Seminary Kickoff party

Nick going off the high dive into the lake.

Tonight we held our first Seminary party of the new year!

We start on the 22nd of this month and are studying the Old Testament.

We went to somerset at Lake Moltre and had a BBQ and Cake. The Branham and Smith families brought their boats and took everyone out on the lake.

Garage

Darren loves a project and this has been his latest one. He designed this on his computer first. It has turned out very nice.

He painted the walls all by hand, he projected the picture on the wall and traced it first with a pencil. He is working on the trim here.

Overnight Rolls

A friend of mine shared this recipe with me! Thanks Kelli these are great:)

I am posting the recipe so you and your family can enjoy some yummy rolls too.

OVERNIGHT ROLLS

Kelli Van Pinxteren

Preheat oven to: 400 degrees.

2 pkgs. yeast

1 tsp. sugar

2 tsp. salt

1 cup water (warm)

3 eggs

1/2 cup warm water

5 cups flour

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup margarine(softened, not melted) I used butter

Mix all ingredients together. Refridgerate overnight. take dough out 4 hours ahead of baking time. Roll out into desired shapes, let rise. Bake 12 minutes.

I made up some cinnamon rolls in the morning and the rest into clover rolls. They were both very good.

Let me know how yours turn out:)

Beautiful Day on the Atlantic

Darren told the Cunningham girls that he would teach them how to surf. So today was the perfect day to learn. The sunn was hot the water was so nice and warm. The waves were small and everyone had some free time to go.

Kamilla starting to get the hang of it, this really was her first time out on a board!

Allie and Kamilla up on the same wave, Allie bailed out though.

Jessa surfing in on the tiniest wave, she and the board weigh less than 80 pds. She got the hang of surfing really fast and even walked the board. You go girl!

Yep thats me, I put my camera away so I could attempt to surf. Someone found it and caught me in the water. (Aaron)

The whole Johnson Family in the Surf of the Atlantic Ocean:)

4th of July with the Wheelers!

A friendly game of horse in the driveway!

Victor and Rachel blew bubbles in the backyard, Rusty and Kirra loved that!

Rachel & Samantha taking good care of Rusty and Kirra!

Victor wanted to play catch with Uncle Darren and his Dad, even if the ball was a little bit harder than a nerf. Ben skate boarding through the action.

After Darren BBQed some yummy hamburgers and hotdogs for dinner, the fun started. They could not wait until it got dark!

Victor was not to sure he really liked having fire so close to himself.

We had a great night, there were fireworks going off all around our neighborhood and town. We loved it that Greg and Jessica came to be with us this year! We can not wait for the 4th next year! Happy Independance Day!

Fathers Day 2007

Darren recieved a new Ferrari to add to his growing collection, this one requires a bit of assembly!
A friendly arm wrestling contest. And the winner was Da---Ben! He is very strong he works out with free weights!
The boys were playing in the music room and I was taking their pictures, Darren was watching T.V. so I thought I was safe. I was messing around with Ben's mic. He took this picture after he informed Darren to come see.

Ben lead vocals

Aaron lead guitar.

Spring Showers

The saying "In like a lamb out like a lion" seems to be holding true here in summerville.About 1:00pm the clouds got dark and heavy and it began to rain.
Around 2:00pm Nick decided to see if he could capture the sights and sounds on DVD.
This is our driveway looking from the partially opened pedestrian door from the garage. when the storms came through it cooled down about 10 degrees. The showers continued until about 5:00pm.

House Help

When you have house dogs it can be an impossible task to keep the hair under control. We are really not house pet people. We just happenend to fall in love with the Cavalier King Charles breed. They are not outside dogs. They like to go outside a few times a day as long as it is not too wet, hot, cold or windy. Meet our new friend Hairry, he is going to sweep and vacumme the main floor everyday! He is an Irobot by Roomba. We purchased him at Costco!

I'll bet if there were a vacumme cleaner that were designed to look like a sports car (say a ferrari) the boys in the household would be fighting over who got to vacumme first!

Thats not to say my boys don't vacumme, they do and I am grateful. I just know it would be much more fun if.....

Second named storm of the season-Barry

This morning we awoke to the sound of rain!!!!!! We are grateful that Barry is bringing the much needed rain to the south. No wind yet, just rain:) Barry formed yesterday(fri June 1st) the first day of Hurricane season. It is 85 miles away from land in the Gulf of Mexico. There are warnings along the coast in Florida today. Barry is a Tropical storm with winds up to 50 miles as of 1200am. If you are interested in tracking the storm go to Live5news.com.

Yep.....another day at the beach...go figure

Darren went in the water first and came back, he forgot to take off his sunglasses. He told everyone that the water was freezing. They believed him for half a second and then started laughing at him......it was 75-78 degrees and they surfed for 2 1/2hrs. They would have stayed in longer but I was running out of beach as the tide was coming in and the sun was setting! We would love to put your picture here, when are you coming?

Aaron couldn't believe how warm the water was, he said "why didn't we move here sooner?"

The RMTC room!

The boys decided it would be fun to all room together. So we purchased 2 sets of bunkbeds and Darren and the boys put them together on Saturday.

Darren's Birthday

Today is Darren's birthday!

Can you guess how OLD he is?

I wonder what is in those packages?

A Ferrari, an exotic car book, golf tees and a really cool laser carved glass block.

The ferrari did not come with keys :(

It did come with directions for assembly!

We had some yummy Chocolate trufle cake after eating dinner at California Dreamin' on the Charleston Harbor!

Myrtle Beach

Darren having a quick piano lesson by his favorite teacher!

After driving to Myrtle Beach we stopped for lunch at Sonic.

Lots of sunshine and motorcycles here at Myrtle Beach today.

Laurel & Ben

Mothers Day and Homecoming Talk

Today is Mothers Day a beautiful day here in Summerville. This morning after sleeping in Darren and Joe made breakfast.

Darren and Ben spoke in Sacrament meeting and Ben received his mission plaque. Nick gave the lesson in priest quorum. After church we had a yummy Sunday dinner (yep homemade mashed potatoes) everyone helped make!
I was given my first pair of Croc's for Mothers Day!
Thanks boy's I love them:)