Eagle Court of Honor

If you haven't taken us off your places to check... It's only been a month (okay, almost 2)David has now received his Eagle Scout award. The ceremony was great. The Gwilliam relatives were represented by Chris and Bob, Anne and Kevin, and Grandma Gloria. The Wallet relatives were represented by Grandma Rhoda, and she came the farthest. Glad to have everyone who came and made the day more special for David.

We also had many friends and neighbors join us. The high school drumline played for us and the program went smoothly.

When it was all over, there was a surprise for David arranged by his father. David's cousin, Justin Gwilliam is a pilot and set up with a friend to meet Bruce and David at the Ogden airport for a flight. The surprise was on Bruce though because Murphy's law took effect so the flight didn't happen until the next Saturday. It was great fun and huge thanks to Justin and friend.

Homecoming!

The Marching Band led the Homecoming Parade! If you look carefully after the saxophones, as the snare drums come past, David is closest to me.

The parade was on Thursday and the dance was on Saturday. David and his buddy Connor (who goes to the rival H.S. took Melissa (blonde, from Connor's school) and Kelly (from David's school)

Vacation, Part 2

One of my favorite things to do is watch wild critters. I went on a little boat to see the seals at Catalina Island. There were several "rafts" of them. They tie into kelp beds to sleep and raise their flippers to keep cool. One came to the boat to sight see back at us.

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Our ship "Monarch of the Seas". The black rectangle is a tarp that protects the ship from the fumes of the ferry boats that we rode in to the island

In Ensenada, Mexico...
This is "La Bufadora" which the guide told us means, Buffalo Snort. Cute, huh! Chelley and Lorraine saw it from the top, Bruce and David kayaked to it and enjoyed that very much. It sprayed way high to us at the top so it must have seemed way huge from sea level.

Chelley and Lorraine enjoying the Pacific Ocean at La Bufadora.

Chelley's Photos

Our hotel room veiw. It's Disney's California Adventure.
The movie/t.v. studio
Park jumper pass Big bear rock in California Adventure
Mommy and Chelley talked to Crush!
Shamu rocks in San DiegoCatalina Island 1

Catalina Island 2

Catalina Island 3

towel Elephant

Bunny Rabbit

Vacation Part 1

Well, we've been home long enough for me to get my pictures on the computer. Now let's see if I can get them here. We went to California, driving all night so that we got there too early to check into our room so we took a little L.A. tour. Chelley got some good pictures of the studios we passed. They sure looked fun with murals and giant posters of their t.v. shows and movie characters. Our main goal on this sight-seeing expedition was to find the Hollywood sign. Success! This was the closest we could get to it. Went back to the hotel, but on the way we found this...

It's our Tiffy! Missed you Tiff.

Anyhow, our room was great and looked out over "California Adventure" park. We didn't spend a lot of time there, tho. Too much else to see and do. Disney World was great and we had lots of time to see everything we wanted to.

In TomorrowLand, David and I both got to try the Segway.

David also got to play with the electric instruments in the idea house.