More Utah Fun

The weekend of the wedding Birtley and his family were so awesome and made a trip to come and see us. If they didn't come down we wouldn't have seen them until Christmas, and to go almost 18 months without seeing some of our favorite people would have been terrible! Luckily Tiff agreed and it worked out perfectly for them to make a visit from Boise that weekend.

We didn't get to spend a whole lot of time with them, but as you can see from the pictures, the time we did have was well spent! Our kids had a ton of fun together and it didn't feel like it had been that long since we had seen them. How grateful we are for family that makes the time and sacrifices to see us. We love the Boise Wilsons so much! 

 And this is what happens when Brian gets a hold of the camera! 

I figured...why not?!

Father's Day

I know I talk a lot about how these boys adore their dad, but they really do!

I feel bad that his day maybe wasn't as special as it could have been, but I think this guy knows that we love him dearly and that we don't know what we would do without him. This baby girl is so lucky to have him as her daddy and I have no doubts their relationship will be a special one.

We had dinner with the Whitehouse/Monsen clan and dad was able to have some fun with his boys.

Happiest Father's Day to our most amazing daddy!!!

Before Brian went back to Texas for a couple weeks, we met up with some of our besties-

They told us to pick a spot to eat and after turning down a few of our suggestions, we ended up at Pizzeria Limone. It's a fun new pizza chain and it was a last minute decision, but we all ended up loving it! We could have spent every night with these two (and Lucy, of course!), but the couple of nights we did get with them were some of the best! We sure are thankful for life long friends.

After dad headed back to Texas the fun sure didn't stop. We went and saw How to Train Your Dragon: 2 with Grandma Teresa and the boys loved it!

These boys love just about anything to do with their Grandma Teresa, so it was no surprise at all.

We also spent a lot of time with these goonies:

My boys adore their Henrie cousins! I'm sure Thad wouldn't mind if I shipped him to Utah to spend the whole summer with them. Maybe I'll have to do that some time...

We didn't want to delay seeing these east coast friends of ours:

We went and spent almost an entire day with them, and we could have stayed longer. The Russ' are just the best and Thad asked several times if he could live with them. Their house is super awesome and I kind of want to live with them too, so I don't blame him.

And though Brian went back to Texas to get lots of work done on his summer projects at school, that didn't necessarily happen. 

The A/C at our house started acting up and the repair man had to come out two different times to fix it. That means that there were a few days that Brian had to suffer in our sweltering house. And to make matters worse, this happened:

We had to sell the Neon for $500 because it wasn't worth putting another penny into. But that also means that Brian wasn't even able to escape the heat of our house and go to the air conditioned school. When it rains, it pours, right??

We were pretty bummed to see the Neon go, it served us well for the first 8 years of our marriage! It drove us across the country a few times and all over the east coast the three years we were there. I hope our next car serves us just as well!

I thought this was a funny text conversation that Brian had with a guy from Craigslist about the car:

Pretty impressive for just using Google translate!!

He also sent me some fun images of stuff he was up to. 

He has pretty much perfected the art of making a green smoothie. I don't even think I dare make one after trying his.

Yikes!!

And if we can't have our daddy with us, this is the next best thing:

Brian didn't think we could catch him in the act of pulling funny faces, but I have about 10 more screen shots to prove it! I love how Thad is trying to imitate his crazy eyes in the last one.

We sure love this dad of ours and are so grateful that he dealt with all of our problems down in the Lonestar State (and all of our problems for that matter) while we had lots fun up in the Beehive State.