July

At the beginning of July our dish washer started pooling water and it smelled horrible. In an unusual turn of events, I decided to watch a few youtube tutorials and try to solve the problem...whatever it was...myself. I opened it up and took the thing apart. Patrick was very interested in the whole process and even contributed by wearing his Home Depot tool belt, goggles, and bringing down some tools. It was adorable and, guess what? I FIXED IT!!! I determined that perhaps the problem was the baking soda based homemade detergent we had been using BUMMER. I'll have to try another recipe sometime. Scott was pretty amused that I was using tools and taking something apart. It must be the pregnancy hormones that inspired some sort of strange nesting instinct or something. The point is, I fixed it...with Patrick's "help" of course.

Scott was in the thick of rehearsals for Zorro for Salty Dinner Theater. Many of the rehearsals were held at our house, thank goodness, so we still got to kind of see him :) Patrick and I enjoyed going to summer festivals and playing in our newly sodded backyard.

On the 4th of July we rode down Provo Canyon on our bikes with my parents and Scott's parents. The weather was perfect. That evening we went to Carol's house for a BBQ with Scott's siblings and cousins and that night we went back to my parent's house to watch the fireworks from the balcony with some of the Warrens.

On July 7th we met up with the Adams family at Deer Creek Reservoir for some fun on the lake. They have a ski boat and we brought pulled pork sandwiches for lunch. MAN was it a fun time.

On July 12th I had my 20 week ultrasound for baby boy no. 2...I had already confirmed that it was a boy at a gender reveal ultrasound just after my girls trip/ cruise in May so, this was all about baby's health- organs and development all looked like they were on track and we were so relieved. It took some time for me to see the doctor. He was all tied up with two other patients who were not receiving good news about their babies. One had anencephaly and the other had some kind of heart condition so, giving this news and discussing options with those patients took extra time thus, I didn't see the radiologist until 45 minutes after my ultrasound was complete. You can imagine my panic at waiting so long. However, he came in, apologized, told me other mother's were getting bad news but that our baby was perfect. I was relieved and, definitely recognizing the incredible miracle it is to have a healthy child.

At the end of July and in the few weeks following, we got to spend some quality time with Maddison and Eva my sweet nieces who live in DC. I gave them their Christmas gifts...from last year...and we played "Speak Out" the JR version and could not stop laughing. They were so sweet with Patrick too. They joined me to see Scott's show one evening, had a sleepover at our house the following weekend, and went camping with us another weekend. It was nice to get some more concentrated time with just them.

On July 21st, my performer friend Dallin and I did a "party splash" for a bachelorette party that was 1920's themed. I sported a short fringy dress and finger waves and tried my best to conceal my baby bump. It didn't work. The party guests could all tell I was pregnant but seemed to have a fun time anyway.

July 23rd: As Scott's performances of Zorro were in full swing in July and August, I found myself slinging Patrick all over town just the two of us. We decided it would be fun to attend the "Days of 47 Rodeo" at the state fairgrounds. It's one of the biggest rodeos in the state and there were even a number of competitors from outside the country. Patrick and I rode TRAX to the station nearest the fairgrounds and then walked to the rodeo. Once it was dark though, I got a little nervous to make the treck back by myself and we had Scott pick us up. Patrick really enjoyed all the animals and watching all the cowboys...and I'm not going to lie...I liked watching the cowboys too. Some of them were real handsome. It happened to be that Uncle Gary was working the paramedic tent that night so, we stopped by to chat with him for a minute. Patch and Uncle Gary were both wearing the same brand of cowboy boots so, he was pretty excited about that. Then Gary brought us over to the petting zoo area where we met an alpaca and a few other animals. Apparently the one alpaca is quite a kisser but I couldn't convince him to kiss me. :( #storyofmylife #jkjk Anyway, we loved the rodeo and Patrick was pretty enthralled by the horses. I was enthralled by the handsome cowboys. Of course my heart is true to Scott however, I could not help but notice how handsome many of them were!

On the 24th of July, we went to Mindy's gender reveal party. She used fireworks to announce the gender (another boy) and Scott and Dan were in charge of the fireworks. Mary purchased some firework swords for the kids and they totally loved them.  Unfortunately, one of the larger fireworks tipped over after lighting and exploded in the direction of the crowd and scared everyone away and even burned a few people...luckily none of the children. That quickly ended the party (poor Mindy!) but, she was able to get the gender reveal in before things got too crazy.

At the end of July we attended the annual Moore family camp. This year, Doug was in charge of planning so we went to a really great site in Idaho. As we were driving up I wasn't seeing any mountains and kept thinking....where are we heading?! When we arrived at camp I was pleasantly surprised. All of a sudden- BOOM -a beautiful set of towering mountains, streams, and a fishing reservoir. As always, we ate delicious food, played fun games (Scott and I had a particularly fun game of sardines with all the kids), did some shooting of guns, and sang songs around the camp fire. This year, we had a small fishing adventure with the kids where we went to dig up worms and then found a fishing reservoir nearby (had to drive just a bit) and while we didn't catch anything, the kids seemed to have a good time. When I asked the camp host where the best fishing was (which you know you'll never hear where the BEST fishing is from a local...they keep that to themselves :D) she looked at my belly and said "wow, when are you due" and I was MUCH smaller then...only 5 months.

On July 31st, we met up with a lot of the Warren cousins to go to Airborne and a pizza place to celebrate Eva's birthday. Maddison got a swim party and Eva got a bouncy place party. Very fun! I wished I could do more bouncing around but felt that it might be too risky with a little baby growing inside. Maybe I'm too cautious but, I did do a tiny bit of bouncing. Everyone had a blast and Maddie and Eva seemed particularly enthralled with the "silks" that hung over the foam pit area. Patrick met a little friend their and learned a new word "bamit" which sounds waaaaay to close to damnit for my taste so, we had a bit of a discussion about that.

July was eventful. Since I'm catching up on the blog...I will now plow forward into August and so ends the July post. byeeeeeee.