Canoeing

08/23/08- I wanted to do something fun with my Dad while he was in town. (He left today = ( .) So on Saturday we went canoeing on the Provo River! It was a lot of fun. We paddled out to Utah Lake and headed back….well some of us paddled back. (I’ll leave out the part about my Dad’s hip bugging him and picking him up with the car.) Anywho, it was great weather for it. It wasn’t too hot on the water with the canopy of trees overhead. It was really pretty. I think we’re going to try and go again before summer’s over, so let me know if you’re interested!

Sis + Dad Night

08/20/08-Once a month we get together for sister’s night. (Minus RaNae, she lives in Indiana.) This month we had a featured guest…Dad! We met at Gardiner’s Village and ate at the restaurant there and then looked around the cute shops. We went back to VeNicia’s house, played some Rummy, and ate the yummy fudge VeNicia bought. It was a lot of fun! The End.

BYU

BYU—Once Jared turned 30 (last December) I became eligible for free tuition at BYU! I didn’t want to cut back my work schedule, but felt like free tuition shouldn't be passed up. So at the end of April (spring term) I took a Career Exploration class, and I just finished my summer class (Excel - Sys100). Even just one class and working full time makes me feel so busy! I’m not sure how long I can keep this up! I don’t know how people do both full-time. They’re crazy! In the Fall I signed up to take Economics, but I heard the teacher wasn’t that great so I think I might take a World Religions class instead. (It will complete my Global and Cultural requirement.)

I think I’d feel different about school if there was something I wanted to do when I grow that requires it, but I like where I work and would be fine staying there until whenever we have kids.

Anywho, if you happen to actually be reading this boring blog, and also went to BYU, let me know if there’s any general requirement classes that you took that you’d recommend.

FaMania

Normally all I have to do is look back through the pictures I've taken to decide what to post about, but I've been slackin in the photo department. But I'll post anyway...

Three of Jared's brothers and their families were in town for a few day to a week and a half (depending on the brother). We had fun eating yummy food, playing games, watching some Olympics (the opening ceremonies were pretty cool, and Michael Phelps is amazing!), and playing with our cute nieces and nephew.

Also while they were in town our friends Jake and Elisa were around for a few days. They were in Alaska for the summer and had a couple days here before they moved to Alabama for school. We had a BBQ with them and the Brandts (or "the Train's" for those of you that still think that's their last name). The food was great (especially Jenn's homemade cream puffs...mmm), we played some games, and had a fun time with them.

It's been a lot of fun; just a little crazy with everything happening at the same time! My Dad came in to town before all of Jared's family left, and he's still here! It's been nice being able to see him so much. We spent some time with him at a few of my sibling's houses and we had a nice dinner at Ottavio's with him, and games at my place.

Just this last weekend (08/16/08) my brother Brett and his family came up from Vegas to visit. He and his daughter, Emily, met us and VeNicia at Raging Waters in SLC. It's a water park similar to Seven Peaks. We had a great time on the slides and in the wave pool. Then Dad met up with us at Iggy's for dinner.

Then Sunday (08/17/08) we had a big dinner with them at my brother Barry's house. The food was amazing as always. We watched all of the humming birds in their back yard and just relaxed, chatted, and then watched "Nim's Island". I thought it was cute. It's always nice to spend time with family!

Oh yeah, somewhere in there I had my final for my Excel class. I got 100%! Yay! You're probably thinking "What Excel class?". I'll tell you about it another time...

The dentist can be good

My dentist office had a customer appreciation day. They rented out the Scera Pool for a couple of hours last Saturday and said we could go for free and invite whoever we wanted to! All of you no-shows totally missed out! The weather was really nice. They had lots of yummy food for free (muffins, fruit, snow cones, cotton candy). All you can eat cotton candy? Sounds like a good way to round up business for a dentist. In more ways than one. Anywho, thanks for coming McGrews. We had a great time! (I actually went some where with out taking pictures so maybe next time.)

On a side note, can I just say that Jared is so cool? Jared used to be on the diving team in high school and they had a diving board at the pool. Jared can do the coolest dives! I should take a video next time. I swear he could be in the Olympics! Everyone around was like "Wow!" Especially me = )

Will Miss the Garcia's!

07/26/08 My old roommate, Erica, and her husband invited a bunch of their friends to Timpanogus Park last Saturday for a going away party. They're moving to New Mexico = ( They have the cutest little girls. They made us yummy Carnitas and we played some Boccie Ball. It was a lot of fun. We'll miss you guys!