And we are on the move again! Heading back home to Utah. We are SO excited! I am so relieved that we survived another "alarm" summer. It is hard and Devin works his butt off all summer long. We left Utah the end of March and Devin has been working hard since then. It takes a lot to stay motivated all summer to work. Especially when family at home are going camping, boating, BBQ's and all the other fun summer stuff we miss out on. We are glad we came out here this summer and have had a lot of fun experiences, but are so ready to be home in Utah again. It is amazing that after being away from home for 5 months I realize more and more all the reasons why I love living in Utah so much. I love being near family, I love being able to go to Sunday dinners at our parents homes, birthday parties, or just spending the weekend with them. I love the Mountains! I love the red dirt. I love the dry mountain air with no humidity, it is so awesome to not feel moist all over your body all day long. I love the people, just random strangers smiling at you in the grocery store. It will be nice to have people look at my pregnant belly with a smile and think that I am old enough to be married and pregnant instead of out here the way the look on their face says, "teen pregnancy!" because they just can't fathom that I would actually choose to marry at my age. I love not having to pay a toll for everywhere we want to go! I love being surrounded by people with my same values. I am so excited to live in a small town. I am really looking forward to living in Gunnison, away from traffic and the big obnoxious city, just a down to earth slow paced life where people know the meaning of life and live it to the fullest. That is where I fit in and where I am really meant to be. I love so many things about living in Utah I can't even begin to name them all. But being away has been a great adventure for us and I have enjoyed our time here and am thankful that it made me love my home that much more! Here's to home to Utah and to getting there soon!
This is Jan'l giving us a gripping rendition of one of her stories. Look how mezmorized we all are!
Here is the three girls modeling their oversized sunglasses.
Here is Jan'l, Davin and Kaeden. Doesn't Kaeden look really Happy :).
Here is us sitting on the picnic table.
All the cousins sitting around the fire. It was harder than it looked to get them all to sit there long enough for us to get a good picture of them but it sure is cute.
Twins?
Here is our fishing bait. ha ha
These are us on the fishing boat that we rented for the day. It was alot of fun to hang out on the lake all day.
Dottie is checking out the lake thinking maybe its time for a swim!
After Lake Powell with the Ball family we headed to fish lake to spend with the Petersen Clan camping. We had a lot of fun spending a couple days together in the mountains. We rented a big fishing boat and spent a whole day on the boat fishing and hanging out. We had a great time staying up late around the campfire telling stories and roasting marshmellows. Our last night there we stayed up playing phase 10 and laughing cause we all had what Dev calls the TJ's (tired jollies). It was our first camping trip since getting married and it was a lot of fun! I love family! it is so good to be home! It was a perfect ending to our summer to get to spend the weekend with both families! Now its back to school...
Dev waterskiing!
Me and Dev on the boat- look at the view behind us!
We have been super busy since getting back to Utah. The next day after we got back Devin had his nursing school orientation and then afterwards we drove down to Lake Powell. We only had 2 days to spend there but we had a fun time anyway. We went waterskiing, boat tours, and rode the wave runners. The boys made a golf course in the sand and started up the Powellisade golf tournament as well as a horse shoe competition (which Devin won=). We had fun staying up late playing games and telling stories! It was great to get to see family right after being gone for so long!
Devin at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery
The South side of the White House
On our Buggy ride!
Me and some of the other wives that are out here (Carson, Ligia, and Jennilyn) all went to the Amish Country! When we got there we went to a bunch of the little shops with homemade stuff the amish people made. There was a lot of crafty things and I wanted to buy it all but knew we wouldn't have room in our car to take it home to Utah! They had some amazing smelling candles and beautiful quilts! We also went on a buggy ride through the Amish neighborhoods. My favorite was all the little kids, they were so cute riding through town on their bike/scooters and driving mini buggy's pulled by pony's! The Amish people really work hard and it was kinda cool to see how they live. We went to a Buffet for dinner and stayed for like 2 hours talking and eating! and the best part was they had this amazing homemade peanut butter and a really good peanut butter pie dessert. Overall we had a really fun girl's day out!
