Utah Lake

On Friday we were invited out to Utah Lake to hang out with one of Ieli's friends' family. I have only been to that lake once in my life and didn't really know what to expect. Our friends, the Rigamotos, live over in Saratoga Springs and on that side of the lake there is a small beach area where we hung out. The girls, the little fishies that they are, just loved playing in the water. Before we went Ieli took some pictures of the girls in some dresses his sister picked out for them last year. I think he got some pretty good shots!

Hiding behind the flag

Peek-a-boo!

Sisterly love

Testing out the water

The top of Mt. Timpanogos as seen from our spot on the lake...yes, that is snow!
That just seems so weird to me. It's JULY!

This is what the boat was towing around...that's Mallina 2nd from right.
She absolute LOVED it! Ieli went out with her while Eva and I stayed on solid ground.

On the way back in, you can see Ieli on there as well this time.

That was just day one of our holiday...we even ended the night with a BBQ and fireworks! I have more pictures from yesterday, the 4th, that hopefully I will get up quickly! Thanks for everyone who helped us have a great weekend!

Fun in the sand....box

Mallina is a digger. She would dig in the rocks in front of our apartment with one of my kitchen spoons. She was completely occupied for hours. Now that we have a yard at our disposal I really wanted to get her a sandbox and Grandma and Grandpa obliged. THANKS! Ieli and my dad built this for them and they LOVE it. Ieli spent some time playing in the sand box the other day with the girls and my nephew Jaxson (who is also here visiting Grandma and Grandpa from Texas).

Mallina the mermaid

Jaxson winning his kayak race

Mallina about to be buried for her kayak race

The shovel was a little large for Mallina


So we tried the small shovel instead. She doesn't look quite as excited.

And now for the sand castle. If you take someone who grew up on an island and ask them to make a sand castle, they make a sand castle. It was pretty funny...the whole time Jaxson kept talking about destroying the thing and it made Ieli nervous. He didn't want anyone messing with the thing until it was perfect.

The crew...excuse the fat mexican in the sand box.....hahahahaha!

What's gonna work? Team work!


THE Castle, upclose


You can see the outside "fence" that went all around it in this shot


And finally the destruction...Ieli threw Eva on the top first


Then Mallina joined in


And finally Jaxson got to destroy it too. I think that was his favorite part.



And just a really cute picture of the cousins. I put Cinderella on the tv on our room when I was going to go take a shower. Jaxson was nice enough to sit and watch it with them. He totally wasn't in to watching Cinderella. At. All. :)

...an update I guess...

I can't decide what to title this post, there just isn't anything too exciting happening. We made it to Utah, there has been a lot of rain, and some fun at the strawberry days carnie, but I don't have any pictures from that. We are all doing well, just adjusting to our new life. Ieli and I are still waiting to hear back from jobs, so no news on that front. But I felt the need to update our blog since Ieli commented today that "ah, there isn't an update on Desert Crabs?" so....here are some pictures for you :)

This is what our life has been like for the last month, disarray! We moved the girls' beds into our room so we could clear their room out and fill it with boxes, this is what I found one night as I headed to bed. One kid laying with her head at the foot of the bed, and one kid laying across her bed. It was like they were tweens at a slumber party :)

The week before we left Arizona Monica called and invited us to go swimming with them at this awesome pool. Her husband Kali was craving fish, so we made a day of it and watched the boys revert back to their island ways.


And Ieli wanted a picture of the girls on the sign at the pool, of course they made faces and didn't look at the camera.


And they looked longingly into the pool while we waited, I thought this turned out so cute :)

Thank You!

Ah, I really felt the love each time I got an email telling me someone had posted on my blog :) You guys are awesome and made me feel so happy. To answer some questions...yes the move to Utah is still on, only under a little different circumstances. We will be staying with my parents in Pleasant Grove until the job prospects start turning into actual job offers. So far Ieli and I both have applications in for jobs in Utah (SLC/Utah Valley areas) as well as Las Vegas. Please remember us in your prayers if you can...we don't want to invade my parents for too long, they were finally empty nesters! LOL We are heading out of AZ and into UT on Tuesday, so we've got a couple of long days ahead of us. We are VERY sad to leave everyone in Arizona, I LOVE this place. But we are also excited to see those of you in Utah. See you soon!

And because no post is complete without pictures...