It's a Wonderful Life!: May

Here we are playing catch-up again. :) I'm going to try really, really hard to get all caught up with everything by next week. Wish me luck!

So the first weekend of May we got to go and watch Kyle and the rest of the BYU rugby team win their 3rd consecutive national championship. Both Karry and Mike were able to come, as well as Grandpa Lontine, so that was really fun. It was super hot that day so almost everyone on the east side of the stands (which was baking in the sun) moved to the shady west side by half time. Both teams played really hard and it was a close game. The final score was BYU: 43, California: 33. Go Cougars!

So proud of our national champ!

I also need to brag about our garden. Derek spent the last three weekends of April and the first two weekends of May building a retaining wall in the backyard for our garden. It was definitely a bigger project than we anticipated. But it looks really nice! We planted our garden at the end of May and it is doing really well. We've had lots of spinach and cilantro and basil already, and should get some tomatoes and zucchini soon. Yum!

The finished product before planting

Mothers' Day was of course in May. Derek woke up early to make me chocolate-chip pancakes, and Anna helped too. I love this picture of her haha.

We also attended the annual US Synthetic crawdad boil and picnic in May. Anna didn't quite know what to think of the crawdads, but she loved getting to ride a pony!

At the end of May, Anna and I flew to South Dakota for a week to spend time with my family, especially with Maggie before she left on her mission. Derek and Trevor and Megan (Who are ENGAGED! That also happened in May. :)) drove out on Friday and we were all together for Memorial Day weekend and Maggie's farewell talk. It was fun to all be together. Maggie did a great job on her talk, and she is already doing so great as a missionary. She has been in the Mexico City MTC for the past six weeks and just arrived in Florida this week. Every email home is just bursting with enthusiasm and passion for what she is doing. It is awesome!