.: June 2010

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Cafe Rio

We are so happy to see the Nalians! We went to lunch today at Cafe Rio then went to the Orem Mall for fun! The girls are so funny!

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Chelsie's hand actually looks a bit better already, we cleaned it up and added some neosporin so hopefully it will heal quickly! Poor thing was looking at pictures from earlier in the day and said, "That's when I had two good hands!"

A Whole Lotta Road Rash Going On

Scott and Chelsie got banged up on the Alpine Slides. Look how white he is underneath!!! Chelsie got it in about 4 spots but her left hand looks bad. 2nd degree road rash is not pretty! She's being a real trooper, we will try to post more pics when we change the dressing!

Having Fun before the Crash

Park City, UT

Oquirrh Temple

Our new house is fairly close to the temple!

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Offer accepted!

This should be our new home in about 30 days!!! We are very excited! It is just over 3900 sf including the unfinished bsmt, which we hope to finish right away.

View from the Balcony

This is the view from the balcony of the condo we are staying in. What a great reminder of the blessings of the temple. We are soooo grateful to the Fenn's and the Hill's for allowing us to stay here while we are in transition. It is an awesome place to be! We put in an offer on a house in South Jordan last night, so we are just waiting to hear back.

Monday, June 21, 2010

College Man

Here we are dropping Wes off at BYU. He's all moved in!

Friday, June 18, 2010

A whirlwind of a week....

This has been a crazy week. The movers picked up our things last Thursday, and we have wonderful friends who put us up and helped us during our last days in Castaic. Thank you!!! We love you all! Sunday we started our drive, stopping in Las Vegas to spend the night with family. Sorry we didn't make it in time for your farewell talk, Judd, but thanks for letting us come over and visit with you. You're going to be a great missionary! Monday morning, we left bright and early to finish our journey. We stopped in Beaver UT for lunch and found the weather in the low 60s---we were a bit underdressed! One thing we've found about wherever we go in UT, people are so friendly! We arrived into Provo late afternoon, packed up Scott's apartment, dropped off stuff at our storage unit, met my brother and his wife for dinner (he was in town for an interview), then checked into our condo at 8pm. Long day! Tuesday we walked downtown, enjoyed the sites, and hopped in the car to explore a bit. My brother also called to let us know that he got the job, so his family will also be relocating to SLC. We are so excited! Wednesday, I went house hunting: 13 houses, 5 hours, too much to process!!! Found a couple of possibilities but not one that I love yet. Mark Voges arrived in town, so we headed to Rodrizio Grill (Brazilian steakhouse) for dinner. It was sooooo good! ven Chelsie loved it! The boys ate way toooo much, Wes and Mark even ate a chicken heart for Jamie! Thursday, the movers delivered our things to storage. What I thought would take a couple of hours, took all day. I now look like a lobster--I didn't even realize how much sun I was getting, but it's done and packed in storage like a can of sardines!

We joined Mark for dinner again at Market Street Grill---I mean Macaroni Grill! We came back to watch the Lakers game.

Today, Wes heads to BYU. Scott will drop him off this morning. We hope to meet up with the Jamgochians for lunch, buy books, do a little dorm room shopping, and leave feeling like we're missing something! We're so proud of Wes and excited for him. We are lucky to be close by, but I have a feeling he's going to be too busy and having way too much fun to see us very often--as it should be! Heavenly Father is so wise---I am so tired and busy thinking about our future, that I haven't had time to even be sad about Wes leaving home. I really never pictured us dropping him off at college as, "Ok, head down and I'll see you sometime later today to drop off your stuff!" Hehe, I guess it's good for both of us. Tomorrow we will look at several more houses, hoping we find the right one in the right area, in the right ward! No pressure!

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Camping in Zion

Hiking to the Narrows

The girlies

Little Runny--Hannah found a lizard in the girls tent, so Taylor caught it and put it on a grass leash. Entertainment!

Everyone spent most of the time in the river as it was blazing hot!

Quotable Quips and Laughable Life

I decided that I wanted to add a small section with little things that my kids have said or done over the years that I never want to forget and I think are worth sharing. Unfortunately I was much better at writing these things down a bit late in the game....Chelsie steals the show here a bit. If only I could remember all those things I thought I'd never forget. I hope you take my challenge to write down all those things you hope to pass on one day.

When Chelsie was about 2 she had been jumping on my brand new couch, so I promptly told her to stop jumping on the nice furniture. Her response was very logical. "Then where's the mean furniture?"

While camping in the Sequoias, the entrance sign read, "1 bear incident this week...." Kelly mispronounced it as 1 bear accident....later in the bathroom, Chelsie noticed wet spots on the floor, and announced, "This must be where the bear had the accident."

We had a family home evening on choosing the right, and we thought Chelsie understood but when we asked her she said, "Yes, don't choose the left!"

When Kelly was in the 5th grade, she needed to use the classroom phone to call me. She dialed 9 to get an outside line, then she had to dial 1 because I have a long distance cell phone number, but she accidently hit the 1 twice. When the 911 dispatcher answered she was scared and just hung up. 5 minutes later the front office called the classroom stating that 3 sheriffs had arrived ready to take action and were wanting to know who called and why. Now it was by sheer coincidence that this was a morning that there was a prison breakout, so officers were on high alert. Kelly was embarrassed then, but can laugh about it now!

When Wes was about 4, he used to tell everyone that he was going to marry his friend Elizabeth, and that they were going to have 16 kids, and maybe a car.

When Chelsie was 3 1/2 we told her she needed to learn to spell her name. She responded, "I already know....A L I Z A."
(That was her best friend who taught her)

I was talking with my girls about the weather, and Kelly said, that stupid beaver was wrong, spring is not around the corner. Chelsie then chimed in, it's not a beaver, it's a warthog. Clearly I have failed them.