The concert raised money for the Dove Center in St. George. They were staring straight into the sun but it was fun after the sun went down. 

Merril had Maxine play a few songs as an opener. Jack sang a song at the end of the night but his voice is a little unpredictable still. Half way through the song, it started cracking a lot. Oh well, still a fun way to spend Merril's birthday! He's 43!

 

Senior Prom 2021!

Maxine was asked to Senior Prom and we had to find a dress! We went to Suzy's Closet to look for dresses to rent. We ended up purchasing one of the dresses on clearance. It needed sleeves, I wish I had an actual before picture. This one already has the sleeves on. Maxine showed me pictures of what she envisioned the dress the look like and I was skeptical that it would look good. I didn't have the vision.

Maxine was able to cut parts of the flowers and applique them to the sleeves. It helped the sleeves seem like they were part of the dress and tie it together. I washed and air dried it. It looked ghostly.

And Maxine asked if I would take pictures. That makes me nervous but they turned out. I really do love pictures.

Maxine's date was a new kid in robotics named Jacob Arnold.

The kids were cute and fun and Maxine got a ton of compliments on her sleeves. Yay! I'm glad she had the vision and the gumption to pull it off.

We Got Some Butterflies!

I asked Mark if the class was hatching butterflies this spring and he they didn't have any in his classroom! Shocked, I asked Mikayla if she remembered the butterflies in first grade. She said she didn't have butterflies in first grade either. WHAT?! Jill Foy, Valerie Scott's Mom, was a teacher at Coral Canyon before she passed away and the first grade team had a butterfly unit. They learned about caterpillars and butterflies and then purchased caterpillars and watched them change and released them as butterflies.

Since Coral Canyon wasn't doing this anymore, I decided that we should purchase them as a family and watch them change. They were cooler than I thought they'd be! Most have formed a chrysalis. They were so small when they came in the mail.

We moved them to the butterfly cage when they were all cocoons. Then it was time to wait until they started to emerge as butterflies.

It was pretty cool!

Mikayla liked how they let you hold them. She said it's super cool!