Fly like an EAGLE

On May 7th Gary recieved his Eagle Scout Award. He has worked very hard the past year to finish all of the requirements. He planned the Court of Honor and it turned out really nice. As the meeting was beginning Gary leaned over to me and said, "Is this a practice or is this real?" I laughed and said, "Yes, Gary this is real" He got this panicked look on his face and said, "I told everyone this was starting at 7 o'clock." I looked at the clock and saw that it was just a little after six. Well that explained why 2 of the people on the program weren't even there. Thankfully Gary's good scout leaders filled in for the missing speakers. Yes, the invitations DID say 6 PM. Anyway, that makes for a funny story. At least they got there in time for dinner:) Here's Gary giving his talk.














My mom and dad came from Las Vegas to be there for the Court of Honor. Grandpa Hafen presented Gary with a knife plaque that he made especially for Gary. Gary is the 13th grandson to recieve his Eagle.


We are very proud of Gary's great accomplishment. This was an important goal for him to reach and HE DID IT! Congratulations Gary!

THE TWINS' 19TH BIRTHDAY

At the end of April (I have gotten sooo behind in my posting:( ) we celebrated with Kaitlyn and Alyssia their 19th birthday. We had a little family get together here at home. I think this is such a cute picture of the two of them. They were so happy to be back together.















I made Kaitlyn a gummy bear cake at her request while Alyssia wanted an asphalt pie cake. Hopefully this will be agood year for both of them:)

YANNI

On April 29th Rick and I and Trent and Kathy were able to got to the Yanni concert in Salt Lake. I wasn't that thrilled to be going but to tell you the truth I had a great time. Not only was Yanni awesome, his whole band was truly amaing. Very talented artists! A fun evening!

EASTER FUN

THE EASTER BUNNY CAME TO THE PHELPS HOUSE!! Last Saturday we had an easter egg hunt for the big kids:) It was a little different than in times past. Aunt Kathy had the great idea of hiding the eggs at night and having the kids use flashlights to go searching in the dark. It was great! We had quite the crew and everyone seemed to have a lot of fun. Here is a picture of everyone before the hunt began. (We're missing Gary because he was at work but he made it for the last of the hunt:)



Kendra's searching in the tree.....

The prize egg was the last to be found and the hint was given that it was somewhere in the gazebo.......

Yay for Hannah....,she found it!!

It's such a bummer that this picture came out blurry but this is everyone at the end of their hunt with their goodies! Afterwards everyone came in and played Mafia and then watched Megamind. It's funny how just that morning Rick and I were talking about how the kids were getting to old to do Easter egg hunts. Thanks Aunt Kathy for broadening our minds a little bit. Let's do this again next year!