Morp

 Meg asked Rockwell to Morp. I didn't get pictures of the ask or the answer. Meg and her friends knew Rockwell was leaving Luke's house one day and so they were at his car with a poster that said, "I double dog dare you to go to Morp with me." Meg had her dog and Addie's dog with her. Haha. Rockwell, Luke, Levi and Ollie came over one night to make Rockwell's and Luke's answer posters. They got hot dogs and the posters said, "Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog" and then had a ton of random drawings and things written on them, with Yes written somewhere in there. They were laughing so hard while they made the posters, and the more random ideas they got, the harder they were laughing. It was so fun to listen to the boys absolutely laugh their heads off for a couple hours. 

The state track meet was the same day as Morp, and so they did their day date a couple days ahead. They went to the Riverwoods and did a picture scavenger hunt. Rockwell said it was a ton of fun!

Rockwell and Meg have been great friends since they were like 7 years old. So fun that they're still such good friends!

The theme for Morp was Hercules. Addie's parents took the pictures and had the boys flex. Rockwell was more than happy to show off his muscles. :)

Rockwell and Meg are both such awesome, good-hearted teenagers!! I just love them both!

Luke fell down.....apparently with some help from Levi :) Haha!!

The girls

The boys

They had dinner at Addie's house, went to the dance, and then watched Hercules after the dance. Rockwell said it was a super fun date!!

This & That

 Damon performed at Hope of America.

We took Sawyer with us and they were so excited to get treats while they waited for the show to start.

It's a very cool patriotic program and I'm glad Damon's class decided to participate. Damon really enjoyed it.

Damon applied for Student Council for next year. He was thrilled when he got his letter congratulating him on being selected!! He's going to do great on Student Council! He's very responsible, a hard worker, has great ideas, and is a really good leader.

I took Tessa and Finlee to do baptisms at the Lindon Temple. It's so great that the temple is operating now! Rockwell and his friends have gone twice this week. We love love love having a temple this close!

Rockwell earned Academic Excellence this year. Way to go Rockwell!

Tessa had her last choir concert. She hasn't loved choir at the junior high like she did in elementary, so she won't be taking the class next year. 

They sounded great though and we enjoyed hearing her sing one last time.

Vincent went over to Luke's last week and buzzed a few of the boys' hair. Rockwell was sad to see his curls go, but was ready for a simpler style for summer. Vince also convinced Rockwell to do an eyebrow slit. Rock was sleeping in on Monday (he doesn't feel the need to go to school the last week of school since he has all his work finished), and was woken up by Kennedy calling saying all the girls were dying their hair pink and they were on their way to pick Rockwell up to dye his pink too. It's hard to see the pink since Rockwell's hair is dark brown, but it's there. They also dyed the tiny part at the end of his eyebrow slit. Haha!

Tessa and Scout went to the high school to see the bunnies. There's a large population of bunnies on one of the fields at Timpanogos. This bunny was really friendly and the girls fell in love with her. Scout's parents said she could keep her for a pet and so they took her home. They named her Tilly, and Scout's parents said Tessa is her godmother and is welcome to go into their backyard anytime and play with her. Tessa is in heaven!!! Scout, Tessa, Mila and Brynn spent the weekend playing with Tilly. I went to run errands one day and saw the girls taking Tilly for a walk around the neighborhood in a wagon. It was so cute.

She drew Tilly for her daily sketch in art class. :)

Tessa made some cool stuff in her ceramics class this semester!

Utah Valley Best Of Winner

 The Murphy Barth Team is a Utah Valley Best Of Winner again this year!! (Theron and Jody didn't make it last minute, so Paul represented the team.)

The awards banquet was held at Wadley Farms. It's beautiful there!

We had a good laugh when we saw our name tags at our table. The Blarths, haha!!

We're so proud of you Paul! You definitely deserve this award!!

It was fun to see Paul and Theron in the Utah Valley Magazine!

Regionals - Pleasanton, CA

 Tessa and I flew to Pleasanton, California for her Regionals meet.

She asked if we could go back to Pier 39 since we were so close again. We had a few hours to kill until we could check into our hotel, so it was perfect.

This staircase was so cool! It plays notes with each step. We made some beautiful music. :)

We were so excited to go back to the Candy Baron and stock up on taffy again. :)

After we checked into our hotel, we went across the street to the mall. Regionals was in Pleasanton last year too, so we stayed at the same hotel and were so excited to go back to the mall. We had a lot of success! Macy's had a ton of clearance racks and we dug through them and found some super cute stuff. After dinner, we did a little shopping with Morgan and Stacey and then we went to the pool. Tessa and Morgan were making funny hairstyles. :)

We went back to the mall with Morgan and Stacey the next day and dug through more clearance racks. The girls were posing like all the mannequins. Haha!

Then it was meet time!!

Naomi, Tessa, Morgan, Ellie, Lexi, and Nellie

Arete started on floor and Tessa did great!! Her back was still hurting quite a bit, so we weren't sure how floor would go, but she did awesome. She scored 9.575.

Vault was next and she did well on that too! She scored 9.375.

Next was bars. She had a stall before her squat-on, but besides that she looked pretty good. I was shocked when her score was 8.225. I've watched the video and I can see it wasn't her strongest routine ever, but I'm honestly confused by that low of a score. A couple girls from her team fell, or lost their momentum and swung and swung trying to get it back, and they both scored higher than Tess. Stacey expressed her confusion and frustration with Tessa's score too and I appreciated that. It was frustrating.

Beam was last and she did well. It wasn't her strongest routine of the season, and she scored 8.75.

Tessa tied for 4th on vault.

And she tied for 5th on floor.

She tied for 11th place All-Around with 35.925.

Tessa was pretty disappointed, but she didn't stay feeling down for long. We went to dinner with Morgan and Stacey, and then Lexi and Staci came to our hotel and the girls swam. She had a lot of fun with her friends that night.