Memorial Day Weekend

We were originally planning on camping with Aaron's family on Holland Lake. However, the weather did not look promising, so we cancelled the reservation and went up to Kalispell. In the end it was definitely the right decision.

We spent the weekend playing around with Aaron's family. Joseph is absolutely infatuated with his Jared's girls, his beautiful cousins. He asks for them constantly, saying "Nana, JD". It is very cute. We were able to enjoy playing games, eating camping food (which had already been purchased), going to a Memorial Day Parade in Whitefish, and just having fun. The video is from the parade. We were walking to the cemetary and were next to the fire truck. Watch it. It's hilarious! Aaron had Joseph on his shoulders and we were going uphill, so the truck would break every now and then (it was following an ambulance which was following all the people). Aaron started to hear him mimic the fire truck everytime it's brakes made a sound, or it would also make a sound kind of like "choo". He did that one too. It was too funny.

We also put together a slideshow of pics from this weekend. Enjoy! We had a great time and look forward to our next trip this summer: Columbia Falls with Mike, Eris, Stacie, Riley and Nicholas.

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Two down...

To update Julie's school status: two down, three to go! Julie finished her first Independent Study class last month with an A grade! She also finished her New Testament class and got credit (not sure what the final grade was). The credit is being transferred to BYU. She already jumped back on the bandwagon and ordered her next class, Humanities 201. This one should be a bit more challenging, but she's ready for it. She is just waiting on one more textbook and she'll be ready to go. Wish her luck!

Aaron just started a second summer job to fill the hours and the bank account. He is working at the Greyhound Station again like he did when we first moved here. Their schedule is flexible enough and the people easy to work with so it will work well with out schedule. Aaron's work schedule is set up to allow Julie to work for an hour in the morning and in the late afternoon. Plus all the time she can work on her class during nap-time. We're hoping to get as many classes done over the summer as possible. Julie thinks she can do at least two. Keep your fingers crossed!

Joseph is great, as usual. He's been enjoying the awesome weather we've been having. Earlier this month Aaron's brother Josh graduated from the University (Congratulations!!!) and the family gathered for the event. We think Joseph is finally comfortable around Jared and Anita's three girls. He says their names all the time now. At first "Nana" was all three. Now he says JD, Nana, and some form of Cadence. We will be seeing them again this weekend and I think he is really excited about it.

We are also extremely excited to see Julie's family coming to visit next month. Stacie, Riley, Nicholas, Eris and Mike are all driving up to Montana to visit us! We are so excited. We'll definitely get some great pictures to share from their visit.

Complicated clothing

What a big boy he is learning how to do this all on his own, even if we don't want him to.

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More wonderful things he's learning to do, even if we don't want him to.
He took these off the shelf while mama and papa weren't looking.

Still changing

Due to a mistake on Julie's part, she had to restyle the entire blog. She wasn't very happy with herself for that. Fortunately, it seems like she was able to recreate all the the cool styling she did previously. She's still making occasional changes to this or that. Hope you enjoy them. Here's a fun slideshow of Joseph over the last few days. He's so much fun!

"Dishes!"

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Burnham for my new apron! It works great for doing dishes. I just love it!

--He was saying "dishes" in this photograph. It's the best smile we've ever gotten out of him for a picture.--