End of May but feels like March

We have had a cold and wet spring. It's the last week of May and we haven't even come close to turning our A/C on. In fact, the heater still kicks sometimes during the night.  You would think we lived in Seattle the way it has been raining almost every day for weeks.  With only 4 more days of school I think summer (and summer weather) will be a shock to our system because in my mind we are still in the early stages of spring.

Britton's soccer team

Jenna got asked to another high school's Senior Ball in May by one of the guys on her ballroom dance team. Needless to say they out-waltzed everyone at the dance.

Jenna and Aiden off to Senior Ball

Mother's Day photo op with the family. It is not as easy as you would think to get everyone (AJ) looking and smiling at the same time.

Another one with Grandma and Grandpa P.

Jameson has been choosing some wild hairstyles lately. I wished they lasted longer than a week, but his hair grows pretty fast so it fills in quickly. Yes, he is the envy of all of his friends until it grows out.

On May 17-19 Adam and his parents and siblings had a little mini-reunion in SLC. They ran a 5K went to some tourist spots and had a lot of fun talking, laughing, playing games and spending time together. With no spouses or kids (minus Kim's 2 month old) you can imagine what a party it was.

Bonnie, Dave, (some random race organizer guy), Stephen, Adam, Bethany, Josh, Kim, Loren, Kirsti, Micah and Jaclyn, The only sibling missing was Marci.

I knew they were being wild and crazy when Adam kept sending me pictures like this asking me if I thought he should grow a beard.

Umm, I don't think so.

Britton went to Senior Ball last weekend with a great group of friends.

Britton ran for the Student Executive Council (Ridgeline's version of Student Body Officers) and won! He is really excited to work in that capacity his Senior year. Jenna also ran for Jr. Class Office and won. In fact, she will take over Britton's current position as Jr. Class Secretary. Britton had no idea who won the election when he opened the envelope to announce who would replace him at the school assembly and since the Jr. Officer positions are decided by vote count instead of by running for a specific position it was quite a surprise that Jenna's name was on the paper.  Britton and Jenna are pretty much recreating my brother Mckay and mine's experience in High School. He was a Jr. Class officer, I ran for his position, he announced me as the winner and then went on to be a Senior Class Officer. Britton and Jenna will be in student government, cross country and choir together next year just like Mckay and I were. They are like our clones 25 years later! 

Adam celebrated a Birthday this last week. The big 4-3! There was a rare break in the rain the night Grandma and Grandpa P had us over for a Birthday BBQ. The Kirks were also invited to the Birthday festivities.

Adam's delicious double decker cakewas  made by Cara, an aspiring baker!

It was huge and took us a week to eat it all, but don't worry, we didn't give up until every last crumb was consumed.

Britton and Jenna had their end of year piano recital on Saturday night.  This will probably be Britton's last recital since we cannot find a lesson time that will work with his busy schedule next year. It is kind of sad, but we will still get to hear him play around the house for another year so I'm happy about that.

We have a sock problem. Of the 7 people in our family 3 are the most irresponsible sock people I've ever met! (I won't name names, but it ISN'T Adam, Jenna, Britton or me) They take them off and  leave them all over the house and neighborhood often wearing them only once before losing at least one of the socks.  I've tried natural consequences but they really don't care about not having socks or wearing mismatched socks to school. 

I told Korinne I would pay her 10 cents for each pair she could match, but I wasn't prepared to shell out $8.40 and still throw away a large bag of unmatched socks. At least they have socks for the next week or so. 😁

Springtime in CV

When the Middle School was out of school for parent/teacher conferences on a random Friday in April Korinne was a good sport and went for lunch in a park with AJ and me on a BEAUTIFUL spring day.

Soccer season is in full swing for Jameson.  Adam is coaching his rec team this spring.

Coach Adad

On Easter Sunday we got up early and drove to Rexburg to hear Brinley speak before leaving on her mission to Dallas Texas.

A few days before this Adam and I got the heads up that our ward boundaries would be realigned on April 28th and he would be released as Bishop. With this information Adam knew he needed to stay back and tie up loose ends on his last full Sunday as Bishop.

Grandma P prepared an Easter Egg Hunt on a rainy Easter Sunday in Rexburg.

Jameson and AJ line up with cousins for the big hunt.

It was a very successful hunt for goodies.

Britton played for both the Varsity and JV soccer teams at the high school this year.  The coach was pretty random about when and where he played all of the players so we never knew which game Britton would play in and for how long.  Since the games are each 2 hours long it meant that we had to sit through 4 hours of games twice a week to ensure we were there when Britton played. This was a bit of a challenge. I usually had to pick only one game to attend since the boys were home needing attention but Adam sat through MANY HOURS of freezing cold games to support Britton. Britton did get a lot of playing time between the 2 teams so he was happy about that. The season ended on April 26th and I think that during the entire season we only had 2 games with good weather.  Yeah, it has been a cold and wet spring here in the valley.

Britton walking with the green striped shirt and blue socks.

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Adam's brother Micah came up from SLC to see Britton's last game and to visit us.

Adam and Micah were very patient while playing Mario Kart Monopoly with Jameson. It is much more complicated than the normal Monopoly, for the record.

On Sunday, April 28th our stake held a special ward alignment meeting at the Stake Center at 3:00 p.m.  In this meeting they created 3 wards out of 2 and our family was put into the new ward, the Prov. Canyon Ward.  Everyone in our entire ward was released from their callings and then they released Adam as the Bishop of the Prov. 10 ward and called 2 new Bishoprics for the Prov. 10 ward and the Prov. Canyon ward.  The big surprise of the meeting was that they split our neighborhood into 2 different wards so we are no longer in the same ward as some of our good friends who live 5 houses down from us. They also moved us to the Stake Center for our Sunday meetings.  It is kind of funny, but we have lived in the same house for 10 years and during that time we have been a part of 3 different wards and attended church in 3 different buildings. Yeah, that can only happen here. Ironically we will finally be attending church at the building closest to our home. For years we drove past 2 churches to get to ours. Of course they are all a stone's throw from each other, but it is still kind of funny.

The family after Adam was released as Bishop.

This is the first and last day of Adam's service as the Bishop. Wow, we have grown up a lot!

Jenna danced in the end of year Ballroom Showcase for Enlight Ballroom last night. She was amazing and we really enjoyed the show.

Every year at this final show all of the Seniors who are graduating get to dance a solo showcase.  One of the seniors, Aiden, asked Jenna to be his partner for his showcase so she was able to dance a fun Mamba routine with him. It was cute and fun and Jenna did a fantastic job.