We went to Lagoon on Stake Lagoon Day and had a great time. Michael even took the day off. Alex took his friend James, who was adopted from Ukraine a few months ago. It was fun to hear the two of them chattering away in Ukrainian/Russian. It's always a good refresher course for Alex. Quinn didn't want to take a friend this year. He said he just wanted to hang out with us. That's nice but unusual to hear from a teenager.

It was a good day to go to Lagoon. The lines were relatively short, and the weather wasn't too hot. In fact, about 5:00 p.m., it started to rain, then downpour. There was a mad dash of several hundred people to their cars. We were ready to leave anyway, and it was a perfect way to get James out of there. I think he would have been happy staying till midnight.

Goofing off at Day Break.

Still wearing jackets in mid-June. (As of today, June 22, still haven't turned on the air conditioning.)

Quinn nervously waiting to leave for his piano competition. He didn't place in the competition, but he did SO WELL. I'm so proud of him.

Let's Get This Summer Started

Last night a bunch of kids and adults from our ward and neighborhood went shooting west of Utah Lake. I went along for the ride and to make sure all my boys came home alive. Gage isn't officially a member of our ward any longer, but if there is shooting to be had, he's on board. I think we should have named him Gauge instead of Gage. His knowledge of guns is amazing. He and Michael are helping the boys through a merit badge. They did the classroom stuff last week, and this week they did the "field trip." Does he look happy or what?

Sorry, Quinn. Bad picture

We stayed out way too long, but what the heck. Today is the last day of school, so let the fun begin.

Pictures of Grandpa's birthday celebration

We celebrated Dad's 85th birthday on May 28. We followed tradition and met at the Jordan River Temple for a session and then all went to dinner afterwards.

Here's the birthday boy looking very forlorn.

Catch-up post

The Lawrence clan got together for Dustin's baptism in April. Here are a few pictures of the family.

Here's the newly-baptized boy. He didn't delay changing out of his Sunday clothes.

Macy got in the font when no one was looking. Things like that make special days memorable, that's for sure.

We went to Music and the Spoke Word several weeks ago. One of my favorite Sunday things to do.

Farewell picture of our red truck. We only kept it for TEN years.

I was at Jordan River Temple last week and couldn't resist snapping a picture of the flowers. This was a brief moment of sunshine, as it rained the entire month.