June Wrap Up

Wow, the summer is just cruising by and I'm not finding the time to blog or clean my house or cook for that matter. Let's just say there have been all too many "hot and ready" nights around here. It's summer break for me too, right? I'll just tell myself that! I am working right now on editing my 2011 blog (yep, quite behind) to get it into book form, and it reminded me of how much I do love having this record. My memory is getting short because for lots of it I felt like I was reading about someone else's life...stuff that happened last year! It's so fun to look back, and I can't believe how much my kids have changed since then. So in an effort for my posterity here are a few June highlights I don't want to forget. I'll start with t-ball. Seth and Ian played on a team in River Heights. There season consisted of 5 games—with one rain out and one during Disneyland we ended up with three. Seth had fun and will be old enough to play "real" t-ball next year if he's interested. Ian was a zoo and ended the season as clueless as he began. At one point his coach put his hat on backwards and then busted out laughing. Apparently Ian turned it right back around, gave him a funny look, and said "come on coach." That's Ian for you. They were stinkin' cute though in those gigantic batting helmets—since when are those needed for t-ball?

Notice, he's looking nowhere near first base.

Cute spectators.  Luke sporting his new "sport goggles" after he broke every pair of glasses he owned and was down to his kindergarten ones.

They were both in it for the treats!

Ian's rosy cheeks, his mullet, and that dress he's wearing are a crack up!

Also, as of June we have a Cub Scout in the house!  Luke was able to attend his first Cub Scout day camp, and he had so much fun.  He came home and told me with all sincerity that he "loves Cub Scouts!"

And on to a bit of nostalgia.  Jer sold his green Tacoma...well actually we're still in the process of selling it, but we replaced it.  I took Jer's picture with the truck when he and the big boys left to go drop it off, but I didn't realize I had it in manual and it's so overexposed.  I'll have to take a picture of him with the new one.  But I did dig up these beauties both circa 1998...

I remember taking this shot of Jer after a day of skiing the Beav while we were still dating.  On another occasion I went to Jer's apartment to pick him up on a Saturday morning for skiing, and he already had his truck warming up locked in the parking lot.  For some reason we decided to take my Jeep and so when we got home about 8 hours later there it was still running.  Oops!

There she is (the truck) in all her glory back when she was new (I guess the same could be said of me)! That truck was awesome and now has over 200,000 miles on it.  Here are just a few notable mentions about old green:  

• That truck hauled us on countless trips to ski the Beav and later Snow Basin when we lived in Ogden.
• We left for our honeymoon in that truck.
• We drove that truck and cut and hauled home our first Christmas tree as a married couple.
• We slept in the back of that truck at countless trailheads in the Uintahs and southern Utah.
• That truck faithfully hauled Jer to work everyday for almost 14 years!
• We learned some great financial lessons from this truck.  As in Jer leased it before we were married, then we financed it and bought it, and then paid it off in a lump sum.  Leasing, buying new, car payments...things we would never consider now!  I'm glad to say that now we're older and smarter we saved and paid cash for a 2010 Chevy truck that can haul our family around.  I must say though it's currently experiencing a few mechanical problems so maybe we should have stuck with Old Faithful!  It was also our last vehicle that was a stick shift, and I kind of miss that. Now I want to save and buy an old Jeep to cruise around in the summer.  Someday!