random stuff...

here's a little more of what we've been doing this summer...

jared finished up his baseball league with a pizza party at the ball fields.

we went to the zoo one saturday. i was really anxious when we got there because the parking was full, so we had to park on the street. it really wasn't that crowded in the zoo though.





we played over at allie and taylor's house. we were actually there for my mom's retirement party but i didn't get any pictures of that. : /



family va-cay...

i realize i'm WAY behind on my blog...this has just really been a busy summer so far! and looking at my calender it doesn't look like it's going to let up at all. so, i'm going way back to the last week of may to tell you all about our family vacation! we went to utah to visit jesse's sister jaemye and her family.
the kids got out of school on a thursday, i had an exam at work that friday, and we headed to little rock that saturday. our plane was leaving the next morning at like 6 in the morning, so i convinced jesse to let us go up that saturday and we spent the night.

we all went swimming in the hotel pool and the kids had a blast!

the next morning we were on a plane, bright and early. it was jared's first flight so that was exciting.

as soon as we landed jaemye, brian, kelsye and gavin took us to park city. first we rode a roller coaster through the mountain, then we rode a slide down the side of the mountain. it was SO fun!!!



after our fun on the mountain they took us to this great burger place called smashburger. the sweet potato fries were amazing!
the next day (memorial day) we started our day by going to this breakfast place. i thought i was in heaven when i ate the scones with honey butter. in case you can't tell yet, we did a lot of eating on this trip, and it was all really good!
after breakfast we all headed to downtown salt lake city, ut. jaemye and i had both recently read a book, the 19th wife, about mormonism, so we were really interested to see all the mormon places. we saw the tabernacle, the temple (which we weren't allowed to go in), the museum and the honey-bee house.

it was all really interesting, but very sad to know that people believe this and put their salvation into this false religion.

we did a little shopping before heading back to the house for a cookout....and of course, once again...the food was amazing.

the next two days we didn't do a whole lot because the weather didn't really cooperate.  it was nice to be able to just hang out with the family and spend time with them.

we headed back to memphis on thursday. it was such a nice get-away and just what we needed! thanks so much to jaemye and brian for letting us come visit!