Looking forward...

September 1st is the day I am looking forward to.  It is the day when summer sales are over for us!  Don't get me wrong, summer sales have always been a great blessing to our family but I always look forward to the end of the selling season.  I have started counting down the weeks and days until we get to head home.  I usually round down so it sounds closer than it really is and Ben always rounds up so it seems like he has more time to sell.

The month of August usually goes by the slowest for me.  I always get so excited to go home, visit family, get moved into our new place, and enjoy cooler weather.  This summer has been a scorcher!  Oklahoma City has been hot, hot, hot and I am looking forward to the cooler weather of Idaho {I never thought I would say that}.

I am also excited for September because my brother Derek comes home from serving a mission for our church!!  He has been serving in Brazil for the last two years and I cannot wait to see him again.  It is especially exciting for me and Ben because we both served our missions in Brazil and we can't wait to speak Portuguese with him {I am going to need to brush up on my Portuguese}.

We have had a really great summer and had a lot of fun doing different things.  We went to the OKC zoo a few weeks ago.  We got one good picture {and yes my husband is funny and wears his work clothes and badge  EVERYWHERE we go}

The rest of the time Ben took pictures of animals and seriously, who wants to look at a bunch of pictures of animals???  Not me.  But it was the thought that counted!

We still go swimming quite a bit and we all love it.  

 Reese is getting braver and braver in the water.  Sometimes I wish she had a life jacket on because I am just waiting for the day when she decides to jump into the pool.

Reese is quite obsessed with spending time with her dad in the mornings.  

If Ben is around she has to be playing with him or holding his hand.  When she wakes up in the mornings the first thing our of her mouth is "dada?"  He does not get a break when he is home, he is Reese's playmate.  Ben is such a great dad and never complains. 

We were going to Walmart one morning and Reese decided that she needed to carry a purse just like mommy carries her purse.  So she went and got one of our many plastic walmart bags and she brought it with her to go shopping.

 She made sure it was with her at all times.  Silly girl!

We are getting excited to come home.  I am excited for Ben to start his last year at BYUI {YAY}!!!   I am excited to see Ben more than 4 hours in a day!  I am excited to have a husband again.  I am excited to be closer to family!  I am just excited and looking forward to everything great that comes with the end of the selling season.  Two and a half more weeks and then we are home bound!!!