keeping busy

the past 7 days have been completely exhausting... both physically and emotionally. It seems so much longer than a week since we've been home from our trip to visit family.

We've kept very busy with activities, visits to the hospital and fun outings... temperatures have been miserably high here in Vegas (especially after the cool weeks we spent in utah and idaho-- it rained and hailed on us not very long ago!) so I am sure the heat has a lot to do with how exhausted we've been at the end of each day. But I guess that is what summer is all about.

We've taken bike rides, made sugar cookies, gone on field trips, eaten at a few different restaurants for lunch, been to visit the dentist and doctor and escaped the heat at the pool. I haven't been good about taking my camera everywhere, but I do have a few pictures of our week:

Keyonna is having a hard time sleeping-- and Simon is still climbing out of his crib at 2 am, so the two of them have been great awake-in-the-middle-of-the-night buddies. This is how I found them early one morning...

Tonight we are picking up pizzas and taking our kids over to a friends house. Aaron and I are heading on a much needed trip to the temple. I am so looking forward to escaping the "real world" and forgetting about all our troubles. I am so grateful for the peace I have felt this week. We have had so much support from our friends here, who have become our family away from home. Our boys have been to a different friend's home every day this week- sometimes two different homes- for hours at a time.  One friend even picked them up and took them to the dentist for me.  We have the BEST neighbors!!

And oddly enough, I have been able to keep my house spotless through this whole ordeal, which is a miracle in and of itself. My floors are sparkling, my toilets are clean enough to eat off and my laundry magically gets washed, folded and put away without much trouble at all. I know that angels are surrounding us and getting us through. I truly believe that God is aware of each of us and gives us the strength to do what we need to do, even if it's unbelievably hard.

SO grateful for my testimony. SO grateful it's finally the weekend.