I have to say I was really nervous about Monday and Tuesday. I was going to Ryan’s grandma’s house, and I’d never been there before, so I didn’t know what to expect. But I didn’t need to worry. The girls had a great time, and so did I. Marsha, Ryan’s mom, is just like Grandma Fox, so I felt at home right away. I loved how much she reminded me of my mother in law. We just hung out most of the day and then that night I think all the Fox’s in the area came over and had dinner and talked. It was so much fun. I got to meet a few of Ryan’s cousins, and see some aunts and uncles again. Kaitlyn had so much fun and was hamming it up for everyone. I love how confident she is, and that she can be herself anywhere. I hope she doesn’t grow out of that. That night I heard trains going by, and I realized that Ryan’s grandma lives right by a railroad. I LOVE that. My grandma lives by a railroad too, so it just made me smile and think of my grandma. I think it’s great that both Ryan and I grew up with trains by grandma’s house. So I’m totally bummed because I forgot to take pictures the entire time I was at Ryan’s grandmas, so I don’t have any pictures of Ryan’s family. Tuesday afternoon we went to lunch with Grandma, Aunt Laurel, her son Dillon, and Aunt Debbi who came during her lunch break. It was so much fun. Ryan’s family is great; I couldn’t have been blessed with better in-laws. After that Jules and Cody came to pick us up and we went back to Aunt Michele’s where my family had stayed. Then we drove up to Logan. I LOVE Logan! I was born there, and I went to school there for a year and loved it. I stayed with my aunt before school started and I visited her almost every weekend while I was at Utah State, so I have a lot of great memories with these cousins and Logan. So I was very excited to go back for a little bit. I have a cousin that is only a month younger than me, Adam. It was so fun to see him again, I hadn’t seen him since before his mission and he’s been back a while. He is very talented in music and loves to play the guitar. So a couple of times there were mini concerts in his room. Kaitlyn loved rocking out to his music. All the kids would get together and listen to Adam play and Kaitlyn would start dancing and soon everyone else was too. It was so cute and very fun! I wanted to get a picture of everyone dancing, but when Kaitlyn would see me she’d either stop dancing or run to me, either way it was hard to get a pic. of everyone, so here’s one of Adam playing:
Wednesday- Friday July 11-13
So any Harry Potter fans would remember July 11th was when HP 5 the movie was released. My family and I ware all fans so, Wednesday morning we went to see the movie. Aunt Sherri watched not only my 2 girls, but also my 2 youngest sisters! Thank you so much! We come and invade the house and then have you baby sit too. Luckily the girls were good for her and she loved getting to spend time with them. I loved the movie, and I can’t wait to buy it when it comes out. It was such a fast paced movie that I’ll need to see it a few more times. The only thing I didn’t like was that Cho was the one blamed for telling on the DA instead of her friend. I like Cho’s character, and hate that she was the snitch in the movie. But really it was a great movie. Of course a lot was left out of the movie, but it was a huge book. There’s no way they could have done the whole thing in only 2 hours. I heard someone say they’d have to do a whole TV series to include everything. I think it’s a great idea, I’d watch the show. But I doubt they’d actually do one. Anyway, after the movie we came back and hung out until Aunt Diane and her family showed up. They live in Idaho, so it was fun to have them come down to visit is while we were in Logan. Well, if you know Aunt Diane then you won’t be surprised at our next activity, shopping of course! Actually we went shopping quite a lot in Logan, it was a blast. I had some birthday money (YES!) so I could actually shop. It was so much fun! I love shopping in Utah, I think there is just so much more there, because there’s such a high demand for modest clothes. We found a Down East Basics that had a ton of clearance clothes, so I got LOTS of cute new shirts, and some new under shirts. I love the ones with lace at the bottom, so cute. So the next day we went swimming at the Logan aquatic center. Kaitlyn loved it. They had a huge wadding pool that we could swim in. Mom watched Emily so I could be in the water with Kaitlyn. Then Uncle Jace and Adam each took Kaitlyn down the huge slide. She LOVED it! I tried the first time and got half way up the stairs and chickened out. I was worried I’d drop her on the way down or something. So after a while I decided to go down by myself to see what it was like. It was so much fun, so I took Kaitlyn up and we went down together! I was so proud of myself. And I didn’t even drop her at the end either. Yay me, super mom. So I was feeling like a daredevil and decided to jump off the high dive! I did it, more than once and Kaitlyn even got to see her cool mom be brave. Aunt Sherri got some cool pictures and videos. We all had a great time at the pool, and then came home for pizza. Then Mom, Aunt Sherri, and I went out shopping again, without the kids. That was fun too. The next day we got packed up to leave, but before we left Aunt Sherri taught us how to make jewelry. That was a lot of fun. I made a necklace to go with a beautiful bracelet and earrings Lindsay made for me before we left Iowa. After we finished we drove down to Salt Lake area to spend time with my Uncle Anthony and his family. They have a really cool fish tank that Kaitlyn loved. She loves fish and spent a good amount of time checking out the tank.
We all got together for dinner. This was an eventful night. First, Uncle Anthony burned his foot on a piece of coal that fell out of the grill. After that we finished eating and hanging out. I tried to put Kaitlyn to bed, but ended up taking a nap myself. A little after I got up my cousin left to drop off some friends at their houses. The rest of us just stayed up and talked. Well it kept getting later and later, and I was getting nervous. Then my other cousin and his girlfriend started to worry. Finally, we got a phone call, Dallin had been hit by a drunk driver. So Jace and my Uncle and cousins went to go pick him up. Luckily he was not hurt. He was running on adrenaline still. He had just dropped off the last friend so he was the only one in the car when he was hit. That was kinda scary. So we were up really late checking on him, and I don’t think my mom ever did go to sleep. She was picking up Dad the next day and was too excited to sleep. Isn’t that cute? I love that my parents are still so in love, and couldn’t wait to see each other again. So Saturday morning we drove to SLC to pick up dad from the airport. It was so good to see him, and the girls were excited to have Grandpa there. After that we drove to Delta to see my Grammy.
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