June Bug

Happy June! May was a such a busy month, but a fun one. Here's a recap of somethings that happened in May:
1. Trip to Mesquite, NV with the ARYP.
2. New sod laid in the backyard, the finishing of our Extreme Backyard Makeover.
3. Mothers' Day and Zeke's arrival to our family.
4. Piano Recital
5. Rafting trip with the high schoolers down the Colorado River.
6. High School girls' night at church
7. Cora's first circus
8. Memorial Day at the cabin with brad's parents and aunt and uncle.
9. A return trip to the cabin for Brad and dad to retrieve the temporarily broken Jetta, and Cora and I stayed with Mom in Montrose.
10. The opening of our pool! Yes, it's already been plenty warm to go swimming and the water is already at 75 degrees or higher.
11. JUCO! JUnior COllege World Series takes place every year in GJ and we went to a couple games this year. Even Cora went to a game - she loved watching the people in the stands more than anything.

I may be forgetting something, but that's the majority of it. It was a wonderful month in many ways. Here is a link to my Facebook album with updated pictures some of these things.


Memorial Day weekend through the end of the month was especially busy. Friday evening we had a girls' night at church for the high school girls and upcoming freshmen. It was a super fun night and everything went without a hitch. I only slept from about 3 am till 7:15, got home at 9, showered and flew over to the circus! It was a frigid morning - well, 55 degrees feels frigid after a week of 80 degrees! But as they say, the show must go on! It was Cora's first circus and she really got into it. She loved watching the animals the most and seemed quite enthralled with the other events for the first hour and a half. During the break they had a petting zoo that she enjoyed and after that she just wanted to walk around the stadium. We were pretty impressed how long she sat and paid attention to the show. The elephants stole the show for me. They did handstands! For real! It was amazing, I LOVED it! (I didn't get a picture because I was so stunned by it!)

After church on Sunday we drove out to the cabin. We haven't been there much at all this year and it was really good to spend some time relaxing with Mom and Dad and Uncle Harv and Aunt Millie. It was nice for me, too, to have so many people around willing to help with Cora and Zeke! Cora is at a very fun age for playing outdoors and she loved playing on Grandpa's tractors, pushing all the "buttons" and "pulling" levers and making tractor noises with grandma. She also got a kick out of throwing sticks and rocks in the stream near the cabin.

We drove home with Mom and Dad because the car seemed to be getting sick and we didn't want to kill it on the drive home. So Friday Brad and dad returned to get it and Mom and I hung out in Montrose. We went for a walk at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison to see one of the dams overflowing. That was pretty spectacular. But even more exciting was that while we were walking a big yellow butterfly landed on Cora's sun hat! OF COURSE, I had decided that I didn't have to take my camera EVERYWHERE so I didn't have it along. Boy, do I regret that...not that I would have gotten the camera out fast enough for a picture, but it was so cool to see her expression at the butterfly on her hat!

One last little note: Cora is really starting to imitate our words and sounds. She tries to say "church" (ch-ch) and when I made the mistake of giving her a taste of my hot chocolate - which she wanted to drink all of - she tried to say "chocolate" (goclate). Mom and I could NOT believe it! We have so much fun with her!