Mamma Mia!

I thought this movie looked good and I wanted to see it, but I didn't know I'd like it sooo much. It was hilarious, and I can't believe how talented Meryl Streep is. I almost started clapping after they sang a couple of times, and I felt like I was at a concert or something. I even had the urge to get up and dance in the aisles, but fortunate for my friends and other movie-goers, I refrained. Since then I have been listening to the cd in the car and at home. I think I'm driving Jeremy crazy with all of the music. He just isn't into music as much as I am, so he doesn't get it. If you haven't seen this movie, you should take some of your friends and go see it. It's so cute!

Swim Lessons

Kolby and Mallorie are doing so well with their swim lessons. I decided to go ahead and put them in the next session too. Next time they'll have their friend Vai in their class with them. So Kolby's really excited. For the last day of swim on Friday, they're supposed to jump in off of the diving board. I'll post that on here when I can figure out how to put videos on.

New Bikes!

Kolby and Mal have been wanting to get new bikes for a while. So we told them that if they sold some of their toys at the garage sale, then they could get a big-boy and big-girl bike. It made it easy to get rid of their baby toys and things. They kept trying to find other things to sell in the garage sale. It was pretty funny. We let them pick out the bikes they wanted, and then told them that we would go back to get them in a week, for Family Home Evening. Jeremy went to Chicago for a few days, and when he came home on Saturday, he stopped by the store to get the bikes for the kids. When he got to the house, he rang the doorbell and hid around the corner, so that all we saw were the bikes. The kids were already asleep, however. So he was disappointed. Instead we put the bikes in the kids rooms, so that when they woke up they would see them. It was just like Christmas. Sunday morning they got to ride them around in their pj's before church. Since then, they have been on them constantly. Even when I have the garage door down, they are riding circles around my car. I went to check on them the other day, and Kolby was just sitting on his bike in the garage, with his head down on the handle bars. I asked him what he was doing, and he said that he was just waiting for dad to come home to take him on a bike ride. It was about 2:00 at the time, so Jeremy wouldn't be home for another 3 1/2 hours. They have really enjoyed them, but I feel like I have to watch them even more closely because they keep trying to open the garage door and take off.

Barbecue and Volleyball

  We had a really good neighborhood garage sale on Saturday.  We sold all of the big things we needed to get rid of and made quite a bit of money.  It's always nice making money on stuff you don't want anymore.  Plus our garage is nice and clean now.  After our garage sale, our neighbors decided we should all have dinner together, and somehow we got suckered into having it at our house.  It was so much fun!  I just wish our deck was finished, though.  We just recently got a volleyball net, so there were some pretty intense games.   For dinner we had steak, Oriental Chicken Salad (mmm) and lots of hot dogs (eeww- J got TONS of hot dogs from work, so I'm so sick of them).  Our friend, Eric (who used to own Sato's Restaurant) showed us some secrets to grilling and I got the recipe for his salad too.  I made home-made ice-cream and peach cobbler for dessert, and Natalie made this wonderful cheesecake trifle.  It was absolutely delicious!  I think I'm getting hungry thinking about all of this food.  My Lean Cuisines just aren't very filling.  After it got dark, and all of the kids and moms went home, the boys set out some extra lights, and played more volleyball until it was pretty late.  We had such a good time we are ready to do it again, and I think Jeremy is ready for a re-match.

Happy 4th of July!!

We had a great 4th of July this year.  First we went to the annual 4th of July parade with our good friends, the Grovers and the Potters.  Jeremy unfortunately  got called into work just as the parade started, so he didn't get to stay, but the kids got lots of candy and enjoyed being with their friends.   After the parade we went back to the house for lunch and then spent the evening at our neighbors for fireworks and a barbecue.  It's fun being able to buy and set off fireworks.  In AZ it's illegal, since it is so dry there.  Here in Idaho though, we have a show every night, all month long, from all of the neighbors.   Kolby just loves them.  He wanted to set off fireworks this year for his birthday, but unfortunately we couldn't get any in March.   

My New Nephew

Well I have a new nephew and a new neice.  I just  haven't gotten any pictures of my niece yet, though.  They named my niece Madeline Grace, so I'll post those pictures as soon as I get them.  My sister Kodi just had her second child on July 3rd.  They named him Dane Edward.  He is so cute.  He reminds me of his older brother Trenton when he was a baby.  Trenton is such a proud brother.  He said that the day his brother was born was the happiest day of his life.  I just wish I could go visit them, so that I can see him and my neice Anabeth, who's in Fremont that I still haven't got to see in person.  It's so hard to be spread out like this.  I also want to go to see my new neice in MO and to TX, AZ, and NC to see the others.