Justine Graduates!!!!

Well she did it!  Justine graduated from SUU over the weekend.  We are so very proud of her and all her hard work.   We took the treck to Cedar City this weekend to attend her graduation ceremony.  

 See the very cool medal around her neck?  That means she graduated with honors.  She graduated in the top of her class with a 3.9 GPA, Suma Cum Laude. Such a smartie pants!

After graduation we stopped off at Bryce Canyon National Park on the way home.  It was a beautiful place.  

 Check out the colors.

 Hiking back up the canyon was tiring work!  It was a short stop but it was so great to see some of God's great creations.

Spring is Coming!???

We keep hoping that spring is coming to Utah soon!  We took the opportunity to go to Sunny Arizona to visit Jourdan and Mindy.  We did find the sun there!

Our first stop was Hoover Dam.  We were amazed by the bridge over the Dam, such a structural masterpiece!

 It was a long drive!

 But we made it!  Jourdan and Mindy have a great place.  Mindy has done a great job decorating it.  We need to hold a contest to guess how many temple pictures they have hanging in their home.....any guesses?

 Jourdan came home and I had to take a picture of him in his uniform.

 Meilin and I enjoy sharing a bed together, cuz the boys in the room could sure snore!

Of course the pool at the hotel was great!  Spencer and Meilin had fun swimming.

We had Easter dinner with Bryant and Taryn.  As you can tell  Addison loved her chocolate bunny!

Meilin enjoyed being with all the cousins!

It was great being with family and Bryant and Taryn were so great to let us all drop in and feed us all.

One evening we went out to dinnner at a great Barb-B-Q place!  The food was great!

But we loved the company better.

We went to the SanDiego Zoo.  We saw some strange pretty !

Cameron and Carson talking to a friendly gorilla, or maybe it's more like a privitive form of sign language.

After to Zoo we went back to Jourdan and Mindy's apartment  and had a cookout and a swim in their pool.  Catch the cool shot of Emmerson falling into the pool.

Food, folks and fun....it doens't get better than this.

The whole trip was only 5 days.  Two on the road and three to play, but we loved it!  Thanks Jourdan and Mindy for letting us come and stay.  It just seams like we just get started and before you know it, comes the time to say good-bye!

We loved all the cactus along the drive, so we just had to stop and take a picture.

Ward talent night

Our ward had a talent night.  Ron was able to rock out with some of the guys in the ward singing a 50's song.  He had the doo-oop part!  Gotta luv that guy when he sings!

So it's been a while since I have posted.  BUT I hoping to do better!
So the big thing at our house is that Meilin cut her hair!  Yes folks 15 inches!  She donated it to Locks-of-Love.  She keeps playing with her hair and saying "Its so short!"  Yes compared to what it was it IS short!  She looks adorable with her new bob.

I have been trying to play catch up on some old photos and scrap them.  It seams that it is never done!  I just keep taking pictures!  In the fall we took a week trip to San Deago.  Alyse and Rex came with us!  We were able to be right on the beach!  It was an amazing trip.  We loved spending time with the Picketts and the Smiths.

 There was a peer right by our house.  It was nice and long.  People fished off of it and there were plenty of Seaguls.  Rex loved chasing them along the peer.

 One afternoon all the girls loaded up into the car and went and did baptisms at the San Deago Temple.  We then met and toured the Mormon Batalian visitors center.  It was amazing!  I highly recommend it to anyone visiting the area.  So worth your time.

 The highlight of course was the beach.  We loved it!

Rex wasn't too sure that he liked the waves.  

 The sunsets were wonderful!

 One of the best things were the sea shells!  So many of them!  We had so much fun collecting them and looking at all the different kinds.  The hard thing was deciding what ones to keep.

 The Pink Dolphin was where we stayed.  Yes it was Pink!

 Bryant took quite the tumble in a wave that smashed him to the ocean floor.  He had a big scab the rest of the trip.  Poor guy!

 Judy taught us how to dig for sand crabs.  That was new to me.  Good thing we had some locals to teach us about the beach.

I love Subway art.  I have wanted to create some of it.  This is my 2nd one for Fathers day.  I have a frame in the Family room where I can change it monthly.

April 2011

 So Rex loves cookies!  I'm starting my grandma tradition early can't you tell?  A friend of mine showed me this cool baby eating thingie, it is so great to put food into and let them have at it.  The type of cookies they make for babies he would put in him mouth and choke on it but this way....no problem.  He just goes to town.  He also likes bananas this way too.

 Jourdan is doing so well at Pilots school!  We are so very proud of him.  I had to create a LO for him!            He just finished with flying colors his flight instructor test.  It was a major test and he did so great!  His instructor told him she would like to be able to give him his last two test because she really enjoyed  working with Jourdan!  Way to go!
Any one up for flying?

My family-Fredricksons

This is another page to my personal scrapbook.  I just got copies of a bunch of pictures of me from my mom from when I was young.  It has been fun looking and remembering my life in so many pictures that my dad took over the years of our family.  This is the first photo of me an my siblings in a family picture.  I love the pictures of my parents they are so young!  My mom is a beauty and my dad so handsome!

General Young Women's Meeting

This year Meilin and Mom got to go to the General Young Women's meeting in SL.  It was Meilin's first time going.  Our ward was singing in the Choir so our ward was given extra tickets.  Although Meilin isn't quit old enough (she won't be 12 until July)  thy YW leader felt she should go because she will be attending Girls camp this summer and it would give her a good chance to be part of the YW program.  It was a great evening.  We went up with two of Meilin's friends.  We visited the new City Creek Shopping Center before attending the Conference.  

 After the conference we stopped to take a few more pictures of the Katie Cluff and Elora Judd.  Elora Judd is not a member of the church be we were able to bring her along.  After the conference Elora slept at our house and then was able to attend church with us the next day.  At the conference Sister Dibb talked about the FTSOY pamplet and how she had underlined the words "For...You".  Meilin decided to give her copy to Elora so that she could have her very own copy since she didn't already have one.  It was also fast Sunday and Meilin didn't eat.  When we explained we wouldn't be eating (we told she she could eat) Meilin was able to answer more questions that  Elora asked about why she was fasting.  She was a great little missionary!