Volcano

My dad is teaching me how to blog. He thinks I will be a blogger extraordinaire someday. So....here goes. I made a real sweet lookin volcano for school last week. I used tin foil (actually, I prefer to call it aluminum foil), textured spray paint, red and orange tempra paint, various landscaping props, and some explosive elements. My teacher said it is the best volcano she has ever seen in all her 75 years of teaching. I was flattered. I think she is just saying that because she knows my grandma. Anyway, here is a picture for your perusal and enjoyment. Now that I am a regular blogger, I will continue to keep you abreast of the highlights of my educational experience. Gotta go finish building a personalized 3.7 gigabyte microchip for my computer class. Peace out, Rachel

Love reading all the postings on the family blog! I love your blog too, Wes and Lori, tell me you are printing a hard copy of all this so you can save it. With technology changing so rapidly I still feel so good having "cellulose" materials.

Our trip to Virginia to see Mike and Marci, Jake, Maggie, and Sophie was so much fun! Jake is so tall and Maggie is so her strong spirited self (I love that in a girl) and Sophie is just too hilarious! She is a little Mike! Her expressions, personality and sense of humor are just like her dad.

Sophie!

Grandpa & Grandma, Maggie & Jake at the White House below:

Mike and Dad at Gettysburg.
Maggie, Marci and Sophie coloring Easter eggs, Jake

We had such a good time being with the DC Trumans and we'll go back! Next year let's all go and spend Spring Break in D. C. There are lots of hotels close to Mike and Marci and it is beautiful and educational!

We love our cousins!

We had so much fun playing with Truman and Kate while Joe breezed over 60 miles of northern Utah terrane. Truman was always watching out for the "little girls" and Lucy and Kate had the best time passing stuffed animals back and forth between their pack'n'plays before their 'slumber party' featured any slumbering.

Bless the cafeteria for cereal and ice cream and space to run around!
We had a great time! (Suzy - we have a gazillion more pictures...I'll e-mail them, or I'll do another post later.)

Happy Easter!

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter Sunday! I can't imagine the weather where you are could have been as beautiful as Provo's but I hope it was. Lori and I found another great park here in Provo this weekend, it was originally built by a convert from Denmark who worked as the Danish kings gardner before he joined the church and came to Utah with all the early saints. It has recently been restored and represents yet another thing we could look into for activities this summer. So...how do you propose we solidify plans? We could all take a family night and plan one day...but then we would run the risk of planning the same activities...so I am up for suggestions. One thing that would be helpful for us though is to know any ETA's for people, to make sure we have accommodations for any early arrivals or late stayers, we welcome either but we need to know. We have the rooms reserved for Monday to Monday if you want times outside of that let us know. Hope all is well with everyone, we'll talk to you soon.