Mckinley turns 12

A few random things before we get into Mckinley's birthday.

Ava got to go to a fun painting craft at the BYU Museum of Art with Auri.

Then we took them to the Bean Museum for their first time.

The very next weekend after my birthday I went back down to Hurricane with my 6th ward friends for a girls trip. There was a bit of drama before the trip trying to figure out driving and stuff, but we got through it and got there and this is the only stinking picture we took, ha ha. It was fun though!

I got to help out with Tyler and Kallie's field trip to the Bean Museum. I feel bad they didn't get to go somewhere more exciting, they missed out on their second grade field trip that is usually to the aquarium because of Covid.

Dinners out on the deck are rare, but oh so fun.

The sun was so bright, ha ha.

Mckinley got to participate in the Hope of America program as a 6th grader because Covid cancelled it when she was in 5th grade. We had a good time watching her and she had soooo much fun doing it. Just stinks that she had to have a yellow shirt.

Ross had a hotel voucher that he needed to use so we went and stayed in Salt Lake and chalked it up to celebrating Mckinley's birthday which was the next day. We rode Trax to the Cheesecake Factory and had a delicious dinner. It was so fun to eat outside.

The hotel pool was as small as they come but the kids still enjoyed themselves!

We brought all of Mckinley's birthday presents (mostly clothes, and a gel nail set) with us and she got to open them there.

The evening of Mckinley's actual birthday she and I both performed in our luau fundraiser the youth put on for our ward. We worked on these dances for like 5 months and pretty much couldn't do any other activities which sucked, but the luau was actually pretty fun and miracle of all miracles, we had good weather for it. Every time our ward plans something, we have crazy summer rain storms and planning this on May 7th was definitely very risky, but it all worked out!

Since we were at the hotel the morning of her birthday, Mckinley got a combined breakfast in bed with me, who was getting breakfast in bed for Mother's Day, ha ha. It was great!

Birthday cake brownies at Grandpa and Marmee's where we had a Mother's Day dinner.

A random BYU baseball game we went to with the Salmons.