4/16/22
As tradition has it in our family the Easter baskets arrive on Saturday:
Time to check out the contents of our baskets:
There’s more!
We celebrated the true reason for Easter, the resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ, on Sunday with a beautiful church service. After church Mom made some special devilled eggs for Easter:
We had a very Happy Easter!
4/09/22
Lizzy entered a Spanish competition. She was the only one in her Spanish class to attend. All the area schools sent students to participate:
Congratulations Lizzy!
4/14/22
Some of the Theatre kids decided to put on an additional play this year and was able to do almost everything themselves.
Great job Lizzy you are amazing!
4/15/22
Mom came to the opening performance and came again with the rest of the family the next night:
Another Amazing Performance!
Great Job Lizzy you are very talented!
4/03/22
We set out all the food:
Just a little more:
Now we can watch conference!
The prophet, President Russell M. Nelson, is ready to begin:
Happy Conference Everyone!
3/27/22
Dad made yummy pastry for dessert:
We love celebrating our friends!
3/25/22
Rachel got to go on her first Temple Trip!
We were all very happy to be at the temple!
Lets go inside girls:
We love the temple!
3/20/22
3/07/22
First game huddle:
Here we go again!
And again!
We tried. . .
We tried again. . .
Let’s go Whirlwinds!!
And again!
We tried. . .
We did it:
We made it too the semi-finals!
Some of the Westwood boys team and some of the Westwood girls team got together and just had a fun game to close out the season:
We will definitely miss soccer! Congratulations Rachel and all the Westwood Whirlwind Girls Soccer Team!
For our final celebration we had an awards party at a local restaurant:
Gonna really miss this team!
Thank you coach Bailes:
3/03/22 – 3/04/22
Mom and Dad wanted to test out their backpacking gear before they actually go on a big overnight hike. So they gathered all their gear and backpacks:
And they headed out to a trail in Jacksonville called the Pioneer Trail:
They had company along the way:
A mountain in Florida?
They found a campsite to set up their tent and cook a meal:
No problem with the tent:
Time to try out the camp stove and freeze-dried meal:
We explored a bit:
Mom spotted something unusual and went to check it out:
There were some pretty flowers as well:
They got a call from the school that Lizzy wasn’t feeling well. Time to head back:
It was actually a bit of an uphill climb at the start going back:
They hurried back the 4 miles back to the trailhead.
Time to go help Lizzy.
3/4/22
Mom and Dad’s actual anniversary:
Grandpa Ed and Grandma Joyce always send such nice cards!
Then they exchanged cards and gifts:
Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!
2/20/2022
Rachel was sick and tested positive for Covid just before tryouts and although she was feeling better on the first day of tryouts she needed to wait another day before the school would let her come back (10 day waiting period). So mom contacted the coach and asked if there was anything we could do to have Rachel tryout. The coach agreed that we could video Rachel playing soccer (doing soccer drills) and send it to her. We were thrilled! So mom and Rachel went to the park and filmed Rachel playing. Rachel was able to go to school in time for the second day of tryouts so she was also able to tryout in person. After all that effort Rachel made the team!
Unfortunately, Westwood does not have a soccer field so Mom agreed to be a driver to help transport team players to all of the games! Congratulations Rachel ~ Go Whirlwinds!
2/14/22
Mom set out all the valentines:
Mom made special cards for each of us:
Dad also gave us some valentines:
Lizzy gave a card and a gift to Rachel:
Rachel made and extra-special card for Lizzy:
Rachel loved the gift from Lizzy:
To Dad from Lizzy:
To Dad from Rachel:
To Mom from Lizzy and Rachel:
Mom and Dad also exchanged valentines:
It’s fun sharing valentine love with our family!
Joy stopped by later in the afternoon:
A Very Happy Valentine’s Day!