June

Nunn June events:

Jill played spring basketball with the 7th grade team. They went to Lethbridge for 3 tournaments. They were the champions of the last tournament. Good job Jill!


Jill and Hanna were each in 3 events at the divisional track meet.
Jill placed second in the triple jump and 5th in the 200 meters.
Hanna placed second in the 100 meters and 200 meters.


I took our pony, Sparky, to school to give rides to Lucy's class and Hanna's class.

Carly getting the pony all warmed up.


Lucy giving pony rides

Lucy with her teacher, Mrs. Allred, and teaching assistant, Mrs. Zaugg


Hanna showing off before giving her class pony rides

Hanna's class with the pony

Even Hanna's teacher, Mrs. Quinton, went for a pony ride


Youth Days: Our stake has an all day softball tournament. Austin coached one of the teams. They played 5 games in one day. They were the winner of the losers.

Jill at bat

Eating lunch during youth days at the opening of the new soccer park. Notice the wind blowing the Canadian flag - a very common sight.

Soccer Time

We had 4 kids in soccer this year. Fun! Crazy!

We had lots of windy days, a few rainy days, a few indoor soccer days and a few nice days.

The kids had fun, but we wish we had more game time and team practice time (it was mostly like a soccer camp situation for the whole season with two British soccer coaches until the last day of tournament games.)

JILL

LUCY

Austin was Lucy's coach


HANNA

CARLY

O Canada - One Year Anniversary

Today is our one year anniversary of moving to Canada. I think we have experienced every possible emotion in the last year:
scared
frustrated
humble
happy
excited
loved
missed
homesick
etc, etc.

Today we celebrated by running in the Cardston Kids Marathon. Everyone that signs up runs/walks 25.2 miles on their own over a few months, and then we all run/walk the last mile together. It was the most beautiful day of weather we have had since we moved here a year ago.

My kids with their cool friend Taylor Lewis.

Our quality friends the Salmon family.

Lucy and I ran together pushing Carly in the stroller.

At the end they gave us all medals and lunch.

Hanna and her cool friends

(Malin, does it bug you that I don't crop my pictures before I post them?)

Track Stars

Jill and Hanna were in their first ever Track and Field Day. They did awesome and it didn't even rain. Hanna placed in all of her events, and Jill placed in 5 out of 6 of her events.

Hanna:
4th in High Jump
2nd in the 100 meters (she is still mad about that)
3rd in Triple Jump
3rd in Long Jump
1st in 200 meters
1st in 4X100 relay

PLUS she ended up getting the award for Overall 4th Grade Girl Winner

WAY TO GO HANNA!!!!

Jill:
3rd in 800 meters
5th in 200 meters
2nd in 1500 meters
2nd in Triple Jump
2nd in 4x100 Relay

Jill's Comment: I was actually going faster than that, this is a bad picture!!

Lucy and Carly are faithful, supporting little sisters.

After a day of track and field, we went to watch Jill and Hanna play soccer.




At the end of the day we had to go and pick up horses who had been at the horse shoer, and this is what Lucy and Carly looked like by the end of our long, fun day.



Hanna's 100 meter dash - first heat




Jill's triple jump

Mother Daughter Conference

Jill, Hanna and I went to the Mother Daughter Conference put on by the town of Cardston. We had a really fun day, and I would definitely go again.


First, my kids mocked me because we got there early so we could be in the early bird draw (which we didn't even win). We enjoyed breakfast, lunch and lots of treats. We got to pick 4 classes to go to. They gave everyone a bag, a notebook and 2 pens.

First, we went to a hair braiding and hair care class. Hanna got some bling put in her hair (forgot to take a picture.)

Then we went to a healthy eating/healthy body class. They gave us a sample of chocolate made of avocados, dates, and cocoa. Jill and Hanna didn't love it.

Next we went to a chocolate dipping class. Yum!

Last we went to a headband making class.
Austin, Lucy and Carly modeled our headbands when we got home.


Austin, Lucy and Carly had a healthy body class by going to ride bikes in the hall at the Agridome. Then they went to a barn building class when they went to help Grandpa Buck build box stalls. And they went to an art class where they colored pictures with Grandma Nunn.

We had a fun day.

Branding - Plagiarism at its Best

Last weekend after we got home from a two-day basketball tournament watching Jill, we went to a branding at Dixie's house. My cool friend Marilee posted it on her blog, so I am just copying her words and pictures. My additions are in italics.

This is my cool friend, Marilee

When it is branding time people seem to come out of the woodwork. Trucks and trailers just kept coming with people of all ages, from little babies to grandmas and grandpas.

Our truck is the white one in the back

Look at all these friends and family that came to help Dixie with her cows. Country folk are nice like that.

I am standing by the gate holding Carly.

After the mammas are separated then you have to get the babies one by one to brand them. Here they rope the babies, hold them down, then do their thing. This is Austin, he is the Jr. High Principal and the teachers' quorum advisor for Neal.

Girls do this sort of thing too. That is Raven in the green and she is one of my Mia Maids. Jill is there too, she is a Beehive but would like to be with the Mia Maids, anyways, her dad is Austin. She has three sisters and they can all ride. Her mom Kaylynn learned how to load horses into a trailer and haul the trailer this year. I think that is amazing that she can do that all by herself. When she married Austin she didn't know a thing about horses and now she is an old pro.

Here is Jill and her grandpa, Buck, showing her the ropes of wrangling a calf.

Spring Break

We enjoyed our spring break the last week of April.

First, we went to Waterton Lakes Lodge for a night. We went swimming that night and the next morning. (after Austin drove all the way back to our house because we forgot to bring the swimming suits.) We had the life jackets and water toys, but only 2 of the 6 swimming suits.

Can you tell it was bright? Lucy had to hold her eyes open:)

Then we celebrated Easter.


Then we went to the ranch to visit Joe and Joan. The highlight of the visit was de-horning yearling cows. My job was to spray the de-wormer on their backs as they came through the shoot. Jill ran the back shoot gate and came away splattered with blood. Austin was splattered, too. Hanna tried for hours to catch a frog, but with no success. Jill took 300 pictures as she did photo shoots of each of us on the farm equipment.

The weekend ended with Stake Conference. First, we got to have dinner on Friday night with Elder Marlin K. Jensen who was the visiting general authority for stake conference. He was Austin's mission president in New York. He is an amazing man. We are lucky to know him, and he has been a HUGE influence in our life.

On Saturday, Austin got to go to priesthood leadership training and hear him. Then we got to listen again during the evening adult session.

On Sunday, we got a front row seat saved for us because Hanna spoke in Stake Conference. Elder Jensen had told our stake to ask a 10-year old primary child to speak. They didn't know we knew Elder Jensen, and Elder Jensen didn't know it was Hanna who had been asked to talk until we told him while we were eating dinner together. Not a coincidence if you ask me.

Anyway, Hanna got to sit right next to him on the stand during the Sunday general session of stake conference. She did an amazing job. Her topic was "Why I Believe in Jesus Christ" and she had to talk for 5 minutes. We were so proud of her. We got comments for weeks about what a great job she did.

We enjoyed our spring break!