Happy 7 Year Anniversary to Us!

Our anniversary was on December 30th. I can't believe it's been 7 years. I guess time flies when you're having fun!

We were in St. George for our anniversary so my parents tended the boys overnight while we had a little getaway. We slept in until 9 am, heavenly!

The Dimonds in Utah

Our good friends, the Dimonds, came to Utah over Christmas break. We were lucky enough to spend a night with them and some other great friends. We ate dinner at Bombay House (mmmmm!) then the girls went to TJ Maxx while the boys went to the Nike Outlet. We all met back up at Yogurtland to stuff a little more in :)
Can't wait to do it again!

Ethington Update

Well I haven't posted since June but I really do want to keep blogging, it's the only form of scrap booking I've done for about 2 years. So here's the update on our family:

1. In September last year Matt accepted a job as a financial controller at a client's company. He works on the top floor of the Wells Fargo building in downtown Salt Lake City. He is loving his new job and I am loving having him work less hours and NO MORE TRAVEL!

2. We sold our house in Smithfield! It was for sale for about 2 months and this was not a pretty time for our family. Matt commuted from Smithfield to SLC. He stayed a few nights each week at his parents' house in Centerville and even on the nights he came home he didn't get home until about 8 pm. Having our house for sale was a lot harder than I thought it would be; it was so hard for me to get the entire house and yard clean all at the same time, sometimes with very little notice. Spencer and James watched a lot of movies and ate a lot of McDonald's.

3. After we sold our house we moved into Matt's parents' basement apartment in Centerville. Yes we are 27 and 32 and living with our parents, we're awesome like that. Spencer is LOVING living at grandma's but I don't know if it has quite dawned on him that we're not ever moving back to Smithfield.

4. We found a place to build a house in North Salt Lake. We have a lot under contract and found a builder we really like. An architect is making a few changes to our house plan and then hopefully we can get building! It is only about a 15 minute drive to Matt's work so we are really excited about it!

Well that's the highlights. I'm including a few pictures from the last few months also so I can show off my cute boys :)

Pool Time

Today we kicked off summer break by heading to the Logan Aquatic Center. My sister and I have 5 kids between us so it felt like quite a production. The kids had a blast though and it was nice to cool off in the water. Spencer even went down the big slide, which if you know him very well, is pretty surprising.  It was also quite a production to try to get a picture of all of them together.

At first Kate refused to be in the picture.

I told Kate next time she came to my house I'd give her some cheetos.

Then Andrew decided to make a break for it.

Sneaky James & Marin

Spencer & Kate loved the kid area

James conked out

Maybe in a few weeks Cara and I will brave it again!

Our Little Graduate

Spencer graduated from preschool last week. We are very proud of him for working so diligently to master skills such as painting, playing with blocks, eating snacks, and singing songs :) He was SO proud of his graduation hat and certificate.

Don't mind James' face, he's been fascinated/horrified with the camera lately

Now hopefully he enjoys swimming lessons this summer as much as he enjoyed preschool!