trip, long hours and promotion.

Things have been eventful these last few weeks. Derek got promoted at work so his new title at work is now Senior Associate, we are very excited about that. This is also the busiest time for Derek at work so he has been working crazy long 15 hour days, not so fun. Because of his long hours we decided that we needed to take a vacation so last Friday Derek got off work early (about 5:30) and we headed for Macon Georgia. We wanted to go camping but the weather didn't cooperate so we stayed in a dumpy hotel. The kids were so excited about staying in a hotel and that it had a swimming pool. It was an out door pool so we didn't get to swim too much because it rained a lot.

In Macon we went to the Georgia music hall of fame. We went there about a year ago and Jensen loved it so much we went back. We didn't see too much in the museum but spent 1 1/2 hours in the children's area. They have instruments you can play. The drums were Jensen's favorite. Siesa mostly enjoyed running around and screaming it's a good thing it was a very rainy Saturday morning and there wasn't anyone else there. After visiting the museum we went to lunch and headed home, it was a little nice trip.

Pigtails

Siesa had a very important day in her life. For the first time we were able to do her hair and put little bows in it. Derek thinks she looks much more mischievous with her pigtails.

Derek’s Fabulous shoes?

When I think of Derek I would have never guessed that he would have won a “fabulous shoes” contest but this week he did. A few weeks ago some of the women he works with decided they wanted to show off all their great shoes and decided to have a contest. One of the partners provided the prize of a $100 gift card to Nordstrom’s for the most fabulous and ugly shoes. Last week was the contest so Derek took some of Siesa’s little black Sunday shoes with her frilly white socks and put them on the end of his crutches. We were shocked that he won because it was a creative idea but not fabulous. Some of the women had some very beautiful and expensive shoes. I have never been so glad to be creative. Derek gave me the gift card and I enjoyed an afternoon shopping on Saturday. Thanks Derek!

Pioneer Pictures

Saturday we had a ward picnic. It was great. Lots of people came and there was lots of food, games and entertainment. Everything was based on pioneers. There had potato sack races, three legged races, we tied a quilt, and we dressed up in old time clothes to get a picture taken.
Here is the results

Fourth of July Fun

Tina, Clint and Xana came to visit for the 4th of July. We wanted to go to Stone Mountain for there big fireworks extravaganza. We heard that it is packed on the 4th but they do the fireworks show three nights in a row to accommodate the crowds, so we decided to go on the 3rd. We are sure glad we went then. There were so many people there and we heard that on the 4th they closed the gates to the park at 5:00 pm and turned people away. It was a good fireworks show. Before the show we barbecued hamburgers and hotdogs and just had a good time seeing the sights of Stone Mountain. The kids did pretty well for being out so late. Xana was awed by the whole fireworks show. Jensen liked part of it, but covered his ears and squinted through half of it. And Siesa slept through the finally. On the 4th we hung out hear and did some of our own very small fireworks which the kids likes. The sparklers weren’t a very big hit, but they sure loved the pops. The kids would stand there watching the fireworks as they were being lit, but as soon as they started to go off, they would turn around and run away screaming.

Fudgesickles

For FHE we made homemade fudgesickles and from the pictures you can tell they were a hit. Yum!

We love daddy

For father’s day I made matching ties for Jensen and Derek that they wore to church today. Jensen was so excited to wear his tie he told Derek about it a few days ago, oh well. Jensen just loves his dad and copies everything he does. Derek has a stress fracture in his heal and is wearing a walking cast so this week Jensen has been wearing one of his rain boots because his foot has a crack in it too. He was riding his bike yesterday and was sitting on it in the middle of the drive way talking I asked what he was doing and he said he was stuck in traffic and was waiting for all the cars to move. He constantly informs me that he needs to go to work today so won’t be able to play with me. It is a good thing that Derek is a good example for our children to follow. I feel so blessed to have Derek as the head of our home.