Spring continues in Utah

Just when I get my garden going finally it has to go and snow again. What ever happened to April Showers. They weren't meaning SNOW I am pretty sure. Oh well it is water in some form I guess.

We had a great visit with Friederike's family last week. We visited Salt Lake City and Temple Square and ate dinner up at the Roof Restauraunt which is on the 9th floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building and watched the sunset and the lights of the city come on. It was fun and beautiful.

We had a BBQ on the one nice day and lots of family and friends came to meet the Baumgaertner family. Alot of them spoke German also which was fun.

The real fun treat was my neighbor who served a mission in Germany and also lived their with his family for a few years took all of us flying in his Ultra light flyer. We got to fly all over the town and buzz our house and it was alot of fun.

Everyone is doing great and Sarah finished out the semester at BYU and moved home. She will have to retake Calculus, but was greatful for a D not an F. Now to just find her a summer job.

Spring in Utah

We are enjoying A typical spring in Utah. Which means 65 degrees one day and 29 degrees and snow the next day and back to warm then cold. But the flowers are finally starting to bloom. And a couple of weeks ago we built more garden boxes and moved my old garden boxes to their new area.

Since I last posted I have seen the passing of my Aunt Sandra Glade, my Uncle Bill Friemarck and my Grandma Smith who was 101 years old. They will all be dearly missed, especially Grandma.

We did some fun activities this winter like ice skating at the Olympic Oval and tubing at Soldier Hollow. Some of the other Exchange students and their families joined us.

Warren and I also took a trip to California and visited a walrus beach near Monteray Bay.

I have started taking an oil painting class and about half way through my first two paintings. One is of the old tree at Monteray Bay, California and the other is a sunset in the mountains. I hope to learn the techniques well enough to paint my own large sceneries in the future.

Elder Leigh Clyde is continueing to do well in Jamaica and is looking great. He will return to us on August 14th this year. I look forward to seeing him and hugging him.

Sarah is struggling with her first semester of college away from home and living with roommates and hard college classes. She will be happy to be home for the summer.

Marie tried out for and made the Musical Theater class at Lehi High School next year and is very excited about that. She also can't wait to go to Young Ambassador Camp this summer.

Brian will turn 13 on the 27th of April and just had his board of review for his Eagle Rank in Boy Scouts. We did his Eagle project in November and he finished his last 4 merit badges this past month. This was a goal that he set for himself and worked very hard at including adding a week long Leadership campout last summer in order to get enough camping days for his camping merit badge. I am very proud of him and how hard he has worked. He will wait to have his Eagle Court of Honor until his big brother gets home so that Leigh can sit in his Eagles Nest.

Friederike's family is here visiting America from Germany. She flew out and joined them this past week as they visited death valley and Sequoia National forest and other places in California.

They will arrive back in Utah tomorrow where we will show them the beauties of Utah.

Life is wonderful.