The weekend....

OK, my battery is about to go dead so I will make this one quick. Although let me just say that I think I am wordy. My friend Rachel was saying the other day her teachers used to tell her that, about her writing, and I have discovered that I am that way also. Oh well, you can always just look at the pictures!! We had a great weekend filled with babysitting and boating. Friday night we watched the Opie kids while their parents, Chris and Dawn, went out for their anniversary. The kids were wonderfully behaved for us. Keaton ate about 7, went to sleep at 7:30 and stayed asleep the rest of the evening. Gentry hadn't had a nap so she wanted to go lay in our bed about 8 and watch cartoons. She fell asleep and so did I, while Wes stayed downstairs with Keaton in case he woke up. I will say that the hour Keaton was awake was tough though! He likes to be held, and you can't just hold him, you have to walk around too. I see why so many people have the slings now. One of those would have come in handy! These pictures of him and Wes were when they first arrived, so he was pretty content at this point!

Isn't she the cutest thing? I love this child. Here is an even cuter one of her. This was a little while ago, but I can't resist.

Now on to Saturday....We went out with the Shaw's to Utah Lake. It was 100 degrees, we don't have a pool, but needed to get wet, so we drove out to the middle of the lake, parked the boat, and swam and floated around for about 3 hours. It was so nice! Utah Lake is near Provo, which to many around here is not the place you want to stay and play for long (it's home to BYU, if that tells you anything!) But it's a nice lake, and the views were great.

Tuesday's Random Post

Today was a momentous day in Utah! It rained!! For those of you who live in the south, you must understand something. It NEVER rains here in July, in fact we have had fires throughout the state for weeks now. So rain is a wonderful thing. In fact, it started as soon as I left work, I had to run out to my car in it, and I didn't even care. I LOVE rain now. I never thought I would say that, after feeling like I lived in the rain forest sometimes in Asheville. Anyways, so tonight I took some pictures of the sky. The sunset was gorgeous.... This was the stormy sky to the north. It is a welcoming sight to see these dark clouds.And if anyone can tell me what kind of flower this is I will be in debt to you forever! They were planted before we moved in, and they do really well here and I want more.

I also just wanted to give a warm welcome to Misty, who just created a new blog! I am so happy to have her on here now. Check out their link under The Gordons.

Happy Birthday Dominick!!

Today we celebrated Dominick Lee's 4th bday. Dominick is the son of our good friends, Eric and Diane. We have several friends with 3 and 4 year olds, and they are so much fun, and cute too! And they are little hams, so I got some great pictures of them. The bottom pic is the Opie family. They have baby Keaton, who is 4 mths now, and Gentry, who is 3. Wes and I are babysitting them next Friday, so we will get a little taste of what parenthood will be like! I will let you know how it goes!

It's hard to get back to blogging again after vacation, sorry it took me a few days!! We met Wes's parents, Tom and Sue, in California last week. They traded one of their time shares for a week at the Worldmark Resort in Angels Camp. It is about two hours east of San Francisco, which is where we flew into, so we spent our first night in SF, hanging around Fisherman's Wharf, going to Ghirardelli Square (where I just had to pick up some dark chocolate!) and taking Tom and Sue to Wes and I's favorite Irish coffee place, Buena Vista. Here is a picture of the four of us at dinner on the Wharf...

The next day it was on to Angels Camp. The drive there kind of feels like you aren't in California anymore. More like Indiana or some midwestern town. Very flat, and lots of farms. But then we came into Calaveras County, home of 22 wineries. Angels Camp was where our resort was, but the small town of Murphys, CA was where most of the wineries were, and where we spent a lot of our time. One afternoon we visited 4 different wineries, and one of them in particular, Ironstone, has a summer concert series, so we bought tickets to Earth, Wind and Fire for the next night. It was a wonderful evening at the winery ampitheatre, and the concert was great! Here are some pics of one of the wineries and on the lawn before the concert...

Another treat nearby was Bear Valley, a ski resort town and therefore, much higher elevation and much cooler than Angels Camp. The drive up was about 45 minutes, and it takes you through Big Trees National Park. The trees were beautiful, and very large....

And, I know you will be shocked.... We went fishing (or Tommy and Wes went fishing) on one of the mountain lakes.....

All in all, it was a wonderfully relaxing vacation!!

We are on vacation - Be back next week!!!!

It's what I love about Sunday

Today after church we went fishing up on the Provo River. Mind you, this is not a new thing by any means, but more of a regular occurrence. I just haven't gone with Wes in a while, or since we have started the blog. But of course I forgot our camera, so I had to use his phone to take some pictures. Wes caught a ton of fish, but I didn't get any of them in pictures. I did get a couple of him and his fishing buddy, Brandy. She is such a good girl, just sitting by him and patiently (sometimes impatiently!) waiting for him to catch a fish. She stood by me for a while too, but my not catching anything got bored for her real quick, apparently! Today she fell off a couple rocks into the water, and also tried to bite one of the fish' heads off when Wes let her smell it!