2023, May 22-28

School's out for summer! 

Eliza had a photo shoot as part of her BUH experience. We are excited to see the photos with Eliza and the horse Mac. In the middle picture Eliza is wearing the spurs that once belonged to Hallie's grandpa. The story was told to us that he wore them as a cowboy in the 1930's in Idaho.

Hallie saw this bunny while walking around Bartholomew Park during Eliza's photo shoot.

On social media, we saw E in her BUH sewing class. 

Hallie got new spring-themed nails. 

Our neighbors are moving. We're sad. Hallie and the girls went out for a farewell dinner. The girls were most excited about the rainbow in the far back.

We've gotten some interesting spring weather with showers in the afternoons to keep things cool. Mike thinks 2023 has been the best year ever, weather-wise at least. The picture below is from Hallie waiting for Eliza to finish a class at Bridle Up Hope.

Eliza and Hallie went out to lunch with Julie after running some errands. 

Landon had his last week of school, which included yearbook (and apparently body) signing. What a goof ball!

Eliza had a special TKD class where she learned about knife defense and worked with the black belt students. 

Since Julie is moving, it means that we may end up not seeing Kai anymore. He's a good dog. 

E got on BUH's Insta later in the week.

She got a macrame cactus kit that she worked on completing on Saturday. Didn't turn out quite as expected. Eliza had a great Special Education teacher that lives in Cedar City, and they would work via Zoom. Her teacher would send fun gifts in the mail.

She may have stayed up late in the night, because she was tired Sunday morning and got crabby in the afternoon. 

Mike has taken advantage of the weather to go on bike rides through the neighborhood. As spring has warmed up, he's seen a variety of flowers and plants in bloom, from crocuses, daffodils, and tulips, to lilacs and forsythia, and now to wildflowers and "weeds" such as bindweed, whitetop, Spanish broom, Dalmatian toadflax, and wild roses. He even saw a mated pair of sandhill cranes with a juvenile in tow fishing for frogs in the flooded fields this week.  

Mike, Eliza, and Kai went for a bike ride and walk over to Wing Park. The pond could use some TLC. 

Later, Mike got some kite time in. Sunday was really nice. We had the neighborhood get-together to wind down the day. Sunday afternoon/evening wasn't quite so nice, weather-wise, but we enjoyed seeing our neighbors. Landon even brought his new girlfriend, Aislynn.