Birk Adventures

Life really does feel like a big game of catch-up right now: catching up on cleaning, phone calls, sleep, laundry, gardening, blogging, etc. We're doing great though and enjoying summer and the time with family and friends. Adam's brother went into the MTC last Wednesday. Way to go Andreas! The curb-side drop-off was a mess! We had two different cars so we parked up by the temple and walked him and his luggage down to the MTC to take pictures by the sign. Well, we thought we could just hug him goodbye from there and he could walk on in. WRONG! He had to be actually dropped off by one, and only one, car. So we had a very anti-climatic trek back up the hill and said bye to him by the car. I guess things are just crazy right now as they're transitioning to curb-side drop-off. Hopefully the rest of his mission goes a little more smoothly... Here we are trekking back to the car. (Notice we're walking away from the MTC and Andreas is still with us!) Poor Andreas, in his new s...

I'll try to catch up on the last several weeks since I last blogged. First off, we had much-needed family pictures done and they turned out great! I especially love the ones of Mini and Emmy. I feel like they capture their personalities so well, especially Mini. Here are some of the ones we ordered: We had a great 4th of July weekend. We celebrated with my family on Friday with dinner and a walk at the cabin. Saturday we went to the parade with the Larsens and Alexanders. Thanks to Eric getting there at 4 am, we had great seats. And also thanks to Eric, we had yummy BBQ chicken after the parade. Man, what are we going to do when they move to Arizona next week? (Hopefully just follow them to Phoenix next summer...) That evening we had a great dinner with Adam's sister Amy and her family. I love their cheesey grins!! Emily's blessing was the next morning. Adam gave her a beautiful blessing and she looked so pretty in her dress. It was fun to have so much family at church with...