Over the weekend, we went to Jason’s family reunion and celebrated Nana’s 85th birthday. Timing was tough since it meant I would miss Maven’s on Thursday night at Julie’s (who I adore) and RO’s Book Club (her last big hurrah since she’ll in be Utah the entire summer). Just my luck – drat!

However, after the 5 hour drive, we arrived early Friday morning and a few hours later the boys were ready to get wet.

Davis knee boarded for the first time and did a great job! My baby’s growing up.

We spent Friday at Betty & Gary’s (Jason’s mom and step dad) skiing, eating, and catching up.

At the last reunion Dylan was a baby. So this time the boys had lots of cousins their age to play with.

Saturday we packed up and spent the day at the beach. This was my favorite day. D1 & D2 made some new friends and spent the morning playing in the sand and the afternoon in the water.

D3 was a little more of a challenge since he’s still insisting on being with Daddy at every moment. Poor Jason, this separation anxiety is really getting old – for BOTH of us.

We celebrated Nana’s 85th birthday and at one point sat around and told stories. I love watching his family interact with each other. They are loud and proud yet they love each other and are close to their siblings.

Several of Jason’s cousins are bloggers – yippee! So as you can imagine we had lots to talk about. I’ll be sure to welcome them properly when I get their blog addresses.

I didn’t take very many pictures – I was busy with D3 and enjoying the day.

Sunday we were back at Jason mom’s, who took the boys fishing. Davis caught a fish. Seriously that kid has some crazy good luck.

Dylan didn’t catch a fish but he caught a log. He quickly mastered the art of his “fish story” and told us all about the fish that got away because he hooked the log instead. Cutie.

Davis grabs my camera every chance he can get and takes lots of random pictures. However, every once in a while he takes a beauty like this one, of Dylan and Toby.

We went skiing one last time Sunday morning, went to church, and then out to lunch. I was a little bummed to have to leave. I adore my MIL and really hit it off with Jason’s family, once again. It was a quick weekend but one that we will remember forever.

Drake took a little nap on the way home but since none of them are fans of sleeping it made for a long ride home. We stopped for gas and the boys each picked out a treat. Here’s D3 with a rice crispy in one hand, Cheetos in the other, watching Blues Clues. Priceless.

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So it’s been a very busy week and it’s completely cut into my blogging time. (ha ha) Monday was full of cleaning house, laundry, Carpooling kids to Scout Camp, and a friend over for Dylan. Who asks me every hour, when he’ll get to go to Scout Camp?

Tuesday it was my turn to help out with Scout Camp. We took the boys to the Star Wars Exhibit at the Science Museum and swimming afterwards. It was such a fun time and I can’t wait to take the rest of the family.

Wednesday, straitened up the house again. (Boy, what a mess it turns into when Dad’s in charge.) Dylan had 2 friends over so there was a lot of refereeing. Drake started saying a new word, “er you go”. He’s soo funny. His 3 “words” are now, ‘Uh Oh!’, ‘woof’, and ‘er you go’. 2 of which are 2-syllable words. What happened to ‘Mom’!?!

Wednesday night I put all my home organizational ideas and philosophies in a fun binder. I’m working on a project with a friend that we’ll reveal when it’s completed. Yeah! I went over to her house on Thursday and Friday to work on it.

Friday night the whole family went to twilight camp for the end of Scout Camp. We ate, the boys put on a couple skits, told jokes, made smores, and had a great time.

I didn’t have time to make a salad for the twilight scout camp Friday night. So Jason went to Wal-Mart and bought a fiesta pasta salad at the deli. I’ll be honest with you it looked so disgusting that I didn’t even taste it. However, that night 3 people people raved about it and asked for the recipe! So what did I do? I just smiled and said, “Thank you!” ;-} Jason and I got a huge laugh out of it later and I had to apologize to him for dissing his choice of pasta salads.

For father’s day this year the boys got Jason a watch. This one is casual so he’ll wear it when he wears shorts. Don’t ask. ;-}

I surprised him with…

…wood hangers! No more plastic hangers! I know this seems a little silly for a guy. But Jason thought it was soo cool. He has always wanted wood hangers. The best part is that I got them at Target, 24 hangers for $15! YEAH! What a steal. Here are more pictures of the closet.

So the boys put bows on the closet door. Dylan told me that it was a face and the door knobs where the nostrils. lol