Oh, What Do You Do in the Summertime?

Sometimes I steal song titles and make them my post titles. :)

Camping & Picnics
We all love being outside, especially in the mountains. It’s just so peaceful. Brennen is getting to be a really good climber. We’ve gone on a few little picnics and camping once up in the Snowy Range.
 

Lander/Rexburg Trip
Matt and two of his brothers went on a fishing/backpacking trip around Lander a couple weeks ago. While they were gone I decided to drive up to Rexburg with the boys to visit my sister. While we were there we also got to see my parents and brothers. We went to Bear World and walked about the temple. It was a lot of driving but such a nice little vacation. We had fun seeing family and I know Matt had fun backpacking.

Soccer
Brennen played soccer this summer. He really seemed to like it and did a good job! His team was probably the best one and it was a lot of fun to watch those 3 and 4 year olds play.

Family Reunion in Lyman
This last weekend we went to Lyman to see my entire family. It was so much fun!
We got there on Friday and the kids played on a bouncy water slide then we had family pictures that night.
On Saturday I dropped Matt off 13.1 miles out of town and he ran back in. He just felt like running a half marathon without even training and did it in just over 2 hours. Crazy (but awesome) man. Then we went to the parade and bbq. That afternoon, Grandpa filled the bed of his truck with water and the kids had such a blast splashing around in there. We had a fire that night a cooked marshmallows.
On Sunday we had a wonderful morning and then all went to church together in my parent’s ward. We drove back to Laramie last night.
Most of the kids slept together outside and had so much fun playing. I know Brennen loved spending time with his cousins and grandparents and he just cried when it was time to leave.

Next Up
Our move! We’ve moved several times since we’ve been married but never to a different town. We feel like this is what we’re supposed to do but I’m still in denial and it probably won’t really hit me until we’re loading up next Friday. But we’ve had a great summer and are excited to start this new part of our lives.

My Baby Isn’t a Baby Anymore!

Brennen turned 4 on Sunday! It was a great day and I found myself feeling emotional about the day he was born and the years we’ve had with him. I wanted a baby for quite awhile before he came and he was (and still is) such a blessing!

We had our birthday donuts and then both boys helped me make a candy gram for Matt for Father’s Day. We let Brennen open a present before church so he played with his new dinos there. Then after church we had chicken alfredo (he said he wanted chicken and Matt likes alfredo so that’s what we did) and Matt’s family came over for a party.
He was SO excited to see everyone for the birthday party! He wanted a tractor/dinosaur cake so this is what I came up with and he seemed to love it.

He liked all of his presents and was so cute all day.

Matt and I lay awake for awhile that night just talking about Brennen, how he was as a baby and how he is now. We spent a week at my Mom’s away from Matt while he was at scout camp and he said that while he missed all of us that he especially wanted to see Brennen when he got home. And Brennen flew into his arms and snuggled there for a few minutes as soon as we walked in the door. Those two have a special bond and it melts my heart.

Me with my birthday boy!

Matt reading his boys a story Sunday night. He’s such a great dad and I hope he didn’t feel neglected sharing Father’s Day with Brennen’s birthday. :)

A Lot of Family Fun!

Memorial Day

Matt worked until noon or so and then we went close to Vedauwoo with his family for a picnic. It was so nice and relaxing and the boys are getting better at climbing.

Nathan’s Wedding

We went to the temple in Denver on Thursday night to go through with Abby. We left the boys here in Laramie with Mary and Brad and it was weird to go somewhere without them. But it was nice to have an evening just Matt and me with his family. And it was a really nice night in the temple.

On Friday we spent the day setting up for the reception and on Saturday we got up early to go back to Denver for the wedding. It was a beautiful day and the sealing was really nice. We were able to see and talk to so many members of Matt’s extended family.

We all had a lot of fun at the reception. They had a ring ceremony where Brennen was the ring bearer. He was pretty cute. Then we got to talk to a lot of people at the reception. The boys danced a lot and had a blast.

Sunday we all went to church in Matt’s parent’s ward. It was so fun to be there with the entire Clark family. Then we had dinner together and played games at the house.

Matt’s parents worked hard on the whole wedding and it was such a nice weekend!

Next week Matt will be going to scout camp so the boys and I are looking forward to a week in Lyman with Grandma Hope and “The Kirk” (and my brothers of course). We like to go visit when Matt is gone because we (mostly I) don’t like being at home alone and it’s nice to spend extra time with my family.

Matt went to Newcastle yesterday for some training and to find a place to live. NO luck on that front unless we want a 2 bedroom (which is really too small) or live in a junky trailer. I have nothing against trailers, just junky ones and that’s what they’ve got there. :)

I’ve really been starting to panic about it. I know that we still have a couple months but I’m a planner and I really like to know what’s going to happen. And I want to feel secure and know that my family will have a nice place to live. I just keep praying that something will come up that will work for our family.