August

Poor Ben.  He got done in August with some crazy rotations only to start majorly study for the second and harder part of his Step 2 Boards exam.  He took it at the end of August.

 

All of Ben's hard work this year paid off because he got AOA (Alpha Omega Alpha). 

 AOA is kind of like the Honor Society of high school.

 

 I got to the fun part of my summer!  Finally getting to prepare things for my classroom!

 At the end of August Ben and I finally got to go to a BYU game for the first time in 4 years!  BYU was playing in Charlottesville, VA against UVA.

 

The game ended up being delayed for 2 hours due to lightning, we got rained on twice, and we lost by 3 points but we still enjoyed ourselves!

   

End of July

Towards the end of July, I ran in a 5 K race.  I am not a runner so this was perfect for me.  I got to get all colored which from previous events everyone knows I love to do!

Year 2008

Year 2009

Color Vibe - 2013

July

My family came to visit for the 4th of July!  My mom, sister, and niece, and nephews drove up from Florida and my aunt and uncle flew in from Boston.  Ben finally got some time off of school so we had lots of fun showing my family around.

Christopher looks thrilled for the 13 - 14 hour drive to come visit!

Of course we played some disc golf.

These 2 were best buds right away.

We went to the Children's Museum on a rainy day.

 

Ben taught Lexi and Christopher how to bake bread.

We bought passes for bowling so we could go several times while family was here!

We celebrated the 4th of July on July 3rd at Genworth Financial.

My aunt and uncle finally joined the party :)

   We also celebrated the 4th on the 4th at Colonial Downs and watched some horse racing!

 

  

Virginia Aviation Museum

Natural Bridge

Love this guy.  Makes me laugh :)

 

On our last night before everyone headed home we went searching for fireflies!  We don't have them in Florida so the kids were very excited when they saw them.  Don't worry...it was a catch and release activity!