Denver

We went to Denver a couple weeks ago so Sam could interview at a company there. The dental office would actually be in Fort Collins which is about an hour north of Denver. We don't know a lot of details yet but we are planning to leave here in the next couple weeks! Crazy!My sister, Cami and fam were there for the Summer while Juan did an internship. It was fun to be able to hang out with them for the week. Amelia is so adorable and I hadn't seen her since she was 1 month old and Sam hadn't seen her at all. We played lots of card games, Mario Party and Mario Kart and just did lots of hanging out. We didn't do much touring since we are probably moving out there soon but we did hit a couple must sees.Here is a huge 2 story chair with a horse on top of it. We have no idea what the story is behind it but it was definitely picture worthy.We also drove past the very first Chipotle restaurant ever! It started back in 1993. Colorado is definitely the place for us now knowing that Chipotle started there.

Polo

We went to our first Polo match in Newport, Rhode Island a couple weekends ago with some friends. The only exposure I have had to Polo up to this point was from Pretty Woman. I just assumed it was for rich people to wear big hats and have an excuse to drink tons of wine. I was definitely right about the drinking tons of wine part (for other people, not for us). It was a lot of fun to bring our little picnics and cheer on the USA team against Scotland. We lost but put up a good fight. I think we did a lot more socializing than watching the match.During "half-time" (or whatever they call it), we were able to go out on the field for the "divot stomp" where we put all the grass clumps back into the ground so the field looked nice and fresh again.These next pictures are my fav. It gave me the chance to use a fun setting on our new camera from Sam's mom. It has a setting on it where you can take multiple pictures in seconds. We love this feature. At the end of the game it is tradition for the players to ride by on their horse to give all the spectators a high five. Let's just say Sam was super excited about this.

Whale Watching

While my parents were in town My mom, dad, Kelly, Zack, Sam & I went whale watching. My sister, Kelly heard of this place called 7 Seas Whale Watch out of Gloucester, MA so we gave it a try. It really was one of the coolest things that I have ever done. We went out on a yacht looking boat and were out in the water for about 5 hours. We ended up seeing about 12 whales (humpback, finback & minke). We mainly followed this little family of humpback whales.

Matching, matching green squared.This is my mom posing inside where we hung out while we were riding out to the "whale hotspots". It was fun to have the tables so we just played a few rounds of Idiot (card game) while we were waiting.

Zack got to come with us mostly so he wouldn't be a home to bug his sisters. It was fun to have him there.

Here the whale was waving to us and putting a little show. It was so funny.

Here are the 3 whales that we followed a lot of the time. I just loved to see their tails. It was such a perfect day to go.

Family Overload!!

The past couple months have been jam packed with family. It was so much fun. It all started back the end of June, yep you heard me right, the end of JUNE! My parents came out to visit for 1 1/2 weeks and then the day they left my brother, Paul and his fam came for a 1 1/2 and then the day after they left, I flew out to Utah and just got back 2 weeks ago! Wow that is some extra extra family time.

Here are just a few highlights from the last couple of months of family fun.

Boston with Paul & family

Paul, Rachelle and kids and I went downtown to Boston and toured the USS Constitution.

At the USS Constitution, they had a museum with a lot of fun interactive things that the kids could do. This is Sadie and Spencer.Yes, this is the only other picture I took on our Freedom Trail walk of Boston. I am really bad at remembering to take pictures. This is the robot girl. She would just stand still and then move like a robot if you gave her a tip. A little creepy but well worth the picture!


Sand Sculpturing at Revere Beach
Brooke and Sadie came and slept over so we headed over to see the sand sculpturing at Revere Beach. It was so amazing to see the detail of the projects. We only saw the finished products. I wish we would have been there while they were working on them.


East Canyon

We went to East Canyon with the family for a week. It was fun to hang out. I only got a few pictures of some of the little kids while we were watching some movies. I think they are pretty cute!


Bowling & Arbys Tradition
Sam and I have an ongoing tradition with the 3 oldest nieces and nephew (Sadie, Brooke & Christopher) to go bowling and then to Arby's after. We do this every time Sam and I are in town. Brooke was actually able to join us this time since she was visiting from New Hampshire. Oh it is hard to believe that 2 years ago we drove across the country with these 3!

Mini GolfFor one of Brooke's last nights in town we hit the mini golf course.

Seussical, The Musical

I heard on the radio that Seussical was going to be performed at the Sandy amphitheater. I just had to go! It is based on the Dr Seuss books (mostly about Horton). I absolutely love the music. I did see my nephew, Josh in the production of it at his school but I wanted to see it again. It was so worth it even though it was like 45-50 degrees outside! It was fun to go with Cami, Juan, Heather, Sami, Griff, Adrian and Hayley. If you ever get the chance to see it you must and you can invite me to go also.

It is good to be back home and have things back to normal! Sam only has 1 more year of school before he gratuates. Hooray!

Fun Times with Natalie, Zack and Carley

A couple of weeks ago Kelly (my sister) was at Girls camp so we had Natalie, Zack and Carley on July 24th & 25th. It was fun having them sleep over at our little apartment.

On Thursday, it was raining all day. We were stuck inside but we managed to have some fun watching movies, playing nintendo and aggravation and just hanging. We were going to see a movie in our town square. They project a movie on a screen put up on the gazebo. Our town has been doing this every Thursday all summer but it seems to rain a lot on Thursdays so they have had to cancel it the last few weeks.

On Friday it was the perfect outside. We took the kids to the pool at our apartment and they were lucky being the only ones there. They even have a lifeguard there.
After swimming we went to play on the playground. We tried to see if we could find some amazing playground in the area but were unsuccessful so we settled on the one at our apartment. We may as well get as much out of our $1100/month rent. The kids still loved it. I made them pose in all these cheesy pictures.
I also taught Carley to swing across the monkey bars. She is so independent so once I told her she just had to swing herself to get the the next bar, she could do it all on her own.

We had a fabulous time. I wasn't totally sick of them when they left so that must mean I am ready to have my own kids! If I can handle a couple days, what's a lifetime! Hahaha