In Summer: Fourth of July

We honestly thought we would just be hanging out at home for the holiday. But instead, we got to go to Brianhead Ut. It was awesome. A lot of relaxing, followed by keeping babies from falling down the stairs, letting our kids enjoy real nature,and...a pie eating contest. Oh yes, Darbie and I were in a real life, whipped cream up the nose pie eating contest. It rocked. Bucket List: check!

24 Hours

I can't really blog about this one since I wasn't there, but Ryan went to Disneyland with Royce and Heather since it was open for 24 hours. And they stayed the entire 24 hours. The first thing they did was stand in line to meet Anna and Elsa...this cracks me up for some reason. And Ryan says he blew it...waited two hours and didn't even talk to Elsa...oh well!

So after what looks like a really exciting time, (and a nap), Ryan headed home. His expected arrival was 7pm. But...then he called and said that his transmission was out and he was stranded near Baker, CA. *Well...this was not good news. So I scrambled to get a babysitter and prepared to make the 2 hour drive to go get him and determine how to get our car home. But...thank goodness we know good people. Our mechanic was nice enough to come out and determine that it was toast, but filled it with enough transmission fluid to make sure he got home. So at 2 am, Ryan was home and the car was dead in the street. We really thought we were going to bury it and looked for a "new" car for about 5 days, but again the mechanic world came through and we got a new transmission for cheaper than we thought. So this car is on its 4th life...

would Ryan say that his 24 trip was worth it? Yes, yes he would. Am I extra extra glad that I refused to go? Yes, Yes I am.

We had some fun of our own...

 May 23 the kids celebrated summer birthdays at school...I was especially excited about this because I have a summer birthday and always felt forgotten at school...so I'm glad they got a chance :)

 Adam conquered these monkey bars...he was so proud of himself.

*Heather--you are not allowed to have ANY guilt about this trip :)

Utah Bound

My dad made a trip to Salt Lake City. We hadn't been there for awhile, and it's easier/cheaper to see him in Utah than flying to St. Louis, so we made the trip up for a few days. It is always super nice to see my family, esp my gpa who is almost 91. We also saw so many dear friends and it was especially good to see those who we normally miss on trips. Hopefully we'll get to see the rest of you next time :)

Thursday: After passing it on the 15 dozens of times, we finally stopped and toured Cove Fort. It was really awesome actually. Made me wish we were in Nauvoo. Then it was off to Royce and Heather's for a sleepover...thanks for letting us stay :)

Friday: spent the day at Gpa's and with cousins. It was a lot of fun to just soak up family. And of course we had to do all of the traditional things-play tennis and play on the pool table. Good times

Saturday-spent the morning with Dad, then headed to Provo--if you were not there then you should have been. Lunch at Chick fil A, BYU Astrofest, climbing the Y and Round Table pizza. Can't get any better than that.

Sunday-Lori and Ryan stayed up late making birthday magic for Lucy's birthday. And we had a really fun day going to church and celebrating Lucy's birthday before heading home. My babies also turned 18 months which makes them way too big to even think about :)

Thanks for having us Utah~until next time :)