Catching up

The two biggest fish that were caught. One of the King Mackerels and on of the Red Snappers.

Buried Landon at the beach...

and then Chase

At the swimming pool on Landon's birthday

Pregnant!

Trip to Idaho

The infamous zhu zhu pet

Landon's 2nd birthday celebration

a couple of the party guests:)

I can't believe I haven't posted since May! Did I read that right? I think I can only be consistent with one type of record keeping medium and that's been my good 'ol journal recently. A lot has been going on with our family though so it's time to share.

In May we went to Idaho for a couple weeks to attend Grandma Diann's final Tavaci concert. It's the end of an era that I think she was happy to see end. She has touched so many lives with that program and won't be easily replaced or forgotten. We spent the week just soaking in Rexburg and being around family and friends during that time. It was a really great and relaxing vacation. We got to go the BYUI center and saw all the changes that have been made to the campus and I'm not gonna lie, I was pretty jealous that we never had a lot of the stuff the students now have. It is AMAZING up there! I kind of want to go back but it was a sad realization to think we'll probably never be students at BYUI again. Too bad ambassadors don't get any of those student perks (cough cough, a nice gym to work out in while visiting your old stomping grounds!) The boys had SO much fun playing with there cousins and still ask for them to come over for a play date almost daily.

We came back and I had a few weeks to to accomplish a whole lot before we left to Arkansas for our next vacation. We flew into Arkansas on a Saturday and a few days later my entire side of the family left for Alabama and the Gulf Shores. If you think like I did when I heard Alabama and Gulf Shore you might think tar covered beaches and tar ball infested water. We were extremely surprised when we walked into our BEAUTIFUL beach house to see a view of GORGEOUS white, pristine, sand leading up to the ocean. It was breath taking really. We spent the whole week at these beach houses and our days were something like this wake up go the beach, play for hours, go to the pool at the beach house, play for another hour, have lunch, take naps, and sometimes repeat. The Wednesday we were in Alabama the boys decided they wanted to do some deep sea fishing. There were only 5 men and they needed a 6th person. Surprisingly none of the girls wanted to go, and I really do mean surprisingly because I thought it sounded super fun! Since I was the only one that thought that, I got the last seat on the boat. We went out for 4 hours and came back with a great catch. The captain said he goes out for a 12 hour trip with a group and they won't catch as much as we did. We definitely worked hard to get our money's worth in fish and experience! It was a blast! We came back to Arkansas after our week in Alabama was done and my grandfather from Brazil came in the next day. Kyle and I haven't seen my grandparents since our wedding and our kids have never met either of them before so it was a real treat having him there even though we were sad we didn't get to see my grandma also. The kids ADORED him! We all went hiking to the beautiful falls in Bentonville and just relaxed and did some mini golfing and playing at the park. It was awesome. We definitely realized with these two vacations how much we REALLY miss being closer to family.

We got back from Arkansas on a Wednesday afternoon and I spent the remainder of the day finalizing preparations for YW's camp. We loaded the trucks later that evening and left early the next morning. A couple of angelic sisters in the ward watched our boys during the day and I cannot even begin to say how good I felt knowing they were in great hands while I was away. I didn't worry about them for a second even though I missed all three of my boys almost every second. YW's camp was incredible. My highlight was testimony meeting hands down. Every single girl bore their testimony including two girls that are not even members and one girl who has been really inactive for most of her life. It was absolutely the best YW's camp I've ever been to and we even got rained on the first day! We have amazing youth in the world at this time. I just look at my young women and think they are so much better, so much stronger, and so much wiser than I ever was at their age and they are growing up in a much harder world than I did! I just love each of those girls so much!

We got back from camp and we've just been trying to catch up to reality this past week. Kyle got offered a new position at work which he accepted and has already started to train in. His new job title is Business Analyst II. Sounds exciting! He is pretty excited though due to the experience he'll gain through working in this position, plus it's a promotion so we'll take it! His boss said that everyone who's worked in that position has gone on to a position in General Ledger within a short time which is where he'd like to end up at some point. So we're very grateful for the new opportunity.

Lastly Landon has had some changes brewing in his life recently as he was informed not too long ago that come January 14th he will no longer be the baby of the family. That's right! We're expecting baby #3!!! I am about 15 weeks along. This pregnancy has been totally low key. I don't have bad pregnancies to begin with but I have had NO symptoms this time around unless you count cravings for comfort food which I don't because I get those regardless of whether or not I'm pregnant. Seriously, I forget that I'm even pregnant sometimes.

So I think that covers the most recent for our family. Someday I'll be better at updating the blog and commenting on other people's blogs. I DO read other's blog though, very often. I am just horrible lately at commenting so I apologize for that but we love hearing what's new in our family and friend's lives.

These are all the pictures for now. I can't get our beach pictures to dowload so those will have to come on a different day. Enjoy!