Whoops! I forgot to orient this picture. But this is the cake Trevor decorate for my birthday. Isn't it cute!!!

A few days after celebrating Regan's birthday, we celebrated my birthday. Lots of birthday cake this month. Trevor made my cake and did the decorating by himself and he was pretty proud of his fine work. Kent and Trevor grilled dinner for us and the girls contributed with their dishes to finish out the meal. I love having my family around and having us all together was the best part of my birthday.

On June 26th Regan celebrated her 18th birthday. We actually celebrated a few days earlier because she went to Disneyland with her best friend, Whitney, on her birthday. She spent a week in Southern CA with her friend and had the time of her life. She and Whitney have become very good friends over the past couple of years. Kent and I took her out to dinner and then we came home for the cake and ice cream with Kenna and Trevor. We had a great day celebrating 18 years of having Regan in our family. She is fun to be around and always has a smile on her face.

Regan has graduated from Mountain Crest High School!!! She is so glad to be finished with school. Her plans are to go to Pennsylvania and be a nanny for awhile. She went out there in February to meet her nanny family and just loved them. So now we are in the countdown. She can hardly wait to get back out there. She knows she will miss us terribly, but is really looking forward to a new adventure. The Grows, her family, have a two-year-old boy and another one due any day now. This will be a good job for Regan. She loves kids and is so patient with them. She gets hired all the time by people in our ward and one sister even wants her to stick around and be her nanny. We will really miss her, she is so happy and fun to be around, but we know that this is her time to get out and experience life in a whole new dimension. She's going to do great!

Some time around the beginning of June, Trevor and Kent went to Hill Air Force Base to see the airshow. They both loved wandering around the base and seeing all the really cool aircraft. Trevor is especially interested in the aircraft and is always looking at pictures and telling us he wants to be a pilot. They don't get to many "guy" days together, but when they do, they always have a great time.

Mother's Week

We are a little behind on keeping this blog updated. So, the last weekend in May, I went up to Rexburg to spend some time with Nicki for Mother's week. We did absolutely nothing at the college, but had fun watching movies and talking. We did take a nice walk through the botanical gardens up there and had lots of fun doing that on Friday night. Then on Saturday, we went to Idaho Falls to do some shopping. Macy's was having some kind of open-house type event and they had a drawing for several perfume gift packages. Nicki and I hung around for several drawings, but finally decided we weren't going to win anything that day. We went to lunch and then she took me over to Maurice and Debbie's to meet up with her roommate and her mom so they could go back to Rexburg and I could head south for home. We were almost at my brother's house, when Regan called and asked if we had entered any drawings. Apparently my name was drawn right after we left, and they had called our house to let me know. So we raced back out to the mall to collect our prize because the event ended at 5:00 and it was about 4:45. We just made it and here we are with the "coveted" free perfume. I can't even remember what kind we got, I gave it to Nicki. That was a fun way to end a great weekend. One thing about hanging out with Nicki, there is never a dull moment!!!

Ahh!

Last night me, Kenna and Trevor were home alone while our parents were out of town, and there was a HUGE storm that went through the valley. There was a ton of thunder & lightning, and some really really strong winds. Me and Trev went outside for a few minutes to see the lightning, and I saw this weird white thing on our lawn. When Trevor brought it over to the porch to see what it was, we realized that the wind had blown the top of the light in our yard off. It had to be some really strong wind to do that, because its pretty heavy!

Here is our poor little (and now bald) light :(

And here is the top of the light...plus my new hat :)

(this is how me, kenna and trev entertained ourselves the rest of the night.)