May 2003

May is always a busy month -- or did I say that last month? Time just seems to fly by. We seemed to spend the month attending spring recitals and end of year school programs.

Spring soccer games for Madeleine and Clark were rained out a few times, but finished on a strong note. Tess got to spent a couple of days at a BYU volleyball camp with a friend from school.

Mothers Day was nice. Tess accompanied Loren, who played "Songs My Mother Taught Me" in sacrament meeting. Pat, Wally and Aunt Shirley came over later for dinner.

Alan's dad, Wally, was honored at a Rotary Dinner where he was installed as the District Governor for Utah. It was a nice dinner and program and it looked like everyone involved with Rotary was glad to have Wally in charge of things this year.

Matt's Graduation from Medical School
My brother Matt graduated from The University of Utah Medical School this past month. I guess we have to call him Dr. Morgan from now on. He looks like a doctor -- only because he is sporting a couple of "medical" ties that we gave him upon graduation. He, Elasha and their two kids have already moved up to Spokane, Washington, where he will do a one year internship and where she will enjoy living in a house with twice the square footage of their last apartment and a fenced-in back yard where the kids can play without constant supervision! (Can kids really play without constant supervision?)

Clark did successfully give his animal report on the Bactrian Camel and then was lucky enough to go on a Kindergarten field trip to the Hogle Zoo where he was able to see one up close and personal. Our other children are often jealous of Clark and want to go back to Kindergarten again -- for that matter, I wouldn't mind going back to Kindergarten, too.

Phillip and Loren completed their art portfolios for AP Art and have sent their five best pieces along with slides of all their work to be judged and scored. We find out their scores sometime in July. Loren took the AP Statistics test and Phillip took the AP French test -- scores also in July.

Mr. Ong, the AP art teacher, was able to get the school's Black Box Theater on a Friday night and all the friends and families of the AP art students were invited to a slide show exhibiting all the work each student had done during the past two years. There was a lot of amazing talent displayed that night and it was a nice opportunity to congratulate all the artists.

Memorial Day
Memorial Day weekend was busy with Matt's graduation and family get-to-gether on Saturday, taking Aunt Shirley and visiting four cemeteries on Sunday, and celebrating Loren's and Phillip's birthdays on Monday.

Loren and Phillip turn 18!
We played a little family baseball game in the front yard, ate homemade ice cream sandwiches and did gifts. By request, we had a special enchilada dinner that evening. We had to celebrate early because the boys left early the morning of the 28th -- their real birthday -- for a Senior river running trip on the Colorado River for three days.

We finished up the month tending Talmage (3 1/2) and Julia (2) (Matt and Elasha's kids) for a couple of days while they took a off for a week in Puerto Rico between graduation and their big move. It turned out it was the same night the ward rescheduled the Fathers and Sons campout, so Alan was gone with Elliot and Clark, Phillip and Loren were on their Senior trip, and the girls spent the evening with friends. So, there we were, Talmage, Julia and I -- that was a little strange....

With a huge final effort, Loren was able to get the Spring issue and the Senior issue of The Wire off to press. Both issues turned out great and I know he learned a lot from his experience as editor-in-chief.

Waterford Graduation
Even though the last days of school fell in the month of June, I want to include information about them in our May page because it will seem anti-climactic to tell you about it a whole month from now. School finished up on Tuesday the 3rd and Phillip and Loren graduated on Thursday the 5th. The day started with a Senior Breakfast at one of the kids' houses, followed by a rehearsal at Libby Gardner Hall at the University of Utah. It is a beautiful new building with a fabulous organ. We had to be there early with Tess -- she played in the orchestra -- so we got really good seats.

Instead of caps and gowns the senior girls wore white dresses with white shoes and the guys wore white slacks, light blue oxford shirts and their navy school blazers. They had a processional with the boys and the girls paired up and walking in together. It was a very nice program with good music and a couple of great talks. There was a reception afterwards at Waterford and then we headed home to rest, open gifts and order Chinese food.

It was a great day, except that poor Phillip didn't feel as well as he would have liked to. We had all taken turns with a bit of the stomach flu and for some reason his bout with it lasted several days. We did mange to get him feeling well enough, however, to be able to go that night on the Mystery Tour. A few teachers took all the seniors on the school bus for a night filled with surprise activities. They left at 8:00 at night and returned about 8:00 in the morning. They had fun driving go carts, going to Park City to a cabin where they could play games, watch movies or sleep, and going out to breakfast. They both came home and slept a good part of the day away -- no surprise there!

We want to thank everyone who has supported both Loren and Phillip through their educational pursuits thus far. It's kind of a happy sad time for them to be finished with Waterford, but they are very much looking forward to BYU this fall.

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