They're back!

The day we've been waiting for for 18 months finally arrived! Evan's parents came home from their mission yesterday! We all waited at the airport with signs and balloons and we cried, and laughed, and talked, and created quite the scene as you can imagine. Total there were 25 of us. We love you mom and dad. We can't wait for Porter to get to know you.

The Pines

Since the baby will be here next month, and last summer was spent indoors while Evan worked on his Dissertation, We are trying to make up for lost time. Porter is at the perfect age where we can do fun things as a family without having to be by his side every second. We love it! This weekend we went up to "The Pines," Evan's family's property in the Uintas. The plan is to someday have a cabin there, and so far it's a "bunkhouse" and a bath house. We love it up there! We haven't been up since January, and this might be the last time-at least for me-this summer.
We took a few little walks and Porter love being outside. Since the run-off has been plentiful this spring, we saw much more water than ever before. So... there weren't a lot of places around the lake I wanted us to walk. We walked the road above the dam for the Meeks Cabin reservoir and enjoyed the marmots and other wildlife we could find.

Can you guess?

Evan was out of town this week, and for those of you who don't know where...there's a contest!!!!

What is this structure?

what we've been up to this summer!

Graduation pictures

Evan's graduation was awesome!

I made him do it, I confess. This chance only comes once in a lifetime, and I wanted pictures!

Evan with his Prof. Dr. Long

Outside his home away from home

Afterward we all went out to Tepanyaki

Then back to our place to play and visit

Our summer...

Memorial Day we went to Evan's parent's house to help in the yard before they come home from their mission. (T-minus 14 days!)

I was gone from the backyard for 20 seconds (20!) to grab something from the truck. On my way back I was met by my sis-in-law coming toward me hold P. He had a stream of blood running down his face and he was screaming. Panic set in. I threw my spade down, put my hand to my head, and ran back to the front yard, not knowing what to do. Trust me, I'm not the quick, calm thinker you'd want to be with you if there was an emergency. I took Porter from her, cause I didn't know what else to do. My sis-in-law didn't see what happened, but he must have run into the latch that holds the gate closed. We ran across the street to my other sis-in-law's house, and tried to clean it up as best we could. Really we just wanted to see where he was hit. He screamed and screamed, probably from all the panic more from the pain. For "some reason" we had packed tylenol for him that morning. We hadn't used it for months, but for some reason we packed it. Poor kid. The bleeding wasn't bad nor was he sore for long. He went right down for a nap, and woke up happy. He still has a little bump on his head, but he's fine. I better get used to accidents with a family like Evan's!