A summer of photos

Family Reunion on Jeff's side. Our battery was dead (charger was in the moving truck somewhere) so thanks for photo contributions from family!

Aunt Peg's 95th Birthday Celebration and extended family reunion on Delise's side

Bear Lake

Most of Delise's first cousins/siblings were there, it was a blast!

President and Sister Monson in the 24th of July parade. It was a highlight for the kids to see the prophet! I was so happily surprised about how much seeing him meant to them.


Sister Winitsky visits

Meeting the Lamberts at the Dinosaur Museum, I missed them but Jeff and the kids had a great time with the family. Thanks for accomdating yet another family to see when you come here! :)













Maglet and Carl have been perfecting the art of standing on their heads. Way to go kiddos!

Westergardies visit! Fun to see you, thanks for taking the time to come and see us! We loved being with you again!




















First day of school, I can't find Maglets pic, but here's one of her asleep that night...thanks for the new Minnie Gramma!



















See? The fire was close to my house! Ack!
















Labor Day water fight with fun 2nd cousins who live pretty close by! Thanks for the fun Z & N!

Pizazz

Ahh it's good to be back on line. A back track of all our July Family Reunion fun will be coming in the next few weeks but until then, here's what I've been up to for the last couple of weeks...

From this...

To this....

And from this color of walls....(cover your eyes Dad)

To this color of walls...

And this one is for you ML, JJ and SS...thanks for the baskets that fit perfectly in my built-ins. What a happy birthday gift and the extra bonus of knowing where I can go back for more Tai Pan goodness. (FYI the wall behind the tv will be jalapeno green as well but I need some help moving the tv first...)

I am loving being in our new home, with space to send each kid for some "personal time" and space to really be together without wanting to scream. I love having a dishwasher and a laundry room upstairs with the bedrooms (I almost stay caught up on laundry now!!) I am loving our neighborhood where a little boy around the corner drives his little Corvette to pick Maglet up for play dates and that all the kids have friends nearby to run around with. I love being near SS and so much closer to my parents and many family members. I love that Carl and Maglet are on D Track and will be as close as possible to Kat's traditional school year. I love the mountains and that so far nary a tick on the muttley.

On the flip side, I do miss the familiarity of my East Coast friends who already know how wacky I am and still love me just the same. I miss the beach and I miss driving in Boston (HA!). Hugs to you all out there!

Last New England Installment :(

Lots of things to catch up on...but I know some of you are interested in the house situation. Still no word about the short sale house. When they tell you to be flexible, I guess they really mean it. In the mean time, I flew back West last week to see if I could find something else that we could move into immediately. I found 2 options. The short story is that two offers were made, one didn't work for the seller (another offer was cash and we can't compete with that) and on the other house, they wouldn't come down far enough in price. So we're going to wait and do some house hunting when we're there.

For the other parts of our lives, we've been busy busy busy, so I'll start with the most recent which was Maglet's Dance recital "A Night at the Oscars". It was a darling short performance which was perfect. She performed in a Wayne's World tap number and a Polar Express ballet number. She did great and even rocked out in Wayne's World with the head banging (she was worried people were going to laugh at her).




A couple of weekends ago was the Cub Scout fishing Derby. Eddie, Kat and Karl loaded up their gear and had a fun morning on the pond. The pond was just stocked so everyone caught a fish and all were happy. A fun time was had by all. Aren't you so proud Grandpa Del?

Kat caught the biggest of the morning. Woo Hoo!

This next one is a left over from Memorial Day. Just too cute and happy so I had to include it.

This happened to me again, I was reading a friend's blog about manly tasks and here's how I found Jeff taking apart the girls bunk beds the next day. Nu nu nu nu, I think I entered the Twilight Zone.

House?

Many are wondering if we've heard about the house yet? Nope. Hopefully (at the latest), we'll hear something by the middle of next week. I'll post updates here as they happen.

I will however, share some pictures of Great Hill Park since I'm having trouble recovering photos from Jeff's computer of our initial visit. Jeff and I were there during Maglet's dance class throwing the ball down the hill for Lucy in an attempt to wear her out so we could go and tour Fenway later that day.

Not too bad for SOOC (straight out of the camera--Have you checked out Shutter Sisters yet? ). I'm excited about the colors in this picture, it was what I was trying to capture because it was very overcast where we were and the city had this nano second of blue sky that made colors brilliant in comparison to the rest of a gloomy day.

I love Lucy's flopping ears in this one.

The Green Monsta and the ginormous citgo sign that is my north star whenever I need to drive west out of the city.

The field from the press box. Touring Fenway has been something that Jeff has wanted to do since we moved here. I thought it was going to be one of those things that wives endure because they love their husbands. I only wish we'd have done it sooner so we could have taken visitors on this tour. It was entertaining and very informative about all the folklore surrounding Boston Baseball. We loved it...even Maglet was riveted. I would highly recommend this to anyone in the area if you haven't done it already.

The stacks of packed boxes are getting both higher and larger. I am loving the getting rid of stuff, it's very therapeutic. Things are gearing down for the last few weeks of school. I helped out with Maglet's field day yesterday. I was in charge of the parachute for eight 10 minute segments. I have never felt so inept in my life. I was totally not prepared because I was thinking they'd have games and ideas for me, but I thought wrong. Maglet's teacher took pity on me and came over to share some ideas and saved me. Whew! Who knew 10 minutes could take so long? Carl and Kat are still playing soccer and enjoying it. They both are going on some fun field trips in the next couple of weeks as well. It gets a little hectic running to and fro but I wouldn't trade it for anything.