4th of July

WHEW! The last 2 weeks were pretty rough on me with my Dad being in the hospital and not being close by. Plus you know me, the worrier, we have until December to find an internship for Eric and figure out our "grown up" lives. Also my work has been really inconsistent, I may start a masters program, I'm planning a ginormous pretend trip because we have no money, and trying to figure out when the next Dennis baby should come. Why do I do this to myself? My sister Kj and I like to plan :) and nothing ever goes as planned! Anyways, needless to say, I was so excited for the July 4th festivities to have a break from all the crazy. We continued the tradition of Driggs Freedom Celebration last weekend. I got choked up because for 1) I am turning into my Mom and patriotic things make me cry, and 2) I realized that it was our last year there (at least it better be ha). It was ridiculously cold for this time of year but we still loved it! We were planning a trip to WA for the 4th but couldn't make it this month. So we decided to make the best of it and we attended the Rexburg parade, had pool party and BBQ with Zach and Lizzy. Okay it was Ruby's pool and rather too small to swim. But the 92 degree weather was much better than the 65 degree Drigg's day. We spent a mere $6 on fireworks, which is totally cool when you have a toddler. Then we headed over to the very large city of Menan (population of 741) and enjoyed their firework show. It was actually way fun! We love the small town atmosphere and they did put on a large show for how small the town is. We put our blankets out on the baseball field with a bunch of strangers and celebrated our amazing country with giant fireworks that felt like they were going to explode in my face! Ruby loved it and I can't wait to start new traditions wherever we may be next year.

On our way to Driggs. In the middle of no where! 

Ruby loves taking pictures of herself. I have hundreds of this beautiful forehead 

                                               

She had way too much taffy and it is all stuck in her teeth

Don't you love parades with tractors? We are for sure in Idaho.

Yes this is a camel with a festive hat on. Ruby was terrified when near it's head.

He has not lit off very many fireworks before so even $6 worth is fun! 

And sometime $6 means they don't work 

My phone died in Menan so I only got a few pics

The Fam Damily

I have been a slacker with the whole blogging our life thing. I can't even remember what we do or I forget to take pictures.

A couple weeks ago my parents, Maddie, and Brody got to come to Idaho for a short and sweet trip. Maddie is planning on attending one of the Beauty schools here. So the main point of this trip was to run around taking tours of the school, finding apartments, prom dress shopping, and just being together! I wish we had more time. We love doing things as a family....which I appreciate and love. We celebrated Zach's birthday, had family dinners at our place and Zach and Lizzy's, ate lots of candy, and watched lots of anxiety inducing movies (Gravity, Captain Phillips, and The Impossible), and laughed a lot (my favorite part). Oh and we exercised. Maddie is in track and she needed to keep working out during her break. We went to the track did some "speed work". For me it was like lets see how fast I can die! I tried to keep up with Maddie running 200's. She beat me. Then it came time to race my 52 year old mother..........yup........she beat me. Only by a little....maybe. We also did some workout videos at my house, which Ruby wanted to be apart of as well. I forgot to take picture so here are the high quality phone pictures ;)

Maddie is going to love this picture:)

Mom trying to workout while holding Ruby

Happy Brithday Zachy

Then a day after my family left, we went to Virginia to see Eric's family! We actually were able to fly out from Idaho Falls which meant 3 different flights all the way there. We made it in one piece and only a little cranky.

I found window decals from the dollar store that Ruby loved to play with on the plane....too bad we accidentally left them on that flight along with 2 library books.........dang it

Pill box with goodies for the flight. It kept her entertained for a while. 

We got to do a lot! We went to the Zoo, had a baby shower for our sister-in-law, saw friends and family. Ate out a lot...gained 50 pounds, went to the best place on earth 3 times (Costco), dyed Easter eggs,

Giraffes are my favorite animal and here you can feed them. When Eric and I were dating, one licked my entire head and he didn't see it. 

Ruby trying to decide if this is cool or scary

Feeding the birds....excited there are 2!

Bpa and Ruby feeding the birds

After the Zoo

Mustache Bash for Baby Boy Scalera

So Ruby decided she was pretty jealous of her cousin Phoebe who is 10 months older then her. She yelled, "NOOOOO!" And she often tried to get her out of her space. She didn't want to share anything...food, people, toys. I had to give lots of hugs to Phoebe and show Ruby she is nice and to be "soft". Poor Phoebe just took it for most of the time and had a look of shock on her face. It was rather embarrassing. I guess we need to have more play dates. She does well in nursery and I have never seen her act like that before. Oh well. Ruby also discovered the joys and sadness of Bpa and Mima's stairs. She fell down them probably 4 times but refused to back away from them. She loved going up and down. We had to block them off a lot but she finally got the hang of them.

sick of flying!!!!!

We had a great trip and hopefully we will be back in December for a few months, if Eric can get his internship there.