Floats, Faces and Fun

Ok, I have been working on this post for an hour! I keep deleting pictures and text everytime I try to align the post! So, it's now going to be a couple of posts...hopefully it makes sense!

Wednesday, more piano teaching, Cozette's mom came to pick up the kids around 1:30pm, and Brandon got to go to Matthew's birthday at Lil' Flippers! He had a blast! Finally, Mike came home from Grand Junction. He was completely worn out. I was a little worried about him driving home!
Amanda got to drive while Sydney was knee boarding!

Thursday, we got the big Fat Boy order. Amanda's comp soccer team had a fundraiser selling Fat Boys. She did really well and thanks to all that ordered from her! But, now she had to deliver as many of the 22 boxes as she could because we don't have an outside freezer! We decided that we needed to make a run to Salt Lake that night. The girls and I headed south and Mike & Brandon delivered a couple to work people. We had about 4 left from the neighborhood to deliver by the time we were done. Some creative packing of our little inside freezer and we were set!

Brandon being a monkey!

Hugs for Dad!

Friday, we needed a dinner out! We have been sooo good about not eating out as much. So, we headed for our favorite, sushi! It was so delish! Saturday, we got up really early and headed to Echo to go boating. Amanda wakeboarded first and she now understands why Dad likes to ski the early morning water. She even got outside the wake! Yea! The water stayed so nice for a long time! Sydney tore it up on the knee board and then they tubed! Mikey got out on the tube this trip. We had a great, great day on the lake! It started getting really crowded around 12:30, so we pulled the boat out and headed to Taggarts for lunch. When I put our name on the waitlist, the guy told me 30 minutes. So I headed back to the car with the family to find a parking place. Apparently, the parking there is also used for the groups running the Weber river. We were trying to find a spot big enough for us and the boat we were towing! It didn't take 30 minutes, but it took a bit. By the time we got back to Taggarts, the guy had already called our name! He put us back on the list and we waited and waited. We were so starving by now-it was probably 2pm and we had only had breakfast at 6:45 am and shared some beef jerky on the boat. Brandon was losing it and the girls were tired and hungry. Finally, he called us back and we enjoyed really yummy food and saw a couple of neighbors (Lallis and Browns) to boot!

After getting home, putting the boat back in storage, and grabbing a quick nap, we headed to the fireworks stand and bought some more fun for our day! We just sat out on our driveway and watched our fireworks and could see the neighbor's doing some more illegal ones-so we got quite a show! Then, we also saw two police cars drive by....soon, the neighbor's firework shows ceased and we just sat and talked as a family on the driveway on this great night! It was a perfect end to a great week!

Now, Mike is back in Grand Junction....