So, anyhow in June we moved! Yay! We now live in Brewster, Washington in Bro. Greg and Sis. JaLea's house on the hill, which probably most of you all already know. We've gotten a lot of work done on the house, which is MUCH smaller than the one we moved from, but I think we're starting to get used to it, a little. We suffered the hot summer with 2 window air conditioners and now winter is on it's way and we've got to get the wood stove hooked up so we can have the house just as hot as it was on those hot days when we used the air conditioners. Hahaha!! Last week we finally had to get the dryer hooked up cause it rained like all week so the clothes were not getting dried on the clothes line at all. Now the towels are all soft and fluffy, which makes me happy. :) At first it seemed hard to drive up the hill and our driveway, but now that I've drove up and down it like 190293848 times (okay maybe not THAT many times, but it sure feels like it..) it seems so easy. And really most days I love living here because there are people and we can do things with other young kids, the only problem with that is the days when there are 12 young kids at church and I am the only one who can drive and then we can't do anything because we can't all fit in our van.
I'm sure you've all heard that on July 12th my brother Tyrel gave his had to be baptized and then on August 3rd MacKenzie was baptized! Tyrel gave his hand to Bro. Marty Evans and MacKenzie gave her hand to Bro. Lionel Wilson. These were both very happy times for our family.
At the end of July I started working at McDonald's. It's I guess a good job, but there are always those days when I just wish it wasn't MY job, normally because you can get a lot of angry customers at a place like McDonald's, but it pays and it's not like that's what I'm gonna be doing for the rest of my life. Yeah, that's the good news that I get to have the best job ever of being a mother and wife :) I think that pays a lot better than any job in the world, but I also think that working at McDonald's has taught me a lot about how to deal with people.
In August when we went down to Brownsville we got me a car! It's a dark blue Outback . I really like it a lot, but since it only has 5 seat belts and I have to drive all the kids to school I don't get to drive it as much anymore.
After my grandma Linda's family reunion in August my grandma, Shay, Amber and Ashley came up for a week and us girls worked very hard and got Zakk's scrapbook finished and gave it to JaLea and the boys before they left. It turned out very wonderfully and they loved it. I wish I would have had a hundred more pictures for it, but as it is the book is way thick so I guess it's fine. We had a lot of fun making it. The funny thing was how we put it all together and everything and took it up to their house and then realized that we had forgot one of the pages.
Amazingly, even with how busy we were trying to get the scrapbook done we still we able to run around and do a lot of things with the young kids while the girls were up here. On Monday we did some running around town for mom and then went out to Conn and Nancy's to get our dog and cats. When we were almost home we realized that I didn't have my phone and so I ended up not having it until Wednesday when we went back to Conn and Nancy's to find it, but it wasn't too much of a problem because the people I talk to we're with me and if my mom needed to talk to me she could just call any one of the girls. So, then we got home and worked the rest of the day and night on the book. Tuesday I had to work, but I left them with lists of things we needed done, like things we needed copies of because they were going to the print shop to get the stories all printed out and get copies of some pictures and things that Chantae had gave us for the book. And I guess they ended up having a lot of problems first finding a place to get it all printed and then getting it printed, but they did get it all done and so that's good. When I got home they had a lot done and we worked on it a little bit more before we all had to head out to the church to have pizza with the young kids and then go to the Grand Coulee Dam to see the light show. The light show was way cool and everyone should go see it (you'll have to wait til summer though). On Wednesday we did some other running around getting some other things copied at the library, dropping our registration paper work off at the school and then going out to Conn and Nancy's to find my phone. By the time we got home it was almost time for dinner, we started organizing the scrapbook pages while we ate our dinner and then we went to church. After church we went with the young kids to McDonald's and hung out, well ate, then hung out in the parking lot until we all decided to get in our cars and go home. I had to work on Thursday so before we went to sleep on Wednesday night I had to make lots of lists for the girls so that they could finish the book cause we were taking the book up to JaLea and the boys when I got off work. I ended up getting off work early, which was a good thing because we still had a lot of things to get done before we could leave to take the book to them. I've already told you about giving them the book so I'll kinda skip over that a little bit, after the boys and JaLea had looked at the book together a few times we went out to Zakk's room to hang out and look at his drums and just give JaLea some time alone. Then Scotty made us haystacks for dinner and we all went to the church cause the young kids were getting together to play some games and hang out. JaLea let us take the book so that the young kids and parents could look at it. We didn't really play a lot of games, but we had fun.
Okay everyone, There's an update on my summer and hopefully I'll get a more resent update for you all soon, but it may take awhile cause it's now been like a month since I started typing this post.. So we'll just see when I have the time.
