Our family has had some great times in the past month! Nathan had two big events that I've wanted to post about and just haven't got to it until today. He graduated from Seminary on May 23, he served on the Seminary Council at school this year and spoke about their theme at the graduation. (Mosiah 4:9 if you'd like to read it). It was a great talk and really brought the Spirit to the meeting. Then on June 3rd he graduated from High School! He was ranked 7th in his class, he really stayed focused on his school work this year and didn't get "senioritis" until the very end of the year. He was ready to be done and move on :)
Yesterday we went to a big orientation at the college and got him registered for classes. He's so excited to get started. Good times. Nathan (center saxaphone) played in the Jazz Band for his graduation. It was awesome!

MAYHAM

Ok. So today is officially the first day of summer. I am so glad that it is summer because summer means wandering around without shoes, staying outside all day, doing different crafts, going swimming, going camping, getting sunburns (for me all of my sunburns turn into tans after about two weeks), and just being lazy. So far I have made a button bracelet, designed a T-shirt, watched a couple of movies, and gotten a sunburn that is now a tan. I can't wait until Nathan can help me make my T-shirt design into an actual T-shirt on Zazzle. I am so excited! My design started off as one of the Zen Relief things that Aunt Michelle does and ended up becoming a master piece that I am absolutely in love with!! I erased some of the drawing so it wasn't as crowded, and then made it as big as a normal piece of paper, then went over it with a black pen, and am now waiting for Nathan to get home from work so he can help me turn it into a T-shirt! I will try and get a picture of it on my next post. Write ya later!
♥/ MAYHAM

Check out this advice from the Inspired to Action blog: Wisdom From A CEO: A Father’s Day Post for Mothers Too… I thought it was great!
Happy Fathers Day.

We just finished up with "TV Turn-Off week". We got rid of our cable, and the bill that came with it, a few weeks ago! There were a few complaints, but mostly we haven't even noticed that there are fewer channels to choose from. Last week was great though, TV turn-off week ended up on the same week as missionary week for the seminary kids. Part of missionary week is no TV. Hannah only rolled her eyes about it once and that was it for the week. It was so great to not have to tell anyone to turn off the television. Let's see if it will last into this week too.

Happy Birthday Keyki! She is one year old. It's amazing that she's even lived this long, I've threatened to kill her every time she's peed on my floor or eaten something she shouldn't have.

But now we love her, so I guess she'll get to stay.

Happy Earth Day! For Earth day I made green sugar cookies! Yummy. It's also my Dad's birthday today. My Dad loves sugar cookies, so some of those went into the freezer to deliver to him later. Thinking of my Dad and Earth day made me think of a little saying I once heard:

"Use it up

Wear it out

Make it do

or do without."

That is exactly how my Dad is, he will just figure out how to fix something so it can be used for longer.
So in honor of Earth Day and my Dad's birthday, I thought I would post a picture of my washing machine, which broke last week! While I was at Kirsten's house using her washing machine (which is funny too because she just got it and for the past year has been using mine.) Thayne decided to tear apart the washer and see what the problem was. After calling a repair man and hearing what he was going to charge us to come fix it, Thayne decided to order the parts online and fix it himself. Meanwhile, it was still out of commission while we waited for the parts. No problem, he figures a little duct tape will hold it all together. So he wraped the broken part in duct tape and put the whole thing back together. I did all my laundry for three days until the new part came. I am so proud of his fix it job! We were trained well by a generation of "make it do" people like my Dad. That is what Earth Day is really all about, making our belongings last longer and not just throwing everything away.

See the green duct tape... It was starting to pull apart after all the laundry I did, but it lasted until we got the replacement parts!

Our First College Graduate! April 15, 2010. (I waited to post it so that she could post it first.) We are so proud of her.