Summer fun

Another busy week come and gone. My sister Cassie and her family were here from Ohio for 3 weeks and left on Friday morning. (whaaa) We had such a great time with her fun family that it was extra hard to see them leave. She has a beautiful 12 year old daughter named Josie, a 9 year old baseball pro Todd, the funniest little 6 year old Mitch, and the craziest 2 year old ever, Justin. We had a week of picnics, swimming, outside sprinkler fun, splash park, and just going, going!
I have been working for my mom at her store in Idaho Falls on Saturdays. That has been a lot of fun....HOT but fun! They are only open one more Saturday and then closed till their normal season which starts in September. (http://www.minibazaar.com/)

Today I taught the Relief Society lesson. I was sure sweaten it but it all turned out pretty good. (if i don't say so myself!) The lesson was on Elder Bednar's talk on being reborn. The "pickle" one. Luckily there are a bunch of older ladies that have canned pickles so we had some good interaction....phewwww!

We had planned to go to Utah for the 24th of July but instead decided to go to West Yellowstone. We are leaving early in the a.m. and hope to have a grand time! Although I am excited about this family outing I was secretly hoping to make it down to the Anniversary Sale. I guess I don't really need anything and so nothing lost. I got some good deals last year for the boys though and am hoping I am not missing out on anything I may need!
Kinda boring tonight...hopefully more action and excitement later....... My little Coley monster has been BEGGING to sleep in bed with Dawson.... I will keep you posted on if he STAYS. Hope he doesn't roll off!

My new roomate

Ok.....so this is who moves in with no invite when you have had a whole week of HOT and strangely humid (for Idaho) weather......

That little monster is in the window of our bedroom! Makes me itch ALL night thinking about it! He is stuck between the double pain...not sure how BUT non the less...any ideas on how to help this little fella back to spider heaven?

Some fun pics

Here are a few random pics i snatched out of our camera......


Dawson thinks this is the funniest picture.... I doubt he will feel that way in his teenage years!!


Dawson, Cole, and Rook jumping for joy!


Have you seen my dinner?


What a little hot rod! He wants this
one cuz it is camo style!

One of their favorite moments of the day......
BATH TIME!!!

Take Luck.....

Last night a bunch of us went to Brian Regan here at the Civic Center. It was a fantastic show, which we all expected. I think the reason people love him so much, including myself, is because first off all of his humor is clean and second reason being his jokes are about real life situations so everyone kinda knows where he is coming from. We even got to see Brian cry. Lane thought it was awkward but I thought it was sweet.
Before we went to the show we went to Scotty's. My sister in law and her friend came up from Utah and met us there for a GREAT and GREASY dinner. We had a good little babysitter come watch the boys and they really liked that. (her 7 year old sis comes with so it makes it more FUN for everyone!)
I think I might be going to Jackson Hole tomorrow with my sister Geri. She is job shadowing some well known designer there for the day and is BEGGING me to ride with her. I love Jackson and think it is a charming place BUT.....all day with 2 kids? Hmmm we will see.
We are still waiting on one more something or another on our construction loan. Which really sucks cuz we signed all our loan papers last week and thought we were good to go the next day BUT I guess it just can't be that easy! Seems like it has been one thing after another lately. As of now looks like we will be ready to roll as of tomorrow so keep your fingers crossed for us! My Grandma is sooo sweet and we couldn't as for a better roomie BUT I am sure she is looking forward to having her own space back as much as we are!
Well, since everyone I know is probably snoozing at this hour I oughta join in..... I will post some cute pics next time. We have some fun random ones from this last week.....

Wii Wii Wii all the way home!

I am not much of a gamer BUT this is a great workout as well! Those Japanese people are smart! Trying to help us American peeps to get off our butts and shake it up a bit. My dad has discovered playing while sitting on the couch.... hmmm. I still enjoy making a fool out of myself while going all out on the motions. Plus, it is too adorable watching these two little buddies going at it!

I know video games aren't for kids age 1 and 3, but it SURE is fun watching and they SURE love playing! We have had the Wii for a while now and haven't had much time to play it. Now that we are slowing down a bit we are getting our game back on!

What has been going on??

Hmmmm...not real sure! The last couple weeks have been quite the blur. We have been keeping REAL busy this summer just doing a whole lot of nothing! We have been swimming at Ross Park and at Rigby Lake a few times. I really like Idaho summers I have decided. It is hot but not TOO hot so you can stand to be outside a majority of the day. Exactly where my boys want to be!

For the 4th we had a good time. We went out to my moms house and had a big dutch oven chicken dinner. All the kids ran wild until it became dark enough to do sparklers. Then came the big firework splendor... it was ok for a home show. I don't have any pics of all the excitement but my sister Geri took a butt load so I will have to get some from her to add. We are baking bread and making homemade noodles today. (my mom, sister cassie, grandma, and i) I guess I oughta go help!!

dial up

So we are now living with my sweet little Gma and she has dial up.....can you say SLOW?! Once you get use to the speedy service it is ROUGH going back to the tortoise speed! That is my excuse of not updating my blog.
Lets see.... the boys are really loving the open spaces out here in Idy. Lane has really enjoyed his job so far. He has also enjoyed the traveling aspect of it. He is in Salt Lake City this week so Dawson Cole and I get to come down and stay with the inlaws! The boys are sleeping and we are all playing Lane's new Wii. Now THAT is sooo fun! Highly recommend it to everyone! I rock at the tennis now. I looked like a full on idge at first but now that I have got the hang of it.... CHAMP!
Lane's parents farewell is tomorrow (the main reason we are here). They are leaving on Memorial Day. Nogoya Japan is where they are going.
My sister Geri is graduating this coming Wednesday. So my mom, Geri, Bobbi, and I are going to Southern Cal. It is my sister Geri's goal to get to the ocean before she goes to College. So we are helping her wildest come true..... (wish her dream was Jamaica or somewhere real cool!) I am excited to hit Fashion Island though....that is one of my fave shopping spots.
Ok I am extra boring today so I will go for now.....

1st Timer....

I have to thank my friend Shanda for BEGGING me to get on the blog train. I am not quite sure how this all works and hope that I don't make an idiot of myself.
Seeing that we are still in major transition in our life I am going to hopefully have some pics up and get more organized with this blog thing.