katy has had her play all week and has done a great job. She smiled her little heart out and the show was really well done. The costumes all looked great and it was fun for our family to go see her in it. It was a good pay off for the hours of practice she has put in to it. It will be super nice to have her home at 3pm again.

May 1st! yeah! I am so ready for spring. Thanks to Jonathan's amazing handyman talents our garden is ready to plant. Hopefully things will warm up this week and we can get some seeds in the ground. We are all excited to be in the last month of school. We have a chain counting down to our Hawaii trip and it is the topic of lots of dinner conversations. We are all very excited to see Grandma and Grandpa again. I helped out with the Dyslexia Center of Utah fundraiser garage sale this week. We raised over a thousand dollars which was great considering the day started out with snow. We thankfully were able to use a large warehouse garage so we could keep things covered. It was several hours of work to organize and price everything but many hands made light work. The best part was I bought a tree for our entry way shelf for Christmas I have been looking for for 3 years. It was a nice little pay off.

The kids are healthy and happy and I am so thankful. I had a melt down mid week due to my lack of parenting skills but through I found a greater love for my family and a closeness to the Savior. I am thankful he lets us fall on our face again just so when we look up we can see His more cleearly. I am thankful for tears. Some times it is so theraputic just to cry.

I had camp kick off this week and realy felt the Lord's help in preparing for it. The girls responded well to the challenges we gave them in preparing for camp and I am excited for the upcoming weeks. We are going to walk to the Timp. Temple on May 25 as a YW group. I am excited to push ourselves physically to recieve spiritual strength. I think it will be a great activity.