April and some May random pics

 Ward youth temple trip. 

I helped at Megan's last Diamondbuck store at Desert Willow, and after 5th grade was done, they all got together on the stage to take a 5th grade picture. 

For the Worldwide Youth Day of Service we went to the Binghampton Cemetery for the 4th year in a row to pull weeds and clean the graves. It was perfect timing with us wrapping up just as it was starting to get hot. There weren't all that many weeds, but we got them taken care of and cut back overgrown bushes.

Some of the girls from our ward found their fellow YW's baby brother's grave and cleaned it up real good since she couldn't make it to the activity. That made it a little more special.

We went straight from the cemetery to Dad's work open house where we got to tour the place and see places that are normally restricted, including Jacob's office, play games and get face paint (Megan loved her stingray).

In April we had an unwelcome visitor. Megan woke me up one Sunday morning to tell me that she heard something in the ceiling and it scared her. I went downstairs and could hear little rodent feet scurrying in the ceiling. Ugh. We planned to call someone Monday to come help us take care of it. Rachel wasn't feeling well that day, so I brought her home after sacrament meeting and as I was getting ready to leave and close the garage, she started screaming because she saw a mouse or something dart under the cabinets. A few seconds later we saw a SQUIRREL, complete with a bushy tail, run across the garage and jump through this hole into our wall.

An hour later Jacob’s car gave an error message when he started it up, saying the hybrid system wasn’t working correctly and to take it into the dealer. We popped the hood and it looks like the dumb squirrel decided to eat some wires.

We left the garage cracked, and had someone come set some traps the next day, and as they walked into the garage from our house the squirrel was running back into the garage from outside with nesting material in its mouth, and when he saw the humans, he turned around and ran away. We still set the traps, some in the garage, others outside in case he was hanging around our house, but never caught anything. After a couple of days of not hearing the squirrel in our walls and ceiling I closed up that hole real good so nothing would ever get back in that way again. 

I had another critter encounter a couple of days later when I was at Cienega, and a Gila Monster was walking across the courtyard outside the band room. 

As April turned into May, we started to wrap up stuff at the schools, and helped with serving Eegees after the Senior Parade and teacher appreciation stuff at Cienega. We've got a good group of ladies I've become friends with through volunteering and the PTO. Me, Rhonda, April, Deserie and Denise.

A volunteer I just met, me, Denise, Kiki and Kristine. (Kiki is the one that roped me in to both the PTO and Band Boosters. She's a great friend and so dedicated to serving others, and even stuck with us at the PTO 2 years after her kids graduated. However, with a grandbaby to care for and an aging mom with dementia, she'll be sticking closer to home for the next little while. We'll miss her!