Summer iS HERE!!!

It is officially Summertime!!! I'm not sure what I did last summer but this summer the heat has meant lots of playing outside with the hose, swimming, and visiting various splash pads and fountains. Harrison LOVES outside, LOVES the water, LOVES exploring and hurting himself and getting little chubby red cheeks and bruises and bumps and scratches..BRING IT ON!!!
Why is my silly mom trying to take pictures of me??
Monkey Face LOVES dropping things in the pool...especially ROCKS

Mommy--you need to stay hydrated-have some water?
Rocks need water too!!
OOH--What's over there?? Something I can climb on???

In other news--here's some fun with links
I have been working here for the last month and a half --it's averaged from 3-5 days a week
Starting next week I will be here on Wednesdays and Fridays ( yeah that's the super close one..yippee for working in Chandler and minimizing the commute) ---hoping one of them will someday turn into a real job :)
And occasionally I still write stuff for this for fun.

Also, for the last SIX LONG DAYS Cory has been here learning about how to make iphone and ipad apps..and basking in apple steve jobs glory..
HE COMES BACK IN T-MINUS EIGHT HOURS!! WOO HOO!!!!

stuff and stuff

I have yet to blog about our three weeks of three vacations (2 weekend, one week long) because I (of course) couldn't find the cord that connects my camera to my computer. Today, while putting some random stuff that I didn't want to REALLY put away in our kitchen junk drawer, I FOUND it!!! So as promised: the reasons my primary kiddos were missing me for three whole sundays:

Vacay-numero uno:
We went to Sedoma with my mom, larry, aaron, and Stephanie to celebrate me turning 28 (SCARY!!! that's like 2 away from 30 right??) and Aaron turning 26. The absolute highlight of the trip was for sure the HUGE jacuzzi hot tub (with jets) that inexplicably was smack dab in the middle of our hotel room (that's right no one else's hotel room-just ours). It was awesome...sadly, I didn't get a picture. We also had fun trying to run 10 miles and failing miserably due to too much traffic and construction and big hills and not enough sidewalks (ok that was just me), eating a DELICIOUS dinner, hiking, and looking at silly tourist trap type shops. It was a fun family weekend for sure.



Number Two: We went to Utah so I could run the top of utah half marathon with Lisa and Jen (and Jen's husband russ). I ran it MUCH slower than my first half marathon in 2005 but I'm happy to say that I ran the whole thing with no walking-YAY!!! Plus there could not have been better running conditions. The course starts in Logan Canyon and runs through some adorable picturesque towns--first seven miles or so was awesome, around mile 11 it got a little tough but we survived..and maybe someday I'll do it again :)



And the big daddy of vacations (ok..longer than a weekend anyway): DC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My old roomies and I (all six of us) got together in DC for a week (four are living there, two of us came from AZ and Utah) and it was SO MUCH FUN!!! So Awesome to see everyone (plus their cute kids) again!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE these girls--we had SUCH a good time doing lots of touristy stuff I hadn't done, going "camping" in the in laws' backyard, and having lots and lots of late night conversation in various locales---and of course there was a "leave the babies at home girls night" :) :)