Catching Up

Lately our lives have been filled with lots of fun outings with family and friends! It's a good thing, cause the home front feels a little CRAZY sometimes!  My cousin Marianne is STILL with us!  We have our ups and downs, but Jeff and I are learning A LOT about ourselves and how to help others!  No date yet as to when she'll be moving to her new place in Payson, but keep us in your prayers!  :)  We certainly feel them!


At the end of July the kids and I headed to Colorado for a week for my nephew Wes' baptism!  It was a MUCH needed break from the craziness at home!  The kids and I had soooo much fun with my sister Diane and her family!  We wish we could've stayed forever!  I just love how my nieces and nephews play so well with my kids, and it's always a blast just hanging with my sister!  Thanks for taking such good care of us!  We also love going to Colorado because we get to see our old friends the Hardy's!  Well now our old friends the Willey's are there, too!  We hooked up with Amber and RaQuelle and their kids for a few hours to swim at Windsor lake!  LOVED catching up with these girls!  We've been friends since our days in the good ol' student ward!










We've kept a couple of our Summer traditions this year by going to Thanksgiving Point on $2 Tuesdays and taking a Sweet's Candy Factory tour!  This summer we hit them both with our good friends the Bertola's!  Love these guys and their Mom and Dad, too!

Jeff's mother graduated from BYU a little over a week ago!  We are so very proud of her and her accomplishments!  Way to go Debi!  We even supported her by wearing a little blue and letting the kids put BYU tatoos on their faces!  GO UTES!!!  (You expected me to say go cougars, but I didn't!  Ha!!!)  We had such a FANTASTIC weekend hanging with Jeff's family!  His sister's, Penney and Dawn, came with their kids!  We do not get to see them nearly as much as we should!  It's been YEARS!  Jeff's Aunt Bobbie and Uncle Mark came as well!  With Clay and Trish and their kids, Uncle and Jackie, and everyone else I mentioned, we sure had a huge party!  We miss everyone already!

The boys are getting so excited for school to start!  When cousins start so many weeks before them, they get a little antsy!  They found out who their teachers will be Friday night!  Chad has a new teacher to his school and Kyle has a different teacher than Chad had last year, so we're in for surprises and we're excited!  They each have at least one good freind in their classes, so that's good!  To celebrate school starting soon, we invited a few friends over for a late-over!  We had pizza, popcorn, games, and a movie!  They started Summer break with a party with these same boys, and it was fun to get them all together again!

Not sure that I'm ready for the routine to start up again....wait, YES I am!  I am really excited!  I like routines!  I've been very lazy this Summer and slept in MOST days!   School starts the 25th for Chad and the 1st for Kyle!  First day of school pictures to be posted SOON!