Graduation

Hard to believe that this kid is graduating and going on a mission!

Andrew wanted a short hair picture on the back so we took this pic as he was running out the door to prom.

The Valedictorians were honored at an awards assembly. 26 Valedictorians!

Seminary graduation too!

The day of graduation luckily wasn't too blisteringly hot but the sun and time of day led to a ton of horrible pictures 😂.  

Most of the pictures are pretty bad but it was a pretty fabulous day to get one more kid finished with High School - bitter sweet.

Had to say bye to our buddy Fernando - someday they will meet again in Spain this time to look for Lynx's together.

Andrew has had such a fabulous group of friends - wish this picture did them justice.  They made his high school experience really positive-so grateful for them.

Family Pictures

In spite of the mosquitos we managed one more group of family pictures.  I'm so grateful to have these pics of all of us together before Andrew leaves for his mission. 

18!

Miraculously, through the efforts of Greg and other men who love Andrew, he got his mission papers turned in in record time.  He had to get his hair trimmed for this mission photo.

I left early the morning of May 9th to pick Mack up from Moscow.  While driving I got the word that Andrew had his call.  We were trying to figure out when we could open it and I still had to get Mack and drive the 5+ hours home.  Well I showed up to get Mack and he was ready.  We were loaded up and got in 30 minutes or less.  We called Andrew and plans were set to open the call 9:30 that night.

All the boys filled the house and Andrew learned that he was going to Nicaragua, and further shocked us with a July MTC date.  We were assuming August or September.  It will be hard to be ready with all the travel we have planned but we are thrilled he is leaving so soon.

Unfortunately Andrew separated his shoulder playing basketball this spring.  After it had started to heal he played ball again and separated it a second time 🤦🏻‍♀️.  Lets home he can take it easy and let it heal before the mission.

For Father's Day I had the idea to have all the Easton's donate platelets in honor of Papa.  So all of us that were able signed up.  Andrew was a trooper and completed his donation in spite of being pretty uncomfortable.  

The girls dance production was on Andrew's bday so he went out with the boys and we put off his party until Sunday.  The Wilfords and Grandma and Grandpa Dame came over and we celebrated Mother's Day and Andrew's bday.  Can you tell that he had just re-injured his shoulder?

Happy Birthday amazing, persistent, loving, friendly, passionate, verbose, argumentative, energetic, smart, easy going boy!

Peter Pan

After months of hard work the girls performed Peter Pan.  Emily and Kate were fabulous pirates.  Kate gave us lovely smiles and Emily held her head up with drama from beginning to end.  

Lily made a beautiful, deliberate mermaid - leading the rest of the mermaids in their core intense dance.  They did boat pose and side planks - holding the pose for quite a while in a very slow, gorgeous dance sequence.  She hated the wig but the audience loved the look.

Our pirates also spent one dance as Indians then did a quick change to end the show as pirates.

The whole production was beautiful.  Probably the best so far.  

We had to get some silly pictures in their sunglasses before we headed home.  The girls love to dance although they had a tearful goodbye to Clara who has been a fabulous mentor to them for the last several years.

 Brooke, Val, Sammie, Rachel, Grandma and Grandpa Dame, the Dombroski's and Emily's young women's class all came to watch.  Lucky girls.