Kirsten returned to BYU after the weekend to put in a work week at the BYU bookstore. She stayed with Suzanne as she sold many a book to the women attending Women's Week. Most popular book---"Forget Me Not" by Elder Uctdorf. They sold upwards of 700 in less than a week. I returned to Utah to pick her up and bring her back to Idaho. My first solo trip of that distance. I enjoyed spending some time with a few dear people. I went to lunch with Mary and Anna Thompson, had dinner with Suzanne Boren, lots of one on one with Kirsten, visited with Sara Jane Thompson, listened to a great stake conference with my parents and attended Jaimie Finlinson's Jr. recital. I really enjoyed myself as I traveled to Provo and back again.
Next was Trevor Smith's farewell. Trevor is my good friend Alisa Smith's eldest son. He has been called to the Buenos Aires West Argentina mission. He now is in the MTC learning Spanish and how to teach the gospel. His farewell was on Mother's Day. What a nice mother's day present. They celebrated with a big dinner on the evening before. To help, I made bowls of yummy homemade, fresh salsa. It was quite delicious.
That same weekend Sarah attended the commencement dance with her good friend Christopher Bressler. He invited her way back in February. They had a memorable night concluding it with latterns, ("Tangled" style). She looked beautiful in her blue formal and he handsome in his tux.
Taylor Dalton, daughter of Dixie and Layne was married on May 18th in the Manti temple to Spencer Palmer. We drove down to Provo in the dark of the night, stayed in a hotel, arose at 6:00 a.m. and traveled onto Manti. We enjoyed a few hours viewing that area of the country, including attending the temple, taking pictures and enjoying a luncheon. We returned to Santaquin where a reception was held. We had such a nice time visiting with Dave's family.
On May 20, Sarah graduated from the Seminary program. She was asked to perform a last minute viola solo for the program. She did nicely in spite of having little time to prepare.
Sarah graduated from Madison High School with high honors on May 24, 2012 in the BYU-I Center. She participated by singing the National Anthem with the women choir members and also performed in the big musical number with our orchestra and the Bel Cantos choir. She celebrated at a school sponsored all-night party that evening in the high school. And currently is on her way to Disney Land with the orchestra.
A special moment for Dave and I as we watched our four daughters dance together in Sarah's senior solo at her dance recital. They performed to "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas. Catherine and Sarah worked together on the choreography and Sarah and Kirsten sewed all four costumes. It was a wonderful experience for us to watch our daughters perform together. At the same recital, Sarah and Catherine had the opportunity to dance in the ballet "Alice in Wonderland" Sarah performed as Alice and Catherine as her sister. They have worked hard to develop their talents and danced beautifully.
Spencer and Matthew have been busy with baseball. Spencer's game has really improved this year. He is hitting!!! In fact, he hit his second home run a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, both home runs that Spencer has hit have not been cheered on by family because we have been attending the year-end orchestra concerts. Luckily friends have cheered him on. Matthew has also showed good improvement and in fact pitched one inning a few games ago. Not bad!
