City Dive Meet

Tonight was the City Championship Dive Meet.  Eli has been diving for a few years now and has always made his way to the final 8.

This year he came in 2nd place out of all the divers his age (11-12) in The City of Mesa League.

As you can see from the picture below, all that business about a Speedo helping you dive better is simply nonsense. The top two divers are wearing loose fitting boardshorts, not only do they dive well, but they were able to retain their pre-teen dignity.

Like the true mother of a champion I am, I forgot to take my camera to any swim or dive meets this entire season, so these triumphant memories were captured with my cell phone. I know, I'm pathetic.

This is Eli with his 2 girlfriends, oops, I mean super cute and very talented dive coaches.

Great Job Eli!!!

happity birthday Gus!

Hope you had a great day!!

It's Eli's Birthday!

Holy cow! I really cannot believe he is 12 already. It's so sad that this will be his last birthday, because there is NO way I'm letting him turn into a teenager.

Edge sent a video from the MTC, and even though it's sideways and I don't have the skills required to turn it, I'm posting it.

Happy Birthday Eli!!

News from Edge HERE

Issac!!!!

Happy Birthday!!

June Update

Edge and Ivy both had birthdays, Eli and Wesley went to scout camp, Swim and Dive team are in full swing, Nate is going to summer school, we've had friends and family in town, and the summer is flying by. 

Ivy is 10 now, it's hard to believe.

Her favorite gift came in from Aunt Alexis and Uncle Todd.  I think she said "awesome" about 20 times as she was opening the package.

The night before Edge shipped out to the MTC a friend from out ward came over to take a few pictures of our family since it might be a while before we're all together at one time again. I was so thrilled when she offered that I completely forgot that Eli was at scout camp. So she took pictures of almost all of us together. We're considering having him photoshopped in.

Wesley went to camp and got in touch with nature.

I have no idea.......

He also had his yearbook photo taken last week. 

Apparently that Deb girl from Napoleon Dynamite works at the studio.

News from Edge here

The Farewell-a-thon

The only thing worse than having your kids leave home is having the good-bye go on for days. Last week was happy/sad/exhausting/too fast.

It started last Friday when Grandma, Grandpa and Gus (who is for some odd reason not in this picture) flew down for Edge's farewell. It's always great to have them in town.  Grandma is a sport and spent one entire afternoon reading books to Ivy and painting her fingernails all sorts of glittery colors. 

The Nelson's also came from Washington.  Mike is one of the missionaries who taught me the discussions (and I betcha after being introduced like that a thousand times on Sunday he hopes to never hear himself described that way again.Sorry).  It was so fun to have them here and get to catch up a little bit.

On Sunday Edge gave his farewell talk, while his parents sobbed in the congregation, then massive amounts of brownies were consumed at our house.  By me. Everyone else ate the pasta salad.

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Edge's friends spent the weekend letting him know how much they're going to miss him.

Then yesterday morning we took him to the airport where they ripped out part of my heart and put it on a plane.

When he landed in Salt Lake, Mark, Grace,Gus(who did make it into this picture), and the grandparents (who traveled at the speed of light to get from here to there) picked him up and delivered him to the MTC for us.

We're proud of Edge and his decision to go on a mission. We know that he's doing what he should be doing and he's 100% confident in his choice, but we sure are going to miss that kid like crazy.

We have set up a separate blog to keep track of Edge while he's in Columbia baptising the masses.

Elder Lunt goes to Columbia