May 2012 Adventures

Phew!! May has been a busy month! We had Nathan's Jr Prom held at the capitol.....

In which the prom queen conceded her crown to Nathan who is the true royalty around that school.

Then there was the end of the year awards banquet and Gala where Nathan took over the dance floor and showed off his magic moves.....

Lets see that again shall we?

Here's his friend the prom queen, and his get that camera out of my face face.....

Open High School of Utah won Best of State for Best Charter School; so me ( in a weird looking scarf it's better in person) and the OHSU ladies and our spouses got to go to the fancy Best of State Gala.  That's me, our graphic design and digital photography teacher, Ashley Webb, DeLaina Tonks, our amazing director of the school, and Jenny Wurm; worlds best high school counselor!

This is Nathan (in the hat of course) and his construction classmates and teachers; they had an open house to show us the house they've been building all year; cool stuff!

Ribbon Cutting!

This house is fancy enough to be in the Parade Of Homes this year!

Nathan was trained to show the home like a realtor would and point out the features to the visitors and answer questions. He did great! The kids learned how to do EVERYTHING that goes into building a home; cement forms; framing, drywall, stairs, bathrooms,  installation of HVAC, plumbing, electrical, windows, floring, doors, carpentry details etc...etc...etc.... Nathan loves it and will do the same course next year where he gets to learn the forman and management side of construction.

We lost Kevin's Grandpa Hafen this month; he was 96 years old, a great man and a great example to us all. These are the cousins. Kevin is on the right. Lynette and JaNae are in there too.

Sweet time when the veterans removed the flag from on top of the casket, folded it and give it to Grandma Marie.

Cameron has also been up to his antics; he loves to create; here's his cup pyramid.

We also took him to try out a Karate class and he loves it! He's been back a few times since, we'll see how he does! His Sensai says he has great balance and he is FAST with his punches. We are hoping he gains some confidence and focus :)

This is Cameron pretending to be a turtle; he wanted me to tie the pillow on him like so so he could crawl around with a shell; notice the green - Turtles are green you know.

Had to put in a pic of my growing nephew, Luke. He is so adorable! 12 weeks old now. My mom got to go visit this month for a bit.  Wish I could have gone too!

Well that's it for May (I think!) Thanks for stopping by!

Our visit with Dave, Rachel, and Luke

For Spring Break Jeff, Nathan, Cameron and I headed down to California to see our newest member of the family, Lucas Dale Parkin.   We dropped Cameron off in Cedar City to hang out with Nama and Papa - and he had a great time! We headed on to La Cresenta (drove all night!).  It was really fun to help out and see the many faces of Luke. He's very expressive for a 4 week old.....check out the pics!

Interacting with Dad

 Jeff and Dave had fun looking through an album of my dad's.

 My mom crocheted some Star Wars characters for Luke's mobile - they were pretty excited!

Here he is enjoying the Mobile!

 Bath Time!

 Love!!

When we got there we met little Lucas and got to help out Rachel. We even had a suprise birtrhday party for Jeff.

Happy Birthday little Bro!

Besides letting Rachel rest we went on a walk; the boys headed to China Town, Rachel and I went on a jaunt to The Container Store.

We played games and had a great time!

The sweetheart slept 5 hours here - I wore him out with love!!
Can't wait to go back! I'm having withdrawls.....must.....hold.....Luke,,.....

Happenings This Year

Some random fun things that happened in the last few months.....In no particular order....trust me.

Our best friends C.J. and John had babies like a month apart.... Well...their wives did.

Cameron lost his front tooth

We found some cool sled hills in Daybreak

I went to Indianapolis for the iNACOL (online learning) conference for Open High School of Utah

I got to stay in the biggest hotel I'd ever seen; it was amazing!

Beautiful City!

Here are some of OHSU's beautiful teachers! They all did a wonderful job on their classes and presentations; we were pretty popular for a small Utah School.  Innovators in Education!

Open High School of Utah!

Cameron's class celebrated Chinese New Year

Cameron helped bake cookies; ok, this was random

My brother Dave and sister Rachel had their first little one; Lucas Dale Parkin, Born March 3rd.  I'm gonna go visit in April,  YES! Can you believe he's only 3 days old in this picture?? He is so cute and alert - ready to take on the world.

He looks like Dave here

Kevin's family came over for some Kinect time after a family wedding, we connected over the Kinect.

They had fun!

We did too!

Here are the observers.

 

Ann and Tyler had baby #3 at the end of February; we are so happy for them! Meet Drew Michael.

More to come! I realized I hadn't posted Thanksgiving or Christmas pics yet.  We'll that's what I get when I start school full time and start a brand new extra challenging job and travel for said job for 9 weeks in a row.