Summer 2013

Now that we're settled in somewhere, I guess it's time to get back to the blog.  Thought I'd give a brief rundown of our summer.  

We left Singapore the day after school got out to rush back for my nieces wedding in Utah.  We flew into LA and were there about 24 hours before Ashlyn, Breann, and I hoped onto another plane to Utah to attend the wedding.  It was so fun to be together with all of my siblings and see their families.  The wedding was beautiful - can't believe we've entered that world of the kids cousins getting married.

We spent the first few weeks of summer at my parents amazing house in southern California.  We spent  alot of time at the beach - enjoys the surf and sand - and often friends or cousins.

You can't go to southern California without cooking hot dogs on the beach.  Even better when your with lots of cousins.

Craig joined us in southern California for a day and then we all headed to Utah to spend a few weeks there.  We hiked in the beautiful American Fork Canyon and enjoyed time with our grandparents and Bruschke cousins.

One week we sent dad to Northern California to work (and see the house we had just bought :) and sent Breann to Soccer Camp at BYU and Ashlyn and Dallin to EFY.  We met up with tons of friends from Singapore who were in the same EFY session as our kids.  So fun to spend time at one of our favourite places - BYU - and see so many of our dear friends from Singapore.

We celebrated an important birthday while in Utah - Breann turned 12.  Hurray!  She was so excited to enter YW and be apart of the 'older' kids.

After our 2 weeks in Utah, we headed to Lake Powell with our Bruschke cousins.  This is one of our favourite places on earth.  We thoroughly enjoyed our 16th summer week at Powell. 

We found an amazing new hike,

did alot of relaxing,

and got a few kids up on ski's and wakeboards - oh, and lots of tubing.  

After Lake Powell we headed back down to Southern Cal, dad went back to Singapore and we hung out and waited for our big move back to Danville.  We closed on our house the 1st of August and headed up to move in.  We had a few weeks to settle and play before school started later that month.  The kids jumped right back into life and friends in Danville.