Alyssa's 5th Birthday

On June 14th, Alyssa turned five!  She is such a doll and loved the attention.  Our Alyssa has such a positive attitude and loves almost everything.  We celebrated her birthday twice, which she loved.  We celebrated with the Bunkalls on June 7th, while the Buxtons were still in town, and then again on the 14th with the Bryants.

Jill made her amazing lemonade cake for the Bunkall celebration.  Alyssa liked the pink color but said it was too sour for her.  The next week, Jill made a strawberry cake for the Bryant celebration.

Alyssa's birthday was on Sunday.  We had planned to wake up early to have a nice breakfast (she had requested blueberry muffins) and open presents.  We had been out late the night before at the Scera Shell Theater and got to bed really late.  When Jill and I finally woke up about 8:00, we had to race to get ready for church.  Alyssa was a good sport and agreed to eat cereal and open only one present before church.  What a crazy morning! 

After church Alyssa opened the rest of her presents.  She has wanted roller skates so badly, so she was excited to get some new cute roller skates. 

That night for dinner the Bryants came to wish Alyssa Happy Birthday.  Jill made another cake and we had grilled chicken and apples and caramel dip.  She is surrounded with love by so many family members.  We love our daughter so much and are so grateful to have her in our family.

Riverton had a crazy rain storm in June that dumped two inches of water in an hour.  Our house flooded again and gave us all sorts of grief.  I was bailing water out of the window well during the storm and thankfully Jill was inside working to keep the water out of the house.  We still had to dry out our carpet, but it could have been much worse.

The next Saturday Grandpas Bunkall and Bryant came over and we dug trenches in our lawn to carry rainwater away from our home.  It was so nice of them to help.  Every time it rains we stress out, but hopefully with the new drainage we won't have to worry about flooding again.

Another exciting event took place in June.  Kandis and Brandon are now engaged!!!  We are all so excited for them. Wedding details will be coming.

After school ended, the kids enjoyed a week of swimming lessons at the Riverton pool.  

At the end of the school year, the school had an assembly.  During the assembly, they held a drawing for all of the kids who had met reading goals.  Logan won one of four grand prizes!  He can use this gift certificate at Walmart to get an iPod, scooter, or bicycle.  He was pretty happy and will get the iPod shuffle.  They were out of stock when we went to pick it up, but we will return soon to collect his prize.

A young man in our ward just got a mission call to Ecuador, Guayaquil.  It reminded me of my days in Ecuador and I found this nugget from when I was 19 years old.  I haven't changed a bit right?