it's always a good time

 We're enjoying these last summer days.  Sure from 11-6 it's pretty warm out, but if it rains the day before/or the day of it's PERFECT.  I love the way utah smells after a rainstorm.  While Texas has better/bigger rainstorms with more intense clouds (helps when the sky is that big), it smells like wet dog afterwards (at least to me).  We definitely take advantage of the cooler mornings after a stormy night.

Jake enjoyed his first trip to SubZero (local icecream place).  Once he realized what we had our personal space went bye-bye, almost like he hoped we'd get confused bringing the spoon to our mouths and go to his instead...

Today we went to the BYU Football practice/scrimmage.  I was surprised with how many showed up-prolly around 10,000.  I'll be honest-I'd never been to one of these things and I was expecting a real game (maybe not as long, but ya know- a real game against each other).  Instead it was a bunch of practices and then 3 lil blips of scrimmaging at the end-in my opinion not worth the heat/and cranky baby, but live and learn I guess.  Jake did pretty well all things considered so hopefully it won't be too hard to bring him along in the fall :)

In other news we're playing around with the idea of getting a house again.  There's a house on the market in Springville that has some potential, and there's a corner lot in a neighborhood that we like as well so the rest of this month we'll be crunching numbers and seeing what will work for us.  Not going to lie tho, the idea of building and making it how we want/plus the added time it'll give us to save up for a down payment is pretty exciting-plus will be easier to sell it in 8 yrs than if we bought a 10 year old house now.-hope it all works out!  I think it'll just be fun to have real roots down and not be renting anymore/getting some equity, and being able to do whatever the heck I want cause it's MY house etc.  We love Springville tho-it's close to provo/orem which we go to often while not being as busy or crowded.  I figure once Jake is older/closer to High school, then we'll look to move a lil more north-more options for schools/better programs/more competition etc. though after living in a big city in Texas where all the schools are 5A and HUGE it'll be different to see how Utah schools do things... but who knows if we'll still be here...I'm just glad that we're where we're supposed to be right now-a great feeling!