Its been a while since we last posted, so most of this post will be pictures to chronicle some more summer fun...
Water Fun- Shops at Riverwoods splash pad
Merrilee was terrified of the water for most the time. She would only touch the littlest squirt of water and only if she was with Alice or one of us. Alice loved the whole thing! :)
4th of July
My parents and siblings all came to town for the 4th of July week. Unfortunately, I didn't get many pictures of family or all the awesome fun stuff we did, but I did get pictures of just our little family enjoying the balloon festival on the morning of the 4th! The girls were entranced! It was really fun. We also went to the Provo freedom festival later in the day. Merrilee loved doing all of the kid crafts, and Alice loved sleeping through it.
Mike and Song also came into town that week and we spent some time with them! This is the only picture I have to document that visit. Cute cousins!
CONCERTS!
Towards the end of July, Ben and I celebrated Pioneer Day with 2 different concerts. On Friday, July 20, we went to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Pioneer Day Concert "The Joy of Song" with Katherine Jenkins. It was lovely. (Thanks Mom and Dad!)
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| It was raining right before the concert started, and we saw a double rainbow right over the stage! |
Don't worry, it stopped raining before the concert started!
The Concert was amazing and right during the encore song, tons of fireworks were going off all around the city! It made for a perfect ending to a great night! :)
NORTHWEST TRIP
3 days after the concert, we left for a trip to the Northwest! It was fun visiting with family and friends!
We went to the zoo, went on walks, visited with friends and family, and just loved being back home in the Northwest! One thing we were sad we didn't get to do while we were there was go to the coast. But guess what?! We will be able to go whenever we want now! That's right folks...we are moving back to the Northwest!
While we were there, Ben had a 2nd job interview with a company in Portland. They liked him so much they asked him back for a 3rd interview while we were still there!After we got back from our trip they asked for a few more things from Ben and a couple days ago, they offered him the job, and we accepted! We are hoping to leave in about a week and a half.
This is all crazy and kind of unexpected, but we think this will be good for our little family. I will miss lots of things about Utah and lots of people in Utah. I will miss the opportunity to direct the Orem Children's Chorale. I was going to be their new director starting the first part of September, but obviously not anymore! I also was going to start up some Let's Play Music classes with school starting in a couple weeks. Hopefully we can get settled soon up in the Northwest so I can start these classes up there!
We are going to try to cram doing all the fun Utah stuff and hanging out with all our awesome Utah friends in the next week between packing and getting ready to go! The next update on here will probably be about our move!
