Here comes May!

Hola!
MAY.  I am so excited, it becomes May this week!  May and October are my favorite months here.  Flowers are blooming, the temps are warming up (generally).  Sunshine, and people pay attention to their yards again.  It's so refreshing.

MOTHS.  Kathi mentioned moths...we are fighting "Winter Moths" here: they ate all the leaves of our huge maple trees in the front yard last spring, and the little worms are back now.  I hope we can treat them with something soon because they really can kill your tree if they do it 3 years or more in a row.

DEATH of a TRAMPOLINE.  We sadly lost our trampoline...it was a little on a hill (not level), so I think we killed it by jumping too much on the slant.  The welding gave way on the bars intersecting one of the feet, and the round metal frame.  We have had it either 9 or 10 years, though!  The kids were so little when we got it.

PROM JOBS.  Anyway David dismantled the trampoline this week, as one of his "jobs" to help him pay for Prom.  I have a list of about 10 time-consuming, tedious jobs that I would rather not do (understatement of the year).  This one took him 2 hours.

TEMPLE TRIP.  Kara turned 12 last month, so when they took the youth to the temple this time, she could go too.  Frank and I were among the adult volunteers helping with the trip (he's the Young Men's president, and I went as a mom), so...for the first time, the whole family was in the temple at the same time!  It was such a nice evening.  I smiled the whole time.

Here's a family photo in front of the temple.

Well.  Better get to the "next thing."  Happy Week!  Kari