Time to catch up....

Well, hello. Is it really almost July? What the heck? I've apparently taken a brief, completely unplanned hiatus from the blogging world. I must say, I've totally missed it. I haven't even had time to read my favorite blogs. We have had an insane Month of June. My sister even called me to yell at me for not blogging for so long. She said she doesn't have anything to read. Whatever. Wendy, I don't have anything to read, either, since you never comment!! By the way, you really should start one of these blogs, too. You are a funny lady.

So, this will be my catch up post. Randomness at it's finest. It may be long, so be warned. Or, maybe I'll just split it up into a few posts....we'll see.

Weddings...

June is the month for weddings, right? Well, we had two. The first was Cory's sister, Darlyn. She got married here in Twin on the 13th. Yes, Friday the 13th. They met on a Friday the 13th which is why they chose that day to get married. Her husband, Chris, is a BASE jumper. He's an awesome guy, and we are so totally excited for both of them. They wanted to get married under the Perrine bridge at the landing spot for the BASE jumpers, but the boat to ferry people was way way too much. It was a fun little party. They had a bounce house for all the kids to play in. Can't say I've ever seen that at a wedding, but it was definitely a big hit. Lots of yummy food, too. It was a great day,and we are glad to see her so happy again.

On the 20th, another of Cory's sister's, Hailey, was married in Idaho Falls to Kyler. Kyler's family and Cory's family used to be in the same Ward. They moved across town when Hailey an Kyler were young. Hailey is about 4 or 5 years older than Kyler, so they really didn't know each other growing up. They met at ISU this past year. They are so perfect for each other, it isn't even funny. We are so happy for them, too. That event was pretty much a weekend of fun for us. We went to Poky on Thursday for a family dinner and ate yummy pulled pork and several tasty salads. Do you notice a trend...yummy food? It doesn't take much to make a party a success in my eyes!! Then we went to IF for the wedding on Friday. It was beautiful. The weather was fabulous, which was great. The kids played at a park near the Temple. There were some older cousins there to take care of Jaxson, so I didn't have to stress. The ceremony was great. The Sealer was President Loveland, who knows both of the families. There was a point in the ceremony where Pres. Loveland stated he knew Kyler's Dad was there, and was so proud of him. (Kyler's Dad died in an auto accident when Kyler was very young) At that point, I stopped to "feel". I later told my Mother-in-law that I could tell there were a lot of people there we couldn't see. I'm sure my Nathen was there. I could feel him there. It was a very comforting thing. Another thing that stuck out was something he said while giving them advice and stuff. He quoted Pres. Hinkley and said "Soft words in the home is the language of peace." I totally want some vinyl words of that to put in my home! I'm gonna make my kids memorize that one!

Movies...

We've rented a few videos this month. Last night we we watched Fools Gold. Holy cow, what a great movie. If you haven't seen it, you really should. We laughed. Last week we rented Dan in Real Life. On the back of the movie case it says this movie is a "hilarious comedy". Not so much. It was a good movie, but I kept waiting for the hilarious part, and it never came. Tonight we're going to watch The Spiderwick Chronicles. Hope it's as good as we expect it to be!

Update- We watched Spiderwick last night, and it was a great show!! If you haven't seen it, you should.

Carmen Rasmussen...

A couple weekends ago, Carmen Rasmussen came to Burley. You remember her. She was one of the top 12 in season 2 of American Idol. Cory and I took the 2 girls, while the boys all stayed with Grandma and Grandpa. Yes, even Jaxson stayed, and did awesome! Anyway, she did a little concert and told a few stories from her book, "Staying in Tune". It was awesome. Of course, I left the camera at home, so no pictures. But we bought her book, and her CD. We love Carmen!

Baseball...

So,we've got Alex in baseball right now. I love watching him play. Usually Cory is the coach, but since we didn't know if we'd still be here (wishful thinking), he didn't sign up to coach this year. Big mistake. I never thought I'd be one of those Moms, but seriously, PLAY MY KID! I mean, really, Alex is the only one that gets substituted out, and it's usually only after he plays 2 innings. They had a game on Tuesday. We only had 9 kids show up. (I wonder why? Come to find out, I'm not the only parent with issues!) So, Alex got to play the whole game. Unfortunately, they didn't play as good as the coach thought they should. I thought they played okay. They're only 9 and 10 years old. And the other team's coach also coached Legion ball, so he actually knew how to coach. They were really good. Anyway, after the first inning, they all just sort of fell apart and did horribly. I attribute that to the coach yelling at them the whole game. Yeah, yelling. Get a grip, dude! He kept telling Alex to cover the first base if the first baseman ran to catch a ball. Um, no. That would be the pitcher's job. Anyway. After the game, he made them run laps around the field. What! Yeah, I think this guy has a problem. One of the parents said, "No coach, I don't think so.", grabbed his kid, and turned to the other coaches (yes, this guy put together a coaching staff. His "staff" also thinks he's an idiot), and said (or rather, yelled) "He'd better change his attitude! These kids are here to play and have fun!" or something like that. I should have piped up with a "hear hear", but I'm too much of a wimp. So I hope this season doesn't sour Alex on baseball. It's his favorite sport, and he's actually pretty good, I think.

Well, this has taken me 2 days to type, so I'm just going to go ahead and post what I have so far. I promise I'll write more later. I just know I have tens of adoring fans out there, dying to know what my cute little family is up to. And Wendy, I promise I did not intentionally make you wait forever for this post. I'm happy it makes your day to read all about my life. Yes, you should totally start a blog!!!!!!!