Another weekend at Sharon's

We are here in Park City, housesitting for our friend Sharon for the weekend. We really love being here. Her house is beyond huge! She has a putting green, b-ball court, pool table, rockband (for Jake), and a ton of other fun things. Gracie is pretty sure that this is our "other" house. We will let her think that for a while longer.
Tomorrow Grace, Erika, and I are going to Rexburg, Id. for my nephews baptism. We will be back Saturday afternoon. This is a very short visit, but I'm sure it will be fun. Jake is really, really excited because Jay Shelby is coming to visit. He's been wanting him to come for such a long time.
Funny story...today when we were at the grocery store this big guy got out of a truck next to us and moaned as he got out. Gracie says in her very loud voice; "Mom, I just heard that cow moo!" I am loving the fun things she says.

Another week gone by...

This week has been awesome! We've had such a great time with our family. My sister Charity came with her two adorable kids Caleb, and Johnny Boy on Monday and was able to stay until Wednesday night. Besides Gracie bullying Caleb around, we had a wonderful time. We were able to go fishing, go to the park, go get ice cream cones, just lots of fun things for little kids!

On Tuesday night Erika, Timi, Faith, Hope, Ellery, and Andrea all came up for dinner. There was lots of talking, laughing! Poor Jake was very outnumbered:)

Yesterday we were able to go hiking with our friends in the Uintahs. What a beautiful place we live in! We had such a great time with them. Gracie really held her own on the hike.

After our hike Faith, Ellery, Erika, and James came up. Faith was a sweetheart (like always) and watched the girls while we went on a double date with James and Erika for Erika's b-day.

This was the 2nd date Jake and I have been on without Gracie in a year! Fun stuff!

Today was Stake conference. Gracie and I went and had a awesome time. It was a stake conference with 135 other stakes! It was huge. There was great music and awesome messages.

Another week has gone by! I'm excited for the next one.

--Crazy days--

This week has been crazy trying to catch up on life. From the moment we got home I feel like we've been going 90 mph. I've been doing fun outdoor things with Gracie b/c it is supposed to snow on Monday. Cramming summer activities into one week can wear a girl out.
My sister Charity is going to come here this week so that should be fun to have her and her two adorable boys to hang out with.
School started on Wednesday. Nothing earth shattering to report about that yet. I'm only taking two classes so it is pretty chill.
Today was a quiet morning of r.c. airplanes, then a crazy afternoon of cleaning and re-arranging. Jake was a total stud and helped me get everything back in place. It feels great to have the house more in order
That is all for now!

Dr. visit

The doctors visit went well. Besides Gracie crying from the moment the nurse measured her til the moment we got into the car to leave. Not just a few tears, full blown terror, bawling her eyes out crying. For some reason she was under the impression that her doctor was Sonic Drive-In. That was a rude awakening.

Anyway, she is healthy. No worries about eating lbs of sand, dirt, chalk, and other misc non food items. So other than being traumitized by having some strange guy look in her ears, shes great!

Monique...this is for you!

Okay, here goes nothing! I'm officially starting our family blog. Here is proof that peer pressure is real:) We just got back from San Diego, California yesterday. What a great time we had! We were able to spend the weekend with Monique, Tom, Jay, Joy(Marsh), Jeremy Shelby and my sister Erika, niece Ellery, ect... It was a fun filled trip full of great friends, family, and food.
We experienced wild animals, jet skiing, sore muscles, sunburnt bodies, amazing bbq chicken, strange flashing lights in the sky, temple guards, border control guards, bottomless steak fries, full stomachs, and car crashes. Very eventful trip. Jake slept from around 3:00 p.m. til 7:00 a.m. this morning. Gracie went to bed at 8:30 last night and woke up at 10:00 this morning. It is good to be home but only because we were sick of being in the car all night. Grace wanted to know if we were going back to the beach today. I guess the 3 lbs of sand she ate didn't quite fill her up. Which reminds me that I need to take her to the Dr. tomorrow and ask if I should be worried that my 2 1/2 year old likes to eat sand by the lb. I'll let you know!