Let Summer Begin!

I just added this picture because I think Joe looks really . . . um . . . sexy! :) Plus, They look cute! It was taken just as they were getting into the water and Joe was kinda being a baby too.


So, we have been really busy with visiting family. Now we didn't take pictures really but we did a lot!

• We celebrated the 4th of July in Utah with our cousins, Brandon, Ashley and Alex, trying hard not to blow up the neighbor's carport.
  
• We then spent the next day with Aunt Jackie and Uncle Ken one last time before they moved to TN.
  
• The 5th of July was our 4 year Anniversary of the day we started dating and our first kiss and what do you know, we realized the day after that we forgot to kiss on our special day. How pathetic is that, and it's only been 4 years, but I guess that's what kids will do to ya.
• Grandma and Grandpa York came to visit during our last days of school for the year and we had so much fun. They were so nice to babysit Anderson while Joe, Matt, Tami (our really awesome friend) and I all went to see "The Dark Knight" at it's first showing @ 12:01 am the day it came out. It was so nice to have a little get-a-way time! We even took Anderson swimming for his first time at the hotel they were staying in. Anderson loved it!
• Then, the day Grandma & Grandpa York left for Utah to help Jackie and Ken move, we headed to Boise to spend the weekend with Grandpa and Grandma Thornock and Aunt Tyanna, Uncle Jimmy and Anderson's cousins, Hunter Bud and Manhattan! After a little stint in the hospital, Tyanna, in all her pregnant glory, decided to join us for some fun. We played in the backyard with all the dogs, ate yummy food, watched movies, played at the park till dark and fed the birds and just relaxed. It was fun to have family all together.
  
• Then we drove back to Rexburg for the night so Joe could go to work and we were back on the road the next day headed towards Utah, where we met up with Grandma Paula and Uncle Kerry and Grandma Great and Aunt Cyndee and the whole gang. We went to the Kiwanis Breakfast, then the Pioneer Day Parade and then after a little break from the festivities we went to the Rodeo! Anderson loved watching the bull riders and Joe liked seeing all the cowgirls. LOL! It was so much fun. Oh, and Joe and I were able to see Mom's mid-life crisis and Ashlee had fun riding around in it. Joe has fun washing it so it stayed in "pristine" condition.

By the way, Joe and I passed our finals with flying colors! I was very proud of Joe for getting an A+ in his Anthropology class and an A in Economics, especially after working so many hours each week at work. And, I think Joe was proud of me for getting an A in my Family Nursing class. We are so glad it's over . . . until January, that is.

AND . . . among all of this summer excitement Anderson got a new cousin! Uncle Robby and Aunt Amy had a beautiful little baby girl and named her Sarah. We can't wait to meet her!