What a wonderful morning surprise!

Justin usually sleeps like the dead. It takes him an hour or two to be up and going. Today however, he jumped out of bed at 7 am and started cleaning! We spent 4 hours cleaning our house today and now it just sparkles. I was sad I missed walking with my friends, especially since a few of them are moving soon, but I wasn't about to miss this opportunity!

Puppy School

So, I am pretty sure our puppy, Riley, is going to be the first ever dog to be kicked out or failed out of puppy school. We go to our first class last night and there are three other 5-10lbs squeak toys running around. Riley is pushing 35 lbs (at 3.5 months) and was just so excited about these other dogs. Naturally, the other dogs weren't too excited about him. Next week the teacher wants us to let the dogs run around and play. I should call the vet and give them a heads up that three little dogs are on there way from being run over by mine.

Mom's Party!

This year we actually celebrated Mom's brithday within a week of her actual day. I think last year it took us a few months- sorry Mom. We had a fun BBQ at Mom and Dad's. Dad made his delicious apple cinnamon puffs in his dutch ovens- absoltutly amazing! Holly and Aronn then set up a showing for our family of Harry Potter at the theater! After sweeping up all the messy popcorn (yes, we had to clean the theater) Aronn took us up to the room which has a name that I don't know. I will call it the window room. He showed us how the movies are shipped and projected. It was pretty cool. It was fun having the huge theater just to our family! Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy Fourth of July!

Apparently really old Graco Walkers aren't that great at keeping kids in the seats.

We had a great 4th of July! Justin, Liam and I went to my parent's ward breakfast that morning. After alot of pancakes and fruit we launched a bunch of rockets! Liam was to tired to even care. One of the rockets was too heavy for the rod on the paunch pad so Justin and my Dad got brooms out and held the brooms against the rockets to stabilize it. After all rockets were launched everyone was surprisingly injury free!

Justin had to work that night so he went home to sleep. Lame, I know. Liam, Riley (the dog) and I went to Loveland. We spent the whole afternoon at GiGi's (my gramma) and Great Grandaddys. We did dinner, played with cousins and watched the fireworks! Liam really liked the fountain ones. He would stand up and stretch his arms out and move his hands like he was trying to grab it.

Overall it was a wonderful 4th and Liam seemed to enjoy his first ever! Maybe next year Justin wont have to sleep and work through it. Hope everyone had a wonderful time!

David has bad aim.

Record time at Church!

We spent all of 10 mins in church today. As usual we showed up 5 mins late meaning we spent the passing of the sacrement in the foyer. The alarm serenaded our sacrement-taking. As soon as it was over we wandered into the dark chapel to find the congregation saying another prayer. My first thought was "oh, they added a new sacrement piece". Idiot, I know! After praying in the dark everyone got up and left! We walked through the church building and there is only one light circuit working and 3 alarms going off! So, under 15 mins in and out! Impressive!

Nothing says "Good Morning" like chocolate chip pancakes!

Liam got to try his first chocolate chip pancakes this morning. I only put a few chocolate chips in it but it was sure messy. Naturally, he loved it!

Welcome!

I finally decided to jump on the train and make a blog. I have no idea what I am doing but I'll figure it out as I go! Now I can have a fun place to post pictures, updates and all of my many random thoughts!