New Pole Vault Record! Spring Fun!

 It was an exciting night at Rocktown High School. Shanna was at an invitational and competed in a few events. The last one was pole vault. Lee, Haley and Elden had finished the youth activity and I called to see if they could come back. They got there in time for Shanna to break her pole vault record and beat her current school record!  She was able to jump 9 feet--her highest yet. But tonight she went all the way up to 10.6!!!  A whole foot and a half in one night! It was so exciting!!!

Shanna's new ranking in the whole state. 

Earlier in the track meet. I think she was waiting to run the 100M hurdles. 

Pretty sunset through a dirty windshield. 

Since it was an invitational Elden wasn't at this meet. When he came later he had fun hanging out with Jake. 

Shanna again!

Our high school boys won the meet. Shanna is borrowing their trophy for her photo. 

Shanna with Coach Mathias!

The new sleeping bags arrived! They look big, but are poofy and can squish pretty small...like to the size of a brick, but much, much lighter. 

We've had some fun trips to PA. Eric and Elden headed across the creek. 

Haha, Stephanie's epic photo about her horchata and how good it was. Her picture made the fridge at Darrell's and Stacie's!

We were up to celebrate my Mom's birthday, which was that day and Kylie and Lisa's birthdays. 

It was fun telling the Relief Society sisters in RS that it was my mom's birthday!

Serena was helping to open the gifts, though my mom didn't really like that haha. Cosmo was hilarious. 

That night Eric invited a lot of people over to read his mission call.  He received it the Monday before. I'm so impressed he could wait so long to read it!!! He's going to Brazil!!!

On a Saturday...not sure exactly when, I met Kat at Crossroads Cafe for lunch. That was really fun. 

Girl hair time!

With Clark coming home we bought new furniture. He has his own dresser and Elden has a new bunk bed. I offered Haley $200 if she would move into Elden's room so we wouldn't have to buy new furniture and a new mattress, but she wanted to stay in her room. The dresser is cute, but cheap. The factory or whatever sent Lee the wrong drawer piece so he couldn't put together the last drawer. We called Walmart and they said the company won't send an individual piece. We had to take apart the dresser and send the whole thing back and get a new one (not going to happen) or they would send us a discount in the form of a refund. The guy mentioned 15% off. I asked for 20% off and he agreed. It took a bit of finagling, but Lee got the drawer fixed!  He had to buy a couple of parts as well.  

The room is taking shape!  The bunk bed is really cute and seems nice and sturdy. 

Another track meet!

Lee and I had a fun date at Hank's BBQ. Still the best nachos EVER. I've tried many too!

Lee, Elden and Haley enjoyed a bike ride!

This house is a few blocks from us. I called the town and found out who owns it. Wonder if we could get a deal on it and fix it up....

A neat experience happened. Our friend Dan, from the second ward, called me asking if I could give him and two of his co-workers a ride to the airport. His GPS took him by Elkton, which he never goes that way to the Charlottesville Airport.  Right before the Elkton exit, one of his tires started loosing its tread. God worked our a miracle!  He knew Dan's tire would fail and knew that I could give him and the two ladies a ride to the airport. It was really neat! He parked his car by Pizza Hut and Lee drove it to our house. The next day Dan's in-laws were at a track meet where I gave them the key and they swung by our house and brought it home. 

I got a recommendation for new caulk.  I hope it works!  I always have problems with caulk separating and have to re-caulk stuff a lot. Hoping this cuts down on that. 

Our funny pictures in Haley's room. Mine is totally messed up haha. 

Elden's personalities!

The kids had a day off and Haley arranged this little kayaking trip with Mallece all by herself!  So fun. She even got out the kayaks and loaded them up. 

Savannah-Easter-Spring Time!

A patient brought in some amazing chocolates!  This guy is local and sells them at a shop in Staunton or you can buy directly from him. He doesn't take orders though and just makes what he wants. They are so fancy! 

Another meet in Broadway! It was pretty cold!

Remember the eggs I was working on? Here are all the eggs I donated!

I had fun too putting together some Easter baskets for Lee's team members. 

It's cute seeing the kids walk in to seminary wrapped up in blankets. 

Right before Easter we headed out of town again.... Since we missed the swamp tour at Okefenokee, I was trying to figure out when we could go again. An option opened up when I realized that Lee AND the kids both had Good Friday off! Perfect time to go to Georgia and to finally visit Savannah. We've driven through but have never stopped and toured the tour. We left after work and drove through the night. We got a hotel that night so when we pulled in at 2am, we could have a place to sleep. 

The new Buc-ees about a half hour from our house!

We stopped at a Walmart on the way down and got ice cream (I think we did haha) and some other trip items. 

We stayed on Tybee Island at Hotel Tybee. Our first main activity was a bus tour around Savannah.

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Overall the bus tour was good. I didn't like some of the lady's comments. There were kids on the tour...sheesh. But it was a quick way to get an overview of Savannah in about 1.5 hours.

For lunch we ate at an historic home, now restaurant, The Pink House. It was good and fun that you could roam around the house. I am glad we went once but we wouldn't go again. 

After Savannah we went to the beach by the hotel. One the way from Savannah to Tybee Island we passed SEVERAL cop cars. Probably 30 or more. Haley google why there were so many cop cars. They were anticipating a spring break event called Orange Crush. Never heard of it!  I forgot to bring Elden an air mattress so ran to Walmart quick then met everyone else at the beach. 

The hotel had free bikes so we went on a little ride. I would have liked to go longer, but Haley and Elden didn't want to. 

I wanted to walk out on the pier but the cops closed it early due to Orange Crush. 

Ha, the messy hotel room!

That night we walked to the grocery store for a treat. Barricades were everywhere along both sides of the street. Even a gas station closed early and put out caution tape everywhere to block their pumps and store. It was like people were getting ready for a snow storm. Crazy. The cop at the pier told me that it would take 2-3 hours to get off the island the next day. It only takes 20 minutes. Instead of hanging out at the beach the next day we decided to leave about 9am. 

One reason we stopped at Walmart was to get a toaster. I brought some bagels for breakfast and wanted to toast them. This toaster was only $5. Sweet. Haley will now get to bring it to college!

Part of Easter week we did a sunrise devotional and read The Living Christ. I wanted to do the devotional on Sunday, but we'd be driving home at 6:30am. This worked out really well!

The pier we never went on!

After breakfast and loading up we decided to walk around Savannah. Such a great town. 

Forsyth Fountain. 

This was a choreographed yoga session. The main leader would do a move and more people would join in. I'm sure it was for Instagram or YouTube or something. 

A palm tree growing out of a tree. 

Walt Disney grew up in this house!  The tour guide the previous day pointed out that the Haunted Manion at Disney is similar. So true!  Too bad the Disney company isn't what it was!

We stopped at Clary's quick for a few pastries. 

We had some extra time before the swamp tour. Jekyll Island it is! We went to Driftwood beach, a sand dune beach and drove around.  Ate lunch there too at a parking lot haha. 

We went to the sea turtle sanctuary too. Can you believe this thing was once living?! 

It was discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota.  So mind blowing!

We saw some sea turtles as well and bought Haley a sticker. 

The sand dune beach. 

Haha, awesome van!

We decided to go out to eat at a little establishment in Folkston, GA. The place we went to was closed. A guy was there, wondering why it was closed. He told us he was going to Black River instead. So we did too.  So yummy!

The bathroom.  Pretty hilarious!

The toast was so yummy....

Sweet ride!

We finally made it!!! Okefenokee Swamp! We loved the tour.  Downside was the guy went over.  We should have been back at 8:30pm, but we weren't back till 9:00pm. Ugh. 

Can you spot the yellow and black stripes? They are baby alligators. We saw several of them!

We made it home!  Whew!  About 7:20am, Easter Sunday! Jack made this cute letter for me. 

Elden made sugar cookies! 

Our Passover Meal! My friend Elizabeth Peters sent me a script that her friend wrote to narrate the meal. It went well for our first time....and lots of mishaps!

I completely forgot to buy grape juice so I colored some clear Gatorade with purple food coloring but it didn't work....

Our handsome Elden!

Oh and when we arrived home we saw this! So cute!!!  We are sure who "egged" our door, but we think it was the Lorimers. Whoever it was left treats too. 

Elden's emoji from Hill Cumorah. 

Back the the beach....I love my family so much! This random trip was so fun!