Sunday, May 25, 2014

Amanda's wedding, Glen's birthday, Hannah's CLEP, Zelma's service

It's been a great 2 weeks.

Our niece, Amanda, was getting married to Todd in St. George, Utah on the 17th. It was in the same room in the St. George Temple that her grandparents (Glen's parents), her parents (Glen's sister and brother-in-law), and her uncle and aunt (Glen and me) had been married in, so that was pretty neat. We stayed at my sister's and had a wonderful short visit there and a wonderful time with Glen's family on Saturday.

Sadly, I forgot my camera in Fallon and don't have any photos to share yet... but take my word for it, it was all beautiful...

Monday the 19th was Glen's 51st birthday. In this picture he is turning the 5 around so it looks like he's 15 and not 51.


On Friday, Hannah had her Spanish CLEP test and earned credit for 2 semesters at college. ¡Bien hecho, mi hija! She is now all done with AP and CLEP testing. We don't get the results from the 3 AP tests she took (Physics, English, and Government) until July. She has school on Tuesday and Wednesday and then finals on Thursday and Friday and then she'll be done... wow. Graduation is on June 6th.

Yesterday was the graveside service for Zelma. She passed away on April 1st, but this was the time that her 2 children could come and have a service. My in-laws have helped to take care of Zelma for the past 4 years and Glen was her home teacher. My sister-in-law Carey and I sang with a group ("I Need Thee Every Hour") and Glen gave a talk on the Plan of Salvation. Of course, there was also her grave dedication, a eulogy, a violin duet of "Amazing Grace," and the Bishop said a few words. It was all very nice. The weather was gorgeous...if it had been scheduled a few days earlier, it would have been raining.


Beth, Terra, Annalee, Carey, Julieann, Sheryl, Clara Jean, and Kim
and of course, Glen


Nine school days left... :)

Monday, May 12, 2014

Alex, musical, Mother's Day, missionaries, Hannah's plans

Alex was inducted into the National Junior Honor Society on Friday. Congratulations Alex!


The annual high school musical ran Wednesday through Saturday. This year they put on "Time and Time Again" which is a go-back-in-time-and-make-sure-your-parents-start-dating story (a little bit like "Back to the Future" only the time machine is a school science fair project and not a Delorean).
on the left is our friend Adia as the science teacher

And of course Sunday was Mother's Day and when you have a missionary out, it's one of the 2 days a year you get to talk to him/them. We actually got to skype with Ryan for an hour and then talk to Eric for 40 minutes. We also went to the Bishop's house so we could wish Sariah well on her mission and also skype with Jiaxin. It was a wonderful and exhausting day.
 
We found out from Eric that his last day in the mission should be Wednesday November 19th--the day before his 23rd birthday. They serve them a special lunch and then they get to leave...that's just over 6 months away. Wow. Eric is 3/4 done. Ryan is 1/2 done.

And Hannah, who only has 3 weeks of high school left with graduation on June 6th, has settled on her fall plans. She has signed up for some classes at our local community college for fall, for which she has a scholarship. The semester ends December 13th and I think she might want to be in the MTC for Christmas instead of for her birthday on December 1st as originally planned.