Sunday, April 12, 2009

More fun for the Granthams

So these past few weeks have been busy! We made it up to St. George couple weekends ago and had a blast with my family. Brien and Heather had a little baby girl---so exciting!! Their little family is growing! Josh and I love to play with all the little kids whenever we get up there; he is so good with kids and they all love him WAY more than me lol. Specifically Brinley. He is her favorite, it's so cute to watch her follow him around saying, "josh! josh!"

All of the little kids are getting so big!!
Jack and Kyle, Elena (chunk), Lucia and Belen



Lately we've been on this bowling kick with Brien and Heather and Eric and Bonnie. We go and take all the kids and compete. Basically josh and I win every time! (k not really....someday though :)) This is a typical scene when we are bowling.... of course we hafto pay attention to the kids occasionally in between turns and feed them! lol



Last weekend we went up to Provo for Josh's mission reunion. Although the night wasn't exactly exciting for me, it was so fun seeing Josh reminising (spelling?!) with all his mission buddies. They talked and talked all night. Lots of their stories were "very curious" for innocent little missionaries...
I finally convinced them to go to Chilis and talk so I could enjoy my chips and queso and catch up with my little sis--Hil!!
We stayed with my cousins Garrett and Russ who were awesome hosts. And watched conference with cousins all weekend. It was a blast for sure!


Our friends, the Smiths, came back from Montana for a visit--to work at the fair actually--but we made it out to see them this last Friday with our friends Brett and Bree Lee. I took my camera with the intention of taking lots of pictures of all the fun we had, but only got one! Josh and Brett sure had a fun time racing their cars and Sarah was awesome instructing and helping everyone else race!!



Yesterday was a VERY productive day for us. I finally convinced my WONDERFUL hub to make shelves for me in our "coat closet." Who the heck uses a coat closet in las vegas?! I've had nowhere in our house to stock food storage and I've really been wanting to work on that lately. So he was sweet enough to build me some shelves and now I have a perfect place for it all! While he did his little project, I made strawberry jam! ....All by myself! ....did I mention it was my first time? And did I mention it tastes awesome?! lol not to brag or anything. All I did was follow the recipee, which I do have to give credit to...my boss and his wife (thanks!) But ya, I'm pretty excited. I sound like a nerd with all my food storage and homemade jam excitement--but seriously---how exciting huh!!
HAPPY EASTER!!!

3 comments:

Sarah and Cory Smith said...

I am so glad that you guys came to visit. It was awesome! Hope to see you tomorrow.

Bonnie said...

The shelves look great and so does the jam. I wonder if I will get one of those in the mail....

Caroline said...

Lex, I just discovered your blog and I love your strawberry jam acheivement! I totally need to learn how to do it. Wanna send over the recipe? :)