Keeping busy!

Wow- this summer has been way more full than I would have expected!   Well- we moved at the beg of June and then went to vegas for the wedding.  Then I was playing catch up and unpacking boxes for a few weeks.

Then we went on vacation with Dan's extended family to Dana Point, Cali. last weekend for 4 days.  (Just south of Laguna I think- about 30 miles south of Huntington).  (That by the way was awesome- we flew and the kids did awesome- people even commented to us how good our kids did as they were getting off the plane- I'm sure when they got on and saw dan and I with 3 little kids they probably wanted to get back off but the kids really were practically silent and chill the whole time.  Anyways- we stayed at this awesome hilton right off dohoney beach and it was a blast.  It was so fun to see dan's cousins I haven't seen in forever.  I'm still trying to find my cable to download pictures so that will come soon hopefully....)

  Anyways- so now I'm trying to play catch up from vacation like doing laundry and cleaning.  Scott has had a sports camp thing this week that he's LOVING.  

I still need to find him some friends around here.  The only one he's really made goes to a private school and so I'm still super stressed about finding him some friends he'll know on the bus.  There's NO boys his grade in our ward.  So we're working on finding other kids to at least recognize on the first day of school.  I'm feeling a crunch on this because we're leaving on the 27th for Newport Beach for most of a week and then on the 1st Dan and I fly out to London for our 2 week European cruise with dan's family.  (His grandpa is feeling incredibly generous this year and throwing lots of family get to gether extravaganza's!  Yes we're loving every minute of it!!!)  We get back from that like 3 days before school starts!  So in the next week I need to find scott some friends and get the back to school shopping all done!  Eek!!!   Life creeps up on you sometimes!

Anyways- being the "new" girl has been really hard on me.  We're a very social family by nature and not having buddies to hang out with and chit chat with is driving me nuts!  I have a friend from college I hang out with alot who lives a mile or two away.  And I totally made a friend at the park yesterday though.  I struck up a casual conversation with the girl next to me at the swingset.  She had a really cute skirt on so I asked her about it then the convo turned to kids ages and next thing you know we were all exchanging phone numbers and planning our next hang out and when we'd go to seven peaks together cuz we both have passes.  Of course she lives on the other side of town from me but she was so nice and her kids are the same ages and genders as brock and kara.  So totally a good friend to have once Scott is in school all day!  Anyways- I feel like a jr high kid being all excited about meeting a new friend.  But seriously= why is there noone like that in my ward!!!  I think 95% of the ward is in their mid to upper 30s and I guess no one is social after they hit that age or something which is so totally lame in my opinion.  I'm not gonna be like that- just wait and see!!!  I want to throw a potluck or something and invite some neighbors like we did in our old ward but everyone around here has teenagers as well as little kids and what are the teenagers gonna do while the little kids play and the adults chat.  UGH!!  The drama of my crazy life these days!  I worry about the weirdest stuff lately.

Man this was the longest most ranting post I've ever written!  I needed a "journal" post though.  So yeah- if you made it this far- sorry to bore you!  That's my life these days!  Stay tuned though...  Hopefully next week I'll post some pictures of what we've been up to and you never know what new exciting stuff could happen to us in a weeks time!!!!  :)  haha