Last Day of School!

Happy Day! The kids are finally out of school. I ran into a teacher today that said, "I know we are looking forward to school being out, although you parent's probably are not!" I thought, "No . . . I am happy to be done too. I'm tired of reminding kids to do homework and to go to bed early. I am excited for lazy days at the pool and more leisure to time for my kids. We have our last lacrosse game Saturday, last season baseball game tomorrow and dance recital on June 23rd. Tyler played his last game on Tuesday evening. Mitchell will still have play-off games for baseball, but at least there won't be all of the running around between events. I am also looking forward to nice, warm weather. We've had a cold, rainy spring in Salt Lake this year.

In other news, our home remodel is progressing, slowly, but after today, I think it should go faster. All of the rain really slowed things down. Then my front door took forever to come, but today it came and it looks fabulous! I have been painting swatches of color on my house, trying to decide what color to paint it. Ughh! Its one thing to look at a small dab of color versus painting an entire house. Anyway, its been fun. If you'd like to see pictures, you can click on my other blog, fontainedebienvenu.blogspot.com.

We are also excited for summer vacations this year! We're taking a quick trip to St. George and Springdale, and then Jake and Pete are headed to Coyote Gulch for a Scouting camp. Our big family trip is to Cape Cod and I'm so excited to be there with my kids. I hope they like it as much as I do! I'm also hoping to make it to Colorado this summer to visit my sister Chantel and her family. They moved a year ago and I haven't made it for a visit yet. We were grateful to see them here for Memorial Day weekend!

Other big news . . . my in-laws, Joan and Byron, are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. Pete has been scanning pictures and interviewing them for a presentation. We are throwing a big bash at Janae's house Saturday, June 5th. I am in charge of the dance floor, and I'll admit, I am wishing I had just rented one. It might not be too late . . . otherwise we're putting one together on Saturday morning, hoping it'll work. I think I'll make some calls tomorrow.

Sunday I have to teach the Relief Society lesson. I have been able to avoid it since September, but now its only a week away and I'm admittedly nervous. I'm not sure why, my previous profession was teaching, but for some reason, this is much more nerve racking. Oh well . . . wish me luck! As long as we can have a good discussion, I will feel okay about it. I am using Sister Julie B. Beck's conference talk as a reference, lots of great information there, so should be okay.

Well, I think I'll get back to my book . . . The Feast of Roses by Indu Sundaresan . . . its so good!