VAcAtioN!!!

I forgot to mention that my parents and little sister are coming here next week!! I'm really excited. Mckenna and I will be spending some time with them in Chicago and in Nauvoo. It'll be tons of fun!!!! (and yes, poor Devin will be home by himself for a few days. We will miss him, but he will probably get more studying done without us here anyway.) There are two posts below... enjoy!

4th of July

Our day started off with a 4th of July birthday breakfast in bed (say that 10 times fast) to celebrate Devin's birthday! Let me just tell you a little bit of what a day in his life is like. He gets up around 5am. Leaves for school at 5:50am. Studies for 2 hours before class starts. Has class from 8am to 12 noon. Gets a one hour break for lunch. Goes to class again from 1pm to about 4pm. Comes home. Takes about an hour to an hour and a half to spend time with Mckenna and I and eat. Studies in his "office" from about 6pm to 9:30, 10, 11, or 12... depending on when he has tests and how many things he needs to learn/memorize. This is Monday through Friday. Then on Saturday, he gets up at the same time and studies until about 5pm when he comes home to eat dinner and hopefully takes the night off from studying. Sundays he doesn't study at all, then he continues with the same schedule on Monday.

Honestly, I don't think I could do it! So he really did deserve breakfast in bed for his birthday and day off. We sure love him and are grateful for his hard work not only in school, but also taking time to spend with us.


On Saturday, we had a ward activity with a Bike Wash and bike parade. Mckenna didn't want to join the parade, but it was still fun!




She LOVED the swing though! She laughed and laughed as she was swinging.


She didn't want to get out.


Eating crackers while watching the parade.


Could she even see? :)


Sittin' with dad.




She loved collecting the candy and putting it in her hat.


Sporting her new neclace


Tired from a long, but fun day.


By the way, there is another post below...mine seem to come in two's :)

Tour Guide Baby

This cute little tour guide wants to take you through our new house!





We planted a tiny garden soon after we got here. We can't do too much, but we will see how it turns out! So far it's doing pretty well!




Our living room, what you see once you walk in our front door.


(tiny) Kitchen




Washer and Dryer. I know it's not that cool looking, but it's the first time we have not had to use quarters to do our laundry! It's exciting to us :)


Our "nook". Yes... I will get around to organizing it a little better. One of these days


...and upstairs...


Devin's office


too bad the other half of his office are our clothes! (someone in our ward gave us this idea to use half of our walk in closet as an office. They even handed down their "desk" to us because they just graduated)


Mckenna's bathroom


Our back door/ storage closet


The view from our back porch. The swimming pool and playground are really close


Thanks for joining us on the tour! You are welcome back any time!