Delaney and Rylee Selfies... mostly

These girls!!  I swear, they find my phone and take a million pictures with it.  I'm going to share just a few of their gems here for you.  

There is also a picture somewhere of Delaney at the 7th Grade award Assembly getting awarded. And  the last pictures are of the baby watermelon that the girls grew themselves. that was very exciting and it was sweet and delicious.  

500 dog pictures

 Okay, 500 dog pictures is what I find on my phone.  Fortunately, for you, I whittled it down to fewer.  Mostly they are of Sarah, the Foster Dog. If we are not careful, she may become OUR dog. She is just so cute and spunky.  But I love her "I'm so uncomfortable" look that she has when you pet her- after she demands that you pet her!

Baccalaureate

 June 2 was Josh's High School Baccalaureate.  I made him go because I figured it was part of the graduating process.  I was a little surprised how NOT non-denominational it was, but it was pretty good.  I did appreciate that the one speaker talked about how this was the first step to graduation.  He said it really well, and now I can't!  But it was an ah-ha moment for me and just hit home that this was the beginning of the end.

Ryleehas a long way to go before she gets to wear this for real!

That's my boy!

The side-eyes are cracking me up!

And when we got home, he called me out to see just how windy it was.

 And I think this may be my very favorite photo!

Another Temple Trip?!!

Since I am in the Relief Society Presidency, we decided to try to make the temple more accessible.  I mean, as assessable as possible when you live on an island without one!  So we planned out a one-day trip to Fukuoka. With cheap flights (under $100), we coordinated a trip for June 1.  6 ladies attended and we had a good time.  We caught the 9:30am flight out and the 8pm flight home.  

We landed in Fukuoka, stopped for a delicious lunch, then took two taxis to the temple.We did the 1:30pm English session, which was packed.  Then we did pictures.  We had a misunderstanding about metro stops and rather than walking to the closest station, we walked a few miles to the biggest station.Which was fine. We had time and we enjoyed the walk, but we did walk for over an hour!  

I managed to talk the rest of them into trying Okonomiyaki for dinner and everyone left happy, especially me!  We took the metro to the airport and had plenty of time to get checked in and to our flight.  It was a really great day with some really great ladies!

Me, back in my beloved Mainland, at the Fukuoka Temple!

Group shot! They asked a sweet Japanese lady if she would take the photo and she got way down to get just the right angle. She she nailed it!

Temple from a different spot, as we were walking away. 

 Another group shot as we hoofed it through the city.  Good times!

And if you are counting..... This makes the 4th temple in the 4th country in 4 months!  March was Hong Kong, May was both Taiwan and Seattle, and June was Fukuoka. 

It's good to be a girl

My kids crack me up.  They are awesome and I love them!

Delaney made a kite at school.  And she flew it on this very windy day.  It was so high!

Can you see the kite in this picture? It is out there!  It was so much fun and she was so pleased with her kite. 

 And Rylee is the queen of selfies.  I find hundreds of them on my phone.  Some look like this.

And some look like variations of this!

And one afternoon the girls made a ton of water balloons.

 And they threw some.

And played with them. 

 And dropped them off the roof.

They are so awesome!