The family that runs together....complains

Ok, only some of them complained....but I will tell you about that later. The boys had a neat fireside last Sunday. It was about missionaries. They came home with several interesting ties. My boys seem to especially like the "sock ties" that I remember from the 80's. The stake collected ties for the boys and the young women gave them packets with the ties, the missionary New Era, a letter from the young women how they would like the boys to serve missions and lots of other mission related stuff. They seemed to enjoy it. Monday, Ry went to a birthday party. We've had 4 parties for the kids in 8 days. Monday is swimming day around here, so we went to the YMCA. It's fun, the kids swim, and I sit on the side in my chair and read...unless there is someone I know to visit with. Love Love summertime! Tuesday Blake got the rest of his brackets for his braces on. So he was in pain for a couple days. I felt sad for him, but he's a tough whelp, and survived. I went to the temple open house. It was absolutely beautiful! I am not being biased when I say it is the most beautiful temple. :) Chad got to be an usher there for a couple hours. So nice to be able to take part in all this. I handed Tanner my keys so he could take Jacob to the mall. My heart stopped till they returned home. He made it and they were all safe and sound. Hard to cut that string. Wednesday I took the kids to the temple open house. They were sad that I went without them so I went again. It was good since the first time I was so busy looking around that I didn't hear all of what was being said. I am so grateful for this temple. It amazes me that there are only one hundred twenty something temples in the entire world and we have one less than a mile from our home. We are going again on the 29th with some neighbors. That will be fun again. Thursday Tanner had work. He seems to really like it. Thursday is also swimming day. There were guys filming for the news. Reid and Rylee tried really hard to get on. I don't know if they did. I should have asked when it would be on, but didn't. Oh well. I'll never know if they are famous. Reid had another birthday party that night. Friday I had to rush home after the gym to babysit Taylor, Lindsey and Michael. Rylee was so excited to have them here most of the day. They had a lot of fun together. We also cleaned up the other dumb house that we keep throwing all our money at to get it ready for an open house they had Saturday. We got it all weeded, mowed, dusted, vacuumed, and just spiffy. Hopefully they had someone come look at it. Chad's family was all here Friday and we went to Shoshone Falls and had pizza. The falls were gorgeous. They had the water flowing really fast. Rylee said it wouldn't be good if she jumped over the lookout, because she might break a leg or something. Yeah, or something. It was a fun night. Farris and DeeAnna stayed here that night. We woke up early (for a Saturday) and went to our ward fun run. It was a 5K. Chad and I weren't sore since we've been running for a while already, but boy have Jacob and Rylee been complaining. I can't say I blame them. Rylee ran/walked almost the entire way. She did get carried on my back for probably a mile of it. Our old bishop helped carry her some. After he put her down and walked away, she said, "mom, he got me wet" (sweaty) I laughed. At least she waited till he couldn't hear. Chad, Tanner, Blake, Jacob and Farris ran and left us in the dust. Farris came in 3rd place, Chad was 5th, Tanner was 7th and Jacob wasn't too far behind them. Not bad for us Neweys, eh? Reid and Rylee and I were towards the end. But we all finished. Reid took off about halfway thru and I didn't see him again till the finish line. Funny thing about him is that he wasn't sore at all today. We figure he easily runs 3 miles a day already. What a fun week! I am loving this summer! Almost as sad as the kids to see it end. Oh, one more thing funny that happened this week. Chad got a job offer the other day. It was from an old boss of his that let him go on Christmas Eve a few years ago. He is looking for someone to manage the business and some ownership. The last we heard from him was in a letter from his lawyer threatening to sue us. We had a good laugh. hahhahaha. No, he's not taking it.