We're in Austin!

It's been two months and I've been too lazy to post a blog update.  Why?  Maybe my pictures aren't interesting enough; I don't know!  But now I'm going to buckle down and sum up the past few months.  My immediate family came down to Utah at the beginning of July to celebrate the Fourth with my grandparents and cousins in Richfield.

Carmen had a lot of fun goofing around with her cousins.  This is Portman, who is about a year and a half older than Carmen.

We went to some horse races and left after about an hour because 1) my uncle and his family didn't come like they said they might and 2) it was really boring.  In an hour they had a single race (maybe two?) and the guy droned on and on about nothing to fill up the space.  And it was kind of toasty, but at least the stands were in the shade!  Carmen was happy to see the horsies.

In the evening, we went to a rodeo in Salina.  Carmen also enjoyed watching it (and it was Mark's first rodeo, too!) and we had to keep her away from the fence when they brought the bulls out and stuff ... because you never know where they'll go ...

We bought some fireworks from the grocery store.  Carmen *loved* the fireworks.  This is how she reacted whenever she wasn't with one of us when the fireworks went off.  She'd run back to us going, "Wow, wow, it's loud!"

After returning from Richfield, the moving began ... and I think I'll save that for another post to be posted SOON ... you know, in less than two months. ;)