Carly Crosland

We made it Utah! Again! Haha, Thanks to the Crosland's! Jessi & Stefan got married August 15th, so the girls and I flew in about a week early to see some family and play! These girls were SO excited to see Grandma Carrie waiting for us at the airport, can I just say... leaving at 2pm, and getting in Salt lake by 6:15, is a WHOLE lot easier than driving 16 hours... Sigh... The girls were awesome on both plane rides though! We of course had to stop at Cafe Rio on the way there... Lucy asked for it. And we got in the car and she yelled, "Cafe Rio here we come!" Atta girl Lucy.  For whatever reason... I decided to have the binky fairy come that night and take all of Clara's binkys to the babies... and leave her a prize in the morning! (Thanks Jaym...) My mom thought I was crazy doing this the night I flew in, but I just couldn't take it anymore! All I heard all day was, "Where my binky is mom!?" She didn't get to sleep until pretty late ...

After we had recovered from 'Fair week' we made our way up to the Turtle Mountains... Yup. Those little hills there in the distance is what these people call mountains! We ended up picking our Bountiful basket up there at Lake Metigoshe, then let the kids swim in the lake! In the 70 degrees... Haha! A little too cold for me, but it is absolutely gorgeous up there, and the girls loved it!  That next Sunday was craaazy. We had my cute friend Angie's baby blessing in the other ward in the morning, ran home to eat lunch, came back for Lucy to give her first ever talk in Primary!!, Tyler ran home to grab his wallet because a member of the Stake presidency happened to be in Minot so we could do our temple recommend interviews that day instead of driving to Bismarck later that week... Yipee! Then I taught Relief Society for my first time ever, while Tyler taught Elders Quorum (usually we teach the Youth Sunday school together... haha...) Then we had our temple recom...