More Fireworks

 Kimo wanted to go see the SeaWorld fireworks over Memorial Day weekend.

This one is curly!

Love the purple blast lighting up everything purple

End of the Tom-Era in Nursery

Tom was released from Nursery after 

serving as leader for several years.

Tom is good with the little ones 🧡

He played with them in "the big room".

And got on the floor with them.

He gave them consistency, patience and structure.

Emi served with him and I was in there quite a bit, too.

Tom taught them that Jesus loves them and that he does as well!

                                  It will be fun seeing these little ones grow up.
 

Redlands Temple

 Made an overnight trip to Redlands to go to the temple with the family! None of us had ever been to this temple, so we were excited to go and do baptisms for the dead.

Beautiful blue sky backdrop!

So good to be with Tom (kids, too) in the temple!

Then surprised the kids by making an appointment 

at Noobs Virtual Reality!  They thought we were going to an Abraham Lincoln museum, which would have been cool, too, but we tricked them to give them a nice surprise. I've not experienced VR much, but this turned out to be very fun after learning some of the do's and don'ts, ie., how to not run into each other or the walls.

Bathroom was cool

There were four different scenarios for our session: Aliens, ogres,
zombies and lazer tag. Kimo knew how to play most of the games,
so he outscored the rest of us by a wide margin!

When I took a break to get a drink, I got to witness the family interacting 

with the VR scenes and objects.

Redlands was once the world's largest navel orange producing region. 
You can see reminders of that throughout the town.  







Ventured into Umbrella Alley

Colorful!

Had a really good time with my family on this trip, but it will be good to sleep in my own bed tonight!

 

ARM Cuauhtémoc

Went out this morning to watch this Mexican Naval 

training ship come thru the bay.

Seal

Small ray

Couple of garibaldi 

Navy ship heading out to sea

 

Beach + Misc.

We often go to the beach to watch the sunset.

The light was beautiful today, making sun rays and 

sun puddles.

The sunlight made the horizon a beautiful white line!

Love this green wave!

Tom and the kids got me a Costco tuxedo cake for Mother's Day-oh, ya!

Tom and Kimo have such identical bodies-it's weird

Tom brushes my hair for me and then braids it up
and he's getting pretty good at it!  I can't braid 
behind my head very well, hence my side braid,
so Tom will do it for me. He was marveling at
all the different colors in my hair-I do have a lot!

 

May the 4th Be With You

Fun theme for the YW Dessert Auction this year-Star Wars!

Gave Elder Barlow the cookies we bid on and sent this picture to his mother! 

Brother Larson, husband of the YW Pres. did a good job as the auctioneer!

2nd dessert we won, a yummy pecan pie!

Sent this pic to Leann who's out of town

 

I made a yummy chocolate pie with edible letters spelling, "BID".  You can just see the edge of Emi's "Flan Solo".