May's Mia

Fox 13's Big Buddha spotlighting LP High.

The boys call Mia to a "family meeting" in the counseling office to plot and coordinate their Senior-year schedules.

 Cheer Banquet, 2014 

The girls all got awards. Mia's was "Best All-Around."

Her BFF was awarded "Squad Clown." So, that's why Mia loves her guts.

Doesn't it always end up this way?

JBoog Concert with the Hulk

Taco Bell runs with Riley and Jax

Daniel and friends' Graduation Luau

Videos of the guys' boy band dance, haha

[Hmmmm, videos are not showing up. I'll try to figure it out later.]

SUMMER!

The last week of school, Mia received an envelope with a message tucked inside. It seems that since her Junior class split into pockets of Seniors this past year, the Juniors are on a quest to "#unitethegrade."

YOU'VE BEEN CHOSEN

You've been officially invited to compete in the 2014 reuniting games this summer. You've been drafted by 2 captains out of four teams to compete. Each team has five girls and five boys. It is  weeklong events where you compete in different events each day. Each event you can earn points for your team. The team that has the most points wins. The winning team wins a prize.

Your captains names are at the bottom of this paper. Please report to them and let them know if you can be a part of this gathering.

Sincerely,

GAME KEEPER dave

May the odds be ever in your favor

Captains' names: Zac & Calvin

TO BE CONTINUED...

:)

Mia's Junior Prom

Daniel asking...

(He was hoping Sodalicious could pipe "PROM" on her cookie, but no such luck.)

Mia answering...

Prom Day, 1:30 p.m. The agenda: volleyball, flag football "that I dominated in," kickball. Raggae music playing, fruit plates, and drinks.

4:30 p.m. Aunt Britt glams up our girl. 

"Waves like mine?" 

"Yes, please."

Ta Da!

Group pictures at Thanksgiving Point. Cam tagged along, so I thanked him with a bubblegum ice cream cone that was so big it almost ate him.

OUR GIRL

THE COUPLE

Transportation: "We rode a Party Bus to the Capitol and got Ice's and bags of candy for the trip."

THE GUYS

The Dance. "The guys mostly danced in a mosh pit for the loud songs and then got the girls for the slow songs and took us up to the stair landings and spun us around and dipped us—it was sooo cute!"

THE GIRLS

THE PARTY

"The bus ride home was an extra long route home with music. We got our cars and went to Caden's house for crepes about 2:00 a.m. By the time we'd eaten, our eyes were half-shut, and we just sat on the couch like zombies. Daniel's like, 'Your mom will be happy if I get you home now.'" 

Oh—he knows how to get on my good side.

THE END

April Foolery, 2014

April Fool's afternoon, Cam, Getty, and Mia each mentioned something like this—"I can't wait for our April Fool's dinner tonight..." 

Oh! 

Quick run to the store...

"Chicken Nuggets" (donut holes), "Mashed potatoes" (vanilla ice cream), "Peas and carrots" (sliced gummy candies), "Gravy" (caramel sauce), "Kool-aid" (lime Jell-O [tough to sip Jell-O]).
Cam looks satisfied.

Getty pulls the same trick on me every year

And every year I get soaked. Nice.

Cam was rolling on the floor laughing after playing this trick on Cy:

Getty also rigged a bucket of water at the front door and taped cellophane to the back doorframe for people to walk into. Knowing Getty, this has got to be one of his all-time favorite days.

Spring Break Backyard campout. A little tour:

Playing Pokemon with Cam at the "game table"

Photobombing

Last minute we got an opportunity to spend the rest of the week in Las Vegas, 

so I packed up the boys in the car and headed for warmer weather.

Pictionary during the road trip. Cam loving his "light mustache."

All three recovering from the splash fight

We basically did nothing all week, and the boys said it was the best vacation ever :)

Those aren't boxers, they're shorts ;)

Mia and Rob joined us a couple days later. Mia has scratches up and down her legs from following some wild boys while they went off-trail to explore the mountains. "We were so far up we saw an eagle's nest and a cave!" (uh, like for bears?...) The boys' legs and backs looked worse. Much worse. But I got them back for putting my daughter in harm's way—stinging antiseptic and sticky bandaids on hairy legs ;)

Cheesecake factory hit the spot

A little Spring Break is a beautiful thing!