Katie was the GSL Female Scholar Athlete for University High School

All the school in the GSL, the sports league, pick one girl and one boy from their school to be the scholar athlete for their school for the year.  Katie was chosen to be the female scholar athlete for her high school.  There are 15 schools in the GSL so there were 30 kids that were recognized. (Actually there were 31 because there were twin sisters recognized from Mead High School.) We got to attend a luncheon at Centerplace where they called each kid up and read a bio about them and recognized them for being the scholar athlete from their school.  It was pretty awesome!

 

Mr University

Mr University is a fun tradition at U-High.  Senior boys are nominated by their teachers to compete for the title of Mr University.  They have to do a 2 minute speech, answer and impromptu question, and do a talent.  Some of the talents are real and some of them are silly.  This event is typically sponsored by the cheer leaders, but the cheer leading coach just had a baby and so the cheer leaders were not able to sponsor it this year.  Katie and 3 off the cheerleaders, Shelby Zehm, Haylee Barlow, and Claire Deyarmin, decided that they wanted to organize it and put it on. They did an awesome job.  Katie was the MC for the evening.  The boys were hilarious.  It was a super fun evening.  

 

Easter 2022

Tanner came up and celebrated Easter with us this year.  I was lame and didn't get any Easter presents.  But I did make Easter breakfast and hid Easter eggs.  It was fun to have everyone together at church.  We had Easter dinner at our house and invited Jon and Michelle and their kids, Devony and Jett Damiono because their parents are out of town, and Don Thornton because he was home all alone.  

 

Mod Prom 2022

The Valley Stake hosted a Mod (Modest) Prom. Katie and her friends decided that they wanted to go. So they got all dressed up, took pictures at Emma Sautter's house, went to dinner at HuHot, and then went to the dance that was held at Centerplace.  They had lots of fun together and looked absolutely amazing.  

Emma Sautter, Devony Damiono, Katie, Kendyll Fry, Mary Gubler

 

Italy Trip Day 13

 Today we have to head home.  We have had a wonderful trip and are sad to see it end.  We took a taxi to the train station and took a train to the airport.  We went through security super fast and then had to sit in the airport for a while.  We got some food.  Then we had to say goodbye to Jessy and Grammy.  Grammy is flying home to NY with Jessy and staying to visit her for a few weeks.  Their plane left a little earlier than ours.  After we said goodbye, Katie and I got gelato one more time and then went and got on our plane.  We didn't get to have Delta comfort this time, but at least we had the side 2 seats again.  I watched 5 movies on our 10 hour flight to Atlanta.  We had to go through immigration and customs in Atlanta and recheck our bags and go through security again.  We had dinner at Chic-Fil-A.  We flew to Salt Lake and then to Spokane.  We got home about 1am.  At least we got to go to sleep when we got home.  It was an awesome trip that we will forever remember!

Italy Trip Day 12

We went and saw the inside of the Pantheon.  There was a high school choir from Pennsylvania there singing in the Pantheon.  The acoustics were so cool.  then we went to the Vatican City and saw St. Peter's Basilica.  It is the largest cathedral in the world.  We went to the Vatican Museum and the Sistine Chapel where we had a guided tour that was very interesting. We had a late lunch and we think the owner of the restaurant thought the waiter was rude to us (we couldn't understand because they were speaking Italian) but they kept bringing us free food.  We had a 6 course meal and we only ordered 1.  It was super delicious and we were super hungry. Then we went up on top of the Victor Emmanuel Monument and saw the incredible view of Rome.  We went and watched the sun set from the Spanish Steps.  And sadly, we had our last gelato.  

Inside the Pantheon

Raphael's burial place

High school choir from Pennsylvania

Castel Sant'Angelo

St Peter's Basilica

Michelangelo's Pieta

St Peter, you can no longer rub his foot.  There are guard rails up around the statue. 

The alter in St Peter's Basilica

St Andrew

Christ, Peter on the left, Paul on the right and the Pope on the bottom

This was originally painted by Raphael.  They have since removed the original painting and put it in the Vatican Museum.  This is actually a mosaic now made of tiny little pieces of tile. 

St Longinvs.  He was the Roman Centurion that was at Christ's crucifixion.  He was converted at that time and went on many missions and was eventually martyred for his beliefs. 

St Peter's square

Courtyard in the Vatican Museum

Raphael painting in the Vatican Museum

Raphael painting in the Vatican Museum

Fun late lunch

Views from the Victor Emmanuel Monument

Sunset on the Spanish Steps

Last gelato