Like always, after renting our house, we were exceptionally grateful to be back in our own home. But dude, the workload upon returning is real. So. Much. Laundry. And more besides that like just vacuuming and bathrooms again, making sure there's nothing foreign in the house.
Also, our gardens needed some attention. My sister told me that I needed to dead-head my dahlias to encourage them to grown more blooms instead of more seeds. They were so pretty even when their petals were falling out and they were all dry that I felt bad just tossing them so I put them in some water and let them float.
Cute teeny ones.
These were the first to bloom and have been so faithful all summer long. The boys also wanted some floating flowers for their rooms. They were pretty for a day or so and then they got kind of slimy.
Later that night the cat cracked us up during dinner because apparently it was too hard for him to stand while eating. Ha! Side note: We only let him eat up there so the dog doesn't steal his food.
As soon as we got home Evie went to work trying to convince me to take her on a mommy daughter date. I had been too busy before the rally cleaning our house, etc., but now we had time. Her favorite thing is Culvers cheese curds so that's what she got. We ran several other errands. It wasn't very fun, the poor girl.
When we put the boys to bed that evening, Samuel somehow head-butted me and actually broke the skin on my lip against my tooth. I had a gross looking wet, yellow scab for the next several days. Thanks buddy.
The kids complained and complained once we got home that the dog and cat smelled bad and begged us to bathe them. We obliged the following day.
Angry kitty perched on daddy's warm lap.
The following Saturday, August 11th, Terry and I slipped away for a date. It had been almost two busy months since we'd last had one for our anniversary and it was beyond time. Terry was still recovering from Utah...and I so was I! We ate at Que Pasa and then walked over to The Elks, bumping into Paul, Jana, and Jack along the way. We finally saw Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. We had been steadily working our way through the original Jurassic Park movies with the kids so I was really looking forward to continuing the saga. It was good, maybe better than the first one, but very different. The suspense was better is what I'm trying to say. I thought the first one lacked the edge of your seat suspense that makes those movies good.
Two nights later, Sunday, August 12th, only one week after their return, we had a Utah Reunion Barbecue! A couple moms and I discussed the idea after the team had left the church. We got the idea from when Jana hosted the Mexico Reunion Feista in 2015, though of course my bbq was nowhere as cool and cute, or as large, as hers. But we had a very good time. I had never had so many people in my house before!!!
There were only seven students who went but when we added in everyone's family members we had about 45 people there!
We all squished downstairs in front of the TV to watch all of Terry's video footage and hear everyone's stories.
Here is the video Terry made from his footage.
I worked the following Thursday and for some reason, Ezra was a little cuddly that evening. Dude, I'll take what I can get these days!
Claws on Friday August 17th.
He's politely uninterested in me right here...like usual.
The following morning, Saturday August 18, we had our second youth leader prayer and planning meeting. Afterward the kids jumped at the opportunity...er, or sat down...to color on Prae's notebook.
I just thought it was super adorable.
That evening Terry's high school best friend Joel and his wife Julie along with their four children, came to visit! It had been since 2007 that we'd seen them, not long after when we had just moved to Gburg! September 13, 2017 to be precise. I knew I had a picture from that visit.
We had a fantastic time catching up and laughing over dinner.
Our kids have never met another family with children they don't like and we hardly saw them, they played so well together. Such fun. I really hope it's not another 11 years before we see each other again.
Here is an outtake from one of the photos as we were gathering the kids for the picture. Evie cracks me up! I think she is making that face because Noah was touching her, forgoodnesssakes child.
Back to Joel and Julie. Joel is the amazing runner Terry often talks about in his youth group lessons, the one who was the leader of the Two Mile Relay that they won for State Track in 1996. I had heard a lot about Joel when we first started dating in August of 2002 but never met him until the night we made Creature Cake, a very silly video starring the four of us plus our friend Adam who was living at the ranch at the time. I realized I had never uploaded this video to YouTube or even mentioned it, so clearly it has to be immortalized in the blog. I give you Creature Cake.
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