Brentwood

We spent Friday night and Saturday in Brentwood with Marsha and Whitney. It was a real nice visit. We watched Pride & Prejudice Friday and just relaxed. Saturday we ran some errands and then hopped in the pool to cool off. Although the water was pretty warm since it was 112 degrees out there. We then made a trip to Olive Garden to fill us full of delicious grub. Evan went home with Grandma & Whitney to play while Matthew, Dallin & I went to watch Pirates. We enjoyed it and it was nice to go on a semi-date. We relaxed for a little bit more and then had to head home so we could speak on Sunday. There were 4 of us speaking and Matthew and I were the last two. Needless to say we had about 10 mintues for the both of us to speak. Well, at least we got it over with. Happy Pioneer Day everybody!

New Friends

The greatest part about moving so much is all the new people we get to meet. Evan and I have these great new friends that live in our complex. We've played with them pretty much everyday since we met them. Evan is about a year older than Brighton and Dallin is 2 weeks younger than Kanyon. We went to our "new" beach. Evan likes it more because it's a lot more calmer than our "old" beach. It's just the docks here in Sausalito and so it's part of the bay. We caught Dallin and his little buddy holding hands. It was so cute! They are just both at the age of grabbing on to everything and they just kept grabbing onto eachothers hand. Later on Dallin sat and played with his head and put him to sleep.
Evan and Brighton though they would take the kayaks out for a little trip. Kanyon follows Evan around everywhere and Evan is becoming such a good big brother that he doesn't even mind. He really has matured quite a bit in the last month or so. I'm so proud of him! We are having a great time here in Marin City with our new surroundings and friends!

Happy Birthday Evan

My little boy is 3 years old. I can hardly believe it, but he'll proudly let you know. It wasn't the funnest day ever for him. We're still in the process of unpacking boxes and getting everything situated. I thought it would be a good day to unpack his toys, the poor guy. We did manage a little birthday party. I was watching 2 kids so they were our party guests and we had cake and opened his presents when Matthew got home from his white coat ceremony. We gave him a bicycle "The Gravel Buster" and a helmet. He got a box of wooden blocks from Grandpa & Grandma Bishop and some "Cars" underwear from the Wolfe's. Hopefully, we'll get him in those soon. He had a pretty fun day and was glad to have cake with lots and lots of frosting. It was suppose to be a soccerball for those who can't tell. We went in for his 3 year checkup today and he is doing great. He is about 30th percentile for weight and 20th for height. Dallin had his 3 month as well and is also doing really well.
He is 20th for height and 50th for weight. He is about the size Evan was when he was 7 months old. It's so fun and he is such a good kid still. Practically perfect, never fussing and always smiling. Evan really loves him and can make him laugh. We're all adjusting to our new surroundings and Matthew is busy with school. He sees his first official patient on Monday. He's kind of nervous but I'm sure he'll do great!

Time in Utah

We drove to Mike & Heidi's in SL on Monday June 26 and spent the evening chatting until Mike went to work. Of course that didn't stop us. We kept Heidi up talking all night long. The next day we just hung out and talked more. We tried to play a game or two with the little ones helping us out. It was nice to see Evan eventually stop picking on Austin and be friends. We all went down to Provo on Wednesday. I wanted to video tape some of the places that were important to Matthew and I. Like where we met, where our first kiss was, where we lived etc. It was fun! We met up with Meghan and Casey and chatted in the Wilk. Then Matthew and I wandered around the campus. It's amazing what one new building can do to make us forget what it use to look like. We've only been gone for 3 years. We met up again with Mags & Casey to eat at Cafe Rio. There are some things we really miss about that place. On our way to Dan & Julies we stopped at my grandfathers gravesite to visit him for a bit.


Dan & Julie were a whole lot of fun. They have 2 cute little girls now. We had never seen Sienna before and Holly was so much bigger. We stayed with them 2 nights and had fun like we use to do, plus 4 kids. Sure wish we lived closer to them. We drove up to Bear Lake Friday morning for my Bishop reunion and spent some time in the water. I've wanted Wave runners forever and I think I finally convinced Matthew to seriously consider it. I saw a wild side of him I'd never seen before. He even managed to throw me off one. Evan was a big fan of them as well, as long as he was the one driving. The lake was gorgeous and we enjoyed being out in the sun & rain & hail. Evan had more fun playing with cousins and playing in the nature.
We stuck around in Logan on Sunday because my brother blessed his baby boy, Ian Bradley and then headed to Kaysville to visit Grandpa & Grandma Green. They seemed to be in pretty good spirits. Of course grandpa was cracking jokes the whole time. They got a kick out of watching Evan running around their house. And also enjoyed meeting Dallin for the first time. After that we spent the night with my sister in Tooele, got up (not too)early in the morning the next day and made the long trek home, both boys were angels but got pretty tired of it near the end, but by that time we were already in San Rafael so it wasn't too bad.

Having fun

We just did a whole lot playing. We had a picnic at the park with some cousins. There were 2 large play structures so Evan was back and forth the whole. Grandpa got stuck with swing duty for a while. We went to a neat toy store afte and played with Thomas trains for a while. We celebrated my dad's birthday (Wendy's b-day) and then fathers day and then my mom's birthday (Marsha's b-day). Needless to say we had lots and lots of sweets and good food. Bridgette and her family came over for a few days and played. We went out on the boat.
Matthew and I rode the tube and realized the next day that we are a couple of old farts when 1 ride on the tube can make us so sore we can hardly move our arms. It was fun though! We hopped in the hot-tub quite a few times and Evan was always in the back yard just excited to be outside on nice soft grass. We had many visits from Becky Ann & James and Evan really like playing with JJ. We took Evan to the Meridian Dairy Days carnival. We splurged and let him ride a few of the little kid rides. Nothing too exciting, but he enjoyed it. We stayed and watched the Dairy Days parade and Evan got a TON of candy. Of course his favorite part was all the cars. Speaking of cars we went and watched Pixar's Cars and Evan thought it was great. He keeps asking to watch the Racecar movie on the big TV. A few days later Grandpa took us all to watch over the Hedge and Evan has been nicknamed Hammie now. If you've seen the movie you know why. Grandpa took Evan to the zoo too. Ummm, I think that about covers what we did for the few weeks we were there. I loved enjoying the sun and my family. Matthew enjoyed watching the Soccer games and relaxing. Evan just played and played all day long. Dallin was spoiled rotten by all the loving he got, especially from Grandma, but it's hard to resist someone so darn cute.

Idaho & Bushman Reunion

My parents drove me and the boys to their house on Memorial day. We spent the next day helping my mom celebrate her retirement at school and then a dinner at our house. I was able to see some old teachers and friends and show off my 2 handsome boys. What mother doesn't love to do that.
Then on Thursday we drove to Heber, UT to stay at the new Girls camp place for our Bushman reunion. It was great to see lots of family that I haven't seen in quite some time. Especially those of my immediate family. It had been over a year since I had last seen Bridgette and her kids. It was a nice place, especially for girls camp. Dallin always had some one to hold and kiss him. Evan loved having lots of cousins his size and age to play with. I never knew where he was at and it was dirty from head to toe all day long, but oh did he have a blast. His uncle Bradley took him on a hike down to a lake and he was a real trooper. We actually stayed in a hotel, thanks mom & dad, and so every night he was concerned that we were leaving all his friends on the mountain. The first thing he would say when he woke up was, "Where are all my friends?" I love reunions and I think Evan does now too. All the while poor Matthew was going to school, studying for finals and getting our new apartment lined up. Thanks for being such a hard working dad!

We're Back!

We just got back from our nice, long vacation. We had a blast and got to see lots and lots of family and a few friends. It was so nice and went by too quickly. We came home on the 3rd to our new place full of boxes. We've been working like crazy trying to get settled but it is taking a little longer because Matthew has been sick and I'm chasing Evan and taking care of Dallin. I'll give some recaps on our fun times but I want to post the pictures I took of Evan and Dallin for Mothers Day. They turned out so cute and I used the one for our baby announcements which I am still working on getting out. I'm a few months behind because I was having too much fun.