Last Week of School

Last week was a very busy week. Monday was Memorial Day. I decided we should do a day trip and a friend mentioned Malad Gorge and I thought it would be perfect. It is right next to the freeway headed towards Salt Lake about 1 1/2 hours from Boise. It's fun because our kids are getting old enough that we can do things like this and it will be fun and not painful and somewhat pointless. I went to the store and bought picnic foods in the morning and we headed out after breakfast, We got there and checked out the gorge and then went to the picnic area and had lunch. After lunch we found Thousand Springs park and checked that out as well. Then we headed home. It was fun and the kids were only a little annoying. Ha.

On Tuesday I went to the school to help out all morning for field day. Wednesday night was the funeral of my friend's son. He died suddenly of a brain aneurysm. So awful. They held a service at the park. The family each talked about Ben and then after everyone had ice cream. I thought it was very well done. They wanted to celebrate Ben's life and make it a party like he would have wanted. Oh man, it's heartbreaking though.

On Thursday I hosted my book club. It's always a fun time getting together with my book club friends. On Friday we had an end of the year picnic with the kids and then brought them home for the summer! That night we got a sitter and got together with friends and watched a scary movie. Fun times.

Malad Gorge State Park.

That's the freeway.

Thousand Springs.

Girls checking out my new gazelle. 

The girls helped me plant some flowers. It took twice as long but it was pretty cute.

Piper coloring

Gabby drawing (I thought this was from her head but I found a picture she copied it from) but STILL am I right?

Funeral at the park. There were A LOT of people there.

Ben, so sweet and adorable. 

Crossover from facebook:My friend Jennifer Wilson Dorman lost her beautiful 10 year old son unexpectedly. Before he died he looked up at his sister and brothers and friends and gave them a giant smile and 2 thumbs up. He loved life 2 thumbs up worth. My friend has asked that we all remember Ben and how wonderful he was by hugging our kids extra tight and loving them. May we all remember just how precious our loved ones are. #2thumbsup4Ben

School Carboard Challenge. It's always fun to see what the students come up with.

Piper has two bowls of popcorn because seriously one is never enough.