Where did our summer go?

I just realized I haven't posted for over 2 months--this summer has been just crazy busy!

June
Jill went to the cabin for the 9th year with her girlfriends.

Dan had his gallbladder out on June 14th which is also Cole & Kelsey's birthday. He feels much better now after being sick for a couple of weeks.

Dan had 12 semester hours this summer and tons of papers, posts, classes, and assignments.

We had 2 foster boys with us for 8 days. We learned a ton!

July
Attended Stadium of Fire with Brad Paisley and then stayed overnight in Provo, so we didn't have to mess with parking and the traffic jam to get home. Awesome event!

Nickell Family Reunion in the Uintas during the 24th of July weekend was really fun and a lot of hard work. Dad & Mom were able to come home from their mission for 6 days, since they were in charge of the reunion. Lot's of good food, games, activities, and good weather were present. It was good to see immediate as well as extended family.

We were able to finally buy our townhome--yahoo! From the start of the process to the day we closed was less than 2 weeks. We had an awesome mortgage guy at Republic Home Loans named Dustin, and we had an awesome real estate agent named Kathy at Prudential. It feels good for it to be officially ours---even though it has felt that way for the last several months but we knew it wasn't because we were paying rent.

Dan finished up his classes at the end of July which is early since the semester doesn't end until Aug 9. We'll take a trip to the cabin to celebrate being done with his summer classes. Now he is busy getting his classroom ready for school to start.

May Showers...rain and snow

April was wet....

May has been, too, so far.

The grass is green, the flowers are pretty, there's tons of snow on Mt. Timpanogos, and lots of water saturated in the ground.

Where will all that water go in the next couple of weeks as it warms up?

We shall see how extensive the flooding is this year.

We're ready for summer--and no more rain!

March Madness

Dan and I love college basketball---especially cheering on our BYU Cougars! If you haven't seen the Jimmer Show, you need to watch, and you can because every game is broadcasted this year.

We both filled out brackets and will see how the teams do.

BYU is in the Sweet 16 again after a 30 year absence.

Jimmer and Coach Rose are up for National Player and Coach of the year.

Go Cougars!

The Best Christmas Present Ever!

We got into our own townhome in Pleasant Grove a couple of days after Christmas. So now, we are unpacking, unpacking, and unpacking; and trying to find a place for everything.

It is so nice to have so much room and more than 1 bathroom. We are finding all kinds of treasures that we forgot we had, as they were in boxes for the last couple of years. We appreciate all the help we had in moving.

We are loving it!