Spilling the Beans: May 2019

I didn't realize how busy this month was until I was adding all the pictures here. May started with a girls trip for me to Utah for the BYU Women's Conference. There I met up with some old friends from Mountain House and we had a great reunion!! I may have enjoyed visiting with them more than the actual conference... I also briefly saw my friend, Emily Crane. We served together in a primary presidency years ago.

Danelle, Me, Amanda, Melinda and Brandi - friends from our California days.

After the conference had ended we spent a day visiting Temple Square. I had never been to the Beehive House, so we checked that out and it was actually pretty neat. This was where the original church offices were.

I also ran into Sister Rylee Franklin from my home ward who is serving on Temple Square.

Carmen had to come up with a project that she could make and then sell in a school market. She challenged herself and decided to make these cool mesh wreaths. She made a patriotic one and then a UVA one. They each went up for auction and sold for $40 a piece. She went one to make several more to sell and was able to earn a little extra spending money. I asked her to make one for me, but it hasn't happened yet.... hopefully she's not expecting me to pay her $40.

Another busy Saturday was spent having a Pre-camp meeting. The girls all made their own lanyards to hold their schedules and then they each tie dyed a shirt according to their level color. It was kind of a big undertaking! But I love this kind of stuff.

Carmen and her group of friends all decided to go to the 8th grade dinner/dance together. They all got together at friends Lucy's house to get ready.

We then went to Boar's Head to take some cute pictures.

Sequoyah, Natalie, Jasmine, Carmen, Klarisa and Lucy

I stole this one off of Carmen's phone from the actual dance. They are a great group of kids! I cannot believe I'll have a high schooler in the Fall!!

Koda adores Carmen and loves to play with her, especially outside

This was Carmen's final middle school Jazz Band concert. She is really going to miss Mr. Melton and his class. She has made some of her besets friends in band.

David spoiled me with this breakfast on bed for Mother's Day.

And the kids all happily posed for a few quick Mother's Day pictures before church.

And I got to spend another luxurious two day with my favorite nephew Lane the hospital. While you never get much sleep there, it was nice to get a lot of camp planning done.

With David going back to school, he had made the sandwiches every morning for the kids lunches. This day he had to leave super early one morning, and when I got up, without fail, the sandwiches had already been made! I love that he did this. I'll miss when he stops making those sandwiches.

Charlotte continues to learn ukulele at school.

David went on a boys fishing trip, I don't know all the details of the trip, except for a riotous trip to Walmart late at night when everyone was tired and feeling a little punchy.

My favorite little boy

In other camp preparations... how much toilet paper can 120 girls so through in a week? I don't really know, but I'm hoping these two boxes can cover it.

To end the month, I got to attend a UVA women's football clinic. I was really looking forward to this and it was so much fun! I went with my mom and sister and a friend from my ward. The day before we got to take a tour of the football locker rooms, weight rooms, media room, go out on the field and got some cool swag.

Then the next day was the clinic. We ran football drills and learned the basic about football. All the coaches are in our ward, so it was fun to see this side of their lives.

My dad has been doing a lot of work remodeling the Poppinga's kitchen and finally my mom got to meet Kelly Poppinga. She also won that cool autographed helmet!