Catsup, Ketchup, Catch-up Time

Now that August is pretty much over I guess I better hurry and play catch up before I get too far behind. Especially since I'm not even caught up with July.

The first part of July we headed up to Washington to spend some time with Crue's birth family and we had such a good time. Adoption has blessed our family in so many ways and these great people are definitely included in the list of blessings.


We had a great time swimming,



going out on the boat,






playing in the backyard,




going on a tractor ride. (And might I say it was the biggest tractor I have ever seen. Luke had so much fun driving it he might just become a farmer one day.)







running a 5K,




attending the temple,




and just hanging out.




Then a week after we did the 5K in Washington we ran the Erda 5K. I was interested to see how much the elevation would effect our running. Lets just say, it effects it quite a bit. It was definately easier running at an elevation of about 500 than it is running at 4300.

(me and my running partner)



Long before our kiddos came along we used to camp out on the street the night before the Days of 47 Parade. Well this year we decided to do it again and about an hour later we were packed up and headed to Salt Lake. My mom met us downtown and dropped off my stepdad and took Crue home with her. We had so much fun playing games all night long with my cousins, watching the sporadic fireworks that were going off all night long, and basically getting no sleep. And the parade the next morning was great too. I absolutely love how we have Independence Day and Pioneer Day here in Utah.









Then later the next day after we all took a LONG nap we headed to the swimming pool.