Baptism time

My youngest child got baptized today!  We did it in Utah because we were here for a family reunion.  Peter got baptized in the same font that I was baptized in and to make it even better he was baptized exactly 41 years to the day after I was! All of us participated in the program.  Audrey played the piano, I led the music, Eric gave the opening prayer, Andrew gave the closing prayer, Matt (Lauren's husband) gave a talk on baptism, Brian gave a talk on the Holy Ghost, Susie (my sister) and Emma played a flute musical number and I accompanied them and Lucy passed out the programs.  Here are some pics:

All who attended the baptism

In the above picture there are starting from the front row from left to right: Peter, Max Horne (cousin), and Lucy.  Second row: Delores Jorgensen (my mom), Audrey, Eric, me, Emma, Connie (Brian's mom), Lauren, and Matt Tanner (my son-in-law).  Back row: Lynette McCoy (my cousin), Bryan Morris (my brother-in-law), my sister Susan Morris, Andrew (standing on his tip toes so he looks taller than Brian), Brian, Mike Horne (cousin), and Emily Horne (cousin).

Worland High School Graduation 2016

My Emma graduated from high school today.  It's been a fun weekend full of graduation parties and good food and great people.  Here in Worland each graduate's family gives a party for their graduate and invites people to an open house type thing with lots of food.  It's hard to get to all of them, but Emma is trying really hard!  As a family we went to four parties yesterday and four today.  Emma's  party will be tomorrow night.  It's nice to see lots of people and chat and there is a great sense of community.

The weather cooperated and was just a little windy and not too hot.  Here are some pics:

Emma is walking onto the field, the second couple and she is on the outside.

Audrey and Emma--nice crossed eyes Em!

Six of the eight siblings!

The happy parents! (Really we are happy even if we look a little demonic!)

Second try, not much better!

This is an Emma face and I love it!

Emma and her friend Sariah Durrant

Emma and her friend Emrie Jolley

Windy Wyoming

Emma is wearing gold cords which represent national honor society

Entire class of 87 graduates

Here is Emma as she is receiving her diploma:

Treasure Hunt

Emma has wanted to see Big Horn Sheep every since we moved here from Utah.  So today, with no school for her, we took off to find some!  We heard that between Wapiti and the entrance to Yellowstone there were a lot of Big Horn Sheep.  It took us about 2 and a half hours to get there and we were not disappointed!

The sheep are shedding their wool and looked very clumpy.  Emma was hoping she would see one with really large horns, but they all had medium sized horns.  

SHEEP!

On our way back, before we got to Cody we came upon this elk herd.  We couldn't figure out what they were doing, they were all in a circle facing outwards like they were protecting something.  We stopped to see if we could tell what was in the center of the circle and couldn't see anything.  When we first saw them we thought they were horses, but quickly realized they were not.  

ELK HERD

ELK

It was a quick road trip and we had a great time!

Lucy is 10!

Lucy turned 10 on the 12th.  Emma decorated her door while she was asleep so she could wake up to decorations in the morning.

Eric made the little sign on the door that says happy birthday

It seems a long time ago she was my little sweet baby girl.

Lauren took this picture of her when she was around 4 or 5

Attitude

10 year old Lucy at the park.

Lucy is part of a small auditioned elementary choir that sang in Thermopolis this morning.  They sounded great!  Of the 18 members 6 are members of the church.  Standing right next to her is Joey Durrant.  We tease her about him being her boyfriend and she did have a little crush on him.  They are pretty good friends.

Lucy is 4th from the right.

The music teacher is standing to the right.  She did an amazing job with them this year.

Weekend happenings

Emma was honored at the last FCCLA (Future Community and Civic Leaders of American, formally FHA-Future Homemakers of America) meeting as an officer this past year.  This picture is of her and Bryanna Mickelson who was the president.

Emma and Bryanna are holding their towels and smiling in the background.

 
Andy had his last home soccer game on Friday against #1 Jackson.  They did much better this time playing them than they did last time, but still lost 2-1. We got some good action shots of Andy.

Andy is diving for the ball with the yellow shoes.

Crouched as he recovered the ball.

Going for the ball in the blue keeper jersey.

Caught it!

Andy in action

The varsity girls beat Jackson, which was an awesome last home game for them since Jackson girls are ranked #1 in the state.  It was senior night for the varsity players and Emma is the manager for the varsity girls and so she got flowers and a balloon and got to walk out on the field with the senior girl players.  Here she is during the game taking turns filming.  The guy on the left is the radio announcer.  It was REALLY windy on Friday during the game and she froze since she had to wear a dress as the manager. 

Today, Saturday, was Eric's last track meet and it was here in Worland which is something to rejoice about!  He ran the 1600 meter and wanted to break 7 minutes and he did, he got a personal best with a time of 6:55!  Go Eric!

Eric running with his friend, Tradon. 

Brian and I have been out walking since the weather is a little better (even though it rained for the track meet today).  There is a path that goes around the sugar beat fields and the canal by our house.  Brian got home from a walk the other day and said he hit the wildlife jackpot.  He saw a muskrat in the canal, a pheasant, a snake in the path, and a deer!  Awesome!

I would have turned around and left if I would have seen this guy!

Here is his deer friend.

I went on the same path the next day with my friend and we saw nothing!  I would have liked to see the deer, pheasant and muskrat, but definitely not the snake!