Mother/ Daughter Camp Out & Laura's BYU Graduation

Here are some pics from this year's M/D Camp out that our stake does. Unfortunately last year's was rained out so this was a make-up held in May instead of September. I'm hoping they do the regularly scheduled one as well this year! Lillie and I have such a great time together. This year we also camped with my mom and sister, Allison. Well, Allison did spend a few hours sleeping in the tent! But that's cool. The less than cool one's had a blast together!

Here's Allison getting ready to send Lillie down the makeshift "rapids". We were smart enough to remember our tube this year, unfortunately hardly anyone else did and all wanted to borrow ours. Lillie was less than pleased and eventually figured out that if she said she was done with the chutes and wanted to go somewhere else, I wouldn't make her share anymore. Smart girl. Looking back, I wish I hadn't made her share so much... not her fault that other's didn't have the foresight! Next year, I'll let her be more stingy!
More river fun. Here's Grammy and L with our friend's Aydia, Genevieve, and Michelle Easton.
Midnight. L did not want to go to sleep. She entertained us with potty jokes until we finally had to ignore her. But it was a blast!
The next morning L found a butterfly and it sat on her hand for about half an hour! It was especially cool since she was in a the middle of hatching butterflies from their chrysalis' at school and she was able to tell me all the parts of the body.

At the end of April Grant and I went with my parents and sisters up to Utah to watch Laura graduated with her Bachelor's Degree in Wildlife/Wildlands Conservation. Woot! Woot! We're so proud of you Laura. You're doing great in Mexico and we know you'll do awesome in Grad School! Jen and Wendell were kind enough to let Grant and I stay at their house and they were even kinder to watch Grant so much so I could attend various graduation exercises alone. Thanks so much you guys, your're the best! The trip was hard... Grant was terrible on the plane, got no sleep, and didn't want anybody but me. It was a less than perfect introduction to the rest of the UT family. However, I'm really glad that I went and it was so nice to so much family that I hadn't seen in so long!
Wendell was the only person that Grant was happy with and he really enjoyed being bounced on the tramp.
We were able to see Aunt Barbara, and even though Grant was a total mess, I was really happy they were able to meet. It was good to be able to visit with her one last time.
L to R: Katie, Mom, Laura, Dad, Audrey, Allison