Monday, July 1st, we went swimming, played at the park and then swam again with Cathryn and Luke. Allen went to work early and came home late to try to get ready to leave on vacation.
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| Playing at the mailbox in the morning. |
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| Caleb bashed his face in on the road running too fast. |
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| We both look a little worse for the wear from his fall. |
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| Safety Break aka Snack Time |
A couple of Kodak moments.
Tuesday was spent packing and cleaning. I left
at 3 pm to pick up Allen, eat dinner at Jack in the Box, go to the parking lot and get checked in for our
6:50 flight.
July is a big blur of spending time with family in Utah. We flew up there together on July 2nd and both flights went well. Neither kid was loud or fussy for longer than a minute or two on either of the flights (we had a layover in Phoenix I think).
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| Caleb played with Dad's phone for part of the flight. |
We stayed at Grammy and Baba's when we first got there.
Fourth of July we spent the morning with my family and then headed to Orem after naptime for the evening festivities at the Wilkins'.
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| Grandpa took Leila duty. |
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| Caleb loved the fireworks! |
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| The Leila Whisperer |
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| Fourth of July Parade |
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| Bubble Gum Chewing Contest |
We stayed at the Adams' house for a couple of nights.
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| Going to Mama Chu's |
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| Playing with Mike |
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| Talking to Grandma |
We blessed Leila at my parents' house while we were in Utah on Saturday, July 6th. She wasn't very happy most of that day.
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| Grandpa Larry drove down to be there. |
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| Grandma has the magic touch |
Allen flew back to Houston on Sunday the 7th. We were buying my parents’ van and I stayed with the kids until July 19th, when my mom drove with the kids and I to Denver. That was a long time away from Allen!
The last part of the trip was a lot of playing and relaxing at my parents' house. We played pool basketball and games with family, Skyped with Allen, I went to the temple a couple of times, saw Danielle and had lunch with Patti, Brittany and my Mom.
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| Caleb had total control over so many adults. He would say the ground was hot and they'd splash it for him. He'd ask to sing a song and everyone would sing it for him. |
We went to Chuck E. Cheese's with Grandma, Grandpa and Mike the day before leaving.
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| The Chuck E. Cheese show was very exciting! |
My mom drove with me to Denver on July 19th. When we got there we got to hang out with Abby, Carol and Luther for an hour or so before picking Allen up from the Denver airport that night. We spent the night in Denver, said bye to Grammy in the morning as she got on a shuttle to fly back to SLC and we headed out in the van, back to Houston. I was grateful for Grammy's help on the drive to Denver! And so grateful I didn't have to drive the rest of the way home myself!
Excerpts from my letters to Lizzi:
Caleb's 21 months old today. He is really missing his Dada, who went back to Houston on Sunday, so he has been kind of grumpy. He is cute nonetheless... He is loving all of the attention he gets here though. I don't know if you ever saw the 7 minute workout, it's just 30 seconds of exercise and 10 seconds of rest, repeated six times. It's actually 8 minutes long but it's called the 7 minute workout, go figure...
Anywho, Mom, Jenni and I were doing it the other day in the exercise room with Caleb. When we did jumping jacks, he jumped up and down, then we started doing the next exercise and he kept jumping up and down. He tried doing pushups and then when we did high knees, he ran in place with us. It was so cute! Then he was giving himself kisses in the mirror and when we finished, he made us jump and run in place even more. We need to get a video of it!
Leila is getting cuter and cuter. She doesn't like to be left out anymore. Whenever we're doing things, she will try to roll over in her carseat to see what's going on or fusses until you hold her up where she can see.
Thanks for letting the kidlets and I stay in your room. We started out in jenni's room but due to the arctic temperature down there, my children were unable to sleep well. I'm in your bed, Leila's in your closet and Caleb is in the bathroom by the earthquake. Your room is my fave of the whole house.
Someone's coming to look at the house this morning. The first potential buyer... So we're scrambling to get everything ready with Jeremy gone to jury duty and dad and Ben golfing and Caleb remaking messes.
Derek and Amy came up yesterday and Ben got the Melchezidek priesthood. Our FHE lesson was giving Ben advice for college so feel free to pass on any gems you may have.
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