The Lovell Family Happenings

I have been writing down some of my thoughts because it seems that every time I sit down at this computer I can't think of what I'd like to share.
But before I get all philosophical let me tell of our "family happenings".

I last posted about events in January, February and March.  In April Kenyon and Addy took us to the Clark County fair for my birthday!  It was a lot of fun.  The rodeo was the best I have been to in a long time.

Daniel and Kaitlyn

Daren and I, with our Kanab buddies went for a ride down to Lake Havasu.   It was a great ride!  When we arrived at our destination we were all pretty hot.  The temperature was in the 90's.  We were all geared up in our leathers or other gear and it's great when you are moving but when you stop and it's that hot....

dipping our feet in the pool felt heavenly!

Daren and I at the London Bridge

Easter was different this year.  We usually go camping but Daniel had water polo so we just went out west for a picnic and to roll our easter eggs.  But that morning we had our big Easter Egg Hunt and had to find where that crazy rabbit had hidden all the Easter Baskets!

After watching Daniel play water polo we headed out for our picnic.   The stakes were high this year for the Egg Rolling Contest... the winner would take home the amazing trophy!

As you can see Taleena and Aspen won!!!  Kaity and Daniel were in a close 2nd but the scale tipped to Taleena when the judge Duke admitted he didn't want the trophy at our house.  He is crazy!!  It is truly an honor to house that awesome trophy until the next big Easter Egg Rolling Contest!

April has been a good month!  My birthday was wonderful.   It started out by my awesome students bringing me some cute gifts!  Erika took me out to lunch!  We went to this smoothie place in town and got tacos and smoothies, YUM!  Daren surprised me by coming to the smoothie shop with birthday flowers and some wonderful news!  He got a phone call from the president of SUU regarding Cole.  He told Daren that Cole was well on his way to getting his degree and the university wanted to present one of us with it at SUU's graduation.  We were overcome with joy and gratitude for them remembering Cole and wanting to recognize him!

Graduation was on Friday and it was an emotional day but a good one.  As I walked from the parking lot to the centrum many graduates were in their robs anxious to get to their graduation ceremony.  I had to fight back tears and the realization hit me that even though I was there for Cole I would not actually get to see him accept his degree.  I know he was there and walked across that stage with Taleena as they told about his accomplishments, fight with cancer,  and his death.  As Taleena walked off the stage she received a standing ovation as the crowd stood to honor her and Cole.  

Probably the hardest part of the day was during the ceremony when all the graduates came walking into the centrum and a cute little girl behind us started saying, "where's my daddy?"  and then when she saw him she was so excited and " yelled a few times, "there's Daddy, there's Daddy!"  Taleena broke down and I couldn't hold back the tears either.  What a bitter sweet day.  (I will post pictures soon.)

We are so grateful to SUU for honoring Cole.  The administration at SUU have been amazing!

I have run out of time.  Sometime, hopefully soon, I'll write about my healing process and progress.