I just love this picture. I never would have imagined how happy it would make me to convince a four-year-old to put on a tie and belt! It was a real victory rush -weird, I know. He looks like such a little man. Hope you all had a happy Easter! We are finally over the sugar high. 
We drove over to LA a few weeks ago, and the poppies and other wildflowers in the canyons on the way were out of control! I guess all the rain this winter made them extra abundant. I snapped this picture through the window. Trivia bit: the California Poppy is the state flower.
Sand Hollow Swimming Pool - Truman's smile coming down the big water slide with Todd was pretty cute.
Girls' sleepover - Emma and I drove up to Salt Lake on Saturday. We were able to see our friends in Alpine (Nicki) on the way - great, but too short! We stopped at Mrs. Cavanaugh's in Bountiful for a hit of chocolate, and then went to stay with Emily in Centerville that night. I wish I had a picture of Sarah, Emma and Olivia camped out on the playroom floor. We could hear them giggling and singing for quite a while. I loved being able to hang out with such favorite people.
Sunday gathering at Lowe's house - Someone should always have a camera for those after-church, full table of food times. Wonderful to see Mom & Dad, Holly & Steve, Lowe's family. I was so glad to be there to see Lowe ordained as a bishop.
I'm trying to speed up this post. Basically, I love being in Utah, and that about wraps it up.
Last night was Emma's school program. The kids were all so excited and have practiced for weeks and weeks. Emma was honored to be chosen to play Sandra Day O'Connor! Supreme Court, here we come!
Emma with best friend, Makenzie, and classmate Morgan aka Betsy Ross before the show.
My camera is really low-tech, no zoom. But here's a fuzzy picture of half the show.
The boy with the red tie on the right recited the entire Preamble to the Constitution, which I thought was pretty impressive for a six-year-old.
We celebrated Truman's 2nd birthday on Sunday. He seems so little to be leaving "one-year-old" behind. Actually, he is little. I just took him to the doctor and he is in the 7th percentile for weight and the 12th for height. Midgie! He's too cute, though. The doctor also referred him to a speech therapist because he only says about 10 words. We'll see what happens. I think he just doesn't feel the need to speak all that much. We love having Truman in our family. He entertains us all and is such a quiet ham!
Truman loves to draw, color, and sometimes is satisfied just to be holding a writing instrument. He really likes this water drawing mat picked out by Daddy and Parker.
Our friends, the Yoshidas, came over for Truman's birthday. I think he's making this face because he blew out the candles too early and we had to re-light them. That seemed to confuse him about what exactly he was expected to do. He got shy when he felt like he'd made a social blunder.
Also, please ignore the cake. It was a busy day, and I still hadn't decorated the race track cake (yes, race track) when our friends arrived. I don't perform well with an audience or time crunch.
Emma has been wanting to go on this river run with me for a while because I'd never done it before. Unless I am wearing a parka that covers my entire body, I will probably not do it again. I think our mistake was waiting until the sun was going down to have buckets of water poured on us. I don't know if you can tell from the picture, but Emma's whole lower half, her hair, plus all her of her back was soggy. When we got to the car and I took off my socks, my feet were pruned.
