Welcome Home Elder Lemley!!!

Our Mattman returned home tonight after serving faithfully for 2 years in Houston, Texas. We are so glad to have him home! We missed his noise! His flight was delayed 4 long hours, so we were pretty anxious by the time he finally arrived.

Adam has been so excited to see him! Although Tessa can point out his picture, she was only about 10 months when he left. So they have some catching up to do.

Uncle David, Adam, and Uncle Ben

Aunt Katy and Tessa

Katy and Andrew tried to keep the kids occupied by teaching them how to play "Down By The Banks".

Aunt Katy told Adam some stories.

We had another poster ready for Matt, but Katy changed it to "You're Late". We thought it was fitting and Matt thought it was funny.

Adam was so excited to see Matt and show his sign that he refused to stand back with the rest of us and had to stand right next to the hallway. People coming off the plane thought he was very cute.

Our returned cowboy!!!!

Mom and Matt

Adam and Matt

David and Matt

Katy and Matt

Ben got a good brotherly shove for being taller than Matt before he got a hug.

Eric and Matt....Eric was still working the video camera.

Aunt Dee and Matt

After Adam saw Matt and got to hug him, he burst into tears (he's his mommy's boy! We cry over everything....especially happy things. Sorry buddy:) He was embarrassed for crying and didn't want Matt to see his tears. It was super cute!

Tessa showing off a sign

Our grown up Mattman!

Matt and his "little" brothers

The boys (minus Kevin who is in California preparing for his wedding on Saturday),

Mattman and the girls

Matt, Ares, Adam, and Tessa

Mom, Dad, and Matt

We are so glad to have him home. The poor guy doesn't get to relax much because first thing in the morning we are off to our next adventure for the month! At least we get to bring him along for this one! Welcome home Elder Mattman!! We love you!!!

Father's Day 2011

Our month is crazy busy!! We celebrated Father's Day with Eric earlier this week so we could have some special time with him. When he got home from work, the kids surprised him with a card and present, and then we took him to dinner at one of his favorite restaurants.

Saturday evening we spent the evening with Bampa. I forgot my camera. The kids love their Bampa and we are so thankful for all he does for us!

Sunday was my brother David's farewell and we had a crowd over for dinner that evening. We got some pictures with the grand kids and Pa and then my sibling with my Daddy. I love my Dad so much! He is the most amazing man I know and I am so thankful for all he has taught me (even math).

Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful father's in our lives. We love you so much!

Swimming Lessons

Swimming lessons ended last week. The kids were very disappointed, and I was grateful. They wore me out and I don't really enjoy swimming when it's only 60 degrees outside. But we sacrifice for our kids, right?

We were surprised and grateful to find Aunt Dee waiting for us on the last day of lessons. She had brought her camera to take picture of the kids. I was especially grateful, because I couldn't take pictures since I was in the pool with Tess.

Since it was the last day of classes, the kids got to play a little more than usual.

I swear my kids would live in the water if I let them. They have no fear and love being in a pool!

Tessa learned how to jump in the pool and Adam is working on his breast stroke.

The last couple days of classes, Adam's teacher let his class start jumping off the diving board. I had a hard time not being in control of that situation (I am working on letting him go....). Adam LOVED it! Dee got some video of Adam jumping, but the blog won't upload it. It was hit favorite part of swim lessons this year! Thanks Dee for taking pictures for us!

10 weeks!

Baby #3 is on its way and due in January! We are so thrilled!! It has been a long and at times very frustrating year and a half as we have tried getting pregnant. I had my first doctors appointment this week and we heard the baby's heartbeat. It was good and strong! Adam and Tessa are anxious to find out if it's a brother or sister. I feel sick and very tired, but overall pretty good. I am huge already! I feel like I am 4 or 5 months pregnant. Hopefully I will still be able to walk by the end of December:) We feel so blessed to have another child come to our family and although the lessons were difficult at times to learn, I am grateful for the challenges we have faced and the opportunity we had to have our faith increased.

Tessa loves to kiss the baby!

10 weeks along!

Tessa's Photo Shoot

Yesterday I told Tessa to get her shoes on so we could leave for swimming lessons. She came down in her snow boots. It made me laugh, so I had to take a picture. As soon as I started taking her picture, she started posing. After every click of the camera, she quickly found a new pose and was pretty disappointed when I said it was time to stop. Adam was laughing so hard he could hardly breathe. Silly kids!

RIP Patio Table:(

Four years ago we got this patio table and chairs when we bought our house in Roy. We were so excited to use them and have lots of family dinners in our huge backyard. We moved a couple of weeks later and never got to use it while we lived in Roy. The patio set made the next 4 moves with us, living in storage units and garages because we had no yard or patio.

We were thrilled when we moved to our current house because it has a wonderful backyard with some patio space for our little patio set.

We finally got to use it for the first time last weekend! I rushed home from work on Saturday evening, we fired up the grill and had a lovely family dinner outside.

So imagine our devastation on Monday night when we discovered this......

There was a wicked windstorm on Monday! While we were out, the wind demolished our little patio table, along with the rest of our backyard! It looked like a disaster zone. Our table landed in our little garden and it shattered into a million pieces. We are pretty bummed. At least we got to use it once, right?