We are HOME!!!

What a lovely summer this has been.

After finding ourselves with a summer where both my girls were old enough to enjoy swimming, movies in the theater, story hour at the library, and "tolerated" shopping we utilized our summer days as best we could.

At the end of July we headed off on the 1400 mile drive to Utah to spend the rest of the summer with family.

Lance's brother returned from the Eugene, OR mission and his sister and her family were in town to welcome him home... which meant cousin time for my girls, which they LOVE!!

Em had her farewell... she leaves for the MTC on the 15th of Sept.

We had such a lovely time in Utah. This trip was full of fabulous weather, great books (I read the Hunger Games trilogy), good food, and plenty of family fun.

The girls and I got to go to CA with my family to see Grandma and spend time on the beach.

The San Diego Zoo was fabulous... even if it was a lot of walking :)

We headed down to Saint George to see our bestest friends, the Burtons.

We got to eat fresh peaches and tomatoes from the garden.

We witnessed Julia, Lance's cute sister, get her first boyfriend :)

I was able to see and spend time with my dear friends, Ann and Jamie....

(Andrea, sorry we missed you. We'll catch you at Christmas !!)

We checked out the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point, accompanied with ice cream cones and lots of water :)

I will post pictures of our trip soon.... just thought I would get my thoughts down while the girls are still asleep and I had a minute.

Hope your summer was a nice one.

I love that fall is just around the corner, even though for us it's not for another 2 months in Texas.

Most of us have kids that just started school this year, although with Beth it's just preschool because she missed the deadline by 2 weeks.

Good luck to all the mom's that had to say

"Good Bye"

at the kindergarten door.