An Impromptu Trip to Utah

Bethany had to have emergency surgery to remove her gallbladder (this is what they determined she had--Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses) so I got to get a quick trip to Utah to take care of her and it turned cold and snowy. Since I was there I decided to try and get some good pictures of the scenery.

State Swim Finals

A quick post with the link to Ryan's 200 IM

video

http://www.swimmingworld.tv/2009-az-5a-championships/tag/di-mens-200-im

heat 2 at the bottom of the page

You're Never Too Old to Play in the Park!!

As the kids

have gotten older I don't think about taking them to the park like I did when they were young. These pictures are a good reminder that

you are never too old

to swing or sit under a nice shady tree at the park.

SSHHH!!!! Don't Tell

Did it turn out??

Best Buds

***Green Valley Park in Payson***

A Long Time Coming

It has been quite a while since a have posted, ok, not since school was out. School being out hasn't meant down time at the Vigil household. Baseball games several nights a week, early morning swim practice and early afternoon swim practice, piano, work for all they guys in the family and time just seems to slip away.

Promise I have lots of pictures to share and stories to tell, stay tuned...

Justin's Mission update

It has been a long wait and some hard decisions to make, but Justin has decided to accept an honorable release for medical reasons. I know that he really wanted to go out in the mission field and serve, but Heavenly Father apparently has other plans for him. This has been hard to accept, no one saw it coming but reality has sunk in.

Justin will continue to attend MCC this coming year, probably earning an AA degreee before moving on to a university. Or he may go to a university sooner, who knows, time will tell. He does have to figure out what direction he wants to head now, he has most of the general ed classes done and will have to start taking major specific classes.

Ryan's Baseball Banquet

Mesa High,

another year done,

another baseball season past,

one more to go, how time flies...

Are you ready for this?

"What can I say about Ryan?? Oh ya, I got it, tell about his grand slam."

One Grand Slam is good for another. I was able to get Denny's to donate 5 Grand Slam Breakfasts so each of the 5 grand slams hit this season were aptly rewarded. Ryan happened to have hit one of the grand slams (if you missed the video, see it here --http://keepingvigilonthevigils.blogspot.com/2009/04/baseball-players-dream-come-true.html

Mrs. Downs took some wonderful pictures and spent a lot of time putting this collage together, she made a custom one for each of the team members

Alyssa School Awards Assembly

Alyssa's First Award was for Academic Excellence, she had to maintain a GPA of 4.0 or higher for the first three quarters of the year. Here is Mr. Johnson explaining the award. The video isn't very good because of the view we had and the people in front of us were moving causing the camera to not be able to focus very well-oh well, we got the audio.

Here is her award:

The second award that she received was the Mayor Citizenship Award. Students who received this award had to meet the following criteria:

• consistently demonstrates honesty in behavior and work habits
• works cooperatively with others
• respects rules and follows directions
• displays self-control
• takes responsibility for his or her actions
• respects the opinions, rights, and property of others
• shows community spirit by participating in volunteer or extra-curricular activities