Dracula?

This is how Griffin enjoys S'mores!

 All gone. I don't think he had anymore.

Sewing Bee!

This is Kylie's 2nd item of clothing that she has ever sewn.

We started at 8:00pm.

Look at the clock behind her...

9:10pm DONE!

We shopped for fabric after dinner; came home and sewed!

 A close up

Yes, they are skulls.

What the HALIBUT!

Between the 6 of them, they caught 600 pounds of Halibut!

Happy faces!

Fish, Anyone?

Between 6 fishermen

they caught 70 lbs of Halibut

and

150 lbs of salmon -

all in ONE day

Oh What do YOU Do in the Summer Time?

Christopher goes fishing - in ALASKA -

Looking good!

Our Meal AFTER the Drop Off

We usually go and eat at Chili's after a missionary drop off, but this year we ate at Chili's the night before the drop off so we wanted something different. The eating helps take our mind off of the missionary that we just left! We decided to go a little more upscale and we found this Japanese Steak house! It was very good.

 Griffin asked to finish everyone's fried rice! He loved it!

Quinn enjoyed eating off of Kylie's plate.

Hmm, I wonder what we did next....

The beautiful Jayna - June 28, 2012

photo taken by Kylie

The Leaving

It has taken me 4 tries to get these pictures up here!

Oh, I am glad to do it.

Ok, let's relive the last hour Zak was at the house...

Here he is looking casual in the kitchen

 All the children looking casual in the kitchen:

 Oops, had to come back, forgot something...

Walking out the back door:

 Walking out the gate

 Trying to touch the rim...(really I am trying to catch the actual touch of the rim in my picture)

 Got it!!

 Getting in the car:

hmm...these next 3 are out of place, but lets just go with it...

Here everyone is in the car JUST before we let Zak out:

 There is the man that gave us his 5 sentence "talk". I'm sure he gave the same one 550 times that day!

 The nice elder that helped Zak get his luggage out of the car

This should be the last picture...

Oh...here we are just back to just starting out our drive:

 Zak's packed luggage

 Zak's overcoat. They are very formal in Boston!

 Eating breakfast at Nana and Bumpa's

 Putting his shoes on

 I shaved his neck the night before. Doesn't it look so nice?

 Happy Zak

After we dropped him off, we had a great meal in Provo. I'll post those pictures tomorrow!

Elderzak.blogspot.com

Zak goes into the MTC on Wednesday, June 20th.

You can check out how he is doing by going to his blog:

Elderzak.blogspot.com


I (the mother) will post and keep it updated!

I'm pooped now - going to bed!

NINJA in the Classroom

A few minutes before Griffin was to go to school, he told me that he would not have ANY recess that day. Sad for an 8 year old boy. I asked why. Apparently, yesterday he and his friend, Will thought they would play Ninja. They had finished all that they were supposed to do; they struck their pose, then decided maybe that was not a great idea and stopped. I wrote to his teacher to find out "the deal". She nicely wrote me back:

"the direction I gave was for the students to get into their seats, clean up
their desks and around their area, and prepare for the next task. As many
students were following the directions, I look over and see Griffin and Will
with arms and a leg raised and poised in a fighting stance about to engage. Even
in fun, this is not appropriate behavior in the classroom."

I'm sorry, this still makes me laugh; just the image of those boys posed as Ninjas. So let this be a caution to you all!