D & B DeWitt Family

I walked today.  Here is why.  After returning from Hawaii - later in the blog - I had been asked to help chaperon a choir/orchestra/band field trip to Thatcher, Arizona, about a 3 hour drive.  The bus I was on had only the choir kids, about 25.  The bus driver was kinda mean, the teacher had to be strict to keep the kids in line and I mostly observed.  After performing their 2 numbers at Eastern Arizona College, where there was the best, greenest, softest grass ever,

 we waited for the orchestra to be done.  We knew we had boys on our bus that had to return as close to 3pm as possible because of sporting events that they were involved in, so that meant we had to leave before noon if possible.  (And we still had to stop and get lunch somewhere, and as mentioned before about the mean bus driver, we weren't going to be allowed to eat on the bus. Not one thing).  To shorten the story, we did NOT get off before noon and it was going to be a close call.  About an hour into our trip home, we came to NON-MOVING traffic.  NON-MOVING for 2 hours +.  There had been a fatal accident about a mile- mile and a half ahead of us and it was just sit and wait time.  There are only two lanes of traffic - no side roads, no shoulders to try and drive on - NADA, ZILCH, NOTHING.  No bathrooms.  We didn't get back to the school until after 5pm.  11 hours on a bus (mostly) with 30 teenage kids.  That is why I walked today.

smoothie mustache. Jonathan is so proud.

Now....Doug and I decided to jump on a plane to Hawaii and surprise Jill.  She was going to be walking through the graduation ceremony, although she won't be officially done until August, at BYUH.  She was totally shocked!  It doesn't look like it on the video though, because Vin was sleeping and she had to be quiet. II'm sorry. I've been working on downloading it and of course there is a problem, so I'll work on it and hopefully post it later.)  It was great.  Jason ALMOST ruined the surprise, but that will remain non-discussed.  We were there 5 glorious days, being with Vin, Jill & Jonathan and of course, getting to the beach 3 of those days.  The weather was great, but the waves were killer.  Not too great for Doug to do his snorkling.  Here's a few pictures!!!

The family will love this one.

             

Cute family!

a big one.

I love this!

In the ladies bathroom.

Jonathan faceplant-but saved Vin........Vin in his casual eating preference.

Jill not as brave.

My pictures are a disaster.  I can't figure out this new post settings and I am struggling to figure out how to move my pic's and comment on them.  I have given up.  If any of you want to see most of my picturers, and there are some cute ones of Jill's family, go to Costco.com....click on their photo tab...sign in to my account: reebeck10@juno.com/password is melvin find the Hawaii album.  I think this should work.  http://www.costcophotocenter.com/album/

All these pictures were shot with just my little point and shoot camera - Sony.  I'm pretty impressed.