It's Summer Time!

This post will be a little all over the place, which seems to be the standard lately with me - but seeing as I've fallen into an every 2 week schedule of blogging, I guess that's to be expected.

It's recently gotten hot lately with temps in the 100's (up until that last couple days, where some rain seems to have cooled us down a bit). So, we've spent a bit more time in the water lately - swimming and squirt parks. Becca has found that another effective way to keep cool is to strip down to her diaper and eat some ice cream. I wish I could get away with that. ;)



Another good way to keep cool is stay inside with some good AC - like, instead of a picnic at the park, just go ahead and eat out at Chili's instead (courtesy of a gift card from Craig and Aubree - even better... thanks guys!). I'm not sure why I took pictures of us all at the restaurant.. other than I was just so excited to be eating out! :) (isn't Jacob so cute?.. he gets at least 100 kisses a day)







Emma had preschool graduation this week! Ben has been making fun of me for being so excited about it. He thinks that 'celebrating mediocrity' is not something to get super excited about... I mean, you would hope that everyone would graduate from preschool and hopefully then move on to get some more education right? But I look at it as a fun excuse to celebrate just another milestone in my cute Emma's life. I'm all about celebrating... it's what keeps life fun, right? I guess, though, Emma still has another year of preschool before starting Kindergarten, so maybe that's another point for Ben. Anyway, it was really cute - the kids all recited things they've learned this year - like their phonics sounds, counting in spanish, shapes, etc. And then they went through and announced each "graduate" and stated what they want to be when they grow up. Emma apparently wants to be "a singer who sings twinkle little star and I am a child of God". How sweet. And Emma's teachers, Miss Lorene and Miss Carolyn have been amazing! They do such a great job.







And speaking of graduating - we've got less then 2 weeks left till Ben's med school graduation. In fact, just this week Ben had his official last day of medical school. Before he took off for his last rotation day, I took a picture of him. Look how excited he is! He's already started getting stuff in the mail addressed to Dr. Ben Dangerfield. Ha! That's awesome! I'm so proud of you honey. :) His residency orientation starts on June 22nd, so he's got a month off till then, with graduation and moving to keep us busy in the meantime.



Since Ben is home now and we are in the home buying process, we are once again getting excited about the prospect of buying a bit of new furniture to fill the space. I use the word 'new' loosely I guess, because we do have an affinity towards antique furniture. We haven't really bought any antiques since we lived in Provo 4 years ago - it was then that we accumulated most of the furniture that we have now. We may not be able to get as much antique stuff as we'd like - seeing as Ben won't be having much time to refinish like we used to back in the BYU days. But it was really fun to browse around downtown Glendale through a lot of the fun antique shops they have. We did buy a little old park bench for the kids to put outside in the backyard - the girls love it! Below is a pic of us (minus Ben) taking a little snack break outside the antique shops.



So, Ben went to a Flight of the Conchords concert this week with his friend Mike. He was so excited to go and it seems like it was a great show. If you don't know who they are, here's a clip of one of their songs - I think a lot of you have seen this before, among my friends anyway. But, to me, it gets funnier every time I watch it. :)



And, on an unrelated note - is anyone else as excited as I am that So You Think You Can Dance has started up again?!! :)