August

August was pretty relaxed.  Jessica and Lauren went with Abbey and Lindsey Halvorsen. friends from Clovis, to their Grandpa's ranch in Idaho for a few days.

We found a new friend!  This buck spent many afternoons resting in the shade under our trampoline in the back yard.

 He was even kind enough to duck down so his antlers wouldn't rip the trampoline on his way out.

We were excited to discover Leatherby's in Utah!

Austin and his friend Maddy

We had another basement flood.

 It rains a lot in the summer in Utah I guess.

 Good thing we checked on our way to bed.   Too bad it kept us up for another hour and a half.

We visited Grandma Lori and Grandpa Bob pretty regularly.

We went to the parade of homes and took pictures of some of the creative things we saw.

 We had lazy Sunday afternoons.  The girls adore their dad!

 I spent some time in line at the Slurp aka the Mormon Starbucks!  Only in Utah would you see a line like this for dirty diet Cokes and sugar cookies!

 We visited Janelle in the hospital when she had baby Brooke.

My mom came to visit and help Janelle after the baby came.

 I miss having a baby!

 We decided to buy office cubicles for our home office for the kids.  4 fit perfectly and gave the 3 older kids their own working space and still left a spot for me.

 Ashlyn and Lauren started gymnastics.

And the kids went back to school.  I think back to school needs it's own page.