Good-Bye to Junior High

Jacob had his 8th grade Party/Dance on Saturday. This is a big deal as the kids say good-bye to Jr High. The kids dress up, almost like a mini prom, and some go out to dinner in groups or there is a dinner at the high school if they choose to attend. Jacob went with a group of 21 boys to dinner and unknown to a lot of us a group of girls showed up also. Please people, they are only in 8th grade!! After dinner they went to the school and they played games and danced. After the dance, the boys went to Thomas Bennett's house, Jacob's best friend, and swam, ate and played on a giant water slide the Bennett's rented. I stayed there after I dropped the boys off and took a bunch of them home afterwards. I was tired by the end of the day!

Jacob and some of his friends decided to wear bow ties.
Thank you YouTube for the tutorials on how to tie a bow tie.
 I got better as the night went on and I tied other boys ties

Looking handsome

A bunch of nice looking young men!



Here comes the girls

Jacob and his friend Thomas.
Jacob and Thomas have been friends since the first grade.
We are sad that Thomas is going to a Private High School next year, but we are also happy for him.

Jacob just won't let me take a picture of him 

The fun water slide they had

The front of the invitation

The inside of the invitation.
I helped assemble these.

7 on 7

Football has started up, at least Jacob's 7 on 7 football has. Last week was suppose tho be the first week but we were rained out, or should I say it was more of the lightening that cancelled the games. He had 3 games on Friday night. They won 2 and lost 1.

playing some defense

A catch and a nice run to follow

The Jacob fan club

Jacob's team. It is coached by some of the high school players

A hug from a teammate for a well fought win 

A beautiful sunset as we were leaving 

Makenzie is Sixteen

Makenzie has turned 16!!

Her birthday was April 27th.

It was a crazy weekend so we really haven't celebrated her 16th birthday properly, but we did do a few things. The night before her birthday we went to eat at Pappasito's where they sang to her and gave her a yummy dessert for all to share. The day of her birthday was spent at her track meet and then at Jacob's football games. We came home that night and had cake and ice cream. She hasn't gotten her license yet. We had to sign up for a time online and the soonest we could get an appointment was July 3rd. There is an office that is an hour away that you have to go into to make your appointment, so we are going to try that and see if they can't get us in any earlier.
Sunday, in Sacrament Meeting, they announced that she is "now of age" and would be advancing into Laurels. A women behind us asked Makenzie if she had a date yet. Makenzie said no and she said good, they are all still idiots. You got to love Sister Sue Brown, she says it like it is.

We are all digging into the dessert

Jacob did not want his picture taken

The creepy smile

The remnants of our dinner

Doing what I do best

Makenzie got her present a day early. Her Beats, nice headphones!
She could now use them at her track meet and on the long bus ride.

A lanyard to put her car key on

Cake with Blue Bell Ice Cream!!