Girlie's Outing

Tuesday, June 24- Thursday, June 26, 2008
St. George, Utah
1 Grandma, 3 Mommies, 7 Daughters = a LOT of GIRLS

We went to Tuacahn Amphitheater and saw Les Miserable and Sound of Music. It was a challenge having 7 children at the shows but the girls all did really well and we had a good time. During the days we spent our time swimming and swimming and swimming at the hotel pool. On our way home we stopped by the St. George Temple to see the visitors center and show the kids the beautiful temple grounds. It was a hot and tiring trip but it was really fun and will be a cherished memory for years to come! (thanks Mom for making this excursion possible!)

FATHER'S DAY

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold


had good intentions to post a Father's Day greeting before the big day, but who cares... our dad's don't read our blogs anyway :)
Either way we'd like to do shout-out to our wonderful fathers! We have been taught well by our dad's and owe so much to them. We love you! You're the best dads and grandpa's we could ever ask for!
Also, Tianna wants to tell her Dadda that he's the best thing in the world and she loves him so much! (if you couldn't tell by these pictures)
He's the best husband in the world too! We love and appreciate you Luke!

Of course we couldn't forget to recognize our Father in Heaven on this Father's Day occasion. He is the giver of life, love, and all of our happiness. We are truly blessed and thank God for all we have.

Now, a bit of an update of our adventures of the past week- It was our last week with Luke home during the days so we played quite a bit.
*14 mi. bike ride
* swimming (when it was probably still too chilly to do so, but we had fun anyway)
*a15.5 mi bike ride
* Mary went on 5 mi YW hike (while YW Secretary)
* Mary got a new calling- young womans Mia Maid adviser
*Cooked tinfoil dinners and roasted marshmallows on our barbecue
*Camped out in the backyard Sat. night because we couldn't go camping Friday. Luke had to work
* Luke's last night at Home Depot
* TIANNA WENT POTTY 3 TIMES in her BIG GIRL POTTY

New Job

I just want to congratulate Luke on his new job. He will start on the 16th and until then he is just finishing up at Home Depot. His new job will be working at a place called Juniper Systems who build rugged hand held computers for landscapers, sheep herders, etc. He's been waiting for a month now to find out whether he got it or not and finally had his final interview and job offer on Wednesday. We are so excited! For one thing... it's a DAY job so he won't have to work until all hours of the night and the best part is that it's in his field so it will be really beneficial for school. At the end of the summer they might hire him has a student engineer and then he can continue working during the school year.

My husband is amazing and works so hard. He truly deserves this job and I am so proud of him.
I will miss having our days together but it will be really nice to have evenings with him again.

Good Bye Home Depot You've been good to us, but it's time to let you go.

A little tired of driving from Logan to Price and back again...

As much as we LOVE our families and love spending time with them... We've had just about enough of that drive...

This weekend was Luke's cousin's wedding up here in LOGAN and it was sooo cool to actually have a family event in our neck of the woods. The only problem was... it happened to be the same weekend that my sister's baby, Harley, was being blessed in PRICE so we couldn't even enjoy not having to travel.
After the wedding and reception on Saturday we headed down there. Luckily Luke is still working at night so we didn't have to come home until Monday. That really helped to ease "really sick of driving" feeling.

Both events were really nice though. The wedding was beautiful and it was so much fun having Luke's mom stay with us Friday night. We just wished that we could have spent more time with her and do more than wave to his dad as we passed each other on the road when he was coming into Logan and we were leaving.

The blessing was awesome and it was a hilarious to see all of the GIRLS everywhere! My family has 9 granddaughters and ZERO grandsons. Plus their ward was having 4 baby blessings so there were children everywhere in that chapel... and yet, I'm pretty sure Tianna was the loudest and rowdiest of all during the blessings. : S She was just too excited being surrounded by all of her cousins I guess...
I do have to say though, she is an awesome traveler and I thank her for it!

But alas............. I think we've decide to opt out of traveling for a little while. Not only are we mentally tired of making that drive but our pockets don't like it either. I mean honestly, $4 a gallon?!

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a little update on the parakeet ordeal...
We actually got pretty excited about having a pet so when he died after only 6 hours in our care we thought we'd buy one... until we talked to the pet store guy and he said it's like having a 2 year old for about 10 years. (we already have one of those, thank you) Plus, you can't ever leave them for more than a day (and from above message, it's obvious that's a no-go) so... we decided no bird for us. But, the funny thing is... we buried Hermon under a tree in our yard and now Tianna goes to that spot and points at the ground and says, "Bird." It's quite funny...
And the pet store guy told us how easily they can die of silly things... so now I don't feel quite as bad about killing him.