Summer is HOT

We've been trying to stay cool this summer...with BUBBLES.

And with FRIENDS.

Emily Ruth and her two busy boys!

Look what Joshua can do:

We're always moving.

And Joshua is the only one that is getting any faster...

What more can we say?

Master Me

So, look what came in the mail not long ago...

Benjamin sometimes calls me "Master Emily." It usually makes me smile. He sometimes will purchase things online, rather than in a store, and he's even had something shipped to "Master Emily" rather than Mrs. It's enjoyable.

Now we can be a True Blue Cougar Family. With 3 degrees of higher education awarded from Brigham Young University, now Joshua can wear this proudly:

Remeber when...?

So, sometimes we'll say "remember when..." and recall something that was amusing or unexpected. Typically, the silly comment is still the current state of things, but it's theraputic to imagine it is just a memory. We've been saying this phrase more often lately. For instance

Remember when:

*Joshua was content to just roll around or army crawl in this one room?

*the monkey started to climb stairs and pull up on everything?

*we tried to make bread in the breadmaker and the machine

squeaked so much it wouldn't proceed?

*all three toilets in our house started to run nonstop in the same evening?

*laundry wasn't so backed up that the pile of clean clothes was

three times as large as the pile of dirty clothes?

*we had a garage door opener remote? That was the life! Someday we'll find that thing.

And my personal favorite of the month:

Remember when we had air conditioning in one of our cars?

(it's been a pretty hot hot hot spring for us, and one car only blows cold on one half of the car, while the other car has no AC at all, and neither front windows can roll down...needless to say, I try to run my errands during the morning or after sundown...)

Three Years Stronger

We've been married for 3 years today. And Benjamin is just as handsome and charming as ever. Here are some of the milestones we've endured:

Emily finishing grad school.

Benjamin publishing his paper in a peer-reviewed journal.

Having a heart breaker of a baby boy.

Moving all our belongings 5 times so far.

Buying a house.

Benjamin, I love you, and I'm still the luckiest. All my love!

Our "sweet-tooth" found his first TOOTH!!

Joshua cut his first tooth yesterday! It's on the bottom, and he's been cranky, but not enough to pin it on teething alone! Sorry no pictures, he will hardly let us shove our fingers into his mouth to feel it. We'll post one as soon as we capture it.

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605

Thesis (finally) done!

So, we got all the revisions taken care of, and I'm finally done with the requirements for my Masters' Degree. Too bad we were 5 days late for the April graduation deadline....but so what!?! What's 4 more months? I'll technically graduate in August, but I suspect I will be receiving my degree come Christmas (given the 6-12 week delay in processing and postage). So, Amber, remember when you gave me a mock degree for Christmas? You must have been psychic...or a year early.