.: July 2010

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Saturday

Today we slept in, then went and played mini golf, washed the car, ate pizza, and are going to play tennis tonight! We are trying to enjoy our free time, because next week we move into the house and I think we are going to be busy unpacking for quite a while! We can hardly wait for the house to be ours!

Volleyball Camp

Kelly and Jenna had a great time at volleyball camp at BYU! They learned a lot, played hard, and made lots of new friends!

Monday, July 12, 2010

MVP--Let me explain...

M Mechams and Mullinaxes come to visit.
V Volleyball camp at BYU this week.
P Play, play, play

This week is going to be fun! Susan and Jenna arrived last night. We are heading down to Provo this morning to meet up with DeeLynn and Ryan. Have I mentioned I am so excited to have so many visitors???? We will get the kids checked into camp and hang out at the Y reminiscing about the good old days! :) Tonight, Scott's brother and his wife will be in town so we're meeting them at none other than The Old Spaghetti Factory--Claudia's favorite! I think some of Scott's cousins (that I haven't met) may be joining us as well. Also, I think Scott's mom and aunt are in Bountiful for a few days which is a hop skip and a jump away--they are doing a temple tour trip. Lots of family, friends, and fun this week!

8 days til we close on the house!!! We went to our new ward yesterday for church. Everyone is so friendly and the girls will have lots of new friends that live very close---we're so ready to start getting settled. We feel like we've been on a looonnng vacation-but loving it! We are so blessed. I can't thank the Fenn's and Hill's enough for allowing us to stay in their lovely condo--it has been such a comfortable place to call home for a short while!

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Eclipse

Last night we went to see Eclipse with the Banrys and the Bills! Chayse, Kelly, and Madison were so happy to be together! All of us loved the movie, but Gartee was very grossed out by all the kissing!

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

The Banry's come to visit!

We met up with the Banrys today at Temple Square--so great to see them! Kelly and Chayse just about tackled each other with hugs when they saw each other! Having lots of visitors sure eases our homesickness for California! So glad we moved to a place we know people will continue to visit!

5th of July

Scott had the day off today, so we went exploring a bit again. We checked out IKEA in Draper. We all had fun roaming through the showrooms and sitting in swinging chairs. Then we headed to Jordan Landing, a great shopping area we discovered. All the shops you would need in one place!!! And it's only about 7 minutes from our new house! We went to their movie theatre to see Grownups ---hilarious!!! We then hit the Walmart Supercenter for groceries and on to Sonic for slushes! To top off our day, we even got a call from Wes! He is doing well and having a great time! He's been doing fun things like ice blocking, jump on it (trampoline warehouse), camping out overnight for a spot for the parade, oh a little studying! He got a 97 on his physical science test so we're hopeful that he's learning to balance the fun with the academic! Great job, Wes!

Fireworks

Monday, July 5, 2010

Wathcing the paratrooper

Roman candles

one handed maneuver

steep slide

ready for the baptism

Off to Idaho

We went to Blackfoot, ID this weekend for Jacob's baptism. Here we are playing in Joseph's backyard.

touring

On top of the conference center.... can you believe this meadow is on top of a building in downtown SLC?

Inside it seats over 22000 people and it has the largest collection of theatre lights in North America.

Temple Square sites

Hot stuff!

The girls had fun shopping with Jacob at the mall!

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.