...you need an umbrella for high school graduation night, a winter jacket if you'll be going up on the Rim, and plenty of sun screen. It must be an Arizona thing... I know it's not official summer yet, but again, this is Arizona.
Here's the run down of what we've been up to in May and so far in June.
First of all congrats to Kevin & Kristi (Ryan's sister) Johnson! Koltyn Jay came into the world on May 18th at a whopping 10lbs 8oz! He is a cutie, and just as big as Sophie who is a whole month older!
Ryan's youngest sibling graduated from Mountain View. She has wonderful artistic talent. Way to go Lara!
As you know, we put an offer on a house in Mesa near Gilbert Road and Adobe which was accepted. Everything looked good, but the house was appraised for $5,000 less than the asking price so the bank we had applied for a loan at wouldn't finance us. Now we've applied at a different bank and everything is going smoothly so far. The deal should close no later then July 15th... we hope!
Elizabeth (my sister) and Jeremy's family went to Disneyland for a week and had a fantastic time there. On May 16th Jeremy graduated with his Master's form ASU's bussiness college, and with all the family activities (2 showers and his graduation) going on it made for a busy day. Jeremy also had a birthday in May. There was also a family baby shower the next weekend. We had a fun Memorial Day too. Ryan helped his dad on thier roof, I went to some cemetaries with my parents, and we had fun at my Aunt's pool party in the evening. There were more of my cousins there than I've seen in ages! It was really good to see them.
I've been working hard getting devotionals and decorations ready for girls camp for the last month. Tempe Stake went to Lo-Mia June 6-10th, and once again I had the privlage of being the 1st Counselor and the Del Rio Ward Camp specialist. The theme was "Be Loyal to the Royal Within" and our ward got to decorate with "Belle" from "Beauty and the Beast" as our "princess". (i think i'm a little quotation mark happy for some reason)
We had 8 girls in the cabin this year and everyone got along much better this year than in previous years I've been to camp. It was kinda chili, but only got into the 40's at night, instead of the 20's like last year. One of the Mia Maids hand drew the poster for our ward this year. It was so beautiful I had to take a picture of it. Camp was a tremendous experience for all of the girls. Especially the Sunday night activity called the "Hold to the Rod Faith Walk". It was amazing! Some stake leaders dressed up as Sariah and led the girls in small groups to several scenes from Lehi's vision of the Tree of Life. They saw a cabin as The Great and Spacious Building with people mocking and pointing their fingers at them, they experienced the mists of darkness as they tied bandannas around their eyes. They experienced temptations to let go of the Rod of Iron, and the encouragement to keep going, as they followed some rope tied to pieces of conduit toward the Chapel in the trees of Orchard Camp. They felt the embrace of our stake president and his wife as they took off thier blindfolds and led them into the Chapel where a lit up Christmas tree held bracelets with charms shaped like crowns, which was the fruit of the tree. I almost cry just thinking about it. I know it's something I'll never forget and I pray none of the girls who experienced it will either.
Ryan just got back today form taking the Scouts fishing at Willow Springs Lake. He only caught one fish and one of the boys caught one as well. He will be going to Geronimo in July again this year. We both love any reason to get up on the Rim, not to mention being able to serve with the youth. Some of them are so amazing! We are excited to camping with the Stewart's soon. Hopefully we will have better luck with the fish next weekend!
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