And joining the team again is our incredible hubby and daddy....

All through bar prep my amazing husband worked so hard.  It was ridiculous!  Insane!  and Intense!  I still can't believe that they (bar prep course people) expect anybody to study THAT much.  Josh was basically nonexistent.

Every morning he would get up and 6, work out and then go to his little corner of the house and lock himself in.  The last 2 weeks we had a house full of people so I would take him down to the church at 8 and go get him at 10.  All he did was study. 

Needless to say when the test FINALLY rolled around we were excited and anxious.  I took him to a hotel and dropped him off on Monday and didn't see him again until Thursday.  But on Thursday we were relieved.  We were happy.  We were DONE.  He said it was a long two days, but it was OVER. 

His dad insisted on buying us a hotel room for the night, so we headed up to Park City leaving the kids with his sister Christie.  It was AMAZING to just be together. 

 We went on the Alpine slide together too and it was a lot of fun. 

Josh so nicely carried my sled too. 

He did an incredible job throughout the past 2 months.  I know I couldn't have done it.

It is amazing having a husband again.  We all went to the store together!  Yes!  Together!  and the kids were naughty so he stayed in the car with them.  It was great just to have that option. 

Christie and I have been sanding and sanding down cabinets for weeks.  He pulls out this amazing belt sander and sands 5 cabinets in like 20 minutes. 

I love having him on my team!  We make a great team!

We have counted down....

The Months

                 The weeks

                                              The days....

Until we could take our little man to nursery and drop him off and go to class peacefully.  Wouldn't you know it, we got called to be in the nursery for the first hour. 

Luckily, this handsome little man just turned old enough to go to his own class.  We all go in together for the first hour and then we sneak out and listen to our clingy little baby cry.  It's sad, but I'm sure one day he will like it.  We're happy that the big day has finally arrived, and we're happy that we be there with him through this milestone. 

Our 4th of July!

All the little girls waving to the princesses at the parade!

 This was the calm part of the parade...Rigdon strapped into the stroller.  As soon as we let this monkey free it was trouble.  He kept running straight out into the road. Oh and this is his new FAKE smile he gives me when I pull out the camera...isn't he a little young to be doing that already?

 All the little bubba's in thier matching shirts!

Beau- 14 mos.  Rigdon- 17 mos. Kian- 2 years Tate- 2 1/2 years

Most of the younger grandkids.  Most of the older ones are too cool for school these days...it's ok though!  We still love them! And of course we were missing Angie's family in Washington!

A holiday wouldn't be a holiday without some Zombie action!

And the fourth wouldn't be the fourth without Grandma's water slide!

 Fireworks!

Lets just say I haven't seen Rigdon hold THAT still in a long time!  He loved them!  And it was a fairly peaceful 10 minutes.

moving to UTAH!

 It was crazy packing up and getting out of our apartment.  I say I am never moving again every time we move.  We couldn't have done it without all the help we had, and it was such a relief when it was finally done, only to come home and unpack everything.

 Cute little Rigs, helping out by holding the box down.  He loved to climb all over the boxes.

 When we first drove across the country the trees surrounding the freeway made me crazy.  I was claustrophobic and I hated that I couldn't see what was behind them.  I cried for the first hour of the drive because I knew I was going to miss all the trees. 

 About Missouri the trees go from being on both sides to just being on one side.  They slowly start to thin out.

 Since we were driving on Brielles actual birthday we stopped at Walmart and she got to pick out what she wanted for her birthday.  We also stopped at the hotel that night.  She thought it was awesome we were staying in a hotel for her birthday.  We went swimming and then Josh came home with...

 An ICE CREAM CAKE!  It made her day.  We did have any plates so we all just dug in!  The girls thought it was silly.

When we hit Wyoming this is what we were welcomed with!  Ugggg!  Welcome to Utah huh!