Back to Reality!

Last Friday we got home from our 2 week break/trip to Utah. It was so much fun to see all our family!! We started the vacation out with 4 days of boating up at Pineview Reservoir with Josh's family and as you can tell we had a blast! Tienna even had her first bananna ride with her dad. Here's some of our fun pictures ....

First banana ride with dad!

Even grandma got out on the bananna with the kids.

We were lucky enough to have Jared and Cesily's kids with us the entire time we were in Utah. Annette was watching them while Jared had his surgery (which went very well). Tienna loved all the attention from the older boys who were so sweet and kind to her. She also got the hang of following Eden around though I'm not so sure Eden liked that part... Now that we're home she's missing all the love and attention!

This picture is from our boating trip last summer. Tienna was just 3 weeks old. Looking back I can't believe how tiny she was!

Now Tienna's got the hang of boating a little more. She loved watching whoever was skiing, wake boarding or tubing behind the boat and would constantly wave to them - quite the friendly little girl!

After boating Josh and I went for a quick trip to LA for our anniversary/Mother's Day/Father's Day. Thanks again to both grandma's for watching Tienna for us while we were gone! Josh initially surprised me with Wicked tickets back even before boards so that was one of the highlights of that trip. We also spent an entire day at Disneyland which I have to admit was more fun than I expected. The last time I went to Disneyland I was maybe 10 or 11 .... let's just say that things are quite a bit different than I remember. Josh and I were totally like little kids going from ride to ride all day long - when people ask we say that we had to go to get familiar with Disneyland again so when we take our kids we know where to go. We also did the Hollywood thing, went shopping at the Beverly Center Mall, and spent an afternoon at Universal. Thanks again Josh for the fun little break!

In front of Mann's theater with all of the hand prints of actors. We took more pictures than this but there were just so many people everywhere none of the pictures turned out ok.

This is just about the only part of Disneyland I remember being the same - I think they'll always have the Mickey Mouse made of flowers right inside the main entrance!

Now that we're back to reality, Josh started his first rotation yesterday which just happens to be surgery. He left yesterday morning at about 6:45am to head to the hospital and got home just after 8:00pm. This morning he had to leave at 5:20am and will probably get home around 8:00pm again. From what he's been told this will be the typical hours over the next 4 weeks. It makes me sad that he won't get to see Tienna too much but the good news is that we've heard he gets 3 of the weekends completely off! It's been quite a while since we had a Saturday to just hang out and go do fun things so hopefully we can take advantage of those Saturdays to make it through the long weeks. In the mean time, I'm not quite sure what to do with myself during the days! Tienna and I are both so used to Josh coming home for lunch that yesterday incredibly long without it. If anyone has any great ideas please let me know - we're open to anything!