New bikes!

Well, the big news from this last week is... we have new bikes! James and I went out last friday night with Shaela and Jared. I spied the matching cruisers on clearance and kept riding it around the store. Before we even had a chance to go back and buy them, Jared showed up on our doorstep with the same ones I'd been thinking about all week! He said it was a thanks for all the meal making, and how could I not be INCREDIBLY grateful?? I already know I'll use it all the time. And it feels so much easier to pull the trailer on my new bike then my rusty old one we left chained to the rack in Utah!  Unfortunately it has been raining a ton and we keep waiting for the rain to stop. But, finally saturday night, there was a little break through in the storm and we ventured out. Tommie wasn't loving the bike trailer once it got dark, but we sure had fun. There were so many huge puddles, and the 10 year old boy inside James came out as he soaked himself completely in all the puddles.

We finally found a night to hang out with Brad and Julie again! I've missed being with them. When the TV show "burn notice" was on, we seemed to always make more time so we could watch it with them, but then we both have just had other things lately. But, we went to Zupa's and VF factory outlet (yes, I know....totally blast from my childhood past!)  Friday. Brad complained the whole time how he didn't want to go there, but he ended up getting some sweet shorts he just HAD to show off. He tried them on in the car outside Neilsen's frozen custard, then modeled throughout the parking lot. We sure had a lot of fun with them, and Jackson just loves Kate and Eliza.

Well, I am finally over my flu this week and the kids are SO much happier! Jackson is completely back to normal, and back to eating again (thank goodness!) Tommie still has a cough at nights so that keeps him up more, but he's able to breathe so much better. I even read my scriptures every day this week, in the morning, and am just feeling like it was the best week I've had in a long time! Jackson learned about dinosaurs at Orang Patch, and thanks to them, he now eats oatmeal (instant oatmeal with those dino eggs in it... but hey, it's still oatmeal). That's a big deal for us! We also saw a deal on strawberries for 25 cents a pound at superstition ranch. Knowing how bad James hates passing up a good deal, we came home with 56lbs of strawberries last night, and he still wanted to make jam! So, even until 11:30 last night, James and I were still in the kitchen cutting strawberries and canning jars of jam. What a man!