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Memories

Okay, so I will take Sarah's advice, and see if anyone wants to post their memories of our family.

My brave Boston

So, on Tuesday we had or annual family Cherry Hill Day. I went over early with the boys and thought I could watch both of them in the water. They just played in the Pirates Cove at first and then got cold. I don't know what I was thinking suggesting that we head for the lazy river. Boston thought that he could swim and kept going under water and "swimming" then I would have to grab him and pull him up to breath. He did this about 1/2 way around until I got to nervous to let him do it anymore. While I'm watching Boston, I'm holding Jae, my arm is still a little sore from holding him. Anyways, about this time, Ben shows up, ( Thank goodness). We decide to head to the blue water slides with Abbi and Boston and Caleb. We told Abbi she would have to be brave and go down by herself and that we would catch her at the bottom. She didn't like that idea and so she sat out the first run. The next run, Boston informs us he is going to go down by himself, and so we let him. Ben went down first to catch him, I helped him on his mat and sent him down. He had so much fun, and could really do it without much help from either of us. Needless to say, the very next time down, Abbi went down by herself as well. We ran Boston til he had no gas left. He was having so much fun, yet he could barley walk up the steps, the last two rides he rode with me, I think so that he wouldn't fall sleep. We left him to sleep over at Grandmas and Grandpas house, and from what I'm told, he even got in a couple of holes of mini golf, before crashing. I just cant believe that Boston is so brave and getting so big. We love him so much, and just look forward to every new adventure. As for the rest of the day. it was awesome. Check out Adam and Jami's blog for my part in the Gold Metal river run. Thanks Erik for getting us passes.

I'm busy

For you that don't know me, I hate sitting home. Every morning I think to myself, "Where can I go today". With gas prices so high, It has been driving my crazy that I cant just head up to Kaysville and hang out with everyone. But this morning I was looking at pictures and realized that I do go, go, go. Last week I watched Jocelyn, ( the little girl I watch during the week) on Monday, Tuesday we went to Lagoon. Boston loved it!! Wednesday, watched Jocelyn. Thursday we went to Tia Pan, then lunch and then to the Famington pool. Friday we watched Jocelyn, Mia and Luke. I decided that maybe, just maybe I could have 5 kids if they all behaved as well as they did. Not to mention we all started to get sick on Wednesday. Saturday we had planned to go to Bear Lake, but with everyone feeling down, we decided to take it easy and stick around home. So we got up, got on the Front Runner and headed to the Farmers Market at Pioneer Park with the other Gunn family. It was so fun. Ben then went golfing and when he got home, I made him take me to RC Willey's and Ashley furniture. Now that I look back on it, I had a very busy week, and that is the way I love it. Ben is good to put up with my wanting to go, go, go. If anyone ever needs someone to go do something with them, Im your girl.

Too Busy To Blog

It's been a while...

A lot obviously has been going on. My job has kept me extremely busy over the last month or so as we've wrapped up everything for the opening of the new clinic I'm managing. Our first day seeing patients was Monday. There have been about 100 additional things that have come up. I thought we would have about a week to get the clinic ready to go once construction was complete. It turned out we had about a day once our facilities manager showed up with his punch list of fixes and re-dos. Last week was especially stressful as I tried to stay on top of getting everything we would need to get underway seeing patients while trying to work around a clinic that was still technically under construction.

It was especially tight given the 24th of July cut the last full week of construction short. It was nice to have a little break before the chaos, though. Jenny's given her assessment of the run on the 24th. I actually really enjoyed myself. It has been a while since I've run that far, but we made it and felt good doing it.

I followed that up by golfing with my dad and brothers on our 2nd (hopefully) annual man trip/golf odyssey. I ended up playing some pretty good golf and took home the, uh, trophy. There's nothing tangible, just the satisfaction of being the Man Trip Champ for a year. It was a lot of fun hanging out with the boys and my dad. By the way, if you're in Provo, check out the Smokehouse downtown. I think it's the best BBQ I've ever had.

Other than that, things have been pretty business-as-usual. We went up to the lake one evening last week. It was a blast, probably the best night this year.

We took the boys to Lagoon last night. We've been a little nervous about taking Boston since last year when he didn't ride a thing. He's also been a huge chicken and hasn't really ridden the waverunners this year. He must have grown some courage, though, as he wanted to go on everything! It was a lot of fun taking him on all the rides he could go on. He went on a couple of rides all by himself and loved them all. He didn't want to leave and wanted to go back all day today. It made me even more excited for Disneyland next spring. He's gonna love it!

Well, I have a tendency to write these giant catch-up blogs. I'll try to be better as we wind down the summer.

By the way, I've been spending WAY TOO MUCH time watching the Olympics. I hope you all got to see the Mens 4x100 freestyle relay. That is what the Olympics are all about. I really enjoy all these fringe sports once every four year. It's amazing to see the results of that kind of dedication and the joy that comes from success through sacrifice. I love the patriotism as well. USA! USA! USA!

Here's some pictures for your viewing pleasure...