Baseball, Easter, and Arizona

This spring has been a wet one, and because of that, Cam's baseball games were canceled right and left, leaving him to have about 4-5 games a week to play now.  We finally had a warmish day to enjoy on Wednesday as he had a doubleheader at home.  It's so much fun watching him play high school baseball!

 We had a wonderful Easter Sunday.  After church and a nice FHE, we joined the Ericksons, Skeens, Searles, Petersens and Bundys for a fun progressive dinner.  We started at our house for appetizers and a game, then went to Carol's kindergarten class for the main course and games, then to the Skeens for dessert, an Easter egg hunt, and the Royal Egg Joust.  It was a great day.

 Last weekend, Mike, Jess, Brad and I took a quick trip to Arizona to see Brody receive his MBA from Thunderbird.  I'm so glad we went.  We had a great time together, with Ky and Brody and with Brody's parents.  We flew in late Thursday night (I want to point out Mike's traveling bag of choice in the top right picture. Since we weren't going to check our bags, I told him to use one of the suitcases with wheels.  But he thought his duffle bag would be good enough, but he came to regret his decision as he had to carry it like a baby when it got too heavy to carry by the straps.  When will he ever learn to listen to me?) and got settled into our motel in Glendale. On Friday, we went to the graduation, then out to lunch, a movie, a diamondback game, then to Ky and Brody's for cake and ice-cream.  On Saturday, Brody spent the day with his family, but Ky joined us in Mesa for the day attending the temple (with a fun surprise run-in with Jordan and Jake as they were leaving the temple), visiting our friends the Frosts and Hoffmans, and having lunch with Paul and DeNae at Tia Rosa's.  It was a quick trip, but wonderful to see Brody graduate, see our friends and family, and soak in the 80 degrees for a couple days.  It was especially great knowing we'd be seeing Ky and Brody in Utah two days later.

Since Ky and Brody are only in Logan together for this week, (Brody's off to sell security systems in Oklahoma for half the summer, then he'll be in Ghana, Africa for the second half finishing up a class for his MBA- Ky will be living with us and working for Mike and at Hamiltons) and Jessica and Brad will be leaving soon to go to Houston for Brad to sell security systems,  I wanted to get a family picture taken since we all won't be together again until Thanksgiving. We called on Stacie to do it on short notice, and she did a great job!  Here's a peek at how they turned out. I'll post more once they're edited.  I love my family and am so proud of them!