A little glimpse of the madness

The last couple weeks have been pretty crazy busy. After Erick's family reunion we went up to Pineview Reservoir in Ogden canyon for my family reunion. That's the source of some of my favorite family memories! Every year my mom's brothers and sisters get together for a few days and have a reunion. It's a little different every year since someone else is in charge each year. But, it's always sorta the same. Lots of food, ice-cream, watermelon, football, scum, laughing, late nights, and lots of people! I think there were about 75 people there, and that's just my 1st cousins and their parents etc!! We have such a good time together. I really enjoyed it a lot this year! And it was also Erick's first time meeting most of my extended family so that was fun.(Notice all the couples and my sister missing her boyfriend?)

It was also Everett's 1st birthday during the reunion, so we had a small celebration with cake, and Everett's toys wrapped up (that's right, I didn't even buy him a present, and I think he still had just as much fun!)


Erick's sister also came down to visit for a couple days. I always love having company, and Lori is so much fun. Her kids are fun too. We fed the ducks, played games, and went to the Discovery Children's museum at Gateway (it's tons of fun if you haven't been before).

We've been having lots of fun, but the trouble is it never seems to last. Everett started cutting some more teeth this last week and it's been horrible! I think they're his molars or close to it. He's been in THE worst mood and had a pretty bad fever. Poor kid! But, I feel so thankful for teething tablets, baby ora-jel, and tylonol! Hopefully he can get those through soon.

Sadly, but also happily, Erick is out of town for work for the next few weeks. Obviously it's sad cause I miss him (I would classify myself as a needy wife), but it's happy cause he's doing so much better! They moved the office to Twin Falls. I think that was a great move, cause Erick is really "killin" it now.

Since Erick is gone, a went on a girls' night out with my mom and sister. We went to see the premier of Errand of Angels. It was awesome. I'm not much of a movie person, let a lone the cheesy Mormon spoof movies, but I really liked this one. If you get a chance you should see it. It opens on August 22.

In a nutshell, that's what we've been up to!