Last Week

Paul was able to come visit us for a week in between his rotations.  He had been gone for two months and still has two more months to go so we were so excited to see him.  Unfortunately the night he arrived Greydon woke  up puking and then it cycled through all of us, so the first couple days he was here were pretty uneventful.  The day I was sick we had planned to go boating so I ended up missing out but Paul took the kids boating and of course there are no pictures from the day because Paul dislikes being in pictures and doesn't really think about taking them.  It was really cute to see Greydon with Paul the first time he saw him.  He woke up and I took Greydon to Paul and Greydon just layed his head on Paul's shoulder and cuddled with him for quite some time.  His face was in awe, like he couldn't believe he was really seeing his daddy.  August had been hard because Paul's computer camera wasn't working so we were not able to skype the whole month.  I didn't take many pictures of the week, I was too busy just enjoying Paul home with us.  But some of the fun things we did include:
*dinner at Training Table with Paul's family
*shopping at IKEA
*going on a date with Paul to dinner and to see the movie The Help
*going to the children's museum and lunch at Gateway
*Leila and Paul spending hours playing PBS kids and the Wii
*watching the Utah football game
*Getting cookies at the Sweet Tooth Fairy, I highly recommend the oatmeal cookie with white frosting or the chocolate cookie with coconut cream cheese frosting, so good!
*Spending the night in Midway and then having our friends over to watch football, go to Swiss Days, and have a BBQ and campfire
The week flew by way too fast and we miss Paul like crazy, hopefully the next two months just fly by.  Me and the kids are back in Henderson now.  It's been nice to be home, start preschool, see many of our friends, and just get back into our normal routine. 

*Midway

We had so much fun in Midway! Paul, me and the kids and Paul's mom went up on Friday night and stayed over.  Leila loved have her grandma all to herself.  On Saturday morning Paul got up early and went golfing with Colin and Spencer.  Kara and Stephanie and their kids came up around 10 am.  We just hung out and let the kids played.  I couldn't believe how well they played together, they literally played the entire day without a fight or even caring what the adults were doing.  Seth and Jenn and their kids arrived just after lunch time and then the boys watched the BYU football game and the girls headed over to Swiss Days.  It was super crowded and really hot.  After about and hour I was getting really swollen so we decided to head back home. 

We lined the kids up by age (Mia, Leila, Cohen, Savanna, June, Greydon and Zoey).  It's funny to see the difference in size.  Mia and Leila are only 6 months apart but Mia is about a head taller then Leila.

We had a BBQ that night complete with dutch oven peach cobbler and smores!

The boys hate having their picture taken so they went super cheesey! I just love our friends and love that we can just pick up where we left off.  I love that we can just be ourselves around them and that we laugh like crazy when we are together.  I miss them like crazy and wish we lived closer, maybe someday!