Neighborhood BBQ's

When we moved into our wonderful money pit of a house we were told that everyone always gets together in the summer time and does a neighborhood BBQ. Well the first summer we moved into the house nothing happened. Then the next year we waited to see if anything would happen and nothing. So last year Jeremy and Joe Smith decided to put a neighborhood bbq together. It was a really good success and it was so much fun we had people asking if we were going to do it again. So Jeremy pretty much planned it this time and we decided to include 6430 W neighbors to north of Black Oak Drive. Well due to it being the 24th of July weekend it wasn't a very big turn out and instead of having a mixture of salads and dessert we mainly had a dessert BBQ with one salad ours. We had decided to have everyone bring thier own meat and for the even houses to bring dessert and the odd houses to bring salads. I think we were the only odd numbered house there. Oh well it was still fun. I think we will try and plan another one before it gets too cold.

Thank you to everyone who helped and came it was really fun!

July 24th - Pioneer Day 2009

For the 4th of July Jeremy Jack and I went to Jake and Mindy's house, so we figured we would spend the 24th of July with my family.

Jeremy had to work not the whole day, but I think he got in about 6 hours. So once he got home we had to run the dogs, get things together and then head over to my mom's house. In the meant time we decided to stop at Babies R Us due to the fact that when we went up to Jake and Mindy's I forgot to put Jack's plastic pants back into the bag so for future reference he could go swimming. So we stopped at Babies R Us and we were able to get plastic pants for him along with little swimming diapers.

I think we made it to my mom's house about 4:30pm and she had this Cowboy Caviar ready to go and I was pretty full by the time we actually had dinner. We brought a sweet and sour pasta which I got the recipie from my cousin Shantae - wonderful, Cristy and Landon brought the famous spinach salad that our family loves and Brook and Logan brought a mandarin orange and banana pudding, that was yummy as well. In addition to all of our salads we had BBQ Chicken, Corn on the cob and baked beans. If you want to see all of the wonderful food, look at Logan and Brooke's blog. After dinner it was time to go swimming.

Jeremy and Jack, ready to make a splash.

My nephew Riley, instead of saying swimming he says water.

Jack Jack

Jack, Grandma Vicky, and Jeremy

Cristy, Riley and Brooke

Landon, Cristy, Zac, Riley, and Brooke

The whole gang.

It was a fun day. Thanks mom for letting us come over and swim.

100 Posts!

Way to go me... I never thought I would make it to one hundred posts it only took me a year and a half and I think it had everything to do with our newest addition to our family... Jack.

Let's see how long it takes me to get to 300 posts.

Happy Birthday Brooke!

My newest sister in law, Brooke, had her 28th birthday (way to go young buck!) So Cristy and I decided to meet her at her work and take her out for her birthday. We decided to go to

So Brooke, Cristy, Riley, Zack, Jack and me headed to get some lunch. As well as I talked Landon (my brother) into letting Cristy drive their new Pilot which doesn't get very much exercise. We had a really nice lunch and after words we had three Chili's employees come and sing to Brooke. It was awesome. Later that day Brooke called me and told me that they were heading to mom's house to go swimming. So Jack and I headed over to mom's house and we went swimming. Then Logan bought Brooke an ice cream cake and we had that for dessert.

So Brooke...

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2 Months Old

Jack is 2 months old today. I was told that when you are on maturnity leave time flies by and now I believe it. I have one month and 14 days left until I have to go back to work and I can't believe its almost time for that. Jack has been nothing but a blessing to our family although he has tested us in patience and no sleep we so love him. I can't even picture our lives without him. He is starting to make noises (we are past the passing gas noises) he is actually cooing and aweing and he will actally talk to you or the dogs who ever is around when he wants to say something. He has been smiling a lot and as I am a retard I need to start carrying our camera around so I can take it out and get a picture of Jack smiling. He is such a good boy and has been sleeping for about 5 - 6 hours depending on the day. We love him so much.

WE ARE A STATISTIC!!

A story is always told when you decide to adopt and once you adopt you will get pregnant. Jack our adopted son was born on May 16, 2009, most of you know this because we plastered it all over our blog. Well as we told people about Jack they would tell us, watch out you are going to get pregnant. I swore that I or that we were not going to be a statistic. Eight weeks later I was wrong.

Jack will be having a brother or sister sometime around February 11, 2010. As this was a shock to us we are so excited and can't wait to add another baby to our family.

Baby South and the heart beat which was at 161 beats per second.

Baby South zoomed out.

Baby South zoomed in.

Please help us celebrate this exciting time. We can't wait.

4th of July 2009

The last few years we have gone over to Jason and Tawnie's house for BBQ and Fireworks. This year we headed up to O-Town (Ogden) to Jake and Mindy's house for some Swimming, BBQing, and Fireworks.

We had a really fun time. It was fun watching the crazy men do tricks off of the diving board and trampoline and landing in either just the water of the pool or trying to make it through a tube.

For the BBQ we had Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Salads, fruit it was a great smorgasbord. When it got dark it was time to clean up the pool, the food and get ready to watch some fireworks. We didn't have any crazy fireworks this time (last year Jason had some fireworks that he bought a few years back and wanted to see if they were still good. As he was lighting them the firework flew across the street hit a car and I think landed in his neighbors yard, it was quite entertaining.)

Thanks Jake and Mindy for having us at your house and for letting us swim in the pool. Jared and Aspen, we missed you both and the girls, maybe next time.



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