The 2 days after the 4th of July were spent mostly in Orem with Derek's family including a brother and his family that were here all the way from Seattle.
Saturday, July 5th the whole group (Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Dennis, our family, Bart, Rebecca, Caz, Caleb, and Cami, Dan, Shauna, Riley, Isaac, and Kelly) all got together and went to go see Wall-E. Afterwards we all went to Chuck E Cheese, which the kids all just loved. Grace won a lot of tickets and got some prizes and Ryan enjoyed green beans while we all ate pizza.
Grace particularly loved the clock ride, but pretty much had a blast on all the rides she went on. Derek tried to teach her Skee-Ball, but it might be a little premature.
We then went back to Derek's parents house and did more fireworks in the street.
Sunday, July 6th we got together for the extended Family Home Evening and dinner, it was great to see all of the family!
A general update on the family:
Derek's job is continuing to go well, he has had a lot of success bringing on new accounts and is really enjoying himself. He is travelling to St George for a very important sales call and presentation tomorrow. He is heading down and back in the same day. He is keeping very busy with his job and also his calling in the Bishopric. He was the only member of the Bishopric there on Sunday and had to deal with a lot of stuff including announcing a building change for our ward. He is a little less busy now that T-ball has ended.
Melinda is keeping busy with the kids and loves working out in the mornings with her friend Ang. They also love to go swimming as much as possible with the kids. She has been running Grace through homework and activities to get her ready for Kindergarten. This was a fun picture taken after one of Grace's t-ball games. Grace is the credited photographer of this awesome picture, so we had to include it...
Grace is reading and getting better and better at it each day. She loves homework and learning, she is SOOO excited for Kindergarten. She misses T-Ball and had a lot of fun being on daddy's team this year. She loves her trophy that she got!
Ryan is scooting all over the place and rolling around. He is getting very close to sitting up all on his own and is probably another month or so away from crawling. He gets up on his knees and hands and scoots himself backwards. He is a very active kid and is growing a lot!
~Love you all! Derek, Melinda, Grace, and Ryan ~
