Brooke's High School Graduation and Other Activities on Glen's Birthday

It has been a busy couple of months and I have fallen behind in blogging. Here's hoping I can even remember everything that has happened.

We attended Carson's band concert. He is a percussionist, and it was fun to watch him perform.

Sarah's family posted some photos of their staycation as they were doing fun things close to home.

Sarah has been running half marathons every chance she gets. She figures she trained to run in one and is going to keep her training up to compete in others once a month.

We watched her four boys overnight so Jeff could go with Sarah to spend the night in Provo and be there for her run the next morning.

While Jeff and Sarah were loading up on carbs in Provo...

We took the four boys to City Creek Center and let each one get a meal at their restaurant of choice at the food court.

We walked to the Brigham Young Memorial Park to attend a concert. As Lincoln looked over at the world map on the side of the Church Office Building, he said, "See, there's proof the world is oval."

It is a beautiful park to hold a concert. The boys explored the area by the water wheel and checked out the pioneer statue up in the tree area of the park.

Jeff perked up when we told him we had taken his boys to the Yahosh Bonner concert and shared that he had gone to school with Yahosh. 

Lincoln brought a fancy nightlight with him to help him sleep. The boys were great and Sarah survived her run. Yay!

Sarah asked for our help one evening when Jeff was out of town and her boys needed to go in three different directions. Sarah and Glen took the two baseball games. 

I chose to go to Jonah and Carson's piano recital. I loved it! All the students did a great job and were so cute announcing their songs and then bowing after their performances.

When we were all gathered back at Sarah's home, Jonah happily played his recital song for Glen and then showed him all the cool things their new piano keyboard can do.

Brooke Golden has graduated from high school! Hurrah!! 

She had a triangle by her name on the program indicating biliteracy. She speaks both English and French as she has been in French immersion all through elementary school up through high school. 

Dallas posted a beautiful tribute acknowledging Brooke's accomplishment. 

Madison invited us to go to her volleyball game later that afternoon. Eli had invited us to go to his last baseball game, so we had to divide and conquer. 

I went to Madison's volleyball game. She was a pretty good little server. After one scoring point, she turned around to make sure we had all seen her great serve.

Glen went to Eli's baseball game. It was the championship game, and they won the championship. 

As luck would have it, the opposing team was being coached by Seth Allen, Jacob's boyhood best friend from Georgia. Two of Seth's boys were playing on the opposing team. It was fun for Glen to catch up with Seth.

Since it was Glen's birthday, the Excells wanted to treat him to a birthday dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings (with Glen paying, of course).

The birthday kept right on giving as Glen went to the airport at midnight to pick up Abe and Newland. They had arrived in town to participate in the BYU Fathers and Sons Camp. They had such a great time last year that they wanted a repeat of the experience again this year.

The next day Abe was the fun uncle who gathered the boy cousins together to have some hours of play time before Abe and Newland headed down to Provo.

More about the Fathers and Sons Camp to follow...