Do You Know the Way to San Jose? We Sure Do!

We had a great time in California. It was fun to see all our family and lots of friends. Thanks Mom and Dad for hosting us and feeding us and making our trip so fun. The backpacking trip was something we'll always remember... thanks Jared for planning it.

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4th of July Fun

Sorry this is kind of old news but I just haven't had time to post.

We had a great 4th of July. We did fireworks the day before and the day after the 4th since we went to the Stadium of Fire show in Provo courtesy of David's new company, APX Alarm. In the morning we had a neighborhood parade and a delicious pancake breakfast. In the afternoon, we went down to Provo a little early and had dinner with Curtis and his family.... always lots of fun. Then we went to the stadium for the show. SheDaisy performed and so did the Jonas Brothers as well as lots of other entertainment. It was actually very good... and I even quite liked the Jonas Brothers. It was so funny to hear all the teenage girls in the stadium screaming and singing. I've never been to a concert and it was quite a show... both performers and audience were fun to watch.

Hope you enjoy my few pictures of the day. I still can't get sparkler pictures to work well. Some day I will figure out how to do that.

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Ryan Powell's Family Came for a Visit

It was so fun to have David's brother, Ryan, and family come to visit for a few days just before the 4th of July.  They even brought their cute little dog, Merry.  She is the best behaved dog I have ever seen and oh so cute.  

Leah gave Merry lots of hugs.... she must love her.

Adam and Matthew had a good time with Merry too.  I think Matthew especially liked all our legos in the basement.

Rebecca and Leah

We had a great family baseball game in the backyard.  Tennis balls are a lot easier to hit a long ways than regular baseballs. 

Cade and Rachel

Heather had a good hit.

Seth playing catcher and Joshua getting ready to hit.

Baseball didn't quite wear everyone out... so they started a game of football in the street.  

Ryan getting ready to make a touchdown pass.

Thanks to Ryan, Heather, Seth, Cade, Leah, Matthew and Merry for coming to visit.  Please come again soon and hopefully we'll get down to visit you when your temperatures get a little cooler.  :)

Proud Parents

Krispy and Oreo are proud new parents of about 11 new little mice. I think they are a little ugly but Rebecca thinks they are awesome. Rice is still pregnant and will probably give birth in a few more days. Anybody want a pet mouse?

Jared's Going to .....

Jared is going to the Philippines Tacloban Mission. He will be speaking the Cebuano language. Wow. He is going September 23rd and it is so exciting.