The Graduate

I ask again, "When did I get so old?"  Travis will be graduating this week.  He is having a hard time wanting to grow up.  He wishes he could stay this age forever.  He has had such a good group of friends this last year and they have had so much fun, especially this year as they have been seniors.  He kind of wishes it wouldn't end, but I know he will love the coming years as well.  We are so proud of him and the great young man he has become.  Love you Trav!

Evers Family Photos

We got these taken a while ago, November or December I think, but I don't think I ever posted the pictures.  I finally got all the layouts done, so here they are.

They Call Me Mom

I just love these boys!  This will probably be the last mother's day picture for a while with all of my boys together.  I love being their mom!

Easter Egg Hunt

All the Nielsen clan got together down at Todd and Haylee's this year for an Easter Egg hunt.  We had salads and rolls and then had an Easter Egg hunt.  I wish I had a good picture of it, but the one I have is blurry, but it was so funny as Haylee opened the gate for all the kids to come in the back yard to find eggs, Travis was in the front of the line. I know it was because he was in a hurry because he had to go to work, but it was so funny to see the big 18 year old crowding out all the little kids to be first in getting the eggs.

Even the big boys had fun!

Scrapbooking Weekend

I went scrapbooking with my friends this weekend in Orem.  Heidi got to come up this time too.  It was fun although I was all set to organize and resave all my templates and when I opened up the folder on my external hard drive, there were only 2 templates on my EHD.  Somehow, the transfer didn't happen, but at least I still have them all on my hard drive at home.

Instead, I got all of Tyrel's dance layouts done as well as our Thanksgiving craft activity layout.  I made some new patterns for us to use for pattern papers, visited, ate, and had a great time with my friends.  I won't be able to go to the June one, but they moved the date for the September one, so hopefully I'll be able to go to it now.

School Dances

I've been a bad blogger lately, but we have been busy lately.  I finally got all of Tyrel's dance pictures scrapped so I can post them.

He went on a blind date with Sarah from Spanish Fork for Sadie Hawkins.  He had no idea who she was at all when he got the Lifesaver invitation on the front porch.  He checked his yearbook, Facebook, texted his friends and finally found out that he was set up by his ASL teacher.  He was worried about going out with someone he didn't know, but he did know all the guys in the group and he ended up really having a fun time. They went to In & Out Burger for dinner, played miniature golf at Trafalga , went to the dance and then went to one of the other girls house to watch "Elf"

The next dance was Sweethearts.  He took Kayli Peterson from our ward and doubled with his friend Hunter who took Samantha Magoffin.  They all had things going on so they didn't go on a day date.  They went to Jaxies for dinner and then to the dance.  Afterwards they came back to our house for ice cream and watched .  Doesn't he look handsome?  

Next he went to Preference with his friend Storm.  They doubled with his friend Hunter and his date Kandalyn.  For their day date they went bowling.  Storm won the first round and Tyrel won the 2nd round.  They went to Kandalyn's house for takeout from Texas Roadhouse for dinner, to the dance, and then back to our house to watch "She's The Man".  Another fun date for him.

Coaching the Brick Masons

Pathetic name huh!  I guess the city ran out of team names by the time they got to naming the 11th and 12th grade teams because all of them have stupid names.  Tyrel got a few of his friends together to make a team this year.

 They wanted Travis to coach and Travis was so super excited to wear his suit like Jerry Sloan and coach the team.  We figured it would be ok since he was 18, but the city said no that they thought he would cause fights with the other coaches (Really??  They apparently don't know Travis, he is one of the most mellow even tempered people around).

So anyway, they talked Sean into it, which is good anyway since Travis has had to work almost every game.  They haven't done so well, but they have had fun and Travis did get to be the assistant coach and help with one game.  Sean wouldn't let them dribble the ball at their last game and they came really close to winning by just doing passes and no dribbling.  

 We'll see if they can pull off a win next time.  He didn't have them do it until half time, they were down by 20 and got to within 2, but then lost by 7 at the end.