April

Tired boys

 Starting out a new month with Spring break!  On Monday we headed down to Pahrump, NV, where we were staying while visiting Death Valley.  We went down with Catheys. 

  

April 2021

 Back in 2021, while heading down to St. George with the Catheys, we found this pizza place in Cedar City.  The Pizza Cart.  

April 2024

On our way down we decided to try it again.  Still just as good.  We get the chicken, bacon, ranch style pizza.  Yummy!

We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express.  Nice hotel, clean...but the best feature were the employees.  Everyone we came in contact with was so friendly and helpful!

They recommended Mom's Place for dinner.  Food was good.  

After dinner we headed back and went swimming.  They keep the pool at a nice warm temp so you can swim.  

That night Jacob was not feeling well and wanted to go home.  So on Tuesday, after breakfast, we packed up and drove home--Catheys stayed and went to Death Valley. 

General Conference weekend.  Saturday we were at home.  In the afternoon Jason and Jacob went out driving with the 4 Runner so Jacob could learn to drive a stick shift.  

Wrestling with Robbie

Sunday afternoon we went to Randy's for dinner and watch the afternoon session.  It was a good conference.

Photo Bomb!

Cory Isileli, Max Solis, (some I don't know), Chris
Light, Jaxon Ward, Sam Smith, Jacob, Ueseli Isileli
Bishop Watson, Nate Ridge, Mark Petty, Ashley
Bolingbroke, Tyson Forbes, Claire and Halie Pettey, Kora
Spilette, Scott Spilker, Corinne Ellingson, Lindsey Forbes,
Amy Labram, Kara Reeve

For the youth activity they took the kids downtown to the Church history museum.  Jacob seemed to have a good time and enjoyed photo bombing the girl's picture.  

In March we had the Republican caucus.  In our precinct meeting Jason and I were voted in to be the County Delegates for our area.  We were to vet the candidates for the Republicans:  County Mayor, County Council at Large-C, County Surveyor, our school board, and our State representative. 

Over the past month we've done zoom meetings, gone to meetings, done meet and greets with the different candidates to learn more about them and what they stand for.  It is an interesting process. 

The convention was on Saturday, April 13th at Cottonwood HS.  There was a meet and greet from 8-10 a.m. and the convention began at 10 a.m.  

Pano picture of the auditorium

They did a pledge, opening message, rules of order, some reports and then candidates for County Mayor, County Council and Surveyor spoke for 3 mins each before we voted on which one we wanted to send to the November election.  

After they spoke we marked our ballots and then stood to go down to the front where they marked our badges and put our ballot in the box.  They were very specific about this so to prevent and ballot box stuffing.  That is one thing about our voting system...it is taken very seriously to make sure it is followed correctly.  

Bring the ballot up to the front, get your card
marked, the box holder moves his hand from
the hole and you drop in your ballot.

This took until almost 1:15, we left before the last reports were done--went outside to grab lunch from a food truck before the voting began.  At 2 p.m. we went back in to vote for school board member and our State House representative.  

It is an interesting process and those running it really tried to make it as stream lined as possible.  

The next week we had our concrete sealed.  First they spray everything down and get it clean and then it is sealed.  It really does put a barrier on it.  A few days later it rained and the rain doesn't really soak in.

I am now in our ward Activity Days.  This is my second year and overall it goes pretty well.  In April they held Stake Activity Day.  We used to do this when I was in the Stake, but we only did for girls since the boys had scouts.  Now they do it with both.  It is a lot of work!  They do a great job with it, but I'm glad we only had to do girls when I was in.  The theme was Book of Mormon stories.  

You came into the gym and they had a small table for each ward around the room.  On the table was a "Tree" with fruit snacks attached to represent the tree of life. 

Then they had 4 break out rooms.  The first was where they made their own Golden Plates, the 2nd was a Jeopardy style game about the Book of Mormon, the 3rd was a room where they made their own Liahona using Christmas balls on top of a gold colored nut cup.  4th they had games tossing the arms of the Laminates and shooting bows representing when Nephi broke his bow.  

Jacob got a job!  He is a sweeper at Willow Springs Elementary and working with Jaxon!  He has done a great job coming home, getting his things done, going to work, and coming home to finish things up.  I think it will be a good experience.  For the summer he has applied for a job at the district in IT.  Hopefully he gets that.  

Now that Jacob is working he got his own key to the 4 Runner.  He was pretty happy.

We were going to to a lunch for mom on her birthday, but she got sick, so we did it a week later.  I made this S'mores cake.  It was good, but a lot of work--I don't think I'd do it again. 

It was a Joy's with Gayle, Mom, Matthew and me.  

The last weekend of the month the Young Men went down to Goblin Valley overnight. They played laser tag in the hoodoos and even though it rained, Jacob said it was fun.  

Kim Stewart came into town and we got together with her for dinner.  Joy couldn't come--was in Mexico.  Fun to see everyone.

Kieran Stewart, Sharon Price Hutchinson, Shelley Anderson Cole, Me, Jennifer Stein Edwards, Kimberley Stewart