Steve's birthday

Recently Steve celebrated his 36th birthday. Morgan really spoiled him-she made him this huge card-I think he loved it-it's hanging up in his man-cave.

Maylee liked it too!

Summer heat

Lately it has been HOT! The temps have been in the high 90's/low 100's and to make it worse-there has been a lot of fires in Utah already this summer. I just looked online and as of today there are six active fires here. The air has been smokey and smelly. The closest fire is about 25 miles away from our home but we still have experienced "raining ash". Like nearly everyone else in Utah, we began to pray for rain. Yesterday it rained! It poured for hours! So I am very grateful to Heavenly Father for hearing our prayers and sending moisture that we desperately need. I am also grateful that my family is all safe and none of them are in the fire zones or near harms way. I hope it stays that way. I am grateful to the firefighters who are working long hard days with little sleep to protect homes and families.

Catching up...again

Lately it feels like all I am doing is trying to get caught up. As you can see from the frequency of my postings-I am not doing very well. It also seems like the summer is just flying by and due to some crazy things at work-I am working, instead of vacationing! I want to take more time off to play, but hopefully I can do that during the rest of the summer. I know that today is officially the 1st day of summer but since I work at UVU-summer here starts the first week of May. Once July hits-the rest of the summer usually becomes a blur! So here are the highlights of the last few weeks. *We had a streak of bad health-both Koby and I got strep throat and then Maylee got croup. Maylee had a nasty cough and I was pretty sure it was croup but the dr figured we better rule out pneumonia. It was awful! I had to hold Maylee down so that she could get x-rays done. She was crying so hard that her breathing and coughing just got worse. Thankfully she did not have pneumonia. (maybe that was a lowlight? rather than a highlight?) *Koby has decided to play football this year so he has been "conditioning" with the team four mornings a week from 6 (YES-AM!) until 8. Some days he even rides his bike there-man he is going to be so tone and muscular! *Morgan and I have been reading the Judy Moody books together and it's been really fun. Morgan loves to read just like her mom. Both Koby and Morgan got to go and spend a week with Papa and Gramma helping on the farm. They had fun but Steve, Maylee and I really missed them. Maylee even started talking to their pictures that were hanging on the wall. *Maylee is now 15 months old-still tiny as ever. This morning I weighed her and she is 19.4 lbs. and is 26 inches tall. Still a tiny little thing but so much fun and energy wrapped in that little body. She knows two signs (ASL), eat and more. She is chattering and "talking" so much, it's so fun to listen to her. *Boating day-my cousin Ben took us boating last weekend. It was so much fun-Koby, Morgan and Steve all mentioned that they would love to own a boat now. Maylee who hates being in the water took turns hanging out on shore with mom and dad. But Koby and Morgan didn't even leave the boat for four hours. *Visiting with my sister Debbie & Colt. It has been so long since we had seen them and Colt has grown so much and is so cute! He loved Morgan and followed her around for hours. I hope that we can see them again soon-rather than waiting so long. Mom and Dad also got to come for dinner and visit and then Matt & Mindy and family came over for breakfast-lot of yummy food and chatting. So much fun! *I got a new church calling. I am now in nursery-pretty convenient with Maylee not quite old enough to go to nursery but still too old to just hold still during church. The kids are really cute and I get snacks, toys and coloring time during church! *Steve is at scout camp! He really likes it but we sure miss him. Can't wait to see him when he gets home tonight! I think that's the gist of whats going on. I hope your summer is going well and it more lazy day summer than mine is!

Piggie tails

Morgan has been bugging me to try and stick Maylee's hair into piggie tails-I finally did. And of course she looked adorable!

Family night at Boondocks

On Monday night we got to go to Boondocks w/ my work. We had a great time-too bad that bedtime came so soon, I think we could have stayed and played for hours more!

Racing was a big favorite for these three!

Maylee's favorite-sneaking part of Morgan's otter pop!

It was a lot of fun and I loved us all being together.

Provo city center temple

On Saturday we got to go to the ground breaking ceremony for the new Provo city center temple. I thought it was pretty neat. It was kind of hard to keep Maylee entertained-similar to church. But I hope that the kids will look back on it with some good memories. Steve and Koby had the assignment to put away the chairs afterward-there were a lot of chairs! I heard that about 5400 people were there-thankfully there were many hands helping put the chairs away. Because we stayed for so long after we were able to all have a turn digging! Just as an interesting side note: When Morgan was little and we drove by the tabernacle, Morgan asked if it was a temple. I said no, it's the tabernacle. She then started calling it the "temple-nickel".

What's going on?

So I haven't really been keeping up on the blog lately, but despite that we are doing well! Koby finished wrestling for the season and I have loved having more free time on the weekends and the evenings. We actually get to eat dinner together and even hang out now. Koby did really well this year and he learned a lot. He really loves wrestling and plans to keep wrestling for years to come. He is doing great in school-lots of A's. They are starting the end of year tests now but tests (like pretty much any subject) tend to be pretty easy for him. The other day he got the results of his reading level test-5 means he is at grade level, he scored an 8! I guess it helps to make your kids read the scriptures out loud as a family, even when they are really young. I can't believe he is going to be a freshman next year-thankfully here freshman are in the jr high still so I don't have to feel quite so old. He is such a great big brother-he loves to play with Maylee-someone was joking the other day that he must have taught her some wrestling moves because she body slammed a stuffed animal. Koby also takes care of Morgan after school for us-what a good boy!