July

1. Great Grandma Petersons for the fourth.

2. East Canyon Music camp. Hannah played in the orchestra and sang in the choir.

3. Katie had her birthday party on the 16th and they watched a movie outside on a sheet. It was really fun.

4. We had a yard sale on saturday the 17th and sold a lot of our stuff! Yeah us!

5. We went to San Diego with the Ducketts on Wednesday the 21st to Sunday the 25th. We all had tons of fun. It wasn't as warm as we all thought though. It rained a couple of days too!

June

June was a very busy month for our family. We went to Moab to see the arches and canyonlands, went on a pioneer trek, and Katie recieved her young womanhood recognition award. It was a very fun month.

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.