June is Here

Well June arrived and school is out!  We've been busy with some drill team events and some family events.  I decided to do one post about all the little events in June.  Then I'll do separate posts on the bigger events.

The first Saturday in June the drill team had a yard sale for those girls that wanted to participate.  My sister Annie had some stuff she wanted to sell and so she came and set up at our yard sale.  She did pretty good and sold most of her stuff!

While she was there, I wanted to go to the Springville parade, which was that same morning.  So, we took Jake and Ryan with us to the parade.

The theme of the Springville city float was "Celebrate".  So they were passing out these blow whistles.  Here's Jake, Ryan, and Kendrick trying them out.  It took Kendrick a while to figure it out, but he did.  They had a great time and were really good about going out and getting candy that was thrown from some of the parade entries and then coming back to the curb.

 

On June 9, the Ropers had a birthday party for Keaton, who was turning 8 this year.  Here's some pics from the party.

 Amy makes some pretty awesome cupcakes!  For this party, she made chocolate mint ones and cookie dough cupcakes!  I tried them both and they were so good!  I think my all time favorite one she makes though is the peanut butter cup ones!  I love that peanut butter frosting!

 Blowing out the candles!  Happy Birthday!

 My mom, Casey & Paula, Joseph & Emilee, Amy & Jason and Me at the Manti Temple.  We went and did sealings for members of our family that Emilee had been researching.  We also did sealings for others while we were there.  It was a cool experience.  The sealer used the word "gathering" to describe what was going on there that day. 

 Summer Drill practices officially started on June 10th.  This year, we added a ballet class on Wednesday mornings.  Our first teacher was Kate Griffin.  She was great.

 She worked the team hard and I was very impressed with her!

 The team is looking good so far!

 We'll continue the ballet classes in July, but with a different teacher because Kate is moving.

 Kendrick gets to come to practice at 7:30 a.m. every day when Scott drops him off on his way to work.  Kendrick does pretty good and is a good sport about it.  We bring movies that he watches on the portable DVD player and snacks, etc.  Here he is wanting his picture taken on the day I was taking pictures of "the girls", as he calls the drill team.

 He really does do a good job at being quiet and keeping himself entertained.  I asked the basketball coach if he could come in to basketball practice instead. HA HA Maybe some day when he is older!

 On June 19, my friend Sheri Bartholomew Johnson's daughter Jessica got married.  We went to the reception.  It was great to see Sheri and the reception was so nice!  They have a nice house in Mapleton with a great yard!  I need to go visit her more often!

 On June 22, the drill team had their first car wash of the summer.  Kendrick came down for a visit and wanted to help, so we put him to work on Scott's truck. 

He had a great time spraying the window cleaner everywhere! :)