June in Pictures

So June was plenty eventful...I just didn't have time to blog about it. Here is the condensed version of our June in pictures. I forgot my camera a lot so this was only a portion of our adventures, but at least it's something.

Sunday bbq in the mountains with friends - Slades, Hagbergs, Edges, Talbots, Uboldis. We had a blast and the kids played together so well. We love our friends!

La tia Tomi's visit. Marcos' sister, Tomasina, came into town because his mom had surgery. She lives in Columbia so we don't get to see her that much. It was so much fun to spend some time with her. I forgot the camera on most of our visits with her, but managed to snap a couple photos. The kids got spoiled too. She brought a fossil dig for Dylan, a dinosaur that grows and hatches out of an egg for Dylan and a darling rattle person for Marissa. The kids were so excited!

Tanner's birthday. My sister, Angie's, son, Tanner, turned 4 in June. We had a birthday celebration at grandma's house. It's always fun to get together, especially in the summer when Angie and Justin are in town more often and all the cousins can run around and play outside together.

Sunday snack. Preston got an orange out to eat before church the other day. He is such a nice brother, he decided to share. Marissa was ecstatic that she got such a big treat. Funny kids!

Father's Day dinner. My mom spoiled all the men with a carne asada dinner in the backyard. It was delicious! Grandpa Barney got a kick out of the card we got him. Gotta love that smile!

Thank goodness I remembered Father's Day. With girls' camp the next week, I'm surprised I managed to get everything done. Somehow I found a present that Marcos wasn't expecting and ABSOLUTELY LOVED! Yay! Happy Father's Day to the world's best day...for real!

Bear River Hospital Fair - We stopped by the hospital's fair last Saturday. The kids got to play in the helicopter, fire truck and ambulance. It was hot, but we had a good time seeing people Marcos works with. We also met a 7-year-old boy that could be Dylan's best friend. He is just as excited and passionate about fire trucks as Dylan is about dinosaurs and animals. It was hilarious watching him give Dylan a tour of everything!

Cherry Hill. We went to Cherry Hill with all the Uboldi cousins on Monday. We had a blast and stayed for 6 hours...a record for some of us. It was so much fun having so many big cousins there that can go off by themselves and play and have a good time. And without knowing it, my mom and sister ended up coming so we had cousins from both sides of the family playing together and running around like kids should.

Family Pictures

My friend, Courtney, took family pictures for us last week. They turned out so cute! She put a few of them up on her blog if you want to take a look. http://courtneyhagbergphotography.blogspot.com/2011/06/uboldis.html

I especially like the picture of Preston. That kid is so hard to catch smiling or being the happy little man that he is, but she managed it brilliantly. Thanks Courtney!

My To Do List

What I'd like to do is blog about all the fun (and not so fun) things we've been doing. But there is no time. Instead, I'm going to write my "to do" list for all to see why I've been missing in the blogosphere lately.

• Get kids up, dressed and fed
• Drop Dylan off at music camp (that I found out about on Sunday and got him signed up for last night at 10 p.m. Nothing like last minute decisions, but I think he will really enjoy it)
• Tackle the mound of laundry that has been accumulating
• Do dishes and clean up the kitchen
• Bathrooms (nope, those are going to have to wait. Kitchen and laundry trump bathrooms today)
• Pick up Dylan from music camp
• Figure out what to feed the kids for lunch and maybe think about dinner before 5:00 today. Easy and somewhat healthy would be nice.
• Make sure Marissa gets at least one good nap today since she had two less-than-ideal car naps yesterday in my running around, going to my mom's house, dropping kids at my friend's house and taking Preston to his Occupational Therapy appointment
• Write a skit for girls' camp (since I haven't blogged about this yet, I best mention it now. Our YW Presidency was reorganized a couple months ago. I was released and during all my ups and downs with depression, struggled a great deal letting go of something I cared about so much. I finally felt like I had come to terms with being released and figured the Lord knew much better than I did what I was capable of handling at this time in my life and I obviously have many family responsibilities at the moment. No sooner do I wrap my brain around this, than they call me a week and a half ago to be the camp director (camp is June 20). So yeah, totally last minute and I'm barely getting my bearings. YIKES!
• Find a tent or two (that is big, good and in our budget to purchase)
• Make shopping lists, packing lists, activity lists, meet with parents who weren't at the parent meeting (and there are a lot of them) and everything else that goes along with camp this year. Can you tell I'm stressing about being so far behind?
• Continue reading up on Preston
• Work on Preston's self-care skills (dressing, brushing teeth)
• Set up sensory activities for Preston (and Dylan) to do. This is fun, but messy, which doesn't help with my housework to do list. Oh well. Today will be burying small toy cars in a little tote full of sugar. That and plenty of time on the tramp and then rolling in blankets. I know, sounds weird, but it's part of our routine now.
• Make sure Dylan gets his reading done (reads to me and gets read to by me...hopefully I can do that before bed today. Not sure if I can fit it in during the day today)
• Get back into a better routine of violin practicing with Dylan. For now, I just need to remind him to practice. At some point, I need to be better at setting up an actual lesson time so that doesn't get overlooked so often.
• Spelling, math and language arts once a week to keep up a basic level of skills during our more relaxed summer school
• Pay bills. Yes, that one cannot be put off. I need to sort through that stupid paper pile and get caught up with that mess. Blah!
• Paint the basement bedroom now that the sheetrock is up, mudded and sanded (again, probably going to have to wait until another day, but it's still weighing on my mind)
• Weed the front and back yard and maybe attempt to get a garden planted this year (between being super busy and the crazy weather, a garden may just not happen this summer...that would be tragic since I LOVE my garden. We'll have to see)
• Devotional with the kids. With Dylan's music camp today, we didn't get our normal devotional in so I need to do devotional before they go down for quiet time and try to get some scripture reading in myself during that moment of "down" time I have today
• Speaking of all things spiritual, I would really like to get to the temple at some point. I'm way overdue for a temple trip and could really use the time to ponder. All the newness of everything is getting to me: Preston's diagnosis, multiple decisions we need to make (like do we move or not) and just stress in general (Marcos starts a new job in three weeks...YIKES!)

So if you don't hear from me for a few weeks, now you know why. I'll try to catch you up with all our amazing adventures when I have a moment to breathe.