A Summer Update...Happenings and Weight!

Okay Okay simmer down, I don't have any pictures to share but at least I have the comfort of my sarcastic words to explain our happenings this summer. By the title you can already tell that we have been doing lots, lots, lots...again with no pictures but we have also been gaining lots, lots, and lots of weight...okay I have gained lots and lots of weight. I can't believe I have gained 10 pounds since coming to Utah! See this is why I don't want to live in Utah, I GAIN WEIGHT! Anywho despite my rapid weight gain (obviously it is plaguing my mind) we have done some really fun things as a family...I will share and I just want you to know, no animals were harmed in the planning and carrying out of our activities, kids on the other hand...well...

1) We had the opportunity to go to the best, and I mean THE BEST, private pool EVA! It had a water slide, a diving board, and a cliff you could jump off of. Hello, it was freaking awesome. We were there for 4 hours and still had to drag the kids out of the pool. But what made the day even better, we had Sushi for dinner with just grown ups...with grown up talk...with grown up food...really does it get any better than this?

2) We took the kids on a walk along Bountiful Boulevard to look at the houses we will never live in and to take pictures of the Temple that we hope the kids will get married in. It was really fun until Spencer was trying to take 'a dip' in the Temple pool. We left on our own devices before the security asked us to leave. We had a lot of fun and that night there was an amazing sun set. The next day we took the kids to Temple square and again had a great time taking pictures and looking at all the amazing things about temple square but felt we better leave because of the same reason...really...twice! GRRRR doesn't this kid every learn?

3) We had a blast at a pre-July 4th party with the Garaycochea family. Let's just put it this way...Christian and Steph have 3 boys, Mark and Alexandria have 3 boys and Mark and Julie have 3 boys, we have 3 boys...all about the same ages (give or take a few years) Hello Star Wars and hello every other secret thing that boys do. After being there for 5 hours we figured we better go.

4) We had a great time on the 4th of July at our friends the Tokitas (umm... so I am seeing a pattern that we have some really crazy last named friends, I guess we just have international flare!) Anyway we had a great BBQ at their home in SugarHouse and got to meet their most interesting neighbors...talk about international flare! We then got to see, from a backyard, the SugarHouse Park fireworks, which was the last time that the city said they will do fireworks from that park for a while, well at least until our economy isn't in the tank.

5) We have been swimming, lagooning, and hiking...eating, movie-ing (I couldn't say moving as everybody will think we are actually MOVING) and chilling.

6) I totally forgot about a couple of things that have happened that Jim kindly pointed out: We had a fun and an amazing BBQ with Henrie's and Jaeger's (see even more international flare) And had great eats while watching the torrential downpour that seemed to plague Utah for the first three weeks we were here. But Henrie's have a fire pit in the back of their yard so we roasted marshmallows and watched our kids started to fly high from sugar and chocolate...oh how we love smores at 10:00 at night!

7) The kids and I met our friends the Churches (English...that has international flare, I mean Jason is from Georgia...the state, not the country...however one would argue...okay back to point) at the castle park in Kayesville and the kids had a great time playing while Nancy and I had a great time chatting for 2 hours. But we took lots of pictures and I made sure I took a lot of Noah and Lauren; for their wedding video!

All in all, we have had a great time here in Utah and when we get back to Omaha, which will be in the next couple of days, I will post pictures from our many colored adventures.