Utah

We made it to Utah safe and sound, with everyone's eardrums in one piece. Hallelujah!
We are having fun with cousins despite the hot hot hot hot weather, and the fact that I keep getting nosebleeds. Dry weather is such a change from humidity. We stopped only one night to sleep in a hotel in Nebraska. Watched fireworks from the road, but the fireflies that accompanied us along the road were almost better.
We are trying to decide to build a house or buy one, and I personally want to build. Even though it means I would be living out of a suitcase for another six months it just might be worth it.
More later!

"Would've been prize winning if not for the house in the background"

I think they will look better if you click on them individually.

photo class pics

home school photo class. I didn't really like the teacher. After she looked at a picture Elias took of his shadow during the night (so it looked really abstract) and commented that if you turned it on its side it could look like a arrow. I figure doing wedding photos in previous years has really limited her creativity. Anyway, here are some of the ones I took.

family biking

Dryer Rd for Elias's b-day, mom and dad winter running, me pretending to be Leonardo Da Vinci, and then a friend and I jumping off a table. I felt like I needed to add some pictures

Denmark

This summer dad is going to Denmark. He got into a design contest, and gets to go over there, and sell his product.
I want to go.
I need to earn some money.
Anyone want me to babysit/mow/clean/wash windows for them this summer?

Dad got released as the bishop today. He came home right after church. How amazing is that?

Birthday!

On Elias's birthday, he was at the father and son camp-out on Seneca Lake, jumping in a ice cold lake (a characteristic he got from his dad) so we had to celebrate his birthday on Sunday and Monday. He had a mint ice cream cake with thirteen candles, and his dinner of choice was a huge sandwhich with avacado, tofu, tapanade, sundried tomato's, cucumbers and more that I can't remember. Yesterday we went to Dryer Rd. park, and biked a lot of the trails. We only had one injury. Atticus was on the pump track, and didn't land right. Fortunatly he only got a skinned knee. Pictures to come soon.

Themes

-A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.

-We are daughters of our Heavenly Father, who loves us and we love him. We will stand as witnesses of God at all times, in all things, in all places, as we strive to live the Young Women values, which are faith, divine nature, individual worth, knowledge, choice and accountability, good works, integrity, and virtue. We believe as we come to accept and act upon these values we will be prepared to strengthen home and family, make and keep sacred covenants, receive ordinances of the temple, and enjoy the blessings of exaltation.

-No one, is as awesome as a ninja.