Triple Date

In early June we went out with two cute couples to Thanksgiving Point Gardens.  It is a great place for a date!  Here are a few photos:

End of Year Finales

The last weeks of the school year in May and June brought performances and celebrations.  We enjoyed the time with family and friends!  

waiting for family to arrive at the Piano Recital

Michael rocked his two pieces!  

Derek graduated and had a senior graphic design art show in downtown SLC. 

We took a day trip to the cabin one Saturday with some of the boys' friends from school.

The boys had some good adventure time.  And they brought their favorite activities too.  I had to take a few shots of the rubik's cubes left by the boys in various places around the cabin.  

Seth brought Beth and Ruth up also for good cousin time with the girls.  

We had a quick lunch at the park one day before we took Tessa and Leah to kindergarten.  She was our carpool friend all year long.  

Leisel had her buddy, Spencer, along too.  

Leisel somehow took this picture one day when we waited to pick up the kids from school.  The ending of our school year was a little bitter sweet, because we decided not to come back to our charter school.  We were grateful for all our great experiences there, but now looked forward to some other options at a new charter or home school.  

Michael's final 5th grade show

Jordan's 3rd grade end of year performance 

Tessa's kindergarten graduation and final show 

Jonathan loved the shows and mostly sat quietly through them..

Grandma and Grandpa Clark came to be the cheering section for the kids shows and stayed for a fun visit!

picnic lunch and waiting for the boys to finish school

Good friends and teachers!!

Michael's teacher hosted an end of year class pool party.

Tessa performed with Sunshine Generation and was in the South Jordan City Parade.  Super fun for her!

The little (and big) things Life is made of

Our 15 year St. Petersburg Russia mission reunion, conference weekend in April.  

Elder Kux, from Germany, visited President and Sister Datwyler in Germany and took a video of them to share with us.  Their message was the highlight of the evening!  The delicious catered Russian meal and fun visiting was super too!  

The various daily facets of Leisel

a favorite fuzzy photo

messes

Third Grade Roman Festival

Our view on the way home from school

Scales and Tails

meal planning

The Staining Project

1st day of staining was awesome!  Yea for home improvement.  The old stain was very worn and sun bleached.   We started this project last fall and finished in the spring. :)

After the first or second coat?

I remember this was at Christmas when we took off a month or two from working on it for the holidays.  The boxes stopped 9 month old Jonathan from climbing up and down for a little while.   

I took a quick photo to show the end result of the stair railing.  Our light colored furniture doesn't blend as well anymore, but we are pretty happy with the end result and just to be done with the project.  It was pretty fun to take the painters tape off that had been up for so long.  

Yea for cabinet improvements in the bathrooms and laundry room as well.  I'm so excited to tackle the kitchen soon!!