The Grass is Greener in our Backyard!

Lawrence is sucking his fingers a lot now.

Our little Famidamily

We planted grass in our back yard on Monday, and it is already coming up! We just wish Lawrence's hair would grow as fast. We all went to the temple on Saturday. Clayton watched the baby while Nicole went in and then we traded. Lawrence liked the temple and especially liked walking around the beautiful temple grounds.

We had David and Carly over for dinner. We really enjoyed having them over and spending time with them. Lawrence started flirting with Carly and was disappointed to learn that she is spoken for.They are teaching seminary this year, and we wish them the best of luck.

Clayton enjoyed his first day at the US Chamber of Commerce. He will be working on mostly environmental projects. Clayton also applied for a couple more internships for next summer. He also signed up to compete in another Mock Trial competition with his friend David. He had a great time competing with David this spring.

Nicole made progress on her sculptures. She now has three prototypes ready to carve. She needs to pick up some more clay before she starts working on the bigger versions. She will be watching her cousin's kids for a few days this week so she won't have much time to work on sculpture.

Lawrence is having a tough time sleeping and is keeping his parents up all night. He enjoyed skyping with Grandma Natalie and Grandpa Brian.  He also has started eyeing the babies at church that can crawl.

We took this family photo with our camera. We are still working on the amateur photographer thing.

Lawrence & Grandpa David at the family reunion in Colorado

First Week

Clayton had a busy first week back at law school. He is enjoying his classes and is learning a lot about corporate structures and real estate law. He is also the co-chair of the Religious Freedom Moot Court taking place in February and is working on publicity for the 2013 Annual J. Reuben Clark Law Society Conference. This week  Clayton also got an internship with the US Chamber of Commerce. He is excited about the internship. He will be doing some work with environmental statutes and the best part is the internship is PAID! He will be working at least once a week. Clayton also started car pooling with Lance and Meagan. Lance works in the city and gets subsidized parking. It's great for Clayton because he has a guaranteed ride.

Lawrence continues to enjoy eating food. We made him some baby food this weekend. He really likes the butternut squash. We also made him some acorn squash and carrots. He loves to eat!

Nicole decided to build her sculpture out of porcelain and is working on finding a near by supplier. She also has started sculpting out of string again. Hopefully she will get some images on her blog this week so you can see her new project.

Tomorrow we are planting grass in our back yard. Our landlord offered to pay for the materials if we would do the work. We hope that the weather will continue to be nice so the grass will grow before it gets too cold. Last year the weather stayed pretty warm well into November, so we are hoping we will have enough time.

Today we tried to have a Skype dinner with the Woodbury Family. It worked well other than we were running late and hadn't cooked dinner. We will have to try again. 

Here are a few more pictures from  our trip.

Lawrence at City Creek

Lawrence isn't sure what to do with Cousin Hazel

We just couldn't resit giving him a beard

This is one of Clayton's favorite photos he snapped while boating in Utah

BriAnne's graceful dismount from the skurf board

We loved our little photo shoot with Lawrence

He was being really cute

and then he got concerned over something

Summer Vacation

Summer Vacation is coming to an end. Clayton starts classes tomorrow, and Nicole will start two new art pieces.

Clayton Climbs in Rock Canyon

Skurfing

Lawrence helps drive the boat.

Nicole wakeboarding

Clayton Slalom Skiing

Lawrence is ready to play at the lake in Colorado

The water was to cold but he liked the sand.

Nicole brushes up on her water bending.

The family reunion in Colorado.

Lawrence takes a nap on our hike to a water fall.

Lawrence keeps getting bigger

We had a lot of fun and had a great trip. Lawrence has now visited 14 states.

We plan to get back in our blogging habit now that we are back.

Visitors

We have had a busy past few weeks, with family visiting. Brittany also stayed an extra week, or so, to help us get ready to move.

Clayton is finishing up his internship and summer classes. He also received an invitation to join the Federal Communications Law Journal. Clayton started applying for internships/summer associate positions for next summer.

Nicole finished her preliminary experiments with the clay piece she is working on and is now ready to sculpt a larger version.


Here are a few pics from the past two weeks

Liesl, Brittany and Cailie swimming at Colonial Beach

Lawrence & Grandpa Preece enjoy the water

Clayton, CalDon and Brian ran a 5k on July 4th.
 (CalDon only finished the race in half the time it took for Clayton and Brian to finish) 

CalDon found a state park with his name (sort of)

and a road...

Lawrence wanted to play Skum with the kids.