Busy...busy...

The last couple of weeks have been pretty busy. After my last post Mom and I had about a week before we were flooded with more family for our reunion and Jack's baby blessing, so we had quite a bit to keep us busy getting ready for that. We also decided to go up to Salt Lake on Sunday (the 27th) to visit with Uncle Jack for a bit, we had a really nice visit and Avery loved running around in Jack's yard.

We spent the rest of the week making lists of people, food, and activities, playing online settlers, sewing a blessing outfit and matching shirt for Avery(pictures to follow soon), we weeded my front and back garden, probably shopped a little, went to a park (or two) and played some more settlers!

Then sometime in the wee morning hours on Thursday Dad and Keenan got here, Friday was supposed to be sort of relaxing while we waited for everyone else ("everyone else" was - Gram and Grandpa Hoyle, Jill and girls, Silas and Robyn, Josh and Brittany, Sarah and Kevin and Kris and kids) to get into town...then Sarah and Kevin's van broke down 40 miles away and that threw our whole day off, but it was still a good day. We did manage to can 17 jars of dill pickles in the morning though!

Saturday was our main reunion day, it was fun at the park, we ate a lot, visited, the kids played in the sprinkler and the boys (and Brittany and Alicia) played football.

Sunday was Jack's blessing and blessing luncheon, which turned out really great. We had a
great turn out for the blessing and Andy did such a great job, the blessing was beautiful!
We rented a party room at the Super 8, it was nice to have somewhere everyone could sit indoors for the luncheon, then we kept the room for the evening for an extension of the reunion.

Monday we (Mom, Dad, Keenan and me and the boys) went to Temple Square in the morning, it was a lot of fun. Avery loved helping Grandpa push the stroller and he loved how much water was on Temple Square.

Then we came back to meet everyone for lunch at Golden Corral, and went up the Canyon afterwards and hung out at a park for a couple hours until everyone from out of town had to head back to Missouri/Washington/etc.Jack Hoyle and Jack Westover (my great uncle who Jack is named after)

Mom and Dad had to come back to finish packing, it was a lot harder than I thought it would be to have Mom leave, she'd been here for 3 weeks and Avery and I have gotten used to having her here to hang out with. So yeah...I cried a lot. I'm going to say my emotions are still out of whack from having a baby, and leave it at that! Avery was pretty upset that Gramma was leaving without him. This morning he came down stairs and thought she was hiding from him, it was so cute and sad. I think it'll only take a couple days for him to get used to it, but at least today he kept asking where Gramma went. Ugh! I hate living so far away from family! Today was the first time I fed Avery breakfast since Mom got here...!

Anyway, we're trying to get back to normal, sort of. two kids is a lot different than 1! I had to go to the post office this morning so I took our monkey backpack for Avery so I could keep him close while I carried the car seat too. When we got in there he was jerking around so much that the leash part of the backpack kept pulling my arm while I was trying to fill out the address label, then he took his sandals off, threw them across the lobby, laid down on the floor and proceeded to spin in circles and squeal the entire time.
So I think we'll stay home for a while. How do you do it with more than one kid!?!?!?

I'll probably post some random pictures, from Mom's visit, over the next few days.