What's Up?

Jill and Hanna finished their first year of piano lessons from Sierra Summers and happily practiced every single day all year (or not). We had a nice little piano recital at Sierra's house.

Jill

Hanna

We have been going through everything so we can clean and pack to move. This is the day we cleaned out the hat closet.


To celebrate school getting out, we met most of my quality family for a fun weekend at the Homestead (thanks again to the Bennetts!) We played soccer, ate good food and went swimming.
Saturday morning there was a race, so Hanna ran the kid's half mile and got 2nd in her age group. Jill and I ran the 5K in 29 minutes 38 seconds. I trained for about a month and was very happy that I beat the 15-minute mile mark. I was hoping someone took a picture of me running to prove I did it, but I just got in the "before race" picture.


Jeanette (ran the 15k), Nathan, Jill, Nathan, Diana, Kaylynn (the 5k runners)


For Memorial Day, we went to visit my Grandma's graves at the cemeteries. They look so pretty with all of the flowers and decorations. We talked to long lost relatives at both cemeteries.
Grandma Lois's in Providence

Great Grandma Waite's in Hyde Park

Salt Lake Tourists

Lucy had a doctor's appointment in Salt Lake, so we decided to be tourists and enjoy Temple Square. We had lunch at City Creek. We went on a tour to the top of the Church Office Building. Then we walked around Temple Square.

Lucy & Carly

Lucy & Carly near the prophet's office

I asked Lucy if she would take a picture of Carly and me. She said, "I would be honored to."

Nunn Happenings

*We listed our house with a realtor. http://www.utahrealestate.com//961674

*We really need to find someone who wants to buy our awesome house because we want to move to Canada on June 21 if our house is sold.

*I went 2 weeks without eating any candy, dessert, cookies, ice cream, etc. That is a MAJOR accomplishment for me.

*We have endured every possible weather condition during our 6 soccer games a week.

*Carly turned 2.


*We have had lots of doctor visits again for Lucy's knee (because of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis). We have to start giving her a weekly shot. Austin came to learn how to give the shot since he thought I would pass out. The nurse said farmers/ranchers are always better at giving the shots because they have experience. I am gladly letting him be the shot giver. I will be there for support.

Lucy's swollen knee

Carly is Lucy's shadow. She need a picture taken of her knee, too.

Spring Break

We started our celebration of Easter early by letting the girls wear their new Easter dresses the Sunday before Easter, since Easter was General Conference.

Hanna

Jill

Lucy & Carly

4 Cool Girls

Then that week, we got a huge dump of snow.


For spring break, we went to Wyoming to visit Les & Hollis and family for Easter weekend.
Austin played cops and robbers with the kids all morning while we waited for Les to come back home from work.

For our Easter celebration, we painted Easter eggs, the Easter bunny came, and we went to the Padlock Ranch Easter picnic and Easter egg hunt.




The next day Austin, Jill and Hanna helped Les move cows.

Hanna got to ride Cookie.

Hollis and I took them lunch. This is a true cowboy picnic.

Then on the way home from our visit, we got stuck in Rawlins, Wyoming, for 24 hours because they closed the roads because of a snow storm. We waited in the car for 4 hours thinking they might reopen. Then we went to get a hotel room. We got one of the last in town and would have slept in the car if we had waited 15 more minutes.

We enjoyed our bright yellow cinderblock room with broken bedframes and a big screen tv:)
At least we had a place to stay, we kept telling ourselves.

Canada - Hanna's Birthday

In March, we took a last-minute trip to Canada. Austin had job interviews for 2 of 3 open principal positions in Cardston, Alberta. After the first interview, they called him and said they wanted him to also interview for the third open position. So after interviewing 3 times in 24 hours, we felt like they liked him and we would like it there, but that he would more likely get a vice principal position after the shuffle took place. Then to our surprise, we were almost to Helena, Montana, and the superintendent called and offered him the position of Cardston Junior High Principal.

So we are moving to Canada!

The beginning of our journey home from Canada - clean faces, smiles, neatly combed hair

Near the end of our journey home from Canada - going crazy, dirty faces, fuzzy hair

The day we were in Cardston staying with Grandpa and Grandma Nunn, we celebrated Hanna's 9th birthday. We went to the Dollar Store, rode horses with Grandpa, and went to see Grandpa & Grandma's new house. Then we ate French Toast and bacon for dinner which is what Hanna requested. Then we enjoyed some delicious, fat-free, low-calorie ice cream cake from Dairy Queen.

Happy Birthday Hanna! We love you!

St. Patrick's Day

Green. Green. We like green.

Jill, Lucy and the neighbors setting up a leprechaun trap the night before St. Patrick's Day.

Hanna and the neighbors checking to see if they caught the leprechaun at 7:30 a.m. He came and ate some peanuts but got away.

Green waffles for breakfast.


Jill's 5th Grade party. They sat on balloons to pop them and answer a St. Patrick's Day trivia question.

Carly freaking out every time a balloon popped.


Hanna's class had a green lunch.

Lucy checking out the pop/dessert table in Hanna's classroom.


Jill (aka gigantor) and her cute friends in green.


Austin's feet turned green from drinking the leprechaun juice we found in our fridge.

A few more

I found a few more quotes I forgot to add...

Kaylynn (to Austin who called at 6 a.m. Hawaii time to tell us there was a tsunami headed for Hawaii): Is this a practical joke?

Kaylynn: In Magic Tree House there was a tsunami and it said they only had to be a half mile from shore to be safe.

Radio Announcer (watching the tsunami coverage on tv while covering it on the radio): Where is all that water coming from? Oh yeah, the ocean.

Keri (deciding what to do the day of the tsunami): The Lord's not going to take the mothers of 25 children.
Heather: But he did give us common sense to stay away from the beach.
Keri: I still have a good feeling about going. Anyone else having a bad feeling?
Malin: I don't get feelings. That's why we still live in the same place. (Referring to the 24 houses Keri has lived in:)