Swimming Lessons!

Getting ready to play "If You're Happy and You Know It"

Pointing to Daddy

As close to a smile as we got

Playing with the teacher, Jaime

Good floating!

Piggy backs and splash balls

Last summer our little monkey was such a fish!  She would get in the pool and splash and play until she was shivering, but get mad at us for making her get out.  So, this spring we went swimming with Grandma & Grandpa B and Kaity hated it!  The pool was cold, but that didn't seem to bother her before.  Finally, we decided to put monkey into some swimming lessons.  Every morning for 8 days we woke up and went to the Provo Rec center to go to our parent/tot swimming class!  By the end Kaity was a regular fish.  She kicks her legs, moves her arms, will put her head under the water without crying, splash, and she'll even jump in from the edge of the pool if Mom is there to catch her.  Here are the photos from the second to the last day.  Kaity wasn't very happy that Jared wasn't in the pool with us - she is definitely a Daddy's girl!

What I've Been Doing Lately

I feel like I've been so busy but when I sit down to blog about things I can't find anything worthwhile to blog about. Basically, July was the month of travelling. We went to Boise for the twins' birthday, then came home on the 5th after spending time at the cabin with Jared's grandparents.

When we got home Jared's sister Megan had her baby, Thomas, and so we had Mom and Matt in town for a week - lots of fun. After that, we went to my parents for a week to house/dog/grandma-sit for the week while they and Jennie were in Disneyland. Once we got home I went to new teacher workshops for Alpine district and I have to say that they are WAY better than Jordan ever was! I am so psyched to be working at OJHS this fall. Next we spent a morning in my classroom unpacking more stuff - and finding a mouse who had inhabited the filing cabinet that the previous teacher had left full of food. After asking the janitor (God bless janitors, my job would be so much harder without them) to take care of the mouse, we went back up to Boise for Tyler's wedding to Carisa.
The ceremony was beautiful and the Spirit was so strong. We ran around doing errands and had a fun time with the family all around. We'll be back home late Wednesday night and I'll be back at workshops/meetings/training/classroom set-up on Thursday. We are very excited, though, to be at home for a while. Also, we just found out that at the end of August our ward is moving to the 11 o'clock slot - happy for us! Blogger is being slow so I'll upload pics later.