Carly's Birthday

 Carly and Presley Butler decided to have a joint 14th birthday party since there birthdays are only a few days apart.

We gathered up some friends and went swimming at the YMCA recreation centre in Lethbridge. The pool is only a couple years old and has fun things to do. Plus it wasn't super busy because it was a weeknight. Then we picked up Little Ceasers Pizza and ate it at the park.

The list of girls they invited so big enough that they wouldn't fit in our good car. So we were going to have to fire up the old Yukon - you know it is to the point that it always starts, just not always on the first try. So Carly and I cleaned it and tried to get out the hay smell. The next morning there was fresh mouse droppings in the front of the car. Just what you want when you are about to drive a car of 8 girls to Lethbridge.

We set a trap and I said a lot of prayers that day that we wouldn't see the mouse. Luckily no mouse.

On Carly's birthday we had a high school rodeo. So we celebrated with dinner in Tim Hortons, and then Sarah Lee had made a birthday cake for Carly, so we stopped there for a birthday cake celebration.

Spring Break Girls Trip

Hanna, Lucy and Carly decided they needed a spring break adventure. So they decided to go to St. George, Utah. It worked out that Hali and Ally Leishman were also going down and needed to bring back Hali's dad's car, so they all drove down together in our car. Then they all stayed and hung out at Hali's parents house for a few days. Jill and Will came down for one of the days to hang out and go hiking. Then Lucy, Carly and Hanna went to Panguitch to see Jill.  And then back to Canada.

On the way down, they hit a terrible snowstorm in Montana. They thought they might die, but it got better. It was Easter while they were down there so the Easter bunny had sent them a note and a little treat.

 

Sadie Hawkins Dance

It was finally time to have a school dance after they had been cancelled for a couple years because of covid. Lucy asked Sam Hardy to the Sadie Hawkins dance using these pictures from when they were in a grade six play together.  Then Sam answered her with a big brown package he left on our doorstep with a huge roll of saran wrap that had tons of candy wrapped in it.

Sam and Lucy went as Peter Pan and Wendy. They had a blast. 

And the bonus picture of Barb Salmon was one of many selfies Barb took at the dance while Lucy asked her to keep her phone.

 

Leavitt Variety Show

Our first post-covid joint activity was a Variety Show.

Our class made tutus and Ileigh Seely taught the girls a balance dance. They rocked it.

We also had a cello solo, magic tricks, dog tricks, etc. The young women leaders did a bubble gum blowing contest. Kim Weston had the young men and bishopric do a funny (but super long) Goldilocks and Three Bears skit.

 

Basketball Season

 Lucy played on the Cardston High School varsity basketball team with Shelley Quinton and Logan VanDusen as their coaches. They had a fun and tough season. They missed a whole year of basketball and the chance to have a junior varsity season because of stupid covid.

Even this year, some of the scheduled tournaments were canceled because of covid restrictions. We still had to wear masks to watch the games until the last week of the season.

Carly played on the Grade 8 girls basketball team with Claire Sala as her coach, and then Austin volunteered to be her assistant coach. They had a successful season, although Claire kept all 13 girls that tried out, a rookie mistake. It is such tricky to give 13 girls playing time. 

They did end their season winning divisionals and zones. 

The high school showed their school spirit for the boys basketball games.

 Here is Farmer's Day