Birthday

I had a great birthday this year! We celebrated for days which is the best! I love my birthday! This year on Sunday my mom and grandma made me dinner. It was really yummy, we had a favorite of ours grilled garlic pork tenderloin and fresh veggies from the garden! My mom made an orange bundt cake and it has a yummy orange drizzle over the top of it. The next day was my actual birthday. We woke up and Andrew got us breakfast sandwiches from chick-fil-a. I opened my presents from him and the kids and then got ready. That afternoon I got to go with my mom to lunch at Zupas, just the two of us. It was nice we commented how that never happens, my sisters were down in Texas visiting my brother and his family. After lunch I came home and we ran some errands. Once we got home Andrew's sister Becky was nice and came to watch our kids bringing them happy meals and treats! They couldn't wait for us to leave! We went to dinner first at Cheesecake Factory. I got a favorite of mine, their spicy cashew chicken. We got the best seat in the whole restaurant with a big corner window. We shared a piece of White Chocolate Raspberry cheesecake at the end. After we left there we were deciding what to do, Andrew wanted to see a movie but I just wasn't up for it. We thought of a few other things we could do but decided that since we didn't have kids with us we would go and see some more parade of homes houses. We went and saw about 5 and then headed home. At home the kids, Andrew, and his sister sang and we ate cake! It was such a great day. I felt so loved with lots of calls, texts, and messages. I was spoiled! I got a new GHD flat iron, lids for my cookie sheets, a couple puzzles, clothes, new scentsy stuff, some money, and gift cards. Everyone was so nice and thoughtful!

Eating my cheesecake, it looks really good right now!

My cute kids helped Andrew mix up a cake and then frost it! They thought that was so cool!

Blowing out the candles at my Grandma's house!

Blowing out the candles on my birthday with the awesome cake they made for me!

Parade of homes

The first two weeks of August we were able to enjoy the parade of homes. It was fun to go this year because we could actually see things we liked and not dream but think maybe in the next year we can make it a reality! We took the kids the first day and met my sisters and mom. We were able to go to the rest without the kids thanks to Andrew's mom and sisters. We were able to see things we would want and things that we would never! 

This was a cool bench that was on the middle of the stairs to the upstairs of a house, really liked that idea!

Andrew took this picture, he thought it was such a cool idea for a game room!

The kids were so cute on this swing! I would love to have a porch swing like that someday!

Easton was so bored I think this was the last house that day!

Swimming

More swimming pictures :) We have really enjoyed it this summer! We probably won't live here next summer so we will miss it! Sadly didn't get to go the last few weeks because Easton and my nephew both got that nasty Crypto the last time we went and so we couldn't go back!

5k

The first Saturday in August I went and did a 5K in Orem. It was for Pound the Pavement for Parenthood. It was for my amazing friend Marissa! Her and her husband were selected to be one of the sponsored couples this year. It is a program where they do these 5K's and the money they raise go to help the couple pay for fertility treatments or adoption. I was so happy to be here to be able to participate and help them get one step closer to their goal! Andrew had to work so it was me and the kids so we walked it with my friend Bobbi. It was really hot that day and no clouds! We walked it in about 55 min, not the best but I was happy to completed it either way! 

I came prepared with lots of water and snacks for the kids, I should have had them push me! Pushing over 90 pounds that long in the heat was awesome :)!

We didn't get a picture before Bobbi left but we were able to get one with Marissa, she is in the middle and my friend Melissa in next to her, it was fun to see her I hadn't seen her since we moved to Memphis!

Pioneer Day

Yes Pioneer Day was in July, it is now September, I am that behind! We were excited to be back in Utah for this holiday! It is a great excuse for another day off here! We started the day nice and early and went downtown to the parade. We got there just after 7 and the parade starts at 9 so we had a lot of time to kill. The kids had fun playing and eating breakfast! After we went home for quick naps and then up to my Grandma's for a BBQ. It was really hot that day but we managed to stay cool and the kids played in the water to keep cool. The pictures are all out of order since I got some off my camera, Andrew's phone, and my sister. 

The little boys are obsessed with my cousin Will. The second they see him all is right in the world and they attack him. He is so nice to put up with Easton!

Easton really enjoyed his Popsicle a lot! He also has the best facial expressions and loves to bat his eyes at me, where he learned that I don't know, but he does it when he is in trouble usually and it is hard to get mad when he does!

They wanted a place to sit so they turned over the water table and sat down!

White shirt plus red Popsicle equals a disaster luckily grandma found a towel for us!

I love all these pics of them that's why I put so many up!

At the parade waiting for it to start and eating grandma Duzett's yummy orange rolls! Ella was non-cooperative, she isn't the best when she gets woke up early, she needs her beauty sleep until at least 9!

The kids were funny and moved up really close to the people in front of us so they could see, hopefully they didn't bug them to much :)!

The kids were so cute and did trains all around the yard! Easton was in heaven, anything train related and he is in!

Kids

This is what happens when I forget Andrew takes pictures on his phone as well! He had some really cute ones of the kids. I have no idea he takes half of them and I'm usually with him when he does, but I tend to wander off by myself if we are at the store together and he slowly follows!

Random

These are some random pictures off my phone, some are from July and some are from the last few weeks. 

Spending the day at my Grandma's house playing in the water and then the kids helped her pick fresh cucumbers, carrots, and cherry tomatoes from the garden and helping her wash them off! They made such a good lunch!

We met up with my sister and her husband for dinner one Saturday night at the Black Bear diner. We waited a bit for them but luckily there was a guy walking around making balloons for the kids! Ella was so excited for hers! We had to hid it a week later so we could throw it away!

Ella's sunbeam class has been secretly preparing a song to sing in the program and last week they got up to practice it in front of the primary! It was so cute!

We have enjoyed having Andrew home a little bit more this summer then he has been in 4 years! We went one day on a picnic at a park before he had to go to work! It was such nice day and just what I needed to get out of the house!

The play land at the grocery store is my most favorite thing ever! The kids go in really well and they are usually all alone to enjoy it! It makes my one hour alone grocery shopping so divine! It makes driving to the store that isn't as close as others worth it!

Break in

Back in July while at the cabin we got some sad news that my Grandpa Duzett's sister's husband had tragically died. The week after was the funeral. My parents were out of town and asked that my sister and I attend the funeral to show our support from our family. We went to the viewing the night before and then attempted the funeral with 3 kids in tow. Andrew decided to come but we drove separate so he could leave and go to work right after. He came but was about 30 minutes late. After it was over we went out to our cars and my sister and I decided to meet at chick fil a for some lunch. I was about to back out when Andrew came walking over from his truck. He had parked in the shade because he doesn't have any air conditioning in his truck so he tries to find shade. Well his window had been broken and they had taken his laptop bag. Well the joke was on the idiot that took it, it didn't have any electronics in it. It had mostly paperwork, an optometry book, and a Gonioscopy lenses. Luckily he had taken his retina scope out and laptop. He thinks his social security number may have been on one of the papers but he isn't sure. He had just opened a business checking account the day before for his business and it had a temporary checks in it. He was able to call and close the account through our friend who had opened it, although it hardly had anything in it! We also had to go and put special passwords on our checking account because he had a receipt from a deposit that week in his bag. He is still mad at himself but it is all stuff that can be replaced and the bag had been given to him at a conference a few weeks before and he loved that bag but he has been told he can get a new one from the people who gave it to him to begin with. He is slowly remembering things that were in his bag. He just realized last night his list of all the doctors in Utah he had talked to and their statuses on hiring was in there which is a bummer. He feels pretty bad about the whole thing. It is just really sad that someone feels that they can take advantage of people while they are at a funeral of all places! It is so sad! He was able to get his window replaced the next day for a pretty penny! I don't know why someone would target an old car like his truck and think they would get much of anything! He was only in the church for a total of maybe 30 minutes and there were people coming in and out the whole time so it's amazing to me that no one saw anything!