Our Dancer

All of my girls had relatively short careers in the dancing field, but as part of the youth Temple Celebration for the new Draper Temple on Friday night, Camilla danced with our stake in an Asian dance. Naturally, our stake's presentation was the best. It happened to be the last of the 15 groups, too. (I think I counted 25 stakes, some of them grouped as two--ours was grouped with another one also.) Anyway, all the groups did great, and there was a choir made up of youth from all 25 stakes, too. The whole evening was delightful. Someone found this picture online and told me about it. Here's our little star! (The redhead in blue with the parasol.)

Back from Hawai'i

Yes, it was tough. Six days in paradise. Good weather. Ocean view. We suffered through it. The first question everyone asks is, "Where is your tan?" Katrina's repsonse is, "It wouldn't fit it the carry-on luggage." I wasn't clever enough to think up a snappy comeback. Had I thought, I would have said, "It didn't make it through the agricultural inspection."

Being the sunburn-proned people and one sun-allergy person that we are, we choose activities other than sun-worshipping type. So this trip we went waterfall hunting

and lighthouse viewing. (Waterfalls were on both Oahu and the Big Island. The lighthouses were just on Oahu.)

Also managed to get in a 16th birthday, a volcano, and a temple.

And now we're back, facing reality, laundry, school, work, etc. Oh, well. Paradise on this earth is only temporary, I suppose. At least there's updates on Andrew and his family, without whom the trip just wasn't the same!