May: Happy Mother's Day

Mother's day was special. The Relief Society prepared Box Lunches for all the women. We were also able to hear a beautiful message from Kathy Waggener. She is really amazing. Then, that evening, Rozanne treated her two daughters (me and Anne) to a yummy meal without any work from us.


The kids gave us all sorts of cute notes, flower pots, and boondoggle and then at dinner stated why they love their mom. They made me feel good. I love my mom because she is my biggest cheerleader. I am a lucky girl.

May: OSU Baseball

We have a good friend whose son Rob plays for OSU on their baseball team. We kept telling ourselves we would go see a few baseball games while he was there. Well, the final weekend of his senior campaign came and we still had not seen him play. He is the guy in center field.


Brian contacted Rob to see if he could get us some tickets. He got us three and we took Roger along with us. Truthfully, I was missing a Y chromosome for this trip.



The whole Folsom clan was there for his final series, including his brother Ryan who just had returned home from Korea on a mission the night before. It was a special game.


They ended up beating the University of Arizona which placed them in a good enough position to enter the NCAA baseball tournament.



Here is Rob hitting. He had quite the crowd of family cheering him on. It was a great day to spend with Brian and Roger!

May: Birthday Party

Brian and I threw a party for our friend Lou. It was the first "friends" party in our new kitchen.


Anne & Tay did a fab job catering the event and everyone had such a blast and went away with some uncomfortably full stomachs.


No, that isn't beer but Henry Wienhards root beer....yummy....vanilla cream...


Anyways, Lou got some pretty funny gifts including a toolbox full of "Manly" supplies: cologne, pedicure set, hand lotions, etc. It was a riot.


My friend Susan made a collage of hot models from magazines as a display when you walked into the house. I sure wish I had a pic of it. The party was a blast!

May: Grammie Toodie Gifts

The girls love packages in the mail because they are primarily from Grammie Toodie. Here they are displaying their new shoes that arrived today thanks to Toodie. FYI, the dresses they have on are also from other packages from Toodie. Everyone needs a Toodie in their lives.

May: Cubscout Religious Knot

Andrew's Bear troop made a goal to all get their Religious Knot. It is one of the only badges that is so important that you transfer it to your Boy Scout uniform. Nearly every boy received the award. We dedicate ours to our Grammie Martin who helped him get it! Thank goodness Grammie is a Bear leader in Utah and keeps us caught up!

May: Beekeeping

Brian's bee hobby has been something very fun for both he and Andrew to do together. Frequently Brian has to check the hives to identify if the Queen bee is laying an adequate supply of eggs, to check to see the volume of honey being made, and also to identify if additional frames and boxes to the hive are needed.


Andrew wanted to go do the chores with his dad. Brian had a Mormon Missionary Elder Broadbent tag along.


While they worked, a very curious Lizzy got closer and closer to the hives. I wish you could appreciate how many bees were in the air.


I think the first time she get's stung her habit of being so fearless will go away. But apparently not today.

May: Science Fair Project

This year's science fair was an optional assignment for Hoover Elementary kids. Most parents chose not to have their kids do a science project. Andrew really wanted to do this so he went to the library and found a science project book and identified a project he liked.


First he measured varying amounts of liquid in cups.


Then he put one drop of soap in each cup.


Then he mixed each solution.


Here are his solutions. 1:1, 1:5, 1:10, 1:15, 1:20, 1:30, 1:50


Then he poured a solution onto a tray and blew bubbles, measuring the largest in each solution.


Some of the solutions were pretty big.


He ended up identifying the 1:15 solution made the best bubbles.


He then put a poster presentation together showing his results and he was pretty proud! I was proud of him for doing a project on his own! Great job Andrew!