Remember September!

What a September to remember! We enjoyed a wonderful visit from my parents, Brent and Wendy, for two fun-filled weeks. They have been living in Palmyra, where they serve as the first counselors in the temple. They only get to come home twice a year, so we live it up, down, and all around each time. They got to stay with us! Well, come to think of it, it is their house, so I think we're actually staying with them, correcto? Anyway, it felt so good to be together again, and Summer loved being with her Glamma Wenny and Glampa Blent. No, I didn't misspell their names - that's how our sweetie pronounces them :)

Here are my sister, Stephanie, my mother, and moi at temple square - mother-daughters date!

We dined at the Lion House Pantry in Salt Lake - our favorite lunch hotspot!

On the 4th, we celebrated Jerald's birthday! It was one of those perfect days you only read about in books or blogs. We started out the day taking Summer to the park, where we participated in some high-end leaping!

I baked Jerald a homemade chocolate mint birthday cake with pink peppermint icing and chocolate sprinkles, which we ate with passion and gusto. That night, we ventured out on a birthday date. We went shopping and out to dinner at Garcia's, our favorite Mexican joint. We had our picture taken by our well-meaning waiter, but, tragically, our faces looked curiously unrecognizable with the jiggle-blur effect of his shot. So you may just imagine us shoving tacos, rice, enchiladas, burritos, and nachos into our mouths.

My brother, Nate, shares his birthday with Jerald, so my parents and Steph took us all out to dinner to the Olive Garden the next evening to celebrate.

Jerald and Summer and I danced a birthday tango