Okay, is it hard for anyone else during the summer to keep up with blogging and such? The months Im actually doing stuff and I dont have time to post it. (Unlike the winter months when I stage photo shoot activities to make it look like I am a creative, somewhat interesting wife and mother. :) Anyways so heres a recap and some pics from June. And as you know I am not very good at condensing or being picky with pictures so you get the whole lot! And now for the longest post ever....
Okay so the beginning of June I fly out to Scottsdale, AZ with Cordelle for his yearly conference at work. (First and foremost though, dont hate us Schroeders that we were in AZ and didnt call, but we didnt have a car and Cordelle really didnt have a whole lot of free time...okay Im lame, I should have figured something out, but we did give you guys extra nostalgic time in our brains because for a few days we were in the same state you live in....not really the same huh?) Okay well anyways back to the conference. This year was a little different in that Cordelle actually made me work! Just kidding, kind of. Seriously though the first few days I was helping him quite a bit but they did pay my way so I couldnt really put up a fight without looking like a teenager whining about wearing the heels her mother bought her when all she wants to wear are her flip flops (that was a very strange analogy). That said though, we stayed at this incredible resort and it was almost too comfortable just lounging about by the pool with no little kids climbing on me, begging for fruit snacks or hearing the cry that signals nap time was 45 minutes ago. But alas, I missed them. ( Alas, yes we should use the word "alas" more often). Anyways so yea, Cordelles parents kept the kids all week and let me tell you that was no little task, so I am SO grateful for them. They are both saints for being willing to do that. All in all it was a good get a way for Cordelle and I to just escape real life for a minute. Highlights from the trip: Driving the golf cart around (almost into a large pond) while Cordelle took picutres of the "executives," the lazy river at the pool, THE FOOD, watching my husband get shamelessly conquered at an icecream eating contest by his 100 lb female boss, going to the Arizona Temple, pretending I was equally as tan as all the natives who could lounge by the pool for hours and not get burned but enstead I came to the harsh reality my pasty white skin, without sunscreen, is cancer in the making, and lastly airports. I dont know why but there is something truly exotic about an airport. Even if we are only flying form Salt Lake to Scottsdale, they make me giddy. And Lowlights I guess would include my CAMERA FREAKING OUT and taking only highly fuzzy pictures. lame. So no photos. But it was fun and you'll just have to take my word for it.
Next news: BROTHERS! In May my sweet lil bro Mark left for his mish to Buddapest, Hungary. I miss him so much, he is such a stud! However, the day before we flew in from AZ my other brother Neal got home from Italy. I've been so excited for him to get home. Even though he's like 5 years younger than I, the kid is like one of my best friends. He is hillarious and so down to earth I am so pumped that he is home...now I just got to line him up with some cute girl that could totally hang with Cordelle and I (and that I approve of in every way of course) and then we'll be all set. Seems like though, Neal actually thinks he is entitled to pick his own wife. We will see.
Other events we've been up to is Cordelle did pretty good at Table Tennis in the summer games, but we had to pass on soccer this year cause it was the same weekend we were gone in AZ. Bummer. Anyways here is a picture of him and his doubles partner Randy. Cordelle is way too into that sport, but he's actually really fun to watch...move over Koreans, C-Dog is in the house.
Lets see oh yea, since we have been up north so much we decided to go to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House since its like literally right down the road from our house. It was really neat. Good thing we had uncle Scott there, or Seth's attention span would have resulted in some not so reverent explanations of the pictures of Jesus on the walls or his obsession with Angel Moroni to which he cups his hands in a trumpet like formation, marching about singing "do do do doo."
And then lastly Cordelle took a day off work and we went to the Zoo. Gotta say, not one of my favorite places. Its stinky, full of strange people, all the cool animals are ALWAYS sleeping, and quite frankly there is something disturbing about watching my little sister down that much cotton candy in one sitting....or perhaps just comparable to Seth wanting to switch to 4 different animals on the carousel, while its moving, because he keeps changing his mind about which one he wants to "piggy back." But like Disneyland, A water park, or Wal-mart, it is a sort of "Rite of Passage" for a child to attend the Zoo. And low and behold he did love it. Thanks Kendra (my darling of a neice) who we picked up and took a long with us, who helped out that day too. Good times, but seriously, next time, do you really think it'd be a bad idea to throw a rock at the leopards, cougars, tigers and kangaroos to wake them up for a second, even just for a stretch or something? I did pay my $9 didnt I? If I wanted to watch grown animals lie around and sleep all day for free, I could have just gone back to my parents house and safaried down my brothers.
Jaq really did have fun, although, here it looks like she's just roasting in the sun.
Do you remember this from field trips to the zoo in elementary school? Its still there!
Yea, that's me back there...the reason Cordelle took the picture of my sister Krista with Alexa on the giraffe is because the rotation before, that's where we were. Little did Cordelle know we'd be hopping back to the panda and leopard before he'd see us again.
Friends
Nice bed head Wendy.
this looks like something we'd put on a wedding announcement next to some cheesy line like "I married my best friend....No offense to anyone who has used that tagline.
Maddi and Seth
The trio
Buds
