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Celebrating 12

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By Sarah
We had a wonderful day at Elitch Gardens to celebrate my favorite son.  Z, Michelle and I redeemed our annual passes, rode Meow Wolf's Kaleidoscape, Brain Eraser, Dragonwing, Twister II, and Shipwreck Falls (and hung out in the splash zone for 3 more splashes) with some Kona Ice and lunch tossed in there with our new souvenir cups.  We ended with some gift shopping, where Michelle treated the birthday boy and herself to huge Pucker Power sticks (pictured below).  On the way home we dropped by Dairy Queen to fulfill Danny's request for ice cream cake to share at our house with my parents and Dominic, who couldn't come to Elitch's due to camp, and found Hubby had also gone to Dairy Queen to buy ice cream cake.  The children were thrilled with our communication error and even though I thought of saving the second one for Father's Day, they convinced me that since they only got one slice of the first cake on the actual birthday, it was totally fine to bring out the second cake a day later to have seconds.  lol.  I sure do love our newly minted 12-year-old!


Right before turning 12 Danny got to join Kate for Ward Youth Conference.  They had a great two days hiking, enjoying the river like jumping in and tubing, devotionals, night games, a service project, Fear Factor, and plenty of good food.  I am so grateful to the leaders who put this all together and that my oldest two children came home so happy both nights and reported having lots of fun and making new friends.
More baseball photos, this time with a special guest appearance:  Imagine my surprise when an old friend of ours, Chelsi, approached us at one of Danny's games.  Turns out someone Danny used to play with when he was little, while we were in the LHC Ward, was on the other team.  It was so fun to see them again after they moved to another town 8 years ago.  We hope to run into them again at a tournament soon! (Chelsi grabbed a picture of the two of them at first base during the game and sent it to me later.)
Not pictured: it finally got warm enough for sunscreen and bug spray!

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