We went to Fillmore, UT for a family reunion on July 27th. It was nice to visit with family we don't see very often. Maddie loved having so many kids to play with and the twins enjoyed a massive yard to wander around and explore. My parents brought the girls back to Salt Lake Saturday night. We had made arrangements for my cousin, Alex, to watch the girls while we had a quick get-away in Vegas. We drove down Sunday and came home Wednesday afternoon. We did our normal Vegas stuff - Miracle Mile shops, the outlets, Caesar's Palace. We ate at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville on Sunday evening, Spice Market Buffet Monday evening, and Pamapas Brazilian Steakhouse on Tuesday night. After dinner on Monday night, we went to see Bodies...The Exhibition. It was fascinating! It was worth the money and really very interesting. I even shocked myself as I pulled a few anatomy and physiology facts from somewhere deep in my brain. It was so nice to have a few days with Aaron, we haven't done anything like that in a long time. We're hoping we'll be able to fit in a trip next spring for our 10 year anniversary - we'll see!
We're finally seeing progress on our house. They poured the foundation this past week and will begin framing this week. It's so exciting! We met with the builder on Thursday to go over all of the structural and interior options we chose. We've been given a tentative closing date of October 26th. Giving some room for delays, I'm fairly confident we'll be moved in by Thanksgiving.
We got the Kindergarten welcome letter from Maddie's elementary. She'll be in the morning class and her first day of school is September 6th. She is beside herself with excitement. I've tried to keep up with her desire to learn everything she can this summer, it's been a challenge! We've gone through 3 rather large workbooks. She's not quite reading, but it won't be long.
Speaking of reading, I've been reminded of one of my favorite hobbies. It's something I haven't done much of for quite a while. I picked up The Memory Keeper's Daughter to read while I was recovering from my surgery. Then, of course, there's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. My dad loaned Michael Palmer's Fatal to me and I read while we were driving back from Vegas. This week I picked up Stephenie Meyer's Twilight while I was grocery shopping. I read it in two days. I was anxious to pick up the next two in the series because Maddie is currently camping with her great-grandma and I knew I would have time to read them. The second book, New Moon, wasn't a problem to find. Tracking down Eclipse was a bit of a challenge that ended with a drive to Layton late on Saturday afternoon. I really enjoyed the series - but Twilight is my favorite of the three, I think.
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I'm excited to read the Twilight series. I just haven't broken down and bought it yet. Did you like the memory keepers daughter? Wasn't that a good book???
Kris, I did like it. It was very eye-opening for me. I wasn't thrilled with how it all wrapped up in the end, but that might have been the Percocet lol.
www.walmart.com has the all three of the Twilight series books for $9.97 each I think - plus $0.97 shipping - not a bad deal! My books have already started making the rounds among my family and friends or I'd offer to ship them to you.
I read "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" earlier this year, but I had some mixed feelings about it. I'm not sure I was too happy with the way it ended. I wanted the guy to have to face up to what he did, but he never had to. >:[
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