Boise

It has been quite a while since we have posted on here. Life has been busy with volleyball beginning and ending of summer. Andrew's birthday went well. He was so excited for his fire truck cake and had such a fun day. Thank you to all who sent gifts. They were very much appreciated. By the way Dave and Adina, Andrew now refers to the Harry and the Terrible Whatzit book as the Whats up book. We try to correct him but he is just so cute when he says it. Andrew has gotten back on his bike now and rides it quite often and he is getting very good at it. He now likes to ride it to the store and back on our walks to the store. He is such a big kid.

Beck is growing up daily and is so much fun to watch. He gets so excited about stuff now and constantly goes "OOO OOO OOO" when he sees something he is excited about. We also are beginning to have fights with him saying I Love you back and forth. It is amazing to see how much he is talking and understanding things.

We are beginning Andrew in a preschool co-op starting in 1 1/2 weeks. He asks me everyday if he can go to preschool. Needless to say, I don't think we will have a problem getting him to go.

We sold Peter's truck to one of Peter's coworker and have now joined the pack with a plasma tv and mini laptop. We are moving up in the world. We are now a one car family and Peter is enjoying riding his bike to work on the days he doesn't have the company truck.

Volleyball has started and we had a rough start yesterday with a loss in 3 games to our rivals. We were getting alot of bad calls from the ref and so in the 3rd game, the girl who is the head coach got herself ejected from the game. Now it is up in the air as to whether she will be able to coach the team on Tuesday. If not, I will be the head coach for the day. Luckily these games don't count towards the record for placement in Districts so hopefully the girls will pick up our play and play like the team we see in practice.

We are continuing our training for the half marathon and are very excited to head home for a few days for Labor day weekend. We will be getting there by Friday afternoon and staying through Monday. It is great that we get to see you all two times this month.

Anyways, there it is finally after a month hiatus. We love you all and can't wait to see you soon!

-Anne

Random August Pictures

 

 

 

 

Andrew's 3rd Birthday

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday Andrew

 

 

 

 

We are so glad we have you in our family. We love you dude!

Love, Mom, Dad, and Beck

Temple Square

 

 

 

 

Toughest 10k

 

 

Utah

 

 

 

 

Before

 

After

 

Leftovers from Lake Shasta

 

 

 

 

Boise

Our month of July has been a crazy busy one with so much going on. We had a blast at Lake Shasta and I think you all can say that it was so much fun. Andrew still asks daily if we are going house boating and throws many fits when we tell him we are not going. He also goes around asking where Parker, Taylor and Papa are. That week will be a week to remember in our house and we can’t believe it will be a while until we will see you all again.

Our month has also been filled with many throwing up episodes. The week after we got back from Lake Shasta, Beck got a fever and threw up a couple times. The next week it was Andrew’s turn. He threw up once in his makeshift bed next to our bed and then he threw up the next day in the car as I was pulling out of the garage to go to a volleyball tournament. This last week was a combined effort from Beck and Andrew, starting with Beck throwing up the first night we were in Utah. Andrew then proceeded to throw up later in the week, randomly, while playing with his cousins. On our drive home Saturday, He decided to throw up in the car after both lunch and dinner and has thrown up a couple times since we have been home. Peter does not handle throw up well, so needless to say I was in charge of cleaning up with some effort from Peter but definitely not much. I think I have come to the conclusion that Heavenly Father gave me a nose and sense of smell that does not allow me to really smell the throw up while cleaning it up so it does not bother me. That is enough of the throw up talk.

I played in a grass volleyball tourney the weekend after we got back from Shasta and ended up coming in 2nd. We were running it as a fundraiser for our school team and we had a pretty good turnout. We are hoping next year and the years to come will be more successful so we can get some good competition out there.

We headed to Utah last week to have a reunion with Peter’s family. It was the first time in a while that everyone was there for the reunion so it was fun. Peter was able to go mountain biking at Sundance and hike Mt. Timpanogos while I was able to go see Harry Potter and go wakeboarding. I successfully changed my feet a couple times and was pretty proud of myself. We all hiked to a waterfall one of the days and that was fun. There was lots of hanging out with the in laws and Andrew and Beck playing with cousins. Peter was able to run the “Toughest 10K in Utah” up at Soldier Hollow on the Saturday we left. He placed 5th in his age group and 32nd overall out of like 100 plus people. I was proud of him especially since he hadn’t really been running other than a couple times in the weeks preceding the race.

Now we are finally home and we are winding down from a busy month. We have Andrew’s birthday on Thursday and he is definitely excited for his cake. He asks every day for his fire truck cake which we ordered for his birthday. We got him a bike early as Peter wanted to take it on the trip with us. The second day we had it; Andrew took too sharp of a turn and fell face first into the concrete. He cut up his lip and scratched up his face. It has all healed now but he would not get on the bike without force while we were in Utah. He has ridden it twice on his own since we have been home and he is warming up to the bike again. He just refuses to go down the driveway since that is pretty much how it happened.

Volleyball starts back up on the 14th of August so summer is winding down for us. We had so much fun this summer and so glad we were able to do all that we did. We love you all and thank you for making the Shasta trip such a great one.

Peter Olsen, PE

 

Yes everyone, the title says it all....Peter passed his Professional Engineer License exam with flying colors. I guess all that time away from us at home in order to study was worth it. I am so proud of Peter and the dedication that he had to our family to pass this test the first time. We are so glad we found out in the nick of time, right before vacation. Now we can truly relax on the houseboat. We love you Peter!

-Anne, Andrew, and Beck

Houseboat Training

 

We have been putting the life jackets on the boys daily for about an hour or two to get ready for having to wear them constantly. Sometimes Andrew doesn't even want to take it off.

Vancouver Trip

 

 

 

Vancouver Trip